Opinion

What's my father got to do with it?

Sunday 22 March 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, With all due respect to you Wilkie Rasmussen, your article in CINews on Monday, March 16 mentioned my father, the late Albert Peto Nicholas.

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Integrity goes out the door...

Sunday 22 March 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Since Black Friday, May 13, I have asked the question, what makes people like Albert Nicholas Jnr, blatantly deceive not only the Democratic voters of RAPPA, but also the vaka committees present at a party meeting.

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Purse seining well explained

Friday 20 March 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I would like to thank Ministry of Marine Resources (MMR) for the very informative presentations on Monday night on the purse seine fishing.

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School meeting source of frustration

Thursday 19 March 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I write to express my frustration and to protest at what took place at the Avarua School AGM at the Sinai Hall on Tuesday afternoon from 4.30pm-5.30pm (please note, the timing is important).

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Fishing in raui areas 'disturbing'

Thursday 19 March 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, We have recently returned from our third trip to Rarotonga and we felt compelled to write about an issue that we find disturbing.

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Service cut a business decision

Thursday 19 March 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I refer to Teina Bishop’s grumble about the cut in shipping service to Aitutaki.

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New insights on fishing issue

Wednesday 18 March 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Thank you MMR for Monday night’s purse seine consultation.

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Malfunctioning phones cause concern

Wednesday 18 March 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I am really concerned that Telecom Cook Islands has not issued a media release to explain why a number of top-brand cellphones (Samsung, iPhone, Nokia) have been malfunctioning over the past week or so.

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Partnership claim 'absolute nonsense'

Tuesday 17 March 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, The claim by Albert Nicholas that his party-hopping or vaka-jumping is the result of a partnership agreement between the Avatiu Democrats and the Cook Islands Party Government is absolute nonsense.

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Deeply in love with the Cook Islands

Tuesday 17 March 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I am an Australian married to a beautiful Cook Island lady.

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Enough is enough, remove lifetime ban

Tuesday 17 March 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, It was fantastic to read about the results our athletes Roland Neurerer and Kevin Henderson achieved when they represented the Cooks

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Possible to live without debt

Monday 16 March 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, My heart sinks as I hear the country is being taken further into debt.

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More on the case for round houses

Monday 16 March 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I refer to the professor from Pukapuka's letter in CINews on March 14.

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Changing from violence to virtues

Monday 16 March 2015 | Published in Virtues in Paradise

When the Minister of Education for Yap, a small island country in the western Pacific, invited us to give a Virtues Project workshop for the community, I asked him to include a group of students.

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Evidence backs up round house design

Monday 16 March 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, ‘Wow’, is my first reaction to Historian’s frenzied rant in Cook Islands News this week.

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Compensation a looming issue

Monday 16 March 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I was dismayed to read Saturday’s paper where a story about the water project says, ‘the Te Mato Vai project is not offering landowners any compensation for the use of their land’.

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More thanks for hospital workers

Monday 16 March 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I concur with the sentiments in Stephanie Puiri’s letter to the editor yesterday regarding the amazing staff at the hospital. Over the last six months I have visited the outpatients clinic around six times, the most recent time this morning.

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Sewerage on the gripe radar

Friday 13 March 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I seem to have somehow got on to the John Scott gripe radar and raised his ire.

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In praise of Rarotonga Hospital

Friday 13 March 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, My teenaged daughter broke her ankle in January.

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Work together

Friday 13 March 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, This is an open letter to the One Cook Island and Democratic Parties.

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