Opinion
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.
Corruption statement comes as a surprise
Saturday 13 December 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I too was surprised at the Minister’s statement in Monday’s Cook Islands News about how the public needs to be educated on corruption.
Kind words key to youngsters' futures
Saturday 13 December 2014 | Published in Virtues in Paradise
This week I attended the prize-giving ceremony at Araura College on Aitutaki.
Problems on both sides
Friday 12 December 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I have read your release on Corruption on Monday December 8 as well as “Public Eye’s” Public Forum letter of Wednesday December 10.
Declaration situation explained
Friday 12 December 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, In response to a letter to the editor published on December 9 entitled “Declaration notice out of order”, I’d like to advise your readers of the following:
Ideas for best games eventlet
Friday 12 December 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I understand that there is some talk about staging the Cook Islands Games next year as part of the country’s main 50th anniversary celebrations during July/August.
Smokies: After-hours GA use
Thursday 11 December 2014 | Published in Smoke Signals
What are the policies with the Government vehicles used after office hours, apart from those used by the Customs/Immigration team?
Letter writers on target
Thursday 11 December 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I write to congratulate and applaud the authors “Sceptical” and “Public Eye” for their excellent dissertations on “the biggest joke of the year – Government to educate public on anti-corruption”.
Back tax still looms
Thursday 11 December 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The lack of any positive result from the July election (it’s now five months later), has been a frustrating period for many.
Damaged roads urgent priority
Wednesday 10 December 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor Why is it so difficult for Infrastructure Cook Islands to find money to allocate to its road works division so the explosion of potholes on Rarotonga can be fixed properly with a combination of tar and gravel rather than just gravel?
Inmates run the asylum
Wednesday 10 December 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, If there has ever been a case of the inmates running the asylum, this is it.
Media release 'biggest joke of the year'
Wednesday 10 December 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Mark Brown’s media release headed “Government to educate public on anti-corruption”, is the biggest joke of the year.
Declaration notice out of order
Tuesday 9 December 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, On December 2 the Deputy Prime Minister, who is also the Minister for Infrastructure Cook Islands, published a "Public Notice and Declaration", dated November 20, 2014.
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