Opinion
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.
More to advice than meets the eye
Friday 8 January 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, With due respect, the letter by John Scott to your newspaper on New Year’s Eve needs responding to.
Senior politicians, your time is up
Friday 8 January 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Political commentator Mata-Atua McNair takes a close look at lawyer and political veteran Norman George’s recent suggestions for revitalising the Democratic Party.
Price surprises
Thursday 7 January 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
A smoke signaller was astonished to see a small electronic item on sale in a local shop recently for $385. The reason for his surprise? He bought exactly the same item in a popular New Zealand electronics chain store for $198. Maybe our retailers could explain why they put such huge profit margins on some goods, and not on others, the smoke signaller says. “I think we are being duped.”
Treat the disease, not the symptoms
Thursday 7 January 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, When good agricultural soil is abused, by over-cropping, by monoculture, by essential microorganisms being killed by chemicals, and if that abused land is then left alone, natural processes call on special plants to restore that land.
Time to deal with more traffic issues
Thursday 7 January 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, News that the police are stepping up speed and drink-drive checks is encouraging.
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