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Articles by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne
Thomas Tarurongo Wynne: Meitaki for your courage and strength
Saturday 23 May 2020 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials
OPINION: Don’t even think of thanking the quarantined mamas and papas for their sacrifice.
Shaking our tourism tree
Saturday 16 May 2020 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials
OPINION: The ripe fruit of our culture will sustain our tourism.
Thomas Tarurongo Wynne: Mana aroa - It's who we are
Saturday 9 May 2020 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials
OPINION: Sitting down to the large Sal’s Pizza was a treat worth waiting for after five weeks of lockdown in Auckland. And as we sat at the table, preparing to give thanks, little hands reached across to the now steaming hot cheesy pizza ...
Thomas Tarurongo Wynne: It's time to change our tourism, like it or not
Saturday 2 May 2020 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials
OPINION: The decisions we make today on changing our tourism co-dependent relationship will determine the nation our children inherit.
Thomas Tarurongo Wynne: We doom ourselves to repeat history
Friday 24 April 2020 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials
OPINION: In 1914, when War broke out in Europe, a young man by the name of Thomas Wynne enlisted in the Irish Fusiliers and was sent to Belgium to fight in a War he probably knew little about other than it was possibly an opportunity for what some called adventure, some honour, some for God and country.
Thomas Tarurongo Wynne: Choose kindness
Saturday 18 April 2020 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials
OPINION: Sometimes I wonder if people actually know what kindness is, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.
Thomas Tarurongo Wynne: What a time to be alive!
Saturday 11 April 2020 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials
OPINION: This Easter, this time of rebirth, is an opportunity to contribute to a new way of doing things, to develop new ways of thinking as new life begins.
Thomas Tarurongo Wynne: Cream of Cook Islands rises to the top
Saturday 4 April 2020 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials
OPINION: In Cook Islands and around the world, our true community leaders are stepping up to help others.
Thomas Wynne: We will weather the storm
Saturday 21 March 2020 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials
Opinion: I may not see my wife and parents again this side of Christmas. But I know that our deep faith will help us all weather the storm, like our voyaging forebears.
Thomas Wynne: Courage does not stay seated
Saturday 14 March 2020 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials
Today I stand with the LGBTQ+ community and say if they are good enough to be our brothers and sisters, cousins, uncles and aunties, mothers and fathers and friends, then they are good enough to be equal with us under the law.
Thomas Tarurongo Wynne: We cannot live in fear, we must not allow fear to grip our hearts
Saturday 7 March 2020 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials
OPINION: Coronavirus reminds us that good leaders will make the right decision, not always the popular decision.
Thomas Wynne: Prosperity or profit?
Saturday 29 February 2020 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials
OPINION: Sir Albert Henry’s call went out that no one in the tribe should be left behind, did that mean that everyone share in our prosperity? Or just a few politicians and business leaders?
Thomas Wynne: 'I so miss saying hello to everyone on the way to work...
Saturday 22 February 2020 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials
OPINION: I have seen wellbeing in Cook Islands.
Thomas Wynne: Helmet law: The time is now
Saturday 15 February 2020 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials
OPINION: If ever there was a time for the government to make the right decision regarding the helmet law then it is now.
Thomas Tarurongo Wynne: 1000 reasons to pay teachers more
Saturday 8 February 2020 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Opinion
OPINION: MPs deserve their pay rise – and by the same measure, so do the teachers who hold our future in their hands.
Thomas Wynne: And we all say, enough is enough
Saturday 1 February 2020 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials
OPINON: It will take courage for us all to see through the changes that are necessary to avoid more of our children dying on the roads.
Thomas Tarurongo Wynne: Sons for the return home
Saturday 25 January 2020 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Opinion
OPINION: Study at home incentives and student loans are a step in the right direction to bring our young people back to fulfil the dream of a Cook Islands filled with our people, their talent and skills.
Thomas Tarurongo Wynne: Harder, better, faster, stronger
Sunday 19 January 2020 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Opinion
OPINION: From environmental awards to internet speeds, with so much that is fake in the world today, we must take responsibility for ensuring our perceptions reflect reality.
Thomas Tarurongo Wynne: The Cable has landed
Sunday 12 January 2020 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Opinion
OPINION: Rarotonga and Aitutaki’s fast undersea internet connection will come with new opportunities – and new challenges. We must be vigilant.
The meaning of graduation
Saturday 4 January 2020 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Opinion
Ko au ko koe ko tatou “It is me, it is you, it is all of us…” This statement attempts to sum up what the Cook Islands’ graduation as a country means, as the clock ticked past January 1 this week and we stood as a developed nation.