Opinion
Rarotonga's roads in truly terrible state
Thursday 14 January 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, On the weekend, I took the liberty of driving around Rarotonga making use of the inner and back roads that circle most of the island.
PM's Marae Moana comments out of context
Thursday 14 January 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I feel that the CI News article on Monday January 11 titled “Puna’s claims at UN misleading,” may have taken the Prime Minister’s statement out of context.
Dots connected the wrong way
Wednesday 13 January 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
Your smoke signaller whose effort in Tuesday’s paper was headlined ‘Peculiar claims from ex-leader,” seems adept at connecting the dots at his convenience.
Little point in fighting brick wall
Wednesday 13 January 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I can see that a fight with John Scott will get nowhere.
Demo pillow fight a wasted effort
Wednesday 13 January 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Please allow me to comment on the ongoing pillow fighting among some of my Demo friends.
McNair letter hits raw nerve with 'wise old men'
Wednesday 13 January 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Wilkie Rasmussen and Norman George’s quick responses to my article of January 8 show I hit a raw nerve.
Peculiar claims from ex-leader
Tuesday 12 January 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
Hmmmm…regarding the comment by Wilkie Rasmussen that the Demos lost the 2010 elections because they had been in government for too long, a vast majority of the voting public would disagree with that claim. But Rasmussen makes many of these peculiar claims in his letters, including the comment that the “people of Penryhn have been mistreated by the CIP Government.”Even when the Democratic Party was in office for all those “10 years or so” before voters decided to change the government because the “Democratic Party had been in government for too long.” Really,Wilkie?
Rasmussen right to raise question
Tuesday 12 January 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Wilkie Rasmussen is quite right to have raised the question of why we have had to import a new Solicitor General when there were four local applicants for the job.
Say one thing, but do the opposite
Tuesday 12 January 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Yes, the government has gone ahead and done it again – they tell us the people of this country one thing and they go ahead and do the opposite.
Other ways to spread fishing 'information'
Tuesday 12 January 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Re the front page article of January 7, it is interesting to note that the Secretary of the Ministry of Marine Resources will be spending many thousands of what I assume are taxpayers’ dollars to travel to the north to “correct some misinformation” about purse seining.
Former Demo leader outside own boundaries
Tuesday 12 January 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Wilkie Rasmussen has a short memory.
Cook Islanders unwanted as solicitor general?
Monday 11 January 2016 | Published in Opinion
There was a fierce global debate some years ago at Universities, in particular in Commonwealth countries and the United States. It was whether to practise “preferential treatment” for people with different ethnic backgrounds from say “pakeha” in New Zealand.
Dazed and confused
Monday 11 January 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I am confused.
Use-by date expired, or at political crossroads?
Monday 11 January 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, This is an answer to the opinion piece by Mata Atua McNair, published in CI News on January 8.
Smash statistics need a closer look
Monday 11 January 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I write in reply to the impassioned letter from Piakura Passfield with regards to the helmet law debate.
Letter shows up lack of experience
Monday 11 January 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I am sure that Mata-Atua McNair’s means well in her letter to you yesterday.
New year chance 'to make all things new'
Monday 11 January 2016 | Published in Opinion
I love new beginnings - a new year, the first day of school, a birthday. It is a chance to start over, “to make all things new.” (Revelations 21:5)
Police disinterest in picture-poser
Friday 8 January 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
“I was surprised to see a certain person posing for a picture in the paper recently,” a smoke signaler says. I understood this person was to be arrested by the police as soon as they entered the country again, but it seems the cops just aren’t interested. Maybe crime does pay.”
Northern needs quite simple
Friday 8 January 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Ben Ponia’s bribes to the Northern Pa Enua fishermen of fishing tackle, lures and subsidised fuel to try to keep them happy is not what the people want.
Mauke TV reception still found lacking
Friday 8 January 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Thank you Bluesky spokesman for the partial explanation about the TV reception in Mauke.
« Previous 1 … 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 … 657 Next »