Opinion

TV times wrong

Thursday 5 January 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I write this with frustration and annoyance. CITV advertise their programmes for the day showing TV One News at 8.30pm and so forth! What annoys me is this does not happen. I understand that prior to Christmas and all the local businesses wanting to advertise their wares and create sales, the time frame […]

New market vendor charge is stupid

Wednesday 4 January 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Stupid, stupid, stupid is BTIBs new charge being forced on vendors at Punanga Nui market to use their own carpark! Talk about killing the golden goose. Why do the vendors pay rent for the land their huts stand on? There are 60 plus huts at the market, not to mention the 60 or […]

Political reform is still outstanding

Wednesday 4 January 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter of December 21 titled Why are we reforming again?. There are a few misleading points in the letter. I seek your assistance to highlight and in so doing clarify. I am respectful of the writers concerns with the current administration and advise that this letter is limited (due […]

New villages name questioned

Wednesday 4 January 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I read your newspaper of Saturday December 10, and the translation for one of your articles, Your Village By The Sea caught me by surprise. Te Pae Tai Nui in my understanding is translated as either, Gigantic Seaside, or, By The Vast Sea. Theres no word from the phrase Te Pae Tai Nui […]

Reform would be ticket out

Wednesday 4 January 2012 | Published in Smoke Signals

Whoever is writing these letters on the upcoming reform knows a helluva lot and has hit the nail right on the head, a smoke signaller says in response to the second installment of reform letters to the editor, published last week under the heading Looking beyond the market: Do we go down the path of […]

Tribute to two hard-working Teinas

Wednesday 4 January 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Apart from Minister Teina Bishops various articles in your paper, I thought that I should write to you to acknowledge two respected Cook Islanders who have the same name as the Honourable Minister Teina himself. It must be the name that made them hard working individuals. These two deserved to be publicly acknowledged […]

Family land could be used for egg farm

Wednesday 4 January 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, John Scott has said he would relocate his chicken farm if someone was to gift him some remote piece of land. He has told inspectors that he is willing to shift inland somewhere if someone is willing to give a piece of land for him to do that. Johns wife Tara Scott (Utanga) […]

Kata - December 31, 2011

Saturday 31 December 2011 | Published in Kata

Kata - December 30, 2011

Friday 30 December 2011 | Published in Kata

How much longer?

Friday 30 December 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Wow, it took over a year to find a permanent Finsec and now who knows how long it will take to find a new PSC, so far its six months and counting. This is not very encouraging considering the next round of HOMs appointments come up in 2012. But how long will we […]

Outraged and staggered

Friday 30 December 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, After 30 years of residents in Muri having to put up with the on-going nauseating stench and bug infestation from Scotts Farm, I am both outraged and staggered that government after government after government have yet to enact appropriate legislation to finally put a halt to Scotts farm from polluting the environment with […]

Pa might have a site

Friday 30 December 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I have read the letters regarding the stench coming from Scotts Farm and notice that John Scott is reported to be willing to move if a landowner is willing to give him a more remote piece of land. What about coming to some arrangement with his good friend, Pa Marie Ariki who has […]

Reform ideas for rugby union

Friday 30 December 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Please allow me to express my thoughts regarding our national rugby competition. With the ongoing migration of Cook Islanders to join their families overseas and the declining population, I believe the CIRU should reconsider their focus with the national competition and maybe direct it to identifying talents for export so to speak. This […]

Kata - December 29, 2011

Thursday 29 December 2011 | Published in Kata

Loving chicken farm outcry

Thursday 29 December 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Might I say that I am loving the recent write-ups concerning the stench from the chicken farm in Muri. Loving any negative impact this may have on the chicken farm so that John Scott is forced to clean up his act once and for all. Try living next door to the chicken farm, […]

Cabinets gone for quick dollar

Wednesday 28 December 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Recently I ended my letter by questioning whether it was a good idea for MMR to sell our fish to foreign fishing companies at 18 cents a kilo. Some years ago this might have been good, but times change. Some of us remember when fruit like bananas, pawpaw, tomatoes, were all grown for […]

The people of Muri have had a gutsful

Wednesday 28 December 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Fortunately, my home is not next door to Scotts Farm. As a resident of Muri, however, my family do get the effects of the awful smell on a regular basis. I therefore wish to have my say on what is a very important and serious issue. Important not only for the many people […]

Suggestions for Scotts egg farm

Wednesday 28 December 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I have found this debate regarding John Scotts Farm very interesting. What has concerned me is all the talk about the smell, but not about what is causing the smell. Out of all the letters not one has raised the point about the conditions of where and what the chickens are kept in. […]

It's not a farm its a factory

Wednesday 28 December 2011 | Published in Smoke Signals

The victims of the Scotts Farm smell are hard pressed to find words adequate to convey the degree of the misery they are unable to escape, a smoke signaller writes. When assaulted by such olfactory violence it is difficult perhaps to consider the real cause of the onslaught. Scotts operation is not a farm in […]