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WhiteRibbon

WhiteRibbon
  • Joined: Aug 2011
  • commented: 40
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Commented on a story 4:21pm May 13th

""I saw an opportunity to be with my family" Pity he didn't think of that before he committed his..."

A damning letter by a high-security prisoner is alleging serious breaches of Corrections' protocols following his escape from a moving prison van three weeks ago.

Escape all too easy: Inmate

10 May 2013

Commented on a story 10:06pm May 6th

"Written like a person that has never had to work with the victims of the people who smoke it eh. ..."

Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne conceded that the latest move to declare two substances used in K2 illegal was something of a cat and mouse game for authorities, as others were brought into use.

Dunne eager to enforce synthetic cannabis ban

6 May 2013

Commented on a story 10:00pm May 6th

"Yeah eh Brian - some people do not need 'synthetic anything' to have a psychotic episode. Their share..."

Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne conceded that the latest move to declare two substances used in K2 illegal was something of a cat and mouse game for authorities, as others were brought into use.

Dunne eager to enforce synthetic cannabis ban

6 May 2013

Commented on a story 1:39pm Apr 20th

"Thank God there is a separation between Church and State in this country eh! And as one of the MP's..."

For Hawke's Bay couple Renee Hickey and Jess Nielson, the passing of the Marriage Amendment Bill means the possibility to not be seen as different to anyone else.

Parliament says I do

18 Apr 2013

Commented on a story 1:38pm Apr 20th

"Again with the blaming of the wrong people. Fathers who shirk their responsibilities of their children..."

A huge nationwide Child Support debt made up mainly of penalties and interest has sparked claims by a Napier-based former MP that it is a "ruthless" scheme forcing people to shirk responsibilities to growing youngsters.

Penalty plea over child cash

18 Apr 2013

Liked a story 3:55pm Apr 18th

A man who killed and sexually violated a 5-year-old Napier girl has lost his appeal on the sexual violation conviction.

Court rejects Ratana appeal

18 Apr 2013

Commented on a story 3:23pm Apr 17th

"I don't find it funny. What if it were the gravestone of your mother or father or other significant..."

Two women who took 15 white crosses from a war memorial site in Waipawa were "vilified" on Facebook after posting photos and a video of themselves in the act of stealing them.

Online anger shames cross thieves

16 Apr 2013

Commented on a story 8:31am Mar 18th

"Understandable but such a shame. "

Demolition of the Albert Hotel in Hastings could begin in a month following a decision to allow the historic building and its facade to be pulled down.

Demolition of historic Hastings building, The Albert Hotel

16 Mar 2013

Commented on a story 11:12am Mar 16th

"Why won't any reporter or news commentator make the connection that alcohol does not cause the violence..."

AFTER all, if the Old and New Testaments are anything to go by, Jesus did, in a stroke of miracle, turn water into wine at a wedding in Galilee.

Confession just start of rehab

16 Mar 2013

Commented on a story 9:51am Mar 15th

"So where does he address the violence part? The alcohol was one one part!"

Zac Guildford's "brutal honesty" has seen him receive yet another lifeline from the New Zealand Rugby Union.

Zac Guildford's honesty saved his career

14 Mar 2013

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