Opinion
Trevor Pitt for prime minister
Wednesday 17 February 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, In May last year in a letter to your paper, I predicted that “nothing will be done about the [Aitutaki Sunday] flights because there is no political will to do anything” and while saying that I respected the Prime Minister Henry Puna for running the long-promised referendum. “The politicians have their tails between their legs on this issue”.
When is a Cook Islander not a Cook Islander?
Wednesday 17 February 2016 | Published in Opinion
Te Tuhi Kelly says the answer to his question is when he/she is NZ Maori. This is the first of a two-part opinion piece.
Are we a failed democracy?
Wednesday 17 February 2016 | Published in Opinion
Norman George - lawyer Critical matters of State not to be messed with
Sunday flights referendum:
Wednesday 17 February 2016 | Published in Opinion
Wilkie Rasmussen – Cook Isands News columnist A necessary abuse of democracy Banning Sunday flights has been on the calling cards of some Aitutaki people.
Internet trickery returns
Monday 15 February 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
Looks like Bluesky is up to Telecom Cook Islands tricks again, with massive unexplained internet usage charges. How do we stop Bluesky stealing our megabytes each month?
NZ gangs scouting for a chapter or a new HQ
Monday 15 February 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, It has been rumoured for months that New Zealand gangs have been scouting Rarotonga to set up a chapter or new HQ. I think we have all seen people walking around at the market and driving around displaying their patches proudly.
Engineered wetland' suggested
Monday 15 February 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, It is interesting to note that the tourism industry is advocating the establishment of a reticulated sewage system [at the cost of the taxpayers] as a solution to the Muri situation.
The EIA 'process' is slow and slug-like
Monday 15 February 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, What a welcome sight to see the Minister for Agriculture and Environment Kiriau Terepu finally come out of hiding to shed some light on the plight of our land and sea.
Media ethics disputed
Saturday 13 February 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, In response to your front page (Wednesday) lambasting of government transparency, and your own individual criticism about plagiarism, I have a few views of my own. My perspectives (unlike yours) are based on working in and with the media – and working outside of the media industry, in the Cook Islands. I didn’t just show up yesterday like you or your unending string of reporters from overseas.
Little by little we can solve the problem
Saturday 13 February 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, It was a welcome sight to see someone making some moves to address the Muri Lagoon situation.
Merchants of Paradise speak up
Saturday 13 February 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, In July 1997, our Government signed the “One China” Policy which provided that the Chinese Government ....”will assist the people of the Cook Islands in full, in the areas of socio-economic and cultural development”.
The most important job in the world
Saturday 13 February 2016 | Published in Virtues in Paradise
As Oprah Winfrey once told me when I had the blessing of being on her television show with our first book, The Family Virtues Guide, parenting is the most important job in the world.
Weaker and proud of it
Friday 12 February 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I wanted to thank the good Bishop Tutai Pere publicly for improving my married and home life after I read his article last week in Cook Islands News and then, more importantly, read it to my wife. I started by telling my good woman that from now on I would do all the reading and that she would understand why after she had heard what the Bishop had to say about the role of women on earth and indeed in God’s kingdom.
Lagoon not a swimming pool, it's an ecosystem
Friday 12 February 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I have just returned from Muri beach with a few friends and family to ensure that the excavator trial did not proceed.
Saga of untold ministerial blunders
Friday 12 February 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, It has been said by another and I shall say it again, how many serious allegations and infringements can one government have and get away with? Well it seems in the ‘Crook Islands’ unlimited.
Don't sack DPM yet
Thursday 11 February 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Don’t sack the DPM yet. Let him dress the Muri lagoon from Avana to Avaavaroa. I believe he is the only one capable of doing the job. He does less talk and walks the hard yards. That’s the problem with us locals, when one of us is successful we spend the rest of our lives trying to drag them down. Good on you DPM. We have a natural disaster to be addressed immediately.
Tu kamakura o tetai pae
Thursday 11 February 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Ki te Etita, Te taitaia nei au, ite au tapepeanga ate nga akaaere ote Demo i ta raua i tata mai na roto i taau nuti pea’pa, i te pati ki te Parai Minita kia akaeke ia mai tona tauturu mei runga mai i tona taoanga ki raro note mea te kimiia nei tona akaapaanga e te F.I.U.
PAC different
Wednesday 10 February 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Without responding to Brett Porter’s unfortunate habit of hiding weak arguments within personal insults, I should point out that “PAC” is not the same as “PERCA”. PAC reports to Parliament: it is a watchdog independent of government. PERCA is a government committee, appointed by government with the same function in regard to government as an internal audit group would have in regard to a private business.
Picking on Papa Norm
Wednesday 10 February 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
Really, you are blaming Papa Norm for this as well. Some useless old sod is picking on Papa Norm for a successful mosquito eradication programme which was a last resort to a Dengue epidemic we were facing in early 2000. Sounds like this egg would prefer we walk around the island in a long line from the beach to the hills trying to smack out every mosquito and turn over every stone or used tyre. Stop blaming others and start providing proactive ways to address the issue. Maybe your micro thought process needs a reboot. By the way the Operation Namu Programme was very successful. So thank you Papa Norm.
It will be remembered at the ballot box
Tuesday 9 February 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I refer to the ‘Promises, Promises, Promises’ comment posted in your Smoke Signals column on February 4. I could be excused for thinking this ghost of yours was on weed.
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