Opinion

Kata - May 31, 2010

Monday 31 May 2010 | Published in Kata

Tourism's very big ask

Monday 31 May 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

A New Zealand Herald article says: “Air New Zealand and Tourism New Zealand will between them invest about $130 million in the United States market during the next four years, with a target to increase annual visitor numbers from 200,000 to 300,000 over five years,” writes Stephen Lyon. He asks: “If it will take $130 […]

Little wonder

Monday 31 May 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I read the CI News online every Friday and I’m very grateful to have updates on the political scandal going on! I am disgusted at your government’s treatment of the local people who gracefully casts their votes for you liars to represent our paradise. I suggest that you all get the hell out […]

Kata - May 29, 2010

Saturday 29 May 2010 | Published in Kata

Toa deal fuels exodus

Saturday 29 May 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, While champagne flows in the TOA camp, in-fighting amongst the political parties is relentless, our country is governed by a minority group and meanwhile the voice of the people is being ignored and we wonder why our middle working class continue to leave our shores. Again we hear Sir Terepai on radio apportioning […]

It's just game playing

Saturday 29 May 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Jim Marurai is again playing his usual game of blaming others for his own short comings. First, he blames the QR for advising him not to call a snap election. For goodness sake! You the Prime Minister are supposed to advise the QR of what you want him to do, not the other […]

Agreement had to be honoured

Thursday 27 May 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Going back to 2006, without some sort of agreement with Government to say “we will continue to buy your fuel”, ANZ and Westpac would not lend Toa (or anyone) money to purchase the fuel farm from Mobil. Where it all went wrong, was halfway through Government changed their mind and gave the fuel […]

We are watching you

Thursday 27 May 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, It is unconscionable that a national is happy to accept millions of dollars from his country and its people knowing full well the financial state it is in and the manner in which it came about. If Mr Porter had an ounce of compassion and smidgen of humanity he would show this country […]

Sweaty welcome not on

Thursday 27 May 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, We have just spent many millions of hard earned dollars on creating a wonderful new airport. And what do our visitors think? Especially if they are the second plane to arrive on a wet night? Herded like sheep into a corral. A corral made from rope and plastic traffic cones! Not much I […]

Chamber challenged on silence

Thursday 27 May 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Why hasn’t the Chamber of Commerce spoken out against the 25 per cent minority led government running the nation? Steve Anderson the chamber president said, “The chamber has no political affiliation but would always speak up for accountability and transparency by government”. A 25 per cent minority government is not being accountable and […]

Porter responds to TAU chairman

Thursday 27 May 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, The facts upon which Toa’s assertions are based are very clear. It’s true that in 2007, TAU called for tenders for supply of its requirements for the 2008 -2010 period. No tenders were accepted and that tender process was cancelled. What the chairman fails to state in his response is that in calling […]

Atiu says thanks to health workers

Thursday 27 May 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dera Editor, Re: health team visit to Atiu May 3 to 8. Through you paper I would like to thank all health workers that visited Atiu and conducted health test, check-ups and seminars through the school and the villages. I for one am grateful for the messages that you have shared with our children and […]

Willing to pay for stupidity?

Thursday 27 May 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Yeah, me again. I read the news re: Ngatangiia candidate and his gang “demanding” he stand again. What a joke. Yes, he is a bully, and like any bully, he can’t see the wood for the trees”. But you gotta hand it to Porter and crew. That surely must be the con-job of […]

More Toa-ing and froing

Thursday 27 May 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor Some comments on Porter’s explanations as reported in the CI News on May 22: 1. When it established its depot in the 1960s Mobil had a monopoly on the fuel business, thus government felt justified in introducing price control, hence the Fuel Price Template which allowed Mobil to sell its fuel on a […]

'Govt please fund Fiji flight'

Thursday 27 May 2010 | Published in Smoke Signals

“After reading the paper about the Fiji flights, I hope and pray that government agrees to fund the proposed flights,” a smoke signaller writes. “Not only do we have quicker access to Fiji but also cheaper fares to the Solomons, Tonga and Samoa, to name but a few. Members of most ethnic communities will definitely […]

Kata - May 27, 2010

Thursday 27 May 2010 | Published in Kata

Rasmussen should go

Wednesday 26 May 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor Marurai should sack his new minister of finance a second time for taking us the people to court and costing us the people heaps more invaluable taxpayer money. The mediation team had already agreed to the Toa payment and his court case made no difference apart from more money being wasted on this […]

TAU questions Porter's memory

Wednesday 26 May 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor Please allow me to respond to the article by Brett Porter in your paper dated May 21, 2010. Mr Porter has obviously had a busy week, and so may have mis-remembered how the last two Te Aponga fuel tenders were actually conducted. In mid-2007, Te Aponga called tenders for supply of fuel for […]

Kata - May 26, 2010

Wednesday 26 May 2010 | Published in Kata

Kata - May 25, 2010

Tuesday 25 May 2010 | Published in Kata