Opinion
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.
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.
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