Opinion

In the news

Wednesday 27 February 2013 | Published in Smoke Signals

A smoke signaller wrote last week: “Very unusual to note Norman is not on the front page of CI News of this week as he always does after every trip to Atiu, in this instance last week.

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.

Best ever NZ High Comm

Tuesday 26 February 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Upon hearing that NZ High Commissioner John Carter will shortly be returning to NZ, it is with a tinge of sadness that I write this letter.

Parents 'half the problem'

Tuesday 26 February 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, This is a letter to the two thugs who broke into our house at the weekend cutting open a mesh screen protector and walking past us with a bush knife while we slept.

Nightlife buses licensed

Tuesday 26 February 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, In response to ‘Sleepless in Tikioki’ and the other booze bus comments last week by PJ (‘Fun bus noise nuisance’) I would like to say that our company, charters our buses for nightlife tours.

Kata - February 26, 2013

Tuesday 26 February 2013 | Published in Kata

Related article(s): ‘Go to hell,’ says George

Booze buses 'all the way'

Tuesday 26 February 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, My fianc and I left the Cooks almost 8 years ago and have never looked back.

Celebrating our diversity

Tuesday 26 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.

Booze buses 'beyond a joke'

Monday 25 February 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I have to agree with the last couple of letter writers about the so called ‘booze buses’.

NZ pension on forum agenda?

Monday 25 February 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I note in Saturday’s CI News that a joint ministerial forum will be held in Queenstown to discuss, inter alia, economical development and, of course, aid.

'A little less sensitivity'

Monday 25 February 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Can I add my grizzle about pothole non-repair on side roads? There are numerous potholes which continually get ignored along the short road to Nukupure Park and the Muri Beach Club Hotel.

Xmas card 2 months late

Monday 25 February 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, It’s not just out-going mail that is held up.

No more mudslinging

Monday 25 February 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

The much-maligned CISNOC management seems to have sorted itself out, as there is no mudslinging being done through the media, said the sports minister.

Kata - February 25, 2013

Monday 25 February 2013 | Published in Kata

Kata - February 23, 2013

Saturday 23 February 2013 | Published in Kata

Myths about Pukapuka

Saturday 23 February 2013 | Published in Return to Pukapuka

Freelance journalist Amelia Borofsky is a regular contributor to Cook Islands News. Borofsky is based in Pukapuka where she spent her formative years when her father was stationed there as an anthropologist for the University of Hawaii.

Customers 'expect more'

Saturday 23 February 2013 | Published in Smoke Signals

A smoke signaller who read a business article on the BBC’s website feels there are some good lessons to learn from a tax issue that has been making headlines in the United Kingdom.

Snail mail from Raro?

Saturday 23 February 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I was very surprised, while staying with an old friend in Auckland, to find letters I wrote and posted separately to him on January 10, 14, 16 and 21, all postmarked February 13 and arriving together on February 20! Does this mean Post Office waits until it has enough mail to warrant a shipment? Nothing will spoil my memories of a wonderful (fourth) trip to Raro, but next time I will not try so hard to write a postcard every day to my children in the US and UK.

Rudeness 'should not be tolerated'

Saturday 23 February 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Last week we read about a Cook Island lady’s experience at the airport when she was bringing flowers into the country, ‘Visitor humiliated’ at airport’ February 18.

Disrupted by booze buses

Saturday 23 February 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I like a cold beer as much as the next guy, but I’m with PJ (‘Fun bus noise nuisance’, February 21).