Letters to the Editor
Letter: Deep sea mining consultation
Wednesday 11 September 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, I recall a public consultation in Mauke. There were two motions for consideration.
Letter: Alcohol is the problem
Tuesday 10 September 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Helmets – The problem is not the helmet. Statistically helmets save only 40 per cent of lives and that counts those left in wheelchairs or worse.
Letter: Misplaced priorities
Tuesday 10 September 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
The test of any government is how it deals with day-to-day issues that affect all of a population.
Letter: Pokoinu littering
Tuesday 10 September 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, For months/years I and other neighbouring properties on the back road in Pokoinu, have had to put up with residents from a side road that is not serviced by the weekly rubbish collectors, leaving their domestic (and sometimes other rubbish) on the intersection of Aremaki Road and the Back Road, in Pokoinu.
Letter: ‘Vote buying at every election’
Monday 9 September 2024 | Written by Te Tuhi Kelly | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, Here’s a question that I keep asking myself, why is it that we seem to be vote buying at every election and despite several court cases, the evidence has been found wanting. Yet we know damn well that it goes on. I have personally experienced this myself in my last campaign in 2022.
Letter: ‘TTV Board prioritising tariffs’
Friday 6 September 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, As part of the Te Mato Vai Project mains upgrade, linkages were made between the inner and outer mains. The theory was to enable better water distribution.
Letter: Landowner calls out TTV, Govt
Thursday 5 September 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, Pardon me Mr Editor! Starting with the thought to write this letter comes with mix emotions and believe me, if any reader can understand my point, then Amen and God Bless your hearts. Let me begin by advising you all that I will be signing off as a ‘Landowner’ as this reflects to personal conflicts towards the organisation involved – To Tatou Vai.
Letter: Marekakore – Turanga o te vai paipa o Rua'au
Tuesday 3 September 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, E Kura teia ki te Kopapa akaaere o “To Tatou Vai”, e pera te Minita Ngateitei Albert Nicholas, I teia Monite i topa ua ake nei (Ra 19 Aukute), kua aravei atu au i te Tama Akatere’au o te Kopapa Akaaere o te TTV koia a Tereapii Timoti, e pera tetai mema i runga i teia kopapa koia a Sam Napa Snr.
Letter: What happened to Miss Cook Islands Pageant?
Friday 30 August 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Kia Orana, I am writing in a bid to see what is going on with the Miss Cook Islands Association.
Letter: Govt workers muzzled on seabed mining issue?
Friday 30 August 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
I recall during the purse seine protests some government workers being told not to attend a planned lunch time action, so we kept to out of work hours and hundreds turned up to speak out.
Letter: Are German-style helmets legal?
Friday 30 August 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, A year ago, my son purchased a German style helmet. We hid it and he was forced to use the helmet we chose for him. Glad we did, a week later he fell off and completely wrote his bike off. He had the standard scrapes and bruises but also hit the ground so hard that he cracked his full-face helmet.
Letter: Why water tariffs are necessary?
Thursday 29 August 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, So, the last few months has seen social media chatter regarding the Government wanting its people to pay a tariff for the supply of potable water. People are resisting having to pay for what they believe is free water.
Letter: $100m water system ‘fails to deliver’
Monday 26 August 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, Do we have a water crises, or are we suffering the after-effects of Idiotic Decisions in Crises?
Letter: Wigmore Falls fee questioned
Friday 23 August 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, Interesting to see that new access fee sign at the entrance to the Wigmore/Papua falls road. The last time the “Landowner” did this, the reason/justification was that the funds raised would be used to upgrade the road to the falls.
Letter: The Court’s role in title disputes
Thursday 22 August 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Editorials, Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, I would like to respond to Te Tuhi Kelly’s recent letter/article in the Cook Islands News headed “Traditional title dispute’.
Letter: Traditional title dispute
Wednesday 21 August 2024 | Written by Te Tuhi Kelly | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Following on from the recent case in Aitutaki in which the court made a ruling on a traditional title. This has huge implications for future titles and cultural grievances between anau.
Letter: Open letter to Rarotonga burglars
Wednesday 21 August 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, This is really an open letter to the person who has been burglarising ours and many other properties in the Avarua area in the past months (although it’s possible he doesn’t read therefore won’t be seeing this).
Letter: Vape law enforcement
Friday 16 August 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
This week you have reported on the Cook Islander jailed for months for smuggling cannabis into the Cook Islands. And you have reported that there is an ongoing investigation into the possibility that vapes are being offered on-line.
Letter: More storage
Friday 16 August 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
One of the justifications of the water upgrade was that 60-70 per cent of the water collected via the intakes was lost to leaks in the ring main. Can anyone on the island recall great fountains gushing out?
Letter: TTV ‘pleading corporate poverty’
Friday 16 August 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, As chair of the To Tatou Vai Board of Directors, Brian Mason is in the habit of justifying water charges by pleading corporate poverty: “The implementation of the tariff will not be delayed because to do so would compromise the supply of water essential to all who live, reside and visit Rarotonga.” (Cook Islands News, 12 August 2024)