Opinion
Locals to blame for problem too
Wednesday 2 December 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, While everyone is blaming the foreign resort owners for polluting Muri lagoon while pretending locals are not polluting, we have the leader of the revolution, MP Tama, taking hundreds of tourists out every day for 20 years to the motu. Where do the contents of his bush loo go?
In defence of purse seining
Wednesday 2 December 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, They say every picture tells a story but in the case of your front page picture on your November 23 edition, showing protestors marching against purse seine fishing with anti-Prime Minister (PM) Henry Puna slogans in hand, it told me two stories:
Budget grab could be disaster too
Wednesday 2 December 2015 | Published in Opinion
By Norman George, lawyer
Auraka e apiapi to apopo
Tuesday 1 December 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Ki te Etita, Kia tika iakoe kia tuku atu i toku manako na roto i taau nuti pepa no runga ite tautai moana e te raitini, e oronga ia nei ei tikaanga tautai no tetai patireia ke i roto ite moana Kuki Airani. Te riro nei ei akakinoanga na tetai papaki ite Kavamani e pera ta tatou ua rai tamaiti tei tu ite pepa apii no teia tuanga koia a Ben Ponia.
Sorrow over Muri lagoon situation
Tuesday 1 December 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Hearing on Radio NZ News on Sunday morning that the Cook Islands government has declared Muri a disaster zone just reduced me to tears.
Where are the locals?
Monday 30 November 2015 | Published in Smoke Signals
The Esther Honey Centre has been training vets and nurses at the Nikao premises for many years. Why haven’t they trained some locals up to do the work? It’s not as if they haven’t had the time to do it? The island definitely needs a centre for animal care and it would be good if locals could be involved.
Give us strength!
Monday 30 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, It is ludicrous to see a story CI News that the Cook Islands government is considering contacting the US embassy about their citizens who are said to be resisting the Esther Honey Clinix eviction notice.
Promises come to nothing
Monday 30 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Before the current prime minister and the CIP won government, Puna announced that when he and the CIP government come in to power his government would convene parliament for at least 100 days of each year.
Missing in the translation
Monday 30 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Thought I’d better make it clear that we, the members of MCIPA are not confused about the reigning Miss Samoa attending the Miss Pacific Islands Pageant from the 6th to the 12th of December.
Caring for our elders vitally important
Saturday 28 November 2015 | Published in Opinion
While we are traveling outside the Cook Islands, I rely on friends emailing or messaging me with news from home.
Another view on lagoon pollution
Saturday 28 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Now that concerns about the poor health of Muri Lagoon have come to a head once again, I’d like to point out that just about everyone seems to be shying away from the fact that it is the resorts that are creating most of the pollution in the lagoon, and not local residents.
EHF not particularly nice to be near
Friday 27 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, We are staying about 50 metres from EHF property - and please don’t call us a low income family.
Grand final cricket needs single venue
Friday 27 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I have been following the Rarotonga cricket competition for the last four years and I have noticed that this year, the standard of cricket on the island has improved in both the men and women’s competitions.
'Forbidden' topic needs public airing
Friday 27 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, On Tuesday night I went to the family law meeting at Matavera..
Puna's promise empty
Friday 27 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Before the current Prime minister and the CIP won government Puna announced that when he and the CIP government come in to power his government will convene parliament for at least 100 days of each year.
A case for changes in super rules
Friday 27 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, My attention has been drawn to a lengthy article written by New Zealand’s renowned law professor Dame Alison Quentin-Baxter, titled “The New Zealand Model of Free Association: What does it mean for New Zealand?”
Fewer pageants New Year wish
Thursday 26 November 2015 | Published in Smoke Signals
The countdown to Christmas has begun, and soon after that it will be the countdown to a New Year. One smoke signaller says his main wish for 2016 is that we won’t see all the bickering about beauty pageants which has confused and exhausted Rarotonga residents this year.
Rock wall not a good idea at all
Thursday 26 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, We see yet another advertisement for a landowner wanting to install a “rock revetment” in Nikao.
Machines for our birthright
Thursday 26 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, When paying my Telecom bill recently I looked across the street and was rather amazed to see the half acre of Chinese bottom of the line rototillers and farm bikes in various stages of assembly.
Time to wake up to our prejudices
Thursday 26 November 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Fortunately in my job and vocation as a counsellor I do not have the discretionary power to decide who I will or will not speak to or see, and I have to manage whomever and whatever walks through my door.
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