Opinion
Pio reveals what's really going on up north
Tuesday 8 March 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I am writing with regard to the excellent letter from Pio Ravarua, chairman of the Kau Wo Wolo (Aronga Mana) in Pukapuka.
Questions over WOF standards and prices
Tuesday 8 March 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Being new to the island, I reckon I’ve been taken for a ride when it comes to vehicle ownership.
Umu is warming up
Monday 7 March 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
For the last 2 months my family and I worked very hard to plant our taro patches here in takuvaine, only to find out that roaming pigs have come along and decided to make a mess of it all.
Why print such trash?
Monday 7 March 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
May I also respond to the ghost who posted a smoky on March 2, headed “Time to be wary,” by saying we should be wary of ghosts hiding in the shadows instead.
Beware ghosts quoting Shakespeare
Monday 7 March 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
May I respond to the ghost who posted a recent smoky headed “Comedy could be followed by financial tragedy” – more specifically his comment that Merchants of Paradise sounded like a cross between a Shakespearean tragedy and Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera.
The environment is our future
Monday 7 March 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I felt the need to write yet another letter after reading the two articles in Saturday’s paper about the northern Cook Islands purse seine fishery.
The mad, bad and dangerous
Monday 7 March 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
We are now in March 2016, and yet the environment assessment report for the proposed removal of the Fish Pa (stone fish traps) in Aroko and the controversial proposed dredging of the lagoon has not been publicly advertised.
Ban the blowers
Monday 7 March 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I am not usually one to complain, but can someone please ban the sale and distribution of leaf blowers from this country.
Clear all that clutter, and become free
Saturday 5 March 2016 | Published in Virtues in Paradise
At this season of my life, I have a longing for order and simplicity.
Rain seems a bit choosy as to where it falls
Saturday 5 March 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
What’s was the story with all that rain? Where did it go? The whole of Ruaau is as dry as.
Thanks for the insight
Saturday 5 March 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Thanks to Bishop Pere for his insightful and helpful articles on marriage for people of Faith. Particularly his third one was full of rich ideas for protecting the rights of both women and men and keeping love alive. It would make for an excellent course for couples.
Time for absent land owners to pay their dues
Saturday 5 March 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
With a big clean-up presumably still planned to prevent the mosquito disease Zika from coming here, are we going to see large areas of neglected land cleared for free by our public servants and community?
So where's our anti-corruption boss?
Saturday 5 March 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Finally someone has grown some kahunas and is standing up and shouting out about the CIP government’s blatant bribery and corruption.
No politicking in the north, says Pitt
Saturday 5 March 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Just to reiterate the government’s views, I will again dismiss the claims made in CI News this week of politicking in the Northern Group by the PM and his team.
TIS opinions are independent
Saturday 5 March 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Thank you for the front page story on Wednesday, March 2, highlighting the very valid concerns about the Government’s air charter to the Northern Group this week.
Column provokes plenty of reaction
Saturday 5 March 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
To all those who corresponded to my thought-provoking opinion piece, “When is a Cook Islander not a Cook Islander?” and for those ordinary rikiriki and iti tangata who talked with me about this in your homes, offices, in the bank, at the beach, Vaianas, the shops, CITC, on the road, on my way home, emails and social media, blogs online and phone calls to my home, a big meitaki.
Spinning a yarn on Pukapuka...
Friday 4 March 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I would like to congratulate Prime Minister Henry Puna, Minister of Finance Mark Brown and Mr Ben Ponia for a job well done in getting the people of Pukapuka to change their minds and agree to the Government’s proposal to allow the Spanish fleet of “super seiners” to fish in our waters.
US elections and our flying leader
Thursday 3 March 2016 | Published in Opinion
The Republican candidates in the US presidential election have demonstrated in the last six months that these campaigns are certainly not for the weak and faint-hearted.
Respect of a leader
Wednesday 2 March 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
“When New Zealand prime minister, John Key is seen in out in public, people want to take “selfies” with him and place them on Facebook,” a smoke signaller says.
'There was no email error,' says Rasmussen
Wednesday 2 March 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Contrary to the story in Tuesday’s CI News, there was no email error involved in my statement about a plan to develop a fishing base on Penrhyn.
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