Opinion
Do we need to know?
Thursday 2 October 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I refer to your paper dated Tuesday 30 September on Page 5 re “Asylum seekers live in fear”
'Me e Keretitiano koe, aere mai kia aravei taua'
Wednesday 1 October 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Kia Orana Etita,Me ka tika ia koe kia tuku atu i taku pauanga ki te reta a “Demo Maromaro’a” ki roto i taau nuti pepa.
'Kare ratou e akara oonu atu ana i te ora'anga ote Basileia'
Wednesday 1 October 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Kia Orana Etita,Te inangaro ua au i te oora atu i toku manako no runga i te nuti a Wilkie Rasmussen
Puaikura volunteers keeping the peace
Tuesday 30 September 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor,On behalf of my security team here at the Edgewater Resort and Spa, we applaud and congratulate the Puaikura Volunteers in Policing members who work together with the village police in keeping the peace on this side of the Island and village of Arorangi.
Meitaki maata dog control officer
Tuesday 30 September 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor,On behalf of the people in the Takuvaine Valley, I want to publically thank the good work the dog control officer Don Tua is doing with the out of control dog population.
Dog control, not culling
Tuesday 30 September 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor,As a volunteer veterinarian, word that the Cook Islands Police Service have instigated a dog control strategy based on killing animals has me frustrated and heartbroken.
Coconut palm – the tree of life
Monday 29 September 2014 | Published in Return to Pukapuka
“Do they climb coconut trees in the Czech Republic?” asked some students of Jari Zapp the English teacher at Niua School, Pukapuka.
The 'caretaker' role has expired
Monday 29 September 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor,I was interested in your front page story Saturday (27.09.14) but more particularly Mr Anthony Brown's quoted observations that no elected member of Parliament
Precious days – tell the ones you love that you love them
Saturday 27 September 2014 | Published in Virtues in Paradise
A few weeks ago, my brother Tommy contacted me to tell me that his beloved wife had died suddenly the night before.
SMOKIES: Leading sustainable energy?
Friday 26 September 2014 | Published in Smoke Signals
WE SEE that the Rockefeller family is to divest itself of billions of dollars in fossil fuel assets and put that money into alternative energy assets.
Why is there a back tax?
Friday 26 September 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor,We all know there is a back tax of two years’ worth, for those receiving the NZ pension but has anyone asked the obvious question....
Muchas Gracias to local police force
Thursday 25 September 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, In the 21 months we have been living here we can’t help but notice a lot of criticism aimed at the local police force.
Authorities issuing permits for more disaster zones?
Thursday 25 September 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Following your recent publication of a photo of coastal protection units (CPU's) mistakenly identified as rock revetments,here are photos of REAL rock revetments.
Kata: PM off to renewable energy conference..
Wednesday 24 September 2014 | Published in Kata
'The dog wags the tail, not the tail wag the dog?'
Wednesday 24 September 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
The tax issue facing the CIP would not have been so emotional if they had taken a very measured and emphatic approach to its introduction.
'Democratic Party are on the right path to appeal'
Wednesday 24 September 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor,I write in response to Mark Browns open letter to the Editor on Saturday 20 September 2014.
Grey Power will march and against doctors' orders
Tuesday 23 September 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor,The spiralling unbudgeted post election expenses which has gone viral and out of control is a disaster for the country and the Government in particular who, after being reduced to a care-taker status with limited authority to operate efficiently, is just inching along, so to speak on two flat tyres.
Keep your word, refund elderly
Tuesday 23 September 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor,Mark Brown should keep his word and refund the elderly papa’s and mama’s whose bank accounts he as Minister of Finance raided instead of putting his foot in his mouth with his flimsy comments on petitions.
Poverty, inequality tops public concerns
Monday 22 September 2014 | Published in Foxshots
So how has it panned out – Derek Fox comments on the shape of the new New Zealand parliament and what that might mean:
A graduated approach needed to reduce road deaths
Monday 22 September 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor,I write with a personal sense of sadness and frustration on the on-going deaths of young people on the roads whose lives could have been saved.
« Previous 1 … 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 … 668 Next »