Opinion

Zero leadership qualities

Monday 4 March 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, The quoted comments in your newspaper earlier this week concerning the MP for Matavera, Kiriau Turepu, who plans to stay in the background on an initiative to bring together all the various committees in the village under one umbrella typifies the kind of MP this constituency sadly has.

Road users still waiting

Monday 4 March 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, For more than 12 months now since I begged the government to do something to our road and we the road users are still waiting.

North on seabed board?

Monday 4 March 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Are people in the northern group too dumb to speak for themselves? I am totally mystified by the selection of members of the Seabed Advisory Board.

Travel honesty needed

Saturday 2 March 2013 | Published in Smoke Signals

A smoke signaller writes: “Big Norm [George] is always saying that government has blown its travel budget, but Minister Brown won’t come clean.

'We have to speak up now'

Saturday 2 March 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Kia Orana fellow Cook Islanders.

MMR post to be advertised?

Saturday 2 March 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Can the public service commissioner tell the public when the HOM post at Ministry of Marine Resources will be advertised? I know that the term for the current HOM at MMR is soon to conclude and the sooner a new HOM is appointed the better.

Just having fun

Saturday 2 March 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, As a frequent visitor to your island due to work, I must say that the best part of my experience every time I am there are the pub crawl buses.

'That's play on in my book'

Friday 1 March 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I wish to comment on the performance by the referee in the Premier Grade League game between the Arorangi Bears and Ngatangiia Sea Eagles at Raemaru Park at the weekend.

Kata - March 1, 2013

Friday 1 March 2013 | Published in Kata

Where are the fire hydrants?

Friday 1 March 2013 | Published in Smoke Signals

“Government has done well with their planning and execution with Land Holdings in the laying of the new water line,” a smoke signaller writes.

'Worth 12 pieces of silver?'

Thursday 28 February 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, This letter was prompted by your February 21 article ‘Unlikely boats sneaking in’.

Low standard of governance

Thursday 28 February 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, When reading Minister Mark Brown’s letter to the editor on February 27, I cannot believe the depth in which the standard of good governance has been lowered.

Sickened and disgusted

Thursday 28 February 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I was sickened and disgusted to read in Tuesday’s paper of Tangata Katuke avoiding jail after having been convicted of assaulting his partner for the FOURTH time.

Kata - February 28, 2013

Thursday 28 February 2013 | Published in Kata

Bad report for TV

Thursday 28 February 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, After a busy day we look forward to sitting down to watch TV, but over the past week or so the programmes after TV One News seem to come to an abrupt end part way through the story, and the local CI Television news comes on.

Treating Cook Islanders 'badly'

Thursday 28 February 2013 | Published in Smoke Signals

“I think this government has been the worse ever in sacking top qualified Cook Islanders in senior positions,” a smoke signaller writes.

The good old days

Wednesday 27 February 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Beginning January 28, 2013, I spent three weeks in the Global Volunteers programme in the Cook Islands.

'We are acting prudently'

Wednesday 27 February 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I would like to clarify inaccuracies in a series of articles by your reporter Calida Smylie.

Kata - February 27, 2013

Wednesday 27 February 2013 | Published in Kata

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Pukapuka completes celebrations

Wednesday 27 February 2013 | Published in Return to Pukapuka

Dr Amelia Hokule’a Borofsky, who grew up in Pukapuka and Hawai’i, has returned to the atoll to live, listen, learn and write.