Opinion
Auraka e varenga akakino
Thursday 12 May 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
E taitaia ana au me tatau au ite au akakino ate au tangata i to tatou Kavamani e tauta nei i te akatere i to tatou ipukarea i teia tuatau.
Lawyer's position on funding a mystery
Thursday 12 May 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
May I again refer to Wilkie Rasmussen’s article of May 1, headed “Tongareva gold rush an illusion.” In particular, may I refer to his comments on funding?
Achievement list sadly short
Wednesday 11 May 2016 | Published in Opinion
Pretend to be a CIP Member of Parliament or a cabinet minister. Ask yourself this question, “What accomplishments have we achieved in two terms of governance?”
Keep quiet and it will all go away?
Tuesday 10 May 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
“The prime minister has kept pretty quiet about dissent within the ranks about the controversial EU purse seine fishing deal,” a smoke signaller says. “Is it a case of saying nothing and hoping it will go away, like the Aitutaki Sunday flights referendum, perhaps?”
Aronga Mana opinions rather extreme
Tuesday 10 May 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I have just skimmed through the response by Wilkie Rasmussen to the Aronga Mana press release and can see his point.
Another view on democracy
Tuesday 10 May 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I read an article in CI News on May 6, submitted by “Finding Nemo” from outer-space tapa-taatai.
Watch this space
Monday 9 May 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
“To anyone who has lived in the Cook Islands long enough and has seen the two recent smoke signals challenging government to do something with the reclaimed land for “the new Constitution Park,” such as the foreshadowed skateboard park, there might, just might, be the suspicion that a friend of government is waiting in the wings with a sweetheart deal all sewn up for a long term lease of a couple of acres of absolute lagoon-front land,” a smoke signaller says.
PNG police commissioner's advice could he heeded here
Monday 9 May 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
After reading your recent story relating to the unusual reason given by Papua New Guinea’s police commissioner for the closure of the PNG National Fraud and Anti-Corruption Directorate and the subsequent recommendation by the Deputy Chief Justice to reopen this office, that an excerpt from it needed to be reprinted.
Traditional leaders 'way out of line'
Monday 9 May 2016 | Published in Opinion
I may be treading on eggshells here.
Events suggest cabinet in chaos
Saturday 7 May 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
“The only explanation I can think of for cabinet ministers not reading and understanding important submissions like the EU Fisheries Agreement is their total negligence of public duty,” a smoke signaller says.
Penryhn travel problems very real
Saturday 7 May 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
As a follow up to my letter printed in CI News on May 3, with the headline, “Tiare Taporo news revives bad memories.”
'Leader of the opposition' wasting time
Saturday 7 May 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Having read Wilkie Rasmussen’s article of 1 May headed “Tongareva gold rush an illusion”, I could be excused for thinking the poor fellow is delusional: Gold rush teaa?
Our sacred trust to care for the islands
Saturday 7 May 2016 | Published in Opinion
One way to think of the place where one lives is that it is a sacred trust.
Credit for water station belongs to New Zealand
Friday 6 May 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I appreciate some of points raised by Tupapa Maraerenga MP George Maggie in the Cook Islands News on Saturday April 30.
Eating wild chickens not a great prospect
Friday 6 May 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
Are people really advocating that we eat our wild fowl? Do we really have to eat every living thing in sight? I hope not, as my chooks are like pets which I feed and watch over fondly.
Maromaroa e te tumatetenga tikai
Friday 6 May 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Letter ‘Tongareva goldrush an illusion’ - Arumaki vaarua auro e moemoea
Decision-making cause for concern
Friday 6 May 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
After reading the May 3 front page story in the CI News involving Agriculture minister Kiriau Turepu’s interview about the EU purse seine fishing deal, I am very worried about how decisions were made by those in the “power seats” regarding this issue.
Lack of labels causes water confusion
Thursday 5 May 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
“If a blue sticker indicates that a water station is safe to use and a red sticker indicates it’s not, what are we supposed to do when the station has no sticker at all?”
Leaky boat needs urgent help from the PM
Wednesday 4 May 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
“The Tiare Taporo has sprung a leak and is taking on water in Tongareva,” a smoke signaller says.
Promises far from watertight
Wednesday 4 May 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I see the government is offering free (non-taxed) water for all residents and wondering why we are not all jumping up and down and praising them, waving palm leaves.
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