Features
Understanding God's sovereignty
Friday 14 December 2018 | Published in Church Talk
There are qualities in God we will never fully understand.
Science key to grasping change
Saturday 8 December 2018 | Published in Weekend
This feature by Melina Tuiravakai, Climate Change Cook Islands Division of the Office of the Prime Minister and Kate Jean Smith, UNDP, describes how automatic weather stations are helping to fill the gaps in our understanding of climate change.
No need for our 'patipati' attitude
Friday 7 December 2018 | Published in Church Talk
One common and very notable characteristic amongst our Pacific Islands people is the “patipati” (begging and borrowing) attitude and habit.
Charlotte's life: Picture perfect
Tuesday 4 December 2018 | Written by Chris Taylor | Published in Weekend
FIRST LIGHT on a glassy Rarotonga palm-fringed-lagoon is as picturesque as it gets, but it’s what lies beneath the surface of the crystal waters that draws Charlotte Piho to the depths below every time she returns home to the Cook Islands.
Space travel youngster's dream
Wednesday 21 November 2018 | Written by Chris Taylor | Published in Weekend
While most youngsters are content to just play games on their smartphones, Tai Eraio is searching deep into space above Rarotonga every day and night, tracking the International Space Station on his phone.
A 'cracker' this movie definitely isn't
Saturday 3 November 2018 | Published in Entertainment
Slow torture for kids and grownups alike, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms gives a bad name to the very concept of family entertainment.
Pace never flags in action thriller
Saturday 27 October 2018 | Published in Entertainment
Connoisseurs of cheesy, gung-ho, boys’ own action films will find plenty to relish in Hunter Killer. This is a curiously old-fashioned affair that feels as if it could have been made in the 1950s, or even earlier, with John Wayne or Gary Cooper instead of Gerard Butler in the lead role.
Mud glorious mud... it's Buggy time!
Saturday 27 October 2018 | Written by Richard Moore | Published in Weekend
There are two things you can guarantee when you take a spin out with Raro Buggy Tours – one is that you’ll get dirty, the other is you’ll have fun.
A Star is Born a heart-warming journey
Monday 22 October 2018 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Entertainment
There was silence when the post credits for the movie A Star is Born started rolling on the screen.
Tastes of Atiu enjoyed well beyond the island
Saturday 13 October 2018 | Published in Weekend
The exciting tastes of Atiu are spreading beyond the island, thanks to an innovative and flourishing food venture launched by a local husband and wife team.
Goosebumps 2 lacks original's bite
Saturday 13 October 2018 | Published in Entertainment
I spend an unconscionable amount of time wondering about the right age at which to introduce my child to horror movies.
Tom Hardy is one good reason to see Venom
Saturday 6 October 2018 | Published in Entertainment
In the grand scheme of all movies ever made—including, say, FW Murnau’s exquisite 1927 silent film Sunrise and the totally useless 2015 Entourage movie — the line between a super-awesome Marvel movie and a bad one is cellophane-thin.
Going on a Turtling Safari...
Saturday 6 October 2018 | Written by Richard Moore | Published in Weekend
As a small lad I remember being reduced to tears by documentary footage of baby turtles - just hatched from eggs – struggling to make it to the nearby ocean across a very wide expanse of sand.
Night School fails the grade
Monday 1 October 2018 | Published in Entertainment
Only a fool would say that Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish aren’t hilarious. But only a dumbass would argue that their new comedy, Night School, isn’t the worst kind of lazy, laughless, paycheque-begging twaddle. What is it with stars who think that their responsibility to audiences stops at showing up?
'Talkies' and the end of the toroka teata
Saturday 29 September 2018 | Written by Jaimie Keay | Published in Weekend
Rod Rixon concludes his fascinating look at the history of cinema in the Cook Islands.
Why fathers do matter
Friday 28 September 2018 | Published in Church Talk
The newly appointed Minister of Police recently expressed his concern over youth offending in the Cook Islands and is keenly interested in addressing the issue. We may not be able to isolate any one cause to this problem, but we can be sure that parenting in the home, especially by fathers, plays a significant role.
The movies come to Rarotonga
Sunday 23 September 2018 | Published in Weekend
While the exact date has become lost in the mists of time, the arrival of moving pictures on Rarotonga in the early years of last century made a huge impact on life on the island. USP director Rod Dixon wrote this fascinating feature, which outlines the history of "the movies" on Rarotonga.
The New Testament and the Sabbath
Friday 21 September 2018 | Published in Church Talk
The Gospels record six cases in which Jesus' actions resulted in controversy over the Sabbath, and two more that did not.
Greatest and highest: maata e te teitei ope rava atu'
Friday 14 September 2018 | Published in Church Talk
Jude 20 & 21, “But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost…Kareka kotou e aku au akaperepere e, e te patu anga ia kotou uaorai, I to kotou akarongo Tapu Maata ra, I te pure anga ma te Vaerua Tapu”.
Killings galore in 'nun-pocalypse'
Saturday 8 September 2018 | Published in Entertainment
The Nun is the latest installment in the series we apparently have to call “The Conjuring universe”.
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