Opinion
Different styles of reporting
Saturday 21 June 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The Cook Island Herald keeps making the same mistake over and over again with their false reporting about Teariki Heather.
Brown's claims don't stack up
Saturday 21 June 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, As a candidate standing against Minister Mark Brown in Takuvaine Tutakimoa, I stumbled on his campaign flyer with a list of achievement and promises.
More questions on Tourism photo contract
Friday 20 June 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Your report in last Friday’s paper regarding Cook Islands Tourism Corporation film project again raises questions about the contract awarded by CIT to an Australian contractor, Brave New World, using NZ Aid money.
Kata: MP flights
Friday 20 June 2014 | Published in Kata
Response on QR's Samoa trip
Friday 20 June 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, To ‘Concerned Taxpayer’ (CT) of your editorial column dated June 14, 2014.
Election: Is this a lost opportunity?
Friday 20 June 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, If the people of the outer islands had chosen to they could have guaranteed being able to form the government.
Cartoon nailed budget bluster
Friday 20 June 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Kata’s cartoon on Wednesday, June 18 aptly depicts an embarrassing faux pas by the two Demo financial and economic experts.
Smokies: New twist to old tale?
Thursday 19 June 2014 | Published in Smoke Signals
“Dumb and Dumber” gave a new twist to a perennial Cook Islands problem.
What would make people return to Mauke?
Thursday 19 June 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Recently we heard a radio story of a small town attempting to revive its economy. This town in Australia has 10 times the population of Mauke.
Time to fix it, if it's not right
Thursday 19 June 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I refer to the reply from the Financial Secretary in Tuesday’s paper. Slavery was practised for something like 200 years but that did not make it right.
Hansard record set the matter straight
Thursday 19 June 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The Parliamentary Hansard records the Honourable Members voting that the sum of the total Appropriation would be $196,534,398.
Post-election spectacle guaranteed!
Wednesday 18 June 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Listening to rules of engagement for the upcoming election being read out on local television the other night it seemed to me that no candidate can avoid breaching parts of these rules.
Brown respondes to Demo allegations
Wednesday 18 June 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The letter by the Democratic Party finance spokesman James Beer indicates clearly to our people that this is a party that is desperately clutching at imaginary straws.
Kata: Appropriations Act
Wednesday 18 June 2014 | Published in Kata
Selective memory at work
Tuesday 17 June 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Brian Mason’s ‘pathway to profligacy’ indeed warrants a diagnostic analysis.
Smokies: Many pensioners have dependants
Tuesday 17 June 2014 | Published in Smoke Signals
Can Brian Mason provide statistics on how many pensioners are on high incomes, with no dependents?
Something wrong with Appropriations Act?
Monday 16 June 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, It would appear to this brief newcomer to the Parliamentary scene that there is something seriously wrong with the Appropriations Act of 2013.
'Double-ups' create budget problems
Monday 16 June 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I congratulate the Democratic Party Finance Spokesman James Beer for identifying a problem in the appropriation process for the 2013/14 financial year.
It takes a village to build a house
Monday 16 June 2014 | Published in Return to Pukapuka
Dr Amelia Hokule’a Borofsky, who grew up in Pukapuka and Hawai’i, is learning from and giving back to her childhood atoll and community.
Kata - jobs for all
Saturday 14 June 2014 | Published in Kata
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