Opinion

Kata - April 22, 2013

Monday 22 April 2013 | Published in Kata

We're not the 'little people'!

Saturday 20 April 2013 | Published in Smoke Signals

A smoke signaller writes: “There is currently a disturbing trend for those people in positions of power, including the prime minister, to describe some citizens of the Cook Islanders as the ‘little people’.

'Yesterday's news will not sell'

Saturday 20 April 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, As I listened to Niky Hager on Matariki radio – I couldn’t help but think of Dr Who the time traveler, but more on that later.

Letting the big fish get away?

Saturday 20 April 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Sir, With all this talk from MFEM about taxing pensions and now offshore finance places being used to get out of tax, I was wondering.

Kata - April 20, 2013

Saturday 20 April 2013 | Published in Kata

CIP govt 'already sacked'

Friday 19 April 2013 | Published in Smoke Signals

In response to Tepapaura Hunt’s letter to the editor on Wednesday ‘The real crux of the matter’, a smoke signaller writes: “Te akakite nei koe i te tika e Mama Tepapaura.

The problem of outward migration

Friday 19 April 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Clearly, Mr Worthington likes to get lost in pointless arguments (They have larger reefs than ours, April 15th) and instead of proposing solutions he attacks my ’status’ by relegating my opinion to ’secondary’ - but not so secondary that it was not enough to prompt him to put pen to paper again.

Rattling and vibrating

Friday 19 April 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, How long must the driving public of this country have to put up with the unsealed roading in Tupapa before they are re-sealed? It’s OK for the PM and his cabinet ministers who, when in country, zoom along in their modern, GA tax-funded plush vehicles over the dug up roads without a care in the world and not feeling any bumps.

Discontinued the practice

Friday 19 April 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Please allow me to make one clarification to your article in today’s (April 17) edition (Diplomatic bags taken ‘seriously’).

Kata - April 18, 2013

Thursday 18 April 2013 | Published in Kata

Fish figures 'don't add up'

Thursday 18 April 2013 | Published in Smoke Signals

Responding to Tuesday’s front page article ‘Quotas to be imposed on future tuna catches’ a smoke signaller writes: “One local Cook Islands’ owned vessel that is smaller than the Chinese vessels and is fishing in the same area as the Chinese, averaged approx 600 tonnes per year for many years.

Diplomatic bag a pie in the sky story

Thursday 18 April 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, It was good insight reading Jim Gosselin’s comments in yesterday’s (April 17) paper clarifying the function of a diplomatic pouch.

Nothing but a big bag of air

Thursday 18 April 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, To ‘Reality check please’ (‘Punishment outweighs the crime, April 17) and ‘Secretary, Scott’s Support Team’ (‘A negative picture’ April 16), I would like to say that this American, Arlander, has committed a crime in the Cook Islands and was rightfully found guilty.

Punishment outweighs the crime

Wednesday 17 April 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Probably like a great majority of the folks in this country who are not ultra-conservative, religious zealots or don’t have a stone-age mentality, I am both appalled and outraged that an individual who was recently found guilty of selling a few grams of marijuana has been forced to rot in jail for four months before the judge hands down his sentence in August.

Return to paradise?

Wednesday 17 April 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, It would be nice to have a film on my beautiful, unspoilt, unhurried, unsophiscated little island of Aitutaki.

The real crux of the matter

Wednesday 17 April 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, My husband and I returned to the Cook Islands in 2001.

Kata - April 17, 2013

Wednesday 17 April 2013 | Published in Kata

Searching for stories of hope in tragedy

Wednesday 17 April 2013 | Published in Raro on my mind

By now the world knows tragedy exploded in Boston this week.

The result of overfishing

Wednesday 17 April 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I have been staying with my mother for the last 10 weeks in Orewa, just north of Auckland.

'Can anyone see the danger?'

Tuesday 16 April 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, In response to Charles Carlson’s clarification of the rules for international rugby league players in Saturday’s (April 13) paper -- could someone please explain to Charles the local overseas players are not seeking to represent the Cook Islands or at the Pacific Games, therefore the criteria he refers to are completely irrelevant.