Smoke Signals
So just who's the boss?
Thursday 3 November 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
SUNDAY CHECKPOINT “IT'S A SIGHT I haven’t seen before on a Sunday, but it was great to see the police mount a checkpoint just past the airport last weekend,” a smoke signaller says.
WHERE WAS SECURITY?
Wednesday 2 November 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
Regarding THE BREAK and enter of one of the huts at the Punanga Nui market over the weekend, I am just curious to know where was the taxpayer-funded security? And then, despite the heavy floodlights surrounding the area, surely movement around the place is evident?
Drug tests needed
Monday 31 October 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
CAN WE PLEASE Institute random drug checks for our “honourable” Members of Parliament?
Pay police more
Friday 28 October 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
I one hundred per cent agree with the smoke signaller who said our police officers deserve a wage increase. I hear they get paid peanuts and it is barely a liveable income. Why are our police severely underpaid and withheld from a well-deserving, and fully justifiable income? And not to forget the police are in need of much better resources, especially after last week’s incident.
SIMPLE SOLUTION
Thursday 27 October 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
A SMOKE SIGNALLER says a trigger lock is the best possible solution to curb the issue with guns.
Time has arrived for fresh look at police funding
Tuesday 25 October 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
AFTER LAST WEEK’S tragic event with the police being called into the most dangerous of incidents. I think it is time for the government to address the issue of police funding,
Police deserve praise
Thursday 20 October 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
Some of the comments about the police made on social media after Tuesday’s tragic shootings were ill-informed, obscene and in some cases, downright stupid, a smoke signaller says.
Hair raising price for cuts
Wednesday 19 October 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
WHILE OVERSEAS ON holiday I went in for a haircut and, surprisingly, it cost me $8 for a clean cut. Back home on Rarotonga, it’s a different story.
Rubbish trucks live up to name
Monday 17 October 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
A FEW months ago, as we were discussing rubbish recycling, I commented to work colleagues that it was my opinion that trucks collecting rubbish “bled” rubbish back onto the sides of the roads as there seemed to be more rubbish on the sides of the roads after they had been thru' than before.
They built their hard drives big, way back then...
Monday 17 October 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
THIS IS WHAT a 5mB hard drive looked back in 1956. Today, a portable hard-drive that fits in your back pocket can hold two terabytes, about 400,000 times more space than the first hard drive. And it can cost less than $60.
Definition of 'sugary'
Friday 14 October 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
seems rather randomTHIS SIGNALLER UNDERSTANDS that levies were originally put on sugary drinks in an effort them more expensive and hopefully less attempting to buy.
Great ideas on water issues
Thursday 13 October 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
TEMU OKOTAI HAS raised some issues in relation to Te Mato Vai. He recommends more water tanks for homes in order to increase storage capacity.
WHO GETS PM'S AIRPOINTS?
Wednesday 12 October 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
A SMOKE SIGNALLER wants to know who gets to keep the frequent flier air-mile points that the prime minister must be racking up during his regular trips overseas?
Bad-parking fairies at it again
Monday 10 October 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
ONE OF THE great joys of living on Rarotonga is the fact we can park our motorbikes and motorscooters pretty much anywhere we like.
It's a road, not a rubbish dump
Monday 10 October 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
AS I WAS DRIVING along the Ara Metua in Turangi, I saw this unsightly pile of rubbish left right in the middle of the road,” a smoke signaller says.
Tourism should target more affluent visitors
Friday 7 October 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
“I HAVE READ about tourists riding around three and even four to a bike,” a smoke signaller says.
WASHED AWAY PERHAPS?
Wednesday 5 October 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
DURING FRIDAY MORNING’S deluge a person wanting information tried to telephone the Ministry of Marine Resources at about 9.15am.
Leave stonefish alone
Monday 3 October 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
HERE WE GO again… Now some masters of the universe want to remove all the stone fish to the other side of the reef. Who are you people to go and disturb their habitat? It is their season so bear with them. Look where you are going: That’s why God gave us eyes. Don’t anybody tell me the tourists won’t come again because we have stonefish. I would choose our environment over tourists, anytime.
No justice in this
Tuesday 27 September 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
WELL IT’S BEEN a couple of months since the last tutaka and clearly the Ministry of Justice has ignored the warning notice they got from Public Health to do something about the used tyres that are laid down to cushion the vakas in the parking area. They continue to breed mosquitos by the millions.
NOISY FAN YELLOW CARDED
Monday 26 September 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
IN RECENT WEEKS the referees at our rugby matches have been copping a verbal hiding over when and why they blow their whistles.