Letters to the Editor – Cook Islands News https://www.cookislandsnews.com Tue, 31 Dec 2024 19:27:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 Letter: What are we celebrating? https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/letter-what-are-we-celebrating/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=letter-what-are-we-celebrating https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/letter-what-are-we-celebrating/#respond Tue, 31 Dec 2024 19:27:55 +0000 https://www.cookislandsnews.com/?p=275756 Dear Editor,

In January 2024, a year ago now, on a beach at Mauke, two older teenaged girls kicked and bashed a younger teenaged girl with intellectual disabilities, while the third girl (friend of the other two) filmed it and put it on the internet.

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]]> https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/letter-what-are-we-celebrating/feed/ 0 Letter: Focusing on ‘growth’ in 2025 https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/letter-focusing-on-growth-in-2025/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=letter-focusing-on-growth-in-2025 https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/letter-focusing-on-growth-in-2025/#respond Mon, 30 Dec 2024 19:07:31 +0000 https://www.cookislandsnews.com/?p=275728 Dear Editor

Good on the Prime Minister for focusing on “growth” in 2025. May this writer humbly suggest that the government begins with truly aggressive growth in the number of vehicles on our uncrowded and under-utilised roads?

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]]> https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/letter-focusing-on-growth-in-2025/feed/ 0 Letter: Passport and stamp https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/letter-passport-and-stamp/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=letter-passport-and-stamp https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/letter-passport-and-stamp/#respond Tue, 24 Dec 2024 20:03:50 +0000 https://www.cookislandsnews.com/?p=275630 Dear Editor,

If the passport is primarily about identity, here’s an idea that avoids political and emotional upheaval: run a competition to design a new Cook Islands heritage immigration stamp.

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]]> https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/letter-passport-and-stamp/feed/ 0 Letter: Cultural and sports passport? https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/letter-cultural-and-sports-passport/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=letter-cultural-and-sports-passport https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/letter-cultural-and-sports-passport/#respond Tue, 24 Dec 2024 20:02:17 +0000 https://www.cookislandsnews.com/?p=275628 Dear Editor,

Do we really need to be insulted any further? I am now sick and tired of Prime Minister Mark Brown’s continuous arrogance. (New Zealand rejects Cook Islands passport plan, Cook Islands News, December 23, 2024)

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]]> https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/letter-cultural-and-sports-passport/feed/ 0 Letter: Passport proposal https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/letter-passport-proposal/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=letter-passport-proposal https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/letter-passport-proposal/#respond Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:18:48 +0000 https://www.cookislandsnews.com/?p=275591 Dear Editor,
It was with disbelief that most New Zealanders watched on the evening Television 1 News, Sunday night (NZ time), the story about your Prime Minister, Mark Brown, intention to make a break from New Zealand.

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]]> https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/letter-passport-proposal/feed/ 0 Letter: Cook Islands passport – personal ambition or national interest? https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/letter-cook-islands-passport-personal-ambition-or-national-interest/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=letter-cook-islands-passport-personal-ambition-or-national-interest https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/letter-cook-islands-passport-personal-ambition-or-national-interest/#comments Mon, 23 Dec 2024 19:17:29 +0000 https://www.cookislandsnews.com/?p=275589 Dear Editor,
Here’s my observation of this focus on the Cook Islands Passport, designed I might add, to draw attention away from seabed mining.

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]]> https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/letter-cook-islands-passport-personal-ambition-or-national-interest/feed/ 1 Letter: Embrace religious diversity https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/letter-embrace-religious-diversity/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=letter-embrace-religious-diversity https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/letter-embrace-religious-diversity/#comments Fri, 13 Dec 2024 19:30:43 +0000 https://www.cookislandsnews.com/?p=275334 Dear Editor,

I am a local hard-core atheist. I have lived in fear many years here for speaking out against Christianly for fear of persecution but I think it’s time to face my fears and speak out about my concerns, with this potential religious restrictions reform. I will not give up and take this message where ever it has to go.

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]]> https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/letter-embrace-religious-diversity/feed/ 1 Letter: ‘The Church of Us’ https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/letter-the-church-of-us/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=letter-the-church-of-us Thu, 12 Dec 2024 22:52:50 +0000 https://www.cookislandsnews.com/?p=275319 Charles Carlson’s thoughtful letter of 3rd December on what he calls, “ … harmful ideologies that threaten personal rights, national security, and the well-being of our people”, cites for example, “some teachings condone child marriages, with girls as young as six being married off under religious justification.

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]]> Letters: Brothers in arms https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/letters-brothers-in-arms/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=letters-brothers-in-arms Thu, 12 Dec 2024 22:51:47 +0000 https://www.cookislandsnews.com/?p=275317 Dear Editor,
As a proud Cook Islander and New Zealand citizen, I’ve often wondered why our people are not yet actively integrated into the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF).

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]]> Letter: Ruta’s column https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/letter-rutas-column/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=letter-rutas-column Tue, 10 Dec 2024 19:22:52 +0000 https://www.cookislandsnews.com/?p=275247 Dear Editor,

I only know of the Cook Island News via the roving opinion pieces by Ruth Mave.

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