Dear Editor, stop bringing low quality goods to the island. Chinese rubbish that you use once and it breaks.

Stop bringing plastic flowers, you see them all over the island, they take 800 years to breakdown and what a disrespect to put on someone’s grave. Give them some real flowers they grow for free everywhere.

No more importing second-hand cars or bikes and only good quality new ones.

Government needs to think with theirs heads and not their pockets for once!

Ariki Aumai (Facebook)

I noticed that (waste problem) in 2010. This is a problem for world leaders and climate change. It’s not only about the air we breathe it’s what our waste is doing. So how to fix it? Hiding it so we don’t see it is a cop out. Recycling and learning how to is imperative, it is the way of the future. It works!

Plastic burning is still done there, it choked my lungs when they did it. For a small island a hole in the ground and filling it with tin plastic and furnishing. The capacity of that load will eventually swallow the island. The old traditional ways did not prepare for the future.

Be kind and regenerate what you can and keep your head up. Government needs to make this a priority. My spin.

Nane Snowie (Facebook)

People have become lazy, there are no education on recycle, so much waste we have turned a blind eye towards our own problems. It’s not going away tomorrow, soon it’s going to end up in our beautiful ocean.

Act now save our islands from becoming a wasteland.

Tai Taratoa (Facbook)

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Keep borders closed

Over 60 per cent of our people suffer from NCDs. It’s well documented that those who have been vaccinated and catch the virus that pass (dies), its 98 per cent caused by underlying issues.

Those saying other countries are opening and learning to deal with this maki haven’t taken into account their population compared to ours.

They have millions we are looking at maybe 6000 plus people on Rarotonga now. Just 30 per cent of our people getting sick, would be devastating to our island.

Do the maths. Keeping our borders closed is the best option at this moment

Mark Rere (Facbook)

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Wrong Bill passed in Parliament

This is embarrassing sure, but it’s not fatal. No one died. It’s just plain old human error from many involved, even the Opposition and Independents in Parliament who voted Ae.

The wrong final draft got mixed up with the earlier draft. And no one noticed until it got final sign off. And remember before you point fingers, like you’ve never made a mistake at work or home. There is only one infallible one and it’s God. Not you, me or those who draft and make laws. And this just proves again, we are all human, apparently.

Let graceful words and thoughts abound from us all.

Paul Napa (Lynch) (Facebook)

Everybody makes mistakes when they are fixing problem. It is so true, as the saying goes, if you do well nobody praises you but when you do something bad or make a mistake everybody attacks you.

Why not praise our government and our Prime Minister for bringing us through this tough period that we have gone through with the Covid. Wage subsidy, grants and all and putting us in MIQ at Edgewater beautiful accommodation.

If we had a corrupt PM, he would have dump us all cohorts at one of the hostels up Tupapa where 20 to 50 of us individuals would have to share one toilet. So don’t dwell on the mistakes but talk about the good things our government has done for us.

Ena Dance (Facebook)