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Kata: Potholes

Thursday 10 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion

Rarotonga Football gears up for exciting round one battles

Thursday 10 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Football, Sports

The Rarotonga Football Season is off to an electrifying start, with day one now behind us.

Letter: Potholes

Thursday 10 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Earlier this week, the writer and spouse were travelling anti-clockwise through Puaikura at dusk and, just before the new asphalt roadway gifted to Tinomana Ariki by the ever-generous Chris Vaile of Triad, two tourists on a motor scooter, in the fading light of the day, tried to swerve to miss one of the uncountable potholes.

Letter: ‘Don’t diss our uniforms’

Thursday 10 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Dear Editor, To the letter writer who criticised the beautiful uniforms of our youth teams at the 7th Youth Commonwealth Games in Trinidad and Tobago.

PM Brown asks partners to get serious about debt and climate financing

Thursday 10 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Environment, Fiji, National, Regional

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown says if the region’s donor partners are serious about helping Pacific economies grow and recover, they “have to be serious about looking at changing the rules around financing, and debt management”.

Kata: Specialist

Wednesday 9 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion

Rarotonga's young talent takes the field

Wednesday 9 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Football, Sports

The highly anticipated Rarotonga Football Season is set to kick off today at the Cook Islands Football Association (CIFA) Complex.

Letter: Obesity

Wednesday 9 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

I was very surprised and pleased to receive a briefing from Nature magazine that anti-obesity drugs are available.

Letter: Legal aid

Wednesday 9 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

The miserly $40k budget for legal aid is continuing evidence that our "honourable" members of Parliament honour nothing but their own inflated egos and, in too many cases, inflated bellies.

Letter: The fashion police say ‘save’ the 80s

Wednesday 9 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

No one wants to say this out loud before our youth compete at the Commonwealth Games but it has to be said.

Grandstand remedial works nears completion

Wednesday 9 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Local, National

Grandstand remedial works of $150,000, at Rarotonga’s National Stadium and Sports Arena are nearing completion says Cook Islands Investment Corporation (CIIC).

Flagship financial literacy programme for businesses in Cook Islands launched

Wednesday 9 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Economy, National

ANZ in partnership with the Cook Islands Chamber of Commerce has launched a financial literacy programme.

Kata: New black pearl

Tuesday 8 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion

Letter: Show them the door

Tuesday 8 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

We are one year removed from the general election where 64 per cent of the formal votes cast were in favour of legalising medicinal cannabis.

Letter: Award winning plan ‘ridiculous’

Tuesday 8 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Dear Editor, I just came across an article which I had kept and put aside, from Cook Islands News, September 13, 2022, titled “20+ years timeframe for award winning town plan”.

Kata: Emergency services

Monday 7 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion

Ruta Mave: The weather apps can’t seem to get it right

Monday 7 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Editorials, Opinion

There are places in the world who need rain – you should be grateful, you should feel blessed, writes Ruta Mave.

Kata: Public money

Saturday 5 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion

Christianity lands on Mangaia

Saturday 5 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Art, Church Talk, Features, In Depth, Memory Lane, Weekend

Historian and author Howard Henry has been fascinated by the birth of Christianity in the Cook Islands for many years. In a weekly series, Henry chronicles the arrival of Christianity to the Cook Islands and its role in building the nation. In this article, he talks about the arrival of Christianity on Mangaia.

Church Talk: Celebrating God, who shaped our nation

Saturday 5 August 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Church Talk, Features

Last week people from all around New Zealand and Australia arrived in numbers for the celebration of the 200 years since the arrival of the Gospel to the Cook Islands, writes Pastor Eric Toleafoa from the Seventh-day Adventist Church.