Opinion

Muri community not duly consulted

Monday 19 September 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, It seems a lot gets pushed on to people in Muri without full discussions about the reasons and causes. First there is a new, total raui banning all taking of marine life in Muri for 10 years. This idea started a few years ago from an overseas donor wanting a limited seaweed raui […]

Kata - September 19, 2011

Monday 19 September 2011 | Published in Kata

Travel real reason for tax

Monday 19 September 2011 | Published in Smoke Signals

Nobody but an idiot can have been taken by surprise by the Toa and Air New Zealand payments that were supposedly the reason for the Brown Tax [withholding tax on savings interest], a smoke signaller writes. It has now become clear that the unexpected expenses were actually a civil list blowout due to excessive travel. […]

Google overfishing and see for yourself

Monday 19 September 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Google overfishing and you will see many articles, fact sheets, etc on environmental concerns clearly highlighted. Where is the local environment service and Natural Heritage in the debate? Keep up the good work, Reuben Tylor and Kata. My credentials? As a geography teacher of many years standing I have taught about the resource […]

How much more do I have to suffer?

Monday 19 September 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Recently, surrounding the circumstance of my being charged by the police, I trusted our judicial system enough to plead guilty of my charges. I also accepted the hefty fine but much more importantly, my personal remorse and embarrassment to myself and also to my family name. However, I was under the impression that […]

Immigration says reports sensational

Monday 19 September 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, On reading your sensational headlines Rasmussen supports foreign workers and Job conditions border slavery: lawyer in Fridays CINews, one would assume that the matters referred to are serious enough to have been brought to the proper authorities for attention and addressed appropriately. This is not the case as far as Immigration is concerned […]

Performance a ray of hope

Saturday 17 September 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, After years of disappointment with Tereora College trying to get our children educated in a system that does not work, we were encouraged after attending the awesome performance the children gave at the hall Thursday night. It was a ray of hope that things might actually improve at that institution! Schoolteacher Ms Waldron […]

Let us be peacemakers

Saturday 17 September 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I just want to add my shillings worth in response to yesterdays paper re: the Pacific Islands Leaders Forum to be held here next year. I read with interest other writers views opposing the Fiji PM from getting an invitation to attend. One would think that there is a reason for the coup […]

Young people need communitys support

Saturday 17 September 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Congratulations to the Tereora College performing arts drama class for their outstanding performance on Thursday night. I was so proud to see so many talented young people showcase their creative and artistic talents through drama, dance and music as part of their contribution to raise awareness on the issue of suicide this week. […]

Kata - September 17, 2011

Saturday 17 September 2011 | Published in Kata

Move Shorty

Saturday 17 September 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I agree with the LDS president Danny Williams concerning the adult TV programme Shortland Street. I tried to contact the CITV three times to air my views about the programme too mature for our young children to watch with their parents. I definitely wouldnt want to watch that type of programme with my […]

Musings of an aware indigenous Pacific person

Saturday 17 September 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Allow me, please. To Wanda did you know that Wanda in the movie called A fish called Wanda was intended by writer and comedian John Cleese to portray stupidity? Obviously you never got what I said in my comments. It is probably because you dont have the mind frame of an aware indigenous […]

30ks motu to motu

Saturday 17 September 2011 | Published in Smoke Signals

A smoke signaller writes to TXT188: So we have to drive 30km/h from the Avana bridge to Vaimaanga? Police officers sound desperate to fine people for their money. SS: You must have your streams confused as the reduced speed zone area extends from Avana bridge to Paringaru bridge at the southern end of Muri, just […]

Kata - September 16, 2011

Friday 16 September 2011 | Published in Kata

Fisherman urged to keep at it

Friday 16 September 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, In response to Reuben Tylors letter in CINews yesterday titled Fish facts speak, it is important to get the facts right. He has levelled criticism at the Ministry of Marine Resources in what he describes as failing to provide for the sustainable use of our marine resources and that the fish catch rate […]

Inviting Fiji would be a mockery

Friday 16 September 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, With all the experience the guy has supposedly gained over the many years he was the countrys minister for foreign affairs, it is disturbing that Wilkie would be nave enough to even suggest, let alone contemplate, our country inviting the current military dictator who illegally appointed himself Fijis Prime Minister to attend next […]

Is Wilkie Rasmussen the new Obama?

Friday 16 September 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, In response to Deputy Opposition Leader Wilkie Rasmussens drivel on 15 September 2011, let me make these observations. Why after four years of unmentionable bad performance, Wilkie has reinvented himself into The great initiator or The new giant of Pacific politics? Or maybe, the new Obama? One can say that with so many […]

Govt jets in style at our expense

Friday 16 September 2011 | Published in Smoke Signals

Only politicians can operate without any sense of being budget-conscious or frugal, it seems, says a smoke signaller. For most of us, if we cant afford something, we go without. Surely this is the thought they should be applying to business class travel. Its just sheer indulgence. The tour party going to China could easily […]

Kata - September 14, 2011

Wednesday 14 September 2011 | Published in Kata

Tolerance questioned

Wednesday 14 September 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I have just a couple of quick responses to Jarl Arneric. Firstly, my religion Christianity is exclusive in the sense that Jesus Christ is the only way for salvation. Jesus Himself said in His Bible in John 14:6, I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to the father […]