Opinion

Red carpet in Raro!

Monday 19 September 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Your writer of Saturday invites Cook Islands to be peacemakers and invite the Fiji PM to the 2012 South Pacific Forum in Rarotonga. And most Cook Islanders would agree that the man should be welcome here. That is AFTER he has done his time in prison for treason and terrorism, after he has […]

Kata - September 19, 2011

Monday 19 September 2011 | Published in Kata

Kata - September 17, 2011

Saturday 17 September 2011 | Published in Kata

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. […]

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 […]

Ivaiti accuses auditor of vengeance

Wednesday 14 September 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I cannot help but put fingers to keyboard again to respond to the spin doctor Paul Allsworth in the recent article Allsworth responds to Ivaiti vendetta. I last wrote to your paper in May 2011 (many moons ago) responding to his accusations, and it has taken Paul Allsworth almost four months to respond, […]

Kata - September 13, 2011

Tuesday 13 September 2011 | Published in Kata

Heading for NZ Parliament

Tuesday 13 September 2011 | Published in Smoke Signals

Place a circle around Saturday November 26 a little over 10 weeks away as thats the day Cook Islander Alfred Ngaro should become a member of parliament in New Zealand if National wins. National recently announced its party list of candidates to fight the election and newcomer Ngaro is at list position 37, with the […]

Prayer was harmless fun

Tuesday 13 September 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I must thank Nick Carter (September 10) for showing me the way to a very tongue in cheek rendition of the Lords Prayer on page 11 of the September11 edition of CI News. Now I need to email this version to all my friends because I thought it was very cleverly written. What […]