Letters to the Editor

Letter: The roadway that disappeared

Friday 15 March 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Kia orana. Can anyone out there assist with info and photographs? Back in about 1984/85, there was a major construction of a roadway, more or less across from the Police Station today, and going across in the direction of the Boiler.

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Letter: Soaring cost of living

Friday 15 March 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Dear Editor, The cost of living is hitting low to middle income families like a kick in the stomach! Asking the same families to grow food crops, is only a temporary solution to a long-term problem.

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Letter: Expats seek minimum wage rise

Thursday 14 March 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Dear Editor, I find this quite selfish and inconsiderate (Expats seek minimum wage increase to match rising costs, March 8, 2024). I wonder if these people have ever made these types of complaints back in their own countries.

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Letter: Free and unlimited internet

Wednesday 13 March 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Dear Editor, I have posted a couple of articles to LinkedIn promoting free and unlimited internet as a competitive advantage for the Cook Islands.

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Letter: Stop picking on the ‘little guys’

Monday 11 March 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Dear Editor, Once again, the red necks have come out of the woodwork in response to expats asking for a cost-of-living increase.

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Letter: Growers left high and dry

Friday 8 March 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

I recently attended a dinner for growers hosted by a grower himself, Mr Kiriau Turepu.

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Letter: Education scholarship

Friday 8 March 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Dear Editor, I am writing with interest in the government’s strategy for ensuring qualified educators are teaching our future generations.

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Letter: ‘More talk very little walk’

Thursday 7 March 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Dear Editor, The headline in the Cook Islands News, Monday, March 4, reads, Cook Islands grapples with highest childhood obesity rates in the world.

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Letter: USP qualifications recognised overseas

Wednesday 6 March 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

I wanted to reassure your readers after reading the story in yesterday’s paper regarding accredited/non-accredited qualifications (Education’s teaching qualifications not recognised overseas: Ministry, March 5, 2024).

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Letter: Market vendors ‘fenced out’

Wednesday 6 March 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Dear Editor, I’m writing to express our annoyance and anger for some vendors and public about the fenced off area behind all the huts at the eastern end of the market in town.

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Letter: Health referral cost

Monday 4 March 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Who paid for what? Now, it’s how much was paid for what?

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Letter: Recycling in Rarotonga

Monday 4 March 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Dear Editor, Recently back from holidays in Rarotonga we enjoyed a month of chilling out in Vaimaanga amongst other things reading the Cook Islands News each day.

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Letter: Rethinking ‘village politics’

Wednesday 28 February 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Dear Editor, It’s been a few years since I have had to deal with someone having a go at me for my opinion and making it personal (Letter: Village voters, February 20).

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Letter: Food for thought

Tuesday 27 February 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Brilliant idea from our Prime Minister that we common folk grow much of our own tucker. Perfect for the young family with a couple of toddlers and both parents working two minimum wage jobs each just to get through the week.

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Letter: Reconsider land law sub-committee

Tuesday 27 February 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Dear Editor, I read with interest the appointment of the special sub-committee regarding two private member’s bills currently before the house. (Cook Islands News, Friday 23 February).

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Letter: Use of weed

Wednesday 21 February 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Dear Editor, There was an anonymous letter writer in your paper, who wrote in disdain about my "endless letters or propaganda to have the use of weed decriminalised in the Cook Islands".

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Letter: Keeping a check on the dollars and sense

Wednesday 21 February 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

The Prime Minister in Parliament yesterday (February 19) continued to dodge the issue of cost of living that is too high for us Cook Islanders.

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Letter: Village voters

Tuesday 20 February 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

The letter to you by Te Tuhi Kelly a week or so ago about village voters not having the intellectual capacity to think, choose and vote the person they want to represent them is highly offensive and racist.

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Letter: Tourism budget request

Tuesday 20 February 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

$3.5m to protect Cook Islands’ ‘Golden Goose’? Has it occurred to those promoting tourism and forever singing its praises that if the golden eggs are not shared with all then, ‘what’s the point?’.

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Letter: Cook Islands’ green dream

Tuesday 20 February 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Dear Editor, Kia Orana, once upon a time long, long ago, well some nine years ago anyway (about 2015), the then prime minister Henry Puna made the bold and audacious statement that the Cook Islands would be 100 per cent green energy by 2020.

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