Letters to the Editor

Don’t blame the Jews

Israel, a country surrounded by Arabs: Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, all Bedouin Muslims. The Muslims recognised no borders or rulers.... Read More

The North’s lone wolf returns

About 26 years ago I was part of a contingent to Waitangi. We were a group of many different Christian intercessory groups who travelled in buses to the North and... Read More

Will Winston build bridges?

I've watched with interest the Northland electorate's by-election play out after National MP Mike Sabin quit under cloudy circumstances.For the last few weeks it's... Read More

Human plague must be stopped

Re: the advertisement on TV asking us to donate $10 to save the children. The ad showed 18,000 children will die each day. Every country and island must bring in... Read More

Land Transport Plan flawed

Wake up Bay of Plenty Regional Council - your Land Transport Plan is flawed.With some difficulty I managed to locate a copy of the draft Regional Land Transport... Read More

Cut TV noise, cut subtitles

The need for subtitles on television programmes to assist the hearing impaired audience - at least 20 per cent of the population and rising - could be considerably... Read More

Money makes world spin

Re: Israel really is true democracy (‘The Weekend Sun, March 27').T Beswick's Facts and figures straight out of a ‘Love Israel Manual' do not tell the... Read More

A ploy for highway robbery?

Dear Western Bay of Plenty councillors,I'd like to know if your road safety engineers are stupid or if they do it on purpose to annoy the ratepayers? Where is the... Read More

Pondering payouts...

To the average New Zealander it would seem more fair if the Government would show as much circumspection in the pay out of the Maori land claims supported by the... Read More

Israel really is true democracy

Re: ‘Can Israel really be called a democracy' (The Weekend Sun, March 13).Wesley Parish questions whether or not Israel is a democratic nation and accuses... Read More

NZ liberties in serious trouble?

I've just read the book ‘Dirty Politics', which Nicy Hager produced before the last election.We are continually told there is no corruption in New Zealand.... Read More

To find toothfish or oil?

One again, my imagination took over when I saw the news that our navy warship had encountered a 'rust bucket number of ships” illegally fishing for toothfish... Read More