Opinion
Respect golden oldies - they vote!
Tuesday 20 May 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Congratulations to our netballers and the profound generosity of Mark Brown, our Sports Minister and CIP tactician.
Hold a national election poll
Tuesday 20 May 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, With our general elections about seven weeks away it seems to me that it would be an appropriate time to run a national public opinion poll.
Smoke Signals back in business
Tuesday 20 May 2014 | Published in Smoke Signals
Get those Smokies rolling in again!
Electoral reform must be driven by Cook Islanders
Tuesday 20 May 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I find Tim Arnold’s letter of Saturday May 17 simply insulting to Cook Islanders.
More public input needed before mining
Monday 19 May 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, We should all seriously consider the SPC’s Chief Geoscientist Dr Kifle Kahsai’s warning about seabed mining.
No need for two vehicles
Monday 19 May 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Kiriau Turepu’s public explanation a few weeks back endeavoured to justify why he is entitled to the full use of two taxpayer’s vehicles.
Wrong time to give away public money
Saturday 17 May 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Mark Brown’s Government sponsorship of netball is highly questionable at this time from a political angle as it smacks of double standards.
Political reform has been moved forward
Saturday 17 May 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I think the editorial comment below Kata’s excellent cartoon in Friday's newspaper, on the subject of political reform, was a little unfair to our politicians.
Cooks are the 'gateway to paradise'
Saturday 17 May 2014 | Published in Virtues in Paradise
Do you realise that Cook Islanders are guardians of the gateway to Paradise?
Do away with constituencies
Friday 16 May 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, “A politician is essentially a policy maker”'.
Pension promise just more election 'flimflam'
Friday 16 May 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The commitment made by (still) Minister Mark Brown on pensions is the usual “wishy-washy” statement we are used to.
Advice for local Telecom investors
Friday 16 May 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, For those wanting to become shareholders in Telecom, here is some maths that would help shed some light (marama) on a $1000 investment.
Pure water – yeah right!
Friday 16 May 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, If Raro’s mountain water is so pure and clean as your letter writer yesterday suggested, then why are there filter stations all around the island – and lots of people filling up those big blue bottles?
What is CIFA's true state of health?
Thursday 15 May 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I refer to my letter published in CINews on May 8, 2014 titled ‘Good governance in grassroots sport’ and the CIFA response published the next day.
Kata: Bike registrations
Thursday 15 May 2014 | Published in Kata
Selling Telecom not good business sense
Thursday 15 May 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Minister Mark Brown’s explanation on television the other night as to why Government won’t exercise their option to purchase the NZ Telecom Shares of Telecom Cook Islands doesn’t really add up.
Why the delay in deporting Franklin?
Thursday 15 May 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Can the Immigration Office answer a few simple questions?
Franklin has done his time
Thursday 15 May 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, In your paper 13 May 2014, an article was there about Mark Franklin, who someone pointed out should be deported back to NZ and Immigration is looking into it.
Give Mark Franklin a break!
Thursday 15 May 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I am dismayed at the thought being suggested that Mark Franklin may be deported.
'Pure' water please
Thursday 15 May 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, We knew the Japanese were putting out the bull when they said they would stop whaling and we knew our government were shovelling the same bull when they said they were not going to turn our drinking water into swimming pool water by injecting chlorine.
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