Opinion
Workers' rights advocates at your fingertips
Thursday 13 November 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Reading Wednesday 12 Letters I wish to comment on Nowhere to Run's comments.
Kata: Foreign worker rights?
Wednesday 12 November 2014 | Published in Kata
No rights for foreign workers?
Wednesday 12 November 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor,The recent announcement of the Labour & Employment Relations Division, Ministry of Internal Affairs, regarding the discontinuance of vetting the employment contract between the foreign worker and employer,
'They said they were going to refund the money'
Tuesday 11 November 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor,It is with sadness that this so called CIP Government – the Government that we voted into parliament to look after the affairs of the people had turned 100 per cent against the New Zealand pensioners.
Police cop unfair criticism?
Tuesday 11 November 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor,Norman George’s outburst in the paper (November 1) is very unfair on the hard working men and women of the Cook Islands Police.
Estranged just to qualify for the pension
Tuesday 11 November 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor,Qualifying for the New Zealand pension for Grey Power members now living in the Cook Islands, came by way of;
'It is not the role of police to punish people'
Tuesday 11 November 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor,I refer to Norman George's letter to the Editor printed in the Cook Islands News on Saturday November 1.
Smokies: Honesty in paradise
Tuesday 11 November 2014 | Published in Smoke Signals
A traveller straight off the plane had a nightmare experience last Friday night after losing his wallet and thinking he’d lost not just driving licences and credit cards but all of his cash for a week on Rarotonga.
Act local, think global
Monday 10 November 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor,So far the PM office has not responded to our letters regarding the dumping of 6 tonnes of rubbish at Turangi Recycling site.
Social centre beach is clinic's animal toilet?
Monday 10 November 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor,On Friday November 7 I was enjoying a leisurely swim at the social centre.
Hindsight is a wonderful perspective
Monday 10 November 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Having been away for two weeks at the birth of my granddaughter, I haven't been privy to some of the letters in response to one I wrote before I left with regard to the allocation of SIF funding.
Whence comes this flurry of Tim Tepaki bashing?
Saturday 8 November 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
The world is full of people that can turn lemons into lemonade but how rare indeed is the man who can turn lemonade into lemons and spread millions of dollars around at the same time?
Smokies: We know his true colours
Wednesday 5 November 2014 | Published in Smoke Signals
A smoke signaller rang in saying they reckon the signaller that sent in a smokie about the Avatiu MP Albert Nicholas’s conduct during a brawl at the Avatiu Clubhouse has got it wrong.
Not a fan!
Wednesday 5 November 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, We are sick and tired of Tim Tepaki’s verbal diarrhoea and continuous sucking up to this CIP government.
Authorities do little as young families in Matavera live in fear
Wednesday 5 November 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, As parents and grandparents of four children under the ages of 4-years old, we are extremely concerned that the Health Ministry and Police Department are not taking greater responsibility for a male, adult individual in the village of Matavera...
'Nothing much adds up in Minister Brown's claims'
Wednesday 5 November 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The announcement (CI News, Monday November 3) of $1.15m in government aid distributed in Manihiki demonstrates the point I and others have made about the lop- sided and unfair emphasis on money being poured into Puna’s electorate.
SMOKIES: Akakoromaki mai
Tuesday 4 November 2014 | Published in Smoke Signals
SS would like to apologise to our readers for the ‘oldie’ and not so current smoke signal that ran in the Monday November 3 edition.
Island time? Yeah right!
Tuesday 4 November 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Nice white van plate No. 4011 departs airport about 3pm Sunday towards Arorangi chocker with just arrived visitors and luggage.
What is the correct petrol pump etiquette?
Tuesday 4 November 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, We as a nation have skirted around this issue for some time – it has been the elephant in the room, the subject which is obvious but no one wants to address!
'A new mu'umu'u or pareu shirt will not hide what's underneath'
Tuesday 4 November 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Minister Mark Brown’s Pre-budget rambling in the paper on October 2 was like stoking a heap of rubbish with wet, green banana leaves – plenty of smoke but no spark of fire.
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