Opinion

Letter: Rarotonga roads

Big and humungous meitaki maata once again to our road workers for consistently extending nice and smooth hot mixed tarsealed roads, the longest and farthest so far, especially from as far as Avana and fast passing Tupapa Super Brown.

Letter: Selling seabed mining story

Dear Editor, Wednesday’s headline, “Prime Minister sells the United States a seabed mining story.”

Kata: Don't worry

Letter: Search for truth and justice

Dear Editor, Lissette Gonzalez Brito disappeared seven years ago and for all that time, I have fought tooth and nail to get her justice.

Letter: ‘Please be better, read situations better’

Kia Orana editor, I hope this letter finds you well, I would like to bring to light a couple of issues I experienced while being treated at Tupapa Outpatients on March 15.

Kata: Air NZ

Kata: Sea Floor Mining

Kata: Free food

Ruta Mave: Create the change you want in the world

We did it and we got through unscathed – the power of prayer has once again protected us from the scourges of nature and apart from recent and much needed rain, the cyclone season has come to an end with no cyclones in our part of the world, writes Ruta Mave.

Visitors to our paradise

Kia Orana, I hope this email finds you well. I would like to voice my impassioned opinion to our visitors to our beautiful paradise and hope it gets published.

The turtle tour debate

Dear Editor, The “overcrowded” swim-with-turtles debate currently on is, this writer suggests, a microcosm of this country’s decades-long inability to come to grips with tourism in general.

Kata: Cost of living

Thomas Tarurongo Wynne: An attitude of gratitude

Grateful - it’s such a powerful posture of the heart and I just wanted to highlight two of those reasons, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.

Three questions for NES

From time to time we see that the National Environment Service is looking to add new staff positions. Looking for three at the moment.

‘A man overboard’: Titikaveka Bulldogs clears air on coach

Dear Editor, Regarding your article in Tuesday, March 28 edition – Titikaveka Bulldogs coach steps down, I can confirm that Mr (Meti) Noovao has surprised the whole club including myself, he didn’t have the decency to advise me that he was to step down, yet he lives two houses away from me.

Kata: 40 days for Parliament sittings

Kata: Overcrowding

Letter: ICI confirms $90,000 spent on Apii Takitumu ‘Guardrail Fence’

The stupid answers and justifications by various bureaucrats with regards to the ridiculous guardrail at Takitumu School, is in itself an insult to the public and the taxpayer.

Kata: Sludge war

Dr Michael Baer: Animal health and welfare

From March 13 and 17 our team from Te Are Manu and the SPCA were in Mitiaro for the second leg of our Southern Pa Enua project.