Opinion
Coffers filled for government 'nest featherers'
Monday 16 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Te Tuhi Kelly has valid points that work in other countries but he is head-butting against two old men – Don Reid and Dennis Tunui – who have proven determinedly stubborn.
It's not the Aitutaki I used to know
Monday 16 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I have been an irregular reader of your online paper for years and an expat CI living abroad.
It's time to walk the talk, PM
Saturday 14 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, On Monday November 9, your paper quoted Prime Minister Henry Puna speaking in Paris at UNESCO saying, "Our cultural heritage is centuries of calendars for fishing and planting, traditional navigation, using our ocean and environment to signal our weather...these are the things that have made our country what it is and are still in use today.”
So where does all the money go?
Saturday 14 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor I am hoping someone can answer some questions I have about Esther Honey.
How not to behave
Friday 13 November 2015 | Published in Smoke Signals
How not to behave “On Wednesday driving home at about 3.30pm I saw a silver Suzuki Swift car, registration number 7556 drive through Titikaveka,” a smoke signaller says. “One of the occupants threw a beer bottle out the car window as well as other rubbish and there were young school children hanging out the window. Way to set a good example for your children!”
Call for police investigation
Friday 13 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The bizarre story in CI News on November 9 which, if true, seems to indicate massive corruption by revenue officers, should be publicly investigated and referred to the Police Department if it has any basis in fact.
Brown's comments need correcting
Friday 13 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The Minister of Finance needs correcting on a number of comments made on Wednesday this week on Matariki FM and on Radio Cook Islands.
Law says everyone must pay tax
Friday 13 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, In response to Don Reid’s letter, actually I do not have a low opinion of Grey Power at all.
Occupation right: an analysis
Thursday 12 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Given that occupation right has become the “topic de jour,” you may be interested in this simplified and edited version of an analysis of a law that I wrote in relation to the new interpretation of Right of Occupation.
Time to come clean on the 'One China' policy
Thursday 12 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Reading about another deal with the Chinese, signed by our Prime Minister, all smiles with nodding agreement to the “One China” policy troubles me deeply.
Thank you, Aitutaki
Wednesday 11 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, A sincere meitaki maata to the people of Aitutaki.
Frame opinion and freedom of expression
Wednesday 11 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I listened with interest to CITV on Monday evening where some institution calling itself the Pacific Freedom Foundation was reported as taking Government to task about its gagging injunction of Dr Frame’s draft legal opinion, as just that very morning I had been discussing with you the extraordinary implications of this whole affair for freedom of expression.
Sevens brawl highlights violence problem
Wednesday 11 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Last week the Cook Islands hosted the International Rugby Sevens, described as one of the great ruby seven tournaments in the South Pacific.
Avatiu MP faces difficult decisions
Wednesday 11 November 2015 | Published in Opinion
A week can be a long time in politics.
Better off with the Kiwis
Tuesday 10 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The grant agreement from New Zealand for Tereora College of $11.7 million, signed and sealed on November 5, just three months after John Key announced the grant at the 50th celebrations in August 2015, shows how the New Zealand government has a real commitment to helping the Cook Islands.
Superannuitants have done the hard yards
Tuesday 10 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Te Tuhi Kelly clearly has a very shallow opinion of Grey Power members and their expectations in their retirement years.
'Enlightened' by government info
Monday 9 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, It seems like anyone can write a letter making false and speculative statements to incite hatred and then hide behind the anonymity of a nom-de-plume. I thought I may as well have a go at this.
Referendum was hardly a majority
Monday 9 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, In the Cook Islands News dated November 6, the following statement concerning Sunday flights to and from Aitutaki was included, which is actually quite misleading – surely unintentionally.
A brief few words on that pension tax
Monday 9 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor,
Talking about corruption is not enough
Monday 9 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Your article on November 6, Anti-corruption moves rubbished, sheds light on the champion against corruption, Nandi Glassie, in his efforts to thwart corruption by travelling to St Petersburg again to deliver the same speech he did recently for the same reasons.
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