Smoke Signals
Pub crawl bus noise
Wednesday 11 January 2017 | Published in Smoke Signals
CAN THE POLICE Commissioner tell us if it is legal to drive with extremely loud music playing from your vehicles as happening with these pub crawl buses? I feel sorry for those living next to the main road being subjected to this blaring music.
Vaka-jumping offers fail to flush out any takers
Tuesday 10 January 2017 | Published in Smoke Signals
WITH GOVERNMENT IN a precarious position given the equal numbers on either side of the House, strenuous attempts are apparently being made by the CIP government to persuade coalition opposition MPs to join the vaka-jumping club.
Get your facts correct
Monday 9 January 2017 | Published in Smoke Signals
THE EELS CLUB manager says the writers of two of last week’s smoke signals, headlined “Take a look at yourself first” and “What goes around” need to get their facts right before commenting on things they seem to know nothing about.
Drone intrusion raises privacy questions
Monday 9 January 2017 | Published in Smoke Signals
THE INCREASED USE of drones on the island is raising questions about invasion of privacy.
Take a look at yourself first, please minister
Thursday 5 January 2017 | Published in Smoke Signals
ALBERT SHOULD LOOK at himself first. When it comes to poaching players, he is the master. He should also keep in mind that goes around comes around. I believe he poached Takuvaine players and Tupapa players to play for the Avatiu Eels. The same players who he has been abusing on the field.
MIXED MESSAGES
Friday 30 December 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
You HAVE TO feel sorry for the staff at RMD. They work hard to get people to obey the law, and then populist politicians give the few delinquent taxpayers an advantage over those who paid on time. The message is simple: pay off your loan, ignore your tax, then moan to the politicians about penalty tax.
A CHRISTMAS SLAP…
Thursday 29 December 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
How ABOUT OUR benevolent Cook Islands government?
Shooting inquiry long time coming
Wednesday 28 December 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
“Nearly two months have passed and our roaming prime minister still has not called for a Commission of Inquiry into the prison escape and triple shootings,” a smoke signaller says.
THE COST OF SPEEDING
Friday 23 December 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
“Can POLICE CONFIRM exactly how much a speed fine costs? Can they fine you without using the speed reader?” a smoke signaller asks. “There are too many underlying issues behind these fines and helmet laws.”
Pub crawl bus operators urged to cut the noise
Wednesday 21 December 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
“DEAR PUB CRAWL bus owners and operators,” a smoke signaller writes.
Can we do it too?
Friday 16 December 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
PERHAPS OUR NEW friends at Bluesky, they of the monopoly service, can tell us if we customers who have mobile numbers are allowed to send out spam to hundreds of mobile phones?
Foreigners doing better job than our minister
Thursday 15 December 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
THE ARTICLE IN CI News regarding someone who I think is a foreigner stimulating pineapple production on Rarotonga interests me.
A BROKEN RECORD
Wednesday 14 December 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
In THE FOUR months that I’ve been driving a motorbike here I’ve had four flat tyres and my partner’s had two.
Shame about waste
Tuesday 13 December 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
LAST WEEK’S ROTARACT’S Winter Wonderland event on Wednesday was a fantastic family event.
Hung parliament one of many political problems
Monday 12 December 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
“Hung PARLIAMENT? Let’s hope that situation will not remain so for much longer,” a smoke signaller says.
It's pass the parcel time
Friday 9 December 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
Instead of the PM and the Infrastructure Cook Islands minister taking the bull by the horns and coming out with a Muri lagoon plan, they ask the out-of-sight Financial Secretary to deal with it.
What about the people?
Thursday 8 December 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
“MARK BROWN AND his globe-trotting prime minister Henry Puna have made their mark in the ground against the aronga mana of this country,” a smoke signaller says.
Law should apply to all
Wednesday 7 December 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
I don’t agree with the tourist who wrote to CI News claiming that tourists are being singled out by the police for not wearing motorcycle helmets, a smoke signaller says.
PM tracking device
Wednesday 7 December 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
INSPIRED BY A story in Monday’s CI News, a smoke signaller writing under the name, “Puff Puff,” has come up with an interesting idea: “Would it not be a practical idea to fit one of the shark tags on to the Prime Minister? We would always know where to find him.”
Are we still a democracy?
Monday 5 December 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
THE GUIDING PRINCIPLES of our western democratic system are: “For the people, of the people, by the people,” a smoke signaller says.