Opinion
Situation much worse behind the scenes
Saturday 7 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The Government’s latest media release is a quite-natural attempt at damage control.
Press release misses vital information
Saturday 7 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I refer to the press release presumptuously suggesting no misconduct on the part of any government “officials” (no mention of “Ministers”) without sharing with us exactly what the nature was of the FIU questions referred to Crown Law.
Recognise those teachable moments
Saturday 7 November 2015 | Published in Virtues in Paradise
After a virtues workshop, the programme director gifted me with a massage.
Chinese 'gift' not quite what it seems
Friday 6 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The rebuild of Apii Nikao is a government snake pit where all the involved speakers have forked tongues.
Brown's claims wrong, says Beer
Thursday 5 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, In this letter, I’ll make brief observations on two current issues.
Nikao school and the UN connection
Thursday 5 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, For those of your readers who have consistently trashed our Prime Minister over his quest for United Nations membership and the bulldozing of Nikao school, you have more than a little egg on your face with the handover of $10 million from China for our new school.
Rumoured deal is land for tractors
Thursday 5 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, In wake of the media release of the legal opinion on alleged overspending by the CIP government comes the revelation that the gift of tractors came with a contract where planters were asked to sign over a piece of land in exchange for a tractor.
Sir Tom's advice still relevant now
Thursday 5 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor: We hear so much about depopulation, usually from a negative perspective. I do not share in the negative views perhaps because I am a product of a Cook Islander exploring the world and taking advantage of opportunities offered elsewhere.
October the month of discontent
Wednesday 4 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
From the home front to Europe, to the US. and the Middle East, tragedies of human sufferings abound.
Marine park idea dead before it starts
Wednesday 4 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Given the voracious appetite for exploiting our fisheries more than ever before in Cook Islands history, it is difficult to see how the proposed Marae Moana marine park can have any meaningful purpose.
Port shelter tricky for targeted users
Wednesday 4 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, If the Tourism Corporation wants to attract more cruise ship visitors they may want to look at their fancy welcome centre before more boats arrive.
Three definitions of a Cook Islander
Wednesday 4 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, “We are all Maori” (CI News November 3) is wrong.
Serious questions surround 'draft' report
Tuesday 3 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, As the author of two fairly lengthy letters the first in the Herald (30.09.15) and the second in the CIs News (October 20) republished in the Herald (October 21) on the subject of Government’s mishandling and unlawfully management of the public revenue I cannot help but be aware that in the absence of any plausible denial by the Executive of any wrongdoing, there has nevertheless surfaced news that an investigation is afoot.
Recycling centre mess continues
Tuesday 3 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I read a recent letter in CI News and the words of Tim Arnold legal advisor (lawyer?) to Pa Ariki explaining the fact from the fiction allegedly written by some of your letter writers.
Laws define 'native'
Tuesday 3 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Mata McNair’s recent letter published in Cook Islands News is rather remarkable.
Pristine lagoon – or muddy swamp?
Monday 2 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, From the first time I windsurfed on Muri Lagoon in April 1999 I recognised the fragility of this extra ordinary natural playground.
Rarotonga's golden egg has cracked
Monday 2 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Kia Orana, The concerns around the current weed growth within Muri Lagoon need some very, very urgent attention.
Medical costs don't come into it
Monday 2 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, I was on a flight to Auckland in 2013 and my brother-in-law got sick half an hour away from Auckland.
Don't trash our flag
Saturday 31 October 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, We have had a boat bombed twice by military planes while flying the Cook Islands flag, now we have a boat flying our flag, seized carrying tons of narcotics.
Tractors shrink and multiply
Saturday 31 October 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor Did the Chinese tractors shrink and multiply in the rain?
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