Opinion

Issues with Pui's letter

Tuesday 3 August 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I am disappointed that you bannered my response to Pui’s earlier letter as “Battle of the Henrys”. While I understand that every business competitively employs every marketing trick in the book (including the one yet to be written) to increase sales, with respect, in this instance your bottom line avidity is beneath good […]

Get off your high horse

Tuesday 3 August 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Well, well, well! I find it most interesting that the person who has been so quick to inundate the public with the morals and virtues we should be looking in a candidate has already stumbled at the first hurdle. I suggest Mr Beer hop down from his self-righteous horse and have a good […]

Kata - August 2, 2010

Monday 2 August 2010 | Published in Kata

Thefts must stop

Monday 2 August 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I am saddened to read the C I News each week from NZ of the thefts on Rarotonga of tourists’ belongings, let alone locals and businesses. Tourists save very hard for their holidays, a fact that some low life seem to ignore. For some tourists it may be a once in a life […]

Country in constitutional strife

Monday 2 August 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Readers of my letter back in January in which I defended the Prime Minister and the QR from unwarranted and unsupported legal attack bordering on the seditious may also recall that I sounded a warning that the Jim Marurai administration would at some point need to call Parliament together, if for no other […]

Kata - July 31, 2010

Saturday 31 July 2010 | Published in Kata

Stop wondering

Saturday 31 July 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Before that drama in that courtroom when they were shouting ‘crucify him, crucify him’, a few days before they brought a woman whom they accused of committing adultery according to their law the penalty is death by stoning. He bent to the ground and wrote. Her accusers moved closer to see what was […]

Relax and enjoy

Saturday 31 July 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I, like Doug May, live in Australia with my husband and two children. I, like Doug May, was fortunate to be one of the passengers on the inaugural flight NZ49 from Sydney to Rarotonga on Sunday July 4. I, like No Sunday Flights Supporter, agree that we don’t need people like Doug May […]

Weet-bix ethics lesson

Saturday 31 July 2010 | Published in Smoke Signals

“It’s complete and utter nonsense for James Beer and the Solicitor-General to justify issuing five hardship loans to MPs (the Maoates) and even BTIB members on the basis there was ‘no conflict of interest’,” a smoke signaller writes. “Beer’s BTIB board has not properly explained why they changed the criteria, enabling the Maoates to access […]

Block the budget

Saturday 31 July 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I was somewhat surprised to hear the opposition leader say on TV on Thursday night that the ‘talking point is not so much how long parliament has been in recess’ but that the focus should be on supply for the country. I guess if one earns $80,000 and drives around in a government […]

Kata - July 30, 2010

Friday 30 July 2010 | Published in Kata

Deliberate gross misappropriation

Friday 30 July 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I strongly oppose the comments by Matauri Ruta in his article to the editor dated July 21 in comparing Christ’s crucifixion with the Maoate’s beneficial gain for $60,000 from the stimulus package. As a BTIB member, Mr Ruta’s comments were quite evident, as a recipient of $30,000, of course, he has to be […]

Tribe says enough is enough

Friday 30 July 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, As titleholders of the Uritaua Tribe in Avatiu Rarotonga, we wish to place on record, our concerns regarding several comments made by Albert Nicholas in a media statement in the CI News recently “ Nicholas alleges dirty tactics”. He made reference to three issues: questioning the Pu Tapere (John Henry) and what has […]

Kata - July 29, 2010

Thursday 29 July 2010 | Published in Kata

I have a fantastic life

Thursday 29 July 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Te akaroa iakoe e te po (unknown identity) i te kiteanga au e, ko taau pauanga openga teia ki taku au kiritianga autara ki te etita. I am saddened for you (unknown identity), knowing that this will be your final response to my letter to the editor. Te akaroa nei au iakoe no […]

Henry sets record straight

Thursday 29 July 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, The letter by Geoffrey Henry earlier this week needs to be commented on. The contents of the letter and the various incidents that took place were over exaggerated and contain many untruths. He said them to make me a bad character and he is the good one. Now here are some events that […]

Kata - July 28, 2010

Wednesday 28 July 2010 | Published in Kata

No tourists, no money

Wednesday 28 July 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, What a good start to boosting the economy, tell tourist to go somewhere else. When are these people going to learn? Do the maths no tourist, no money for the country, simple as that. Max (Name and address supplied)

In support of Uncle Tai

Wednesday 28 July 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I am a regular reader of the Cook Islands News and certainly do enjoy the news. I write this letter in support of my uncle Tai Tura who is standing in the coming elections in Mauke. Uncle Tura has lived and dedicated his time to know the needs of Akatokamanava. I am only […]

The inconvenient truth

Wednesday 28 July 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Are flights always or ever convenient? We leave Detroit, Michigan at 7am to Chicago, wait one to five hours to LAX to wait up to eight hours to catch Air New Zealand to Rarotonga arriving at 6.30am. Some 36 hours after getting up in snowy Michigan. For several years we as Global Volunteers […]