Opinion

Statistics prove anything

Monday 29 November 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, It is said you can prove anything with statistics. Your words ‘Slap in the face for party’ may make a good headline, but are a complete and accurate summation and conclusion of the election results with regard to Te Kura O Te Au Movement. Of the people I have spoken to from CIP […]

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Questions unanswered on TCI payments

Monday 29 November 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I write to you and your readers a couple more points in respect of telecommunications and legal advice given to the Minister for Telecommunications, Prime Minister Jim Marurai, by Telecom Cook Islands on behalf of Telecom New Zealand’s legal counsel Rebecca Jacob. The points of interest I take from that advice, “the Minister […]

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Kata - November 29, 2010

Monday 29 November 2010 | Published in Kata

Kata

Questions for MPs

Saturday 27 November 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Kua oti uakenei to tatou ikianga Kavamani ite ra 17 November 2010. E kua peke ki te CIP 15 nooanga, e 8 ki te DEMO. E (1) kare e papu. Kia akameitakiia te Atua no kotou katoatoa tei oro i teia oroanga, tei autu, e tei kore, praise the Lord. E uianga taku […]

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Kata - November 27, 2010

Saturday 27 November 2010 | Published in Kata

Kata

Leave our Smiley alone

Saturday 27 November 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I write in response to the letter by Ruaau Voter for Demos. Firstly you say that, and I quote, “I voted for the Demo Candidate in Ruaau” and then you go on to say, and I quote, “if our member in Ruaau decides to do anything, he must ask us first”. Who do […]

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CIP, please put roading at top of list

Friday 26 November 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I should not have to be telling MOIP how to do their job, but I do hope that their road gang will be returning to those areas on the road side which still flood after heavy rains, such as the bend in front of the Ngatangiia CICC Church, to fix the problem once […]

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Divine delusions?

Friday 26 November 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, A few weeks ago after reading one of the good Bishop Pere’s public rants, I was tempted to suggest that he was, quote: “inebriated by the exorbitance of his own verbosity.” I would now further suggest that if he thinks he’s received a divine message in the shape of a racing hermit crab, […]

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Protect coffee sellers

Friday 26 November 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I have just read about the mobile coffee van selling coffee around the island. What’s more, it seems from your article that this new business is owned and operated by expatriates. Why doesn’t someone wake up at the BTIB and do their job. Surely there are enough locally owned coffee outlets on the […]

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Employ more locals, stop the outflow

Friday 26 November 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I write in reference to your report of comments at the Tourism Forum last week attributed to CI Tourism chairman Tata Crocombe. While it is correct that he said that the board wanted to see arrival numbers double to over 200,000 per year, he also stated that there was no time frame for […]

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Same same, not different

Friday 26 November 2010 | Published in Smoke Signals

“Well, if we had any thoughts that the Cook Islands Party might be different from the Demos, we can now set those aside,” a smoke signaller writes. “Took them what – six days – to get a leadership crisis?” Our photo (right) shows a Hot Mix demonstration given by the man himself – Chris Vaile […]

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Kata - November 25, 2010

Thursday 25 November 2010 | Published in Kata

Kata

Smell the freedom

Thursday 25 November 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Your smoke signaller of November 22 misses the point. The beauty of our democratic system is that one does have the right to complain whether one did or did not vote in the general election – the same way an MP takes care of ALL the constituents in his electorate whether or not […]

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CIP congratulations

Thursday 25 November 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, There was no question who would win, just by how much. Congratulations CIP for a resounding election victory. The swing away from the Demos is a clear indication voters have had a guts full of their shambolic and chaotic administration. Toagate will be long remembered in history as one of the Demos’ biggest […]

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Ask us first

Thursday 25 November 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor. I voted for the Demo candidate in Ruaau. Reading the front page news onTuesday I can only surmise that if Norman George is talking to anyone he would be talking with successful Demo MPs. In your paper I would like to take this opportunity to ask my member for Ruaau that if he […]

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It is our right not to vote

Thursday 25 November 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I write in response to all those that cast the ‘stones’ on those who wish to abstain from voting in the Cook Islands General Election process. This is quite ridiculous when many complainers frequently compare us to the likes of Burma or countries where people are persecuted, murdered and stoned etc for trying […]

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George blames Maggie for starting CIP rumours

Wednesday 24 November 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I hate to spoil your rumour network, but while I dislike dignifying it with this response, I do so to state my position. The culprit in all of this is the several days old M.P. for Tupapa, George Maggie. I called him last Friday, November 19 having arrived back from Atiu on Thursday […]

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Coffee from the islands

Wednesday 24 November 2010 | Published in Smoke Signals

In response to the article ‘Cooks’ coffee fix sorted’ in Saturday’s paper, a smoke signaller writes: “The sale of Atiu coffee from a mobile espresso outlet is great. Can Juergen Manske-Eimke, the owner of Atiu Coffee, please assure us that he no longer imports coffee beans that I believe have in past comprised up to […]

Smoke Signals

Kata - November 24, 2010

Wednesday 24 November 2010 | Published in Kata

Kata

Congrats CIP

Tuesday 23 November 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Kia orana. I wish to congratulate all the successful candidates of the General Election and commiserate with the unsuccessful ones. Of course, I’m delighted to see the Cook Islands Party back in power and wish you all the best in serving our people. Ngereteina Puna MANUKAU

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