Opinion
Grey Power ads 'gut-wrenching' viewing!
Tuesday 4 February 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Watching Grey Power ads on television and seeing our old people complaining about taxation and telling us the Prime Minister (PM) and his government don’t care about them, despite the PM explaining that MFEM’s RMD (Revenue Management Division) has the right to deduct tax and not something he can interfere with, I couldn’t help thinking Grey Power has lost its way on Christian behaviour as these ads are gut-wrenching viewing and foreign to our Christian culture.
Kata - February 3, 2014
Monday 3 February 2014 | Published in Kata
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Manihiki has 'been disillusioned for 17 years'
Monday 3 February 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I refer to the letter by ‘Disillusioned’ headed “New Manihiki Wharf is ‘money down the drain’” (CINews January 31).
'Ship out' those old tyres
Monday 3 February 2014 | Published in Smoke Signals
“Public health officials need to focus on getting a good result in the case of the 500 tyres in the backyard property of the manager of a car and bike hire business,” a smoke signaller writes.
'Doomsday' for poultry business?
Monday 3 February 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor Your readers will recall my several questions to the Ministry of Finance and Economic Management (MFEM) last year about the tax reforms and how few replies were received.
Celebrating independence
Saturday 1 February 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, This is an open letter to my Mum.
Driver's licence dates questioned
Saturday 1 February 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Last June, my husband and I lined up to get the obligatory driver’s licences at the police station.
Wig 'too hot' for the tropics
Saturday 1 February 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I feel sorry for poor beautiful Niki Rattle having to wear this stupid papaa garb in this very hot climate of ours.
Renewable energy goals 'unrealistic'
Saturday 1 February 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, In relation to Prime Minister Henry Puna trying to justify his being away recently for almost two long weeks, can he please elaborate on how his presence, albeit as an observer at a couple of talkfests somewhere in the Middle East, will be "beneficial to the Cook Islands"?
Graves 'desecrated for tourist resort'
Saturday 1 February 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Recently I visited Mum in Rarotonga.
Grey power fiasco 'dreadfully humiliating'
Saturday 1 February 2014 | Published in Tropical Chronicles
Prime Minister Henry Puna and fnance secretary Richard Neves must be seething with anger over their defeat at the hands of elderly foes.
New Manihiki wharf is 'money down the drain'
Friday 31 January 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, To my horror and utter disgust it has just come to my attention that over $3 million dollars has been earmarked by this Cook Islands Party government to construct a new wharf in Manihiki, the very constituency where Prime Minister Henry Puna hails from.
Visitor 'distressed' by rats at the theatre
Friday 31 January 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Over the past 15 years my wife and I have been visitors to the Cook Islands eight times staying as short as two weeks and as long as five months.
CIFA articles to be 'monitored'
Thursday 30 January 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, As you may know the Cook Islands Football Association is a member of FIFA and OFC (Oceania Football Confederation).
'Public sector debt is not a bad thing'
Thursday 30 January 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The recent Te Mato Vai consultations highlighted public concerns around the levels of public debt in the Cook Islands and the sustainability of it into the future.
Kata - January 30, 2014
Thursday 30 January 2014 | Published in Kata
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Kata - January 29, 2014
Wednesday 29 January 2014 | Published in Kata
Control our EEZ, not high seas
Wednesday 29 January 2014 | Published in Smoke Signals
“The Ministry of Marine Resources should concentrate on putting better controls on foreign fishing licenses within our exclusive economic zone which is under our control,” a smoke signaller writes in response to MMR secretary Ben Ponia’s plea in an article on the front page of Saturday’s CINews.
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