Editorials
Thomas Wynne: Roots of justice
Saturday 30 November 2024 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials, Opinion
This is part two of three articles on the writing and founding of our Cook Islands Constitution. By Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.
Te Ipukarea Society: ‘Death by power point’: NZ visit ‘a road show, at worst a propaganda tour’
Saturday 30 November 2024 | Written by Te Ipukarea Society | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Today’s article is by June Hosking, president of Te Ipukarea Society. It is based on information she received from family and friends that attended the Cook Islands Government’s presentation to the Cook Islands community in Christchurch last week. The title for this article is taken from an apt comment her niece overheard at the presentation.
Ruta Mave: Questioning the legality of another’s belief
Monday 25 November 2024 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Everyone just wants to live a life of mundane tasks and group socialisation. They want to wake up and interact with family and pets. Go to work or school, complete tasks of growth challenge or wage earning, writes Ruta Mave.
Thomas Wynne: Who wrote our founding document?
Saturday 23 November 2024 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials, Opinion
This is part one of three articles on the writing and founding of our Cook Islands Constitution. By Thomas Wynne.
Te Ipukarea Society: Hawksbill health needs close monitoring
Friday 22 November 2024 | Written by Te Ipukarea Society | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Turtle tracking through the use of photos to identify individual turtle movements around Rarotonga has continued for a second consecutive year.
Te Tuhi Kelly: We did not cede sovereignty
Tuesday 19 November 2024 | Written by Te Tuhi Kelly | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Britain colonised my other country Aotearoa in the early 1840's. At that time Maori held sovereignty over land, sea and air. We are known by our tribal names and the area that we have sovereignty over.
Ruta Mave: Modern pentathlon, a way to add a cross training aspect
Monday 18 November 2024 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Salam Alaykum which means peace be upon you all the way from Saudia Arabia. After 35 hours of flights travel and transit times I made it to my destination of Riyadh the site of the original capital city of the first state of Saudia Arabia over three hundred years ago, writes Ruta Mave.
Tina Browne: Police Service
Monday 18 November 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Editorials, Opinion
I share Norman George’s concerns about the deeply troubling state of our Police Services under the current government, writes Tina Browne.
Thomas Wynne: Gratefulness should not mean silence on the past
Saturday 16 November 2024 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Our Ariki ceded our sovereignty in 1900 to a curious Great Britain and a sub-empire-building New Zealand colony for many reasons, and some suggest we should simply be grateful for this. Thomas Wynne writes.
Te Ipukarea Society: Petrel monitoring reveals suspicious subjects
Saturday 16 November 2024 | Written by Te Ipukarea Society | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Petrels, and not the petrol that you put in your car, are in fact a medium sized seabird known for spending the majority of their lives out at sea. They are A class fishing birds who skim over the waves with sharp turns in search of their next fishy feast.
Norman George: 'Copouts’ and destruction of police services
Thursday 14 November 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Editorials, Opinion
I did not know the level of Police services failures until I called at the Police Station about 10am two days ago on my business as a lawyer. Norman George writes.
Ruta Mave: A mixture of mad, sad and glad
Monday 11 November 2024 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Red White and Blue Americans have voted and there was a mixture of mad sad and glad reactions within and outside of the ‘land of the free’ - unless you are an immigrant, coloured or pregnant or so it appears from the outside looking in.
Thomas Wynne: Is it his story or your story?
Saturday 9 November 2024 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials, Opinion
In a world increasingly thrown into conflict, be it military, social, or cultural, how have we stopped listening to each other and instead become obsessed with being either right or wrong, for or against, standing with or standing against, condemning or supporting a cause? writes Thomas Wynne.
Te Ipukarea Society: Rat assassin
Saturday 9 November 2024 | Written by Te Ipukarea Society | Published in Editorials, Opinion
This Conservation Project was a collaborative effort alongside Cook Islands Voyaging Society, Island Conservation, BirdLife International, the Atiu Island Government, Takutea Trust, Takili Talagi-Tairi and Te Ipukarea Society. Funding support came from SPREPs predator Free Pacific Programme and NZ MFAT whose generous support helped bring the long planned Takutea project to fruition.
Apology
Thursday 7 November 2024 | Written by CI News Staff | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Under the name Ruth Tangiiau Mave the Cook Islands News published in its issue of 4 November, 2024 an article that referenced the agreement between the Cook Islands and the European Union entered into when Mr Ben Ponia was the Secretary of Marine Resources and Mr Henry Puna was the Prime Minister. That article alleges […]
Michael Tavioni: Water tariff lacks commonsense
Wednesday 6 November 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Editorials, Opinion
For today’s column I was writing about some other issue but two articles in last week’s Cook Islands News kept bothering me. Michael Tavioni writes.
Letter: How hard can it be to get to paradise?
Monday 4 November 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Editorials, Opinion
I live in Brisbane, and after chatting with a friend from the Cook Islands, I thought, why not jet off to a tropical island for a few days before Christmas.
Te Ipukarea Society: Tracking the Ī’oi:
Saturday 2 November 2024 | Written by Te Ipukarea Society | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Since the last update, the Ī’oi Project, led by Te Ipukarea Society, has begun the next phase with the start of radio tracking.
Thomas Wynne: What is the 16th Island of the Cooks?
Saturday 2 November 2024 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials, Opinion
People often refer to Tokoroa as the 16th Island of the country currently called the Cook Islands, though many may not know, that historically, Niue held this distinction. Thomas Wynne writes.
Te Tuhi Kelly: Deflect, defend and denigrate
Thursday 31 October 2024 | Written by Te Tuhi Kelly | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Te Tuhi Kelly, Leader of the Progressive Party states that Te Aponga Uira has employed the three D’s of public relations, defend, deflect and denigrate to deal with fallout from the incident several months ago when four men were seriously injured by the energising of a high voltage cable they were repairing.
