Opinion

Kata - December 2, 2010

Thursday 2 December 2010 | Published in Kata

Kata - December 1, 2010

Wednesday 1 December 2010 | Published in Kata

Kata - November 30, 2010

Tuesday 30 November 2010 | Published in Kata

Another Cook Islands win!

Monday 29 November 2010 | Published in Smoke Signals

Amazing, the pageant titles just keep on coming for another of our beautiful, intelligent Cook Islands women – maybe there’s something special in the air here? A big congrats and welcome back home to the newly-crowned Miss South Pacific, Joyana Meyer, for her win over the weekend in the Papua New Guinea capital Port Moresby. […]

CITV addresses reception quality

Monday 29 November 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Through your good paper may I ask CITV to please do something urgently to improve the overall quality of the picture and sound received on our TV sets. Although I’m not a huge fan of CITV’s programmes, I must say that it is very, very frustrating watching local TV when the picture quality […]

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 […]

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 […]

Kata - November 29, 2010

Monday 29 November 2010 | Published in Kata

Coffee business 'is' local

Monday 29 November 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, We refer to the letter by ‘A local coffee lover’ in Friday’s Cook Islands News. The mobile coffee van business is 70 per cent owned by a Cook Islander. The foreign ownership being 30 per cent, does not command one third (33.3 per cent) or more of the required threshold for the business […]

Hard to get

Monday 29 November 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, With so much interest in Steig Larsson’s books and recent comment in your newspaper, I must explain to disappointed customers of the Bounty Bookshop that we are finding it difficult to obtain these books. Ordered on August 1, re-ordered in September, inquired about in November, they are meant to be ‘still coming’ – […]

Quality road work required

Monday 29 November 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, The Cook Islands Party’s landslide victory in this election is a great relief for our Cook Islands people living at home, and abroad as well. Congratulations to Henry and your team. The result is an emphatic victory, stemmed from a smart old fashion approach, and I am so delighted to see the change […]

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 […]

Kata - November 27, 2010

Saturday 27 November 2010 | Published in 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

Kata - November 25, 2010

Thursday 25 November 2010 | Published in Kata