Opinion

Looking good

Monday 14 March 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals

Congratulations for the work done by public servants during Operation Namu on Friday. The island looks great!

Smoke Signals

Work, work, work

Monday 14 March 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Did I read it right the PM wants Parliament to sit for 10 days?

Letters to the Editor

Utu' a shocking word

Monday 14 March 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor

I am shocked to read the word “utu” again in Friday’s paper.

Letters to the Editor

You call that simple?

Monday 14 March 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor

In the article on “Climate fund access first for region” in CI News on March 11, Minister of Finance Mark Brown is quoted as saying

Letters to the Editor

Purse seine petitioners 'ill-advised'

Monday 14 March 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor

The Ministry of Marine Resources (MMR) could be faulted for not being more assertive in dealing with the purse seine petition crafted by Kelvin Passfield.

Letters to the Editor


MMR stays mum on Muri problems

Saturday 12 March 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Has anyone else noticed that there has not been a peep from either Marine Resources or Environment Service in relation to the algal bloom issue in Muri?

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News on Penrhyn saddening to hear

Saturday 12 March 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor

It saddens me to hear on Radio NZ News Cook Islanders talking about Penrhyn needing to stay prestine for the sake of tourists.

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Don't feel sorry for those prisoners

Saturday 12 March 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Must we listen to these complaints about the poor mistreated prisoners who unless they have been beaten and starved.

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Fifty years, and no change at parliament

Saturday 12 March 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Re the story, “PM not ready for parliament yet,” article in your issue of Friday, March 11.

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Make sure you're playing the right game

Saturday 12 March 2016 | Published in Opinion

What if you had a dream of being a great athlete – the strongest and fastest rugby player, the most successful netball player -- a true champion of the game?

Opinion

Ghost signaller lacks numeracy skills

Friday 11 March 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor

May I respond to the ghost who posted the smoke signal “Selling our country” in your Smoky column of 5 March by asking how exactly does 50 per cent shares in a joint-venture translate to over 50% and “thus control the economic lifeblood of the entire country?”

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It's akamatakutaku time at the market!

Friday 11 March 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Welcome to akamatakutaku time at the Punanga Nui market.

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Purse seining issue needs more space

Thursday 10 March 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Please keep awareness of the purse-seine fishing issue alive in your newspaper.

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You can't trust them

Thursday 10 March 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor

One must never forget that human beings are not trustworthy. When placed in any type of power over others, straight away they change.

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Timing of trip north no coincidence

Wednesday 9 March 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor

It’s been a while since the CIP stage managed an event like the anti-anti- purse seining petition meetings in Manihiki and elsewhere in the north.

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Law Society clarifies its obligations

Tuesday 8 March 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor

I write to clarify a misconception held by the writer whose letter was headlined, “So where’s our anti-corruption boss?”

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Decision makes mockery of justice

Tuesday 8 March 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor

I believe it is totally disgraceful that the prime minister, who is also Immigration Minister, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Immigration, has allowed a convicted basher time to make his way back to his own country.

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Time for Trev to supply the facts

Tuesday 8 March 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Despite regular smoke signals asking PM’s “media man” Trevor Pitt for information on exactly where the PM has been over the last month or so, no detailed answers have been forthcoming.

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Pitt on defence

Tuesday 8 March 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor

When your paper has Trevor Pitt on defence calling people names and using his media master ship to to describe other people being in “gaga land,” you can be sure Wilkie Rasmussen is on to something.

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Misled, or what?

Tuesday 8 March 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor

So 100 Manihikians believe they were misled about the fishing petition.

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