Opinion
Need for sex debate
Thursday 17 September 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Regarding the recent smoke signal in CI News about the need for a “sex debate,” I believe the law does not allow middle-aged men in positions of power to have sex with impressionable 16-year-olds, especially if the young person involved is in a subservient post or working relationship to the older man.
Idea for new HOMs
Thursday 17 September 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, My wife and I have had a wonderful holiday on Rarotonga for the last two weeks.
The case for commercial whale-watching
Wednesday 16 September 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Whales are protected by international law, so nobody is hunting or killing them (except under the guise of research), nor should they.
Tax protest a matter of principle
Tuesday 15 September 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Why do Grey Power members keep talking about tax? Why do they keep stubbornly refuse to back down?
Making a mockery of HOM selection
Tuesday 15 September 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I understand there is an agreed process for finalising the shortlist of candidates for Heads of Ministries positions which has been followed by the PSC.
Case for retaining Secretary of Justice
Tuesday 15 September 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The wait to see who will be the newly-appointed or reappointed HOMs is excruciating.
Rule of law versus the media
Tuesday 15 September 2015 | Published in Opinion
The Chief Justice is not “omniscient.”
Schooner inquiry a load of bollocks
Monday 14 September 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The reading public are not deaf, dumb, blind or stupid but according to Cook Islands Party PM Henry Puna, Finance Minister Mark Brown and Fin Sec Richard Neves they certainly think we are. I think the schooner inquiry is a load of bollocks.
Health too speedy on road safety strategy
Monday 14 September 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, It’s official. There are two versions of island time.
Agriculture failing our fish
Monday 14 September 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Kiriau Turepu, as the Minister of Environment and Agriculture, does his left hand not know what his right hand is doing? How can he protect our country’s environment while he allows poisons to be sprayed on gardens around the island when it reaches into our lagoon?
Climate stance 'two-faced'
Monday 14 September 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Our prime minister, Henry Puna once again wears the two-faced mask at yet another climate change forum.
Dog problem has simple solutions
Friday 11 September 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Anyone who has ever visited this beautiful paradise of the Cook Islands and in particular Rarotonga, will most likely have been made aware of the problems created by ‘man’s best friend.”
UN job will be wonderful for someone
Friday 11 September 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, There are many issues which learned people have written to CI News about recently.
Meet and greet great success
Friday 11 September 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, On behalf of the Cook Islands Breast Cancer Foundation, a big meitaki maata to Julia Evans and Kelly Jones and her team at High Tide.
Professor right about UN precedents
Thursday 10 September 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Professor Stephen Levine was quite correct, in your front page article of Tuesday’s CI News, where he pointed out that New Zealand joined the United Nations in 1945 when New Zealand citizenship did not exist.
Still fighting that tax
Thursday 10 September 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, To be brief and to the point, I last paid income tax in New Zeland over 21 years ago.
Pensioners disregarded
Thursday 10 September 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The callous disregard and lack of caring for the elderly New Zealand-paid pensioners continues unabated by the over-zealous and threatening MFEM/IRD Staff.
Parliament in ruins thanks to neglect...
Wednesday 9 September 2015 | Published in Opinion
The institution of Parliament is now in ruins, desecrated, vandalised and allowed to fall apart.
Stern warning for vandals
Tuesday 8 September 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, When calling into the Jetsave office on Sunday I saw a really disappointing sight.
Thanks for the clean-up
Tuesday 8 September 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, We, the residents of Turangi Valley, extend our sincere appreciation to the Takamoa Theological College students who voluntarily cleaned up the sides of the road up to the Turangi water intake.
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