Opinion
Dump site in need of action now
Saturday 30 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, On Cook Islands Television news a couple of nights ago, Alan Heather took issue over the management of the Arorangi dump site.
Agriculture and animal care
Saturday 30 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, After reading some of the letters in your paper regarding animal welfare, I thought it best to write and state the Ministry of Agriculture/Livestock Division’s position on this issue.
Time to speak up on violence
Friday 29 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, It has been a week or maybe two since the headlines read and explained the amount of domestic violence and abuse our women and children suffer here in our paradise called the Cook Islands.
Citizenship status not up to PM
Friday 29 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I would like to thank Don Reid (CI News May 26), for drawing my attention to PM Henry Puna's revealing but also very alarming statement reported by the head of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) in the Listener article earlier this month.
Puna critics plain spiteful
Friday 29 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, It’s a pity that in the 50 years of self-government, letter-writing to newspapers has not progressed beyond the nastiness of anonymous individuals with too much time on their hands.
Fed up with state of our roads
Thursday 28 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Like recent correspondents, I too am fed up with the current state of the roads.
Second opinion on that 'tax grab'
Thursday 28 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, A very good turnout at our second Grey Power meeting on Wednesday at the Sinai Hall included a tourist, a Government political economist from New Zealand over here on holiday.
Don't badmouth animal clinic
Thursday 28 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I was really pleased to read the article entitled: ‘Cook Islanders concerned about this country’s inadequate animal welfare laws have formed Cook Islands Veterinary Services Incorporated (CIVSI) in an effort to address some of the problems involving animal care in this country’.
Forum critic shows ignorance
Wednesday 27 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Upon reading the letter to the editor in Fridays CI News by your anonymous correspondent, I was immediately struck by a word that I was taught when I was a youngster at school.
Welcome to the $50 celebrations
Wednesday 27 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I heard on radio, yesterday (Monday), that tickets to the dance festivities at the national auditorium during Te Maeva Nui, will range from $30 to $50, and that it will cost $10 to view the proceedings on an outside screen – each night!
What is Puna getting up to?
Tuesday 26 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, In the New Zealand Listener magazine dated May 9-15, Colin Tukuitonga, described as ‘the Pacific nations’ chief advocate’, reported that our Prime Minister Henry Puna had told him he was thinking of giving up the Cook Islands’ New Zealand citizenship and the New Zealand passport.
Making his mark on the world
Tuesday 26 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Minister Mark Brown fresh from the ADB meeting in Azerbaijan then goes to Penrhyn and Manihiki.
Something seems fishy
Tuesday 26 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I may be naive but does it seem strange to anyone else that a Cook Islands-flagged ship gets attacked by a Libyan military jet not once, but twice?
Did PM's wife need to travel?
Tuesday 26 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I am all for women in politics but is it really necessary for Mrs Puna to be accompanying her travelling gypsy husband on official business to Japan and Thailand at the cost of us taxpayers?
Tell us more about WOFs
Monday 25 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Anything that can be done to improve road safety in this country has to be commended.
Wilkie news sad reading
Monday 25 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I was saddened reading the CINews story on Saturday, May 23, about Wilkie Rasmussen and Cook Islands Veterinary Services Inc (CIVSI) Wilkie's comments about Esther Honey were unpleasant and unnecessary.
Upgrade unsafe
Monday 25 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, In support of the road upgrade outside my home on the Takuvaine back road, I would like to highlight an issue of safety that has surfaced after the application of the coarse surface.
Get into the clean beach habit
Friday 22 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor There have been many smoke signals lately about people leaving rubbish like disposable nappies and broken glass on our beaches and I suspect the writer of these smoke signals knows who is doing the littering.
Ocean health and purse seining
Friday 22 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, A friend wondered recently why so many were unaware of the extent of human impact upon the ocean.
Planning should start at home
Friday 22 May 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I see in CI News that Mark Brown has taken a free trip to Korea to promote and speak on education as it stands here in the Cook Islands.
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