Letters to the Editor
Saturday 28 March: Pulse recruitment of surgeonfishes good news
Wednesday 1 April 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I was excited to read the March 18 article online about the little fishes reported around Rarotonga, and I can’t help but to offer some information about it. This sounds like a pulse recruitment of surgeonfishes, probably Ctenocheatus striatus and Acanthurus nigrofuscus (as mentioned by MMR), but could also include other species such […]
Saturday 28 March: Happy tourists suggest marking trails
Wednesday 1 April 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, We just returned from a fabulous three-week vacation to your wonderful islands that included stays on Rarotonga, Atiu and Aitutaki. We will never forget the warm island hospitality, enthusiasm and gorgeous settings which made experiencing the Cooks really special for us. A big metaki to Papa Mike and his Cook Islands Handbook for […]
Friday 27: Not deluded
Wednesday 1 April 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I have not read ‘The God Delusion’ but have read reviews of it. Its author is jokingly called the “evangelical atheist” and one reviewer said his purpose is to convince his reader that he is no more than “an interruption in nothingness”! If Graham feels so passionate about ‘this brilliant little book’ as […]
Friday 27: But who do we believe?
Wednesday 1 April 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I was amused, or should I say confused, by the comments made by the religious advisory council (RAC) in your March 18 edition. My impression of this article is that the RAC are not happy to grant a new religious group or church the legal status of becoming an incorporated society like they […]
Friday 27: Handouts are political suicide
Wednesday 1 April 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Further to the letter by Don Carlaw (CINews March 24), I would totally agree that the $3m stimulus package put aside by parliament in early February be utilised for something far more beneficial than handouts to a select few businesses. The example quoted was on a loan of $500,000 at an interest rate […]
Friday 27: Read the other side
Wednesday 1 April 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, After reading Graham Wragg’s recommendation of a book call ‘The God Delusion’ by Richard Dawkins, I suggest he also read the books below which show up theories such as what Dawkins dedicates his life to as inaccurate and manipulating. These books are very scientific – despite the information spouted by certain individuals recently […]
Friday 27: If that's final, we don't want it
Wednesday 1 April 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I am very concerned with the recent outcome of the proposed European Union-funded Pukapuka cyclone project for the design and supervision contract that was tendered early this year. It has come to the attention of the Pukapuka community that the appointment of the successful tender by the evaluation committee contradicts what the Chamber […]
Wednesday 1: Create your own adventure
Wednesday 1 April 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, We have read the letter about hiking on Rarotonga. That might be alright. We are now here, for the seventh time and like hiking and walking too. But, it is really very difficult to find the entrances of these tracks. It would be very helpful if there were signs on the main road, […]
Friday 27: Hard to swallow
Wednesday 1 April 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, If majority-rule applies with evolutionists towards their theory (because there are dissenters amongst them), Phil is correct saying that modern evolution takes us back to an amoeba-like ancestor, rather than mud. Even so, with no convincing examples of any species changing to other species, and with only changes within a species as evidence […]
Wednesday 1: The reason behind it all
Wednesday 1 April 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, There is nothing confusing about my letter of Saturday March 28 in which I challenged all parties meaning the Evans, the Chittys, the Steadmans, the Wraggs and whoever else wants to join the debate (as they put it) to appropriate the answer ie the truth to man’s origin. Read my letter properly and […]
Friday 27: Promise us a date DPM!
Wednesday 1 April 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, According to your front page article on March 20, Sir Terepai pledges to run the Sunday flight referendum. You have quoted Sir Terepai saying that government will deliver the promised referendum on Sunday flights to Aitutaki. He further states that he is a man of his word, yet he cannot say when the […]