Letters to the Editor
Thinking of leaving
Monday 24 May 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I have been working for government for 30 years and paying my tax to pay for other necessary things that are required by government. I am also a vendor at the Punanga Nui Market selling goods and paying $15 per week to government. I expect good return for my hard working dollars. What […]
Take rebels to court
Saturday 22 May 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I want to make it clear to our supporters not to be confused by this conference at the end of this month, organised by Sean Willis and the minority government of Jim, Wilkie, Wigmore, Apii, Smiley and Cassey. I am calling all supporters not to go to this conference as officialy this is […]
I am sickened
Saturday 22 May 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I am a Cook Islander, a citizen, a tax payer, a land owner, a mortgage payer, a mother, a grandmother, amongst many others, sweating day by day to make ends meet. Of course there are many other Cook Islanders in the same boat like myself. I am most sickened by the outcome of […]
Message to Sir
Saturday 22 May 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Sir Terepai, you already have a title, live up to it and continue to grow old gracefully, stay home and be with your family, your wife and grandchildren. You’re too old and have lost your wisdom for politics,you’ve made too many mistakes, yes, believe it the finger is pointing at you. This country […]
Stupid, greedy old men
Friday 21 May 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I have just read this morning’s newpaper. No words can adequately describe how absolutely sickened and gutted I feel at this moment. How can Brett Porter and Tereapii Maoate look in the mirror each morning. You stupid, greedy old men. How dare you put us into more debt, and please, please just shut […]
It's totally unfair say Avatea kids
Friday 21 May 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I am a student at Avatea School, Form 2. My class at present is studying about the government. We read the newspaper of today, Thursday 20th May 2010, and were dismayed at the current issues on the government of today. My class and I feel that this is totally unfair! The Cook Islands […]
You meet the nicest islanders when someone steals your bag!
Friday 21 May 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Since 1988 we have been regular and happy visitors to Rarotonga. Right up until today that is. On the beach, opposite Raina Lodges, just down from Fruits of Rarotonga, we had just entered the water for a swim when a young fella sprang from the bushes, grabbed my wife’s beach bag and took […]
Now it's a question of morals and ethics
Friday 21 May 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Regarding ‘Porter’s response to Toa judgement’ (CI News February 20). Perhaps there is a parallel here. The Government’s fuel policy scheme involved not only the purchase of the Toa facility but the Juhi depot as well, which it saw as the only way to achieve its stated policy of “consolidating the country’s fuel […]
Fiji flight gets big thumbs up
Thursday 20 May 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I was happy to read the article in the CI News regarding discussion to have the direct flight restarted from Rarotonga to Nadi. It will definitely bring more tourists in and also connects Cook Islanders with Fiji as many of us have friends and family there that we can visit or come visit […]
Standing naked before us
Thursday 20 May 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor The article by Bishop Tutai Pere last weekend on the political situation here gave me some hope that not everyone is blinded or dazzled by the PM’s finery. You may recall the story of the emperor who wore no clothes. He was conned by a couple of very smart guys who convinced him […]
God bless Aitutaki
Thursday 20 May 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, My name is Elizabeth Napara from Cairns, Australia. I just want to know how our people in Aitutaki getting on. Please let us know the latest news of our island, we are praying to our Father in Heaven to help our people on the Island of Aitutaki. May God Bless every one there, […]
Have some decency, resign
Thursday 20 May 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Toa Petroleum has won! What further needs to be said except for the people of this country to pronounce the ultimate sentence. Sholan is gone. Now, Jim Marurai, step down! To all those who were members of Cabinet as per the Toa scandal Maoate, Wilkie, Vavia, Munokoa, Ioane and your then Prime Minister […]
Christian view
Thursday 20 May 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor We would like to inform Mr Priest that the 2006 Census showed that 89.7 per cent of the Cook Islands are Christians. Kia akameitakiia te Atua mana maata for Bishop Tutai Pere who spoke out against the woes of Cook Islands politics for the 13,753 Christians of the Cook Islands. TAS Titikaveka (name […]
Toa makes CI laughing stock
Thursday 20 May 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor Well, when all the hardworking private businesspeople, many of whom are running at a loss in the present economic climate, walk up to MFEM on the 20th of the month to pay their taxes (which one would hope would go towards assisting health, education, police etc. which are sorely in need of extra […]
Demo conference a cunning plan
Wednesday 19 May 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor The political conference to be called at the end of month on May 31 by Sean Willis and Robert Wigmore is to elect Wigmore as leader of their new party and to sack Marurai as prime minister of this country. They cannot, however, sack the prime minister this side of election 2010 as […]
Out of his depth
Wednesday 19 May 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor. Has the seat of big business come to sit in with Cabinet in the Cook Islands? Is the power of our gover-nment so eroded that it no longer can make decisions that benefit the majority of Cook Islanders? I refer Mr Editor to the most obvious problems this country faces, and in particular […]
Waiting for answers
Wednesday 19 May 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor. Now that the trial of the century is over, the public are awaiting reports from Audit on the following. Pacific Mini Games historical line of approvals process, stadium costs, bunk beds, catering, school hosting, where did all the money go, give us the breakdown? TOA Dispel public rumour and political shenanigans. Release the […]
Retiree market best bet for CI
Wednesday 19 May 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Ron Hickling, Tutakimoa, has hit the nail on the head. There is a retiree market and NZ is your best bet. What do you compare a tourist with a couple of grand to spend, or a retiree with a couple of hundred grand, who wants to live their lives out in the Cooks […]
Not a Christian attitude
Wednesday 19 May 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I am writing in response to Mokare Mataiapo’s letter to the editor in the Cook Islands News. Mokare Mataiapo’s letters to the editor makes no sense, they are worthless and pointless. He not only puts down our papaa family and friends, Mokare Mataiapo and his so called son Wilkie Rasmussen bring shame to […]
Religion and politics
Tuesday 18 May 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I am writing about Bishop Tutai Pere’s rambling rhetoric in last Friday’s Churchtalk column. There is a rather pervasive religious element in our society, but we are still a secular country, and merging religion with politics can create a volatile mix, as is evident in the deadly insurgencies and wars motivated by this […]
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