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Articles by Ruta Tangiiau Mave
Ruta Mave: The seventh commandment - ‘Thou shalt not commit adultery’
Monday 12 February 2024 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Opinion
In the religious community we live in, is there any denomination of church that allows or believes that breaking the seventh commandment from God is, okay?
Ruta Mave: What goes around comes around
Monday 5 February 2024 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Last week I was looking for some positivity to write about, after realising corruption featured as the common theme in my articles last year, writes Ruta Mave.
Ruta Mave: Looking on the bright side
Monday 29 January 2024 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
After four years of writing a weekly opinion column there comes a time that you wonder what can be written that is different. For inspiration I looked at what I had written this time last year and not surprisingly, I found the same problems by the same people in the news, corruption and lack of health have not changed.
Ruta Mave: Time for women to demand the credit they deserve
Monday 22 January 2024 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
This acceptance of male power tripping behaviours as normal shows just how indoctrinated it is and how we continue to be slaves to patriarchy, writes Ruta Mave.
Ruta Mave: What’s in a flag?
Monday 15 January 2024 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Opinion
The first official interview for Prime Minister Mark Brown was a nine-year-old interviewer who asked “What’s your favourite country apart from the Cook Islands, and are you thinking of changing our flag?”
Ruta Mave: The silent struggle for morality in the Cook Islands
Monday 8 January 2024 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
The silent acceptance of constant abuses of power by those in leadership roles from corruption, theft, fraud, assault on women and drink driving is frankly despicable, writes Ruta Mave.
Ruta Mave: Beyond midnight: Embracing a new year with meaning, not mandates
Wednesday 3 January 2024 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
We need to protect our culture from becoming boring, beige bromeliads and insist on remaining bright colourful Cook Islanders, writes Ruta Mave.
Ruta Mave: A tribute to the mums who make Christmas magical
Wednesday 27 December 2023 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Your mum does everything for your family, this year make sure she gets more than one present, writes Ruta Mave.
Ruta Mave: Where’s the Opposition we deserve?
Monday 18 December 2023 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
I object – I am an objector. I oppose because I don’t agree. No, I oppose because I am the opposition, writes Ruta Mave.
Ruta Mave: We all need to be listening and looking
Monday 11 December 2023 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Local, National
Men treating women as important and deserving respect at home, work and in the courtrooms will initiate change for the White Ribbon campaign.
Ruta Mave: Be thankful while the countdown is on
Monday 4 December 2023 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Opinion
Finally, it is December and we can hear Christmas coming with all the jingles bells and whistles.
Ruta Mave: Israel’s retaliation greater than the Hamas crime?
Monday 27 November 2023 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
On Thursday, November 24, the whole of America stopped to celebrate Thanksgiving, and thankfully, missiles of mass destruction stopped falling on the Gaza strip as part of a 4-day ceasefire with negotiations to release Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners, writes Ruta Mave.
Ruta Mave: Cook Islands: Lost in identity, lost in translation
Monday 20 November 2023 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Who are we? Sitting in the middle of the Pacific Ocean open and swaying to all manner of whims and calls from whom we think we are going to get our next meal ticket from, writes Ruta Mave.
Ruth Mave: Challenging our cultural ideas about disabilities
Monday 13 November 2023 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Why is it necessary to teach our Christians to love unconditionally and see everyone as equals in the eyes of God? writes Ruta Mave.
Ruta Mave: Pacific Islands Forum: A lot of talk, but will any action follow?
Monday 6 November 2023 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Opinion
You can fool some of the people some of the time but you can’t fool all the people all of the time. This is not who we are, we have history of it but we are not all like it. Some of us are honest, hardworking people who care about our people and some of us are politicians, writes Ruta Mave.
Ruta Mave: Friends and family sharing what we should remember
Monday 30 October 2023 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Opinion
Happy Day of the Dead tomorrow, it is Halloween, the time when the veil between those living and those departed souls is the thinnest, so communication can be made with loved ones, or as the movies tell it, with those in the past who have a grudge against you.
Ruta Mave: An opportunity to make the right decision on Vaimaanga road diversion
Monday 23 October 2023 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Every man and his dog are commenting on the old Sheraton site and its development and rightly so because prior to the announcement the current ring road will cut in behind the complex, everyone was happy to see the site being cleaned up, writes Ruta Mave.
Ruth Mave: We do have the freedom of speech and ability to vote
Monday 16 October 2023 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Big changes don’t just happen by large referendums. Large changes occur by the accumulation of small actions, attitudes and voices. The voice has started.
RUTA MAVE: Cook Islands should invest in agriculture, not marijuana and seabed mining
Monday 9 October 2023 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Opinion
If the question is “What are the Crook Islands good for?”, the shameful answer is that they are good at begging for money, but shameful at giving it to help others, writes Ruta Mave.
Ruth Mave: Take every opportunity, who knows where it will lead
Monday 2 October 2023 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Wood Allen said 80 per cent of success is turning up.
