Opinion
Snatched moment ruins victory
Saturday 20 December 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Congratulations to Tangata Vavia, the confirmed Mitiaro warrior MP and hero of the hour after that historic High Court decision on Tuesday December 16.
NES sets the record straight
Saturday 20 December 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor To put the record straight and correct several assumptions by Ruth Horton in her letter to the editor published in the Cook Islands News (15 Dec 2014) entitled “Prime Minister, please explain…”,
Christmas gifts from the heart
Saturday 20 December 2014 | Published in Virtues in Paradise
Since Christmas is a time to celebrate the birth of Jesus, the question arises, what gift can each of us offer Him?
Land consultations involve 40 groups
Saturday 20 December 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I must comment on a few points made in two recently-published letters.
Ground Hog Day nightmare at Aroko
Friday 19 December 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I read with interest (and agreement) the letter by "frustrated" about the state of the roads on Rarotonga and Infrastructure Cook Islands’ consistently poor reinstatement of local roads.
Now you see it, now you don't
Thursday 18 December 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Can the Public Service Commissioner please explain to the public why the job advertisement for the Financial Secretary post was published in Cook Islands News one week, then withdrawn the following week?
Smokies: Personal gain?
Wednesday 17 December 2014 | Published in Smoke Signals
Would most people take up an offer of free office space to run their business perk? Who would not take up such an opportunity if it came their way?
No more smears please
Wednesday 17 December 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, When are the Opposition politicians going to stop their continuous smear campaigns against the government?
More than meets the eye in water project access issues
Wednesday 17 December 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I would like to add my voice of concern to the letters written thus far to the editor regarding plans by the Ministry of Infrastructure Cook Islands (ICI) and Cook Islands Investment Corporation (CIIC) to enter onto private land...
Pensioners face a taxing problem
Wednesday 17 December 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, With Christmas looming and the spirit of festivity in the air, Grey Power members are reminded that exactly one year ago today, December 17, 2013, the government of the day sanctioned the illegal and callous raid of $30,000 from the bank accounts of our most vulnerable people.
Don't dump on our island
Tuesday 16 December 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, On our usual morning drive on the back road from Turangi to our parents’ place in Matavera this morning, we came upon this disgusting pile of beer bottles that had obviously been dumped on the side of the road.
Smokies: Tupapa Christmas lights
Tuesday 16 December 2014 | Published in Smoke Signals
The highlight of my night during festive season is driving past the Tupapa meeting house.
A handy place to put tax demands
Tuesday 16 December 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor Some of us NZ pensioners have received documents from the Tax Dept asking us to visit their office to pay our tax.
Delays hold nation to ransom
Tuesday 16 December 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I have met Judge Weston and I found him to be a nice, fair man whose judgements were balanced and measured.
Keep your mitts right off our Sunday night market
Tuesday 16 December 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, To the Smoke Signaller who wrote about the Sunday night market in Muri.
Top job recruitment 'process' a shocker
Monday 15 December 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, It is with shock and concern I see that the PSC finally advertising the position of financial secretary only as recently as this week.
Prime minister, please explain...
Monday 15 December 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I was happy to read in your paper that the Prime Minister Henry Puna was going to be in Rarotonga for the Christmas period.
Letter supplies timely information
Monday 15 December 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I recently read in your newspaper a letter titled ‘Declaration notice out of order’, written on December 9 by ‘Do it right or don’t do it at all’.
Smokies: Mitiaro elections
Saturday 13 December 2014 | Published in Smoke Signals
Frustration about the Mitiaro parliamentary seat: I understand this delay was caused by an old man with his warrant way expired. Give the young hardworking guy a go
They've got your number
Saturday 13 December 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I never thought for one moment that I would see the day come in the Cook Islands, that a newborn child would have to have an RMD number.
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