Editorials
OPINION: Democratic Party calls for vaccine before travel bubble
Tuesday 30 March 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Editorials, Opinion
To the New Zealand government, the Cook Islands Opposition is appealing for the Covid-19 vaccine to be rolled out here for our 17,000 people before the two-way travel bubble opens between our two countries, writes Opposition leader Tina Browne.
OPINION: ‘Good decision is always based on knowledge’
Monday 29 March 2021 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Jacinda Ardern’s hardest decisions for us, are not between good and bad or right and wrong. But between two goods and two rights, writes Ruta TangiiauMave.
OPINION: Foreign values misunderstood, misrepresented as our own
Sunday 28 March 2021 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Mata kite Mata, kanohi kite kanohi – nothing comes as intimate or as powerful as the face to face meetings between, families, friends, or foes, and that moment when you greet. Be it a shaking of hands and pat on the back or high five hand slap, or the powerfully moving gesture of the hongi.
India’s stake in the evolving geopolitics of Pacific Islands
Thursday 25 March 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Editorials, Opinion
The appointment of former Cook Islands Prime Minister Henry Puna as the Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum is watched with interest from the corridors of power in New Delhi. By Balaji Chandramohan.
OPINION: ‘What’s the hold-up Jacinda?’
Thursday 25 March 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Ready when you are. That’s the message the Cook Islands Chamber of Commerce has for New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her government when it comes to opening the borders for two-way quarantine-free travel between the two countries.
OPINION: ‘Tourism contributed more than $1 million a day to our economy’
Tuesday 23 March 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Editorials, Opinion
This week in his fortnightly column, Prime Minister Mark Brown talks about the country’s financial future – looking ahead to when borders open fully with New Zealand and also beyond as work begins on a recovery plan to restore Cook Islands economy to where it was pre-Covid.
Behind every great man is a surprised mother and wife
Monday 22 March 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Editorials, Opinion
The differences between man and woman have been explained, described and immortalised, forever. Still, we’re surprised after the honeymoon ‘this is not the same person you dated when you were single’, writes Ruta Tangiiau Mave.
The trial of public opinion
Saturday 20 March 2021 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Ultimately, we stand before the judgement of public opinion and ultimately a Judge that will judge us on our life, our thoughts and our decisions and then it won’t matter how much money we have or the position we hold.
Are we good stewards of God’s gifts?
Tuesday 16 March 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Editorials, Opinion
The issue for our country since 1965 has never been what we have been given. It has instead been how those resources and opportunities have been managed. By Tina Pupuke Browne.
OPINION: Perfect practices will give us perfect protection
Monday 15 March 2021 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
They say practice makes perfect, but they’re wrong. Perfect practice makes perfect, writes Ruta Mave.
The will of the people ‘should drive change’
Saturday 13 March 2021 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Tolerance is like a gate that swings open and closed and through that gate we allow people, behaviours, actions, thoughts and ideas, writes Thomas Wynne.
Cook Islands Super ‘disappoints again’
Saturday 13 March 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Economy, Editorials, National, Opinion
Well-known accountant Mike Carr analyses Cook Islands National Superannuation Fund’s decision to decrease pay out rates for new pensioners.
OPINION: What’s good for the goose is good for the gander
Friday 12 March 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Editorials, Opinion
On December 16 last year, Cook Islands News published an opinion piece from me which was tantamount to a challenge to the Cook Islands Law Society to divest itself from its self-interest cocoon and actually live up to some of its responsibilities and intercede in the increasing abuses of the rule of law perpetrated by the current administration, writes John M Scott.
OPINION: Vaccine will save lives – maybe yours, says PM
Wednesday 10 March 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Getting vaccinated provides another layer of protection, and we should seize the opportunity when it arrives, writes Prime Minister Mark Brown.
No woman, no cry
Monday 8 March 2021 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Celebrating International Women’s Day, should be like February, Black History Month, then March is Woman’s Her-story Month. The problem that goes hand in hand with most problem’s woman have is, it’s often seen, narrated and determined by men, writes Ruta Mave.
As you sow so shall you reap
Saturday 6 March 2021 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Unless someone like you care a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better.
Who blew up the Forum?
Friday 5 March 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Editorials, Opinion
In all the analysis following the decision of the five Micronesian countries to exit the Pacific Islands Forum after their candidate failed to become the next Secretary General, one question remains unanswered: who is responsible for this body-blow to Pacific regionalism? By Stephen Howes and Sadhana Sen.
Pacific regionalism on trial: A way forward
Tuesday 2 March 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Editorials
For the sake of future generations, regional unity, equity, and respect for each other must form the cornerstone of our pan-Pacific mana as we engage with the complex challenges of our time. Pacific Cooperation Foundation board members Dr Steven Ratuva and Dr Katerina Teaiwa offer their unique insights to the political crisis facing the region.
Black lives matter
Monday 1 March 2021 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
"Blacks, who have their own unique culture and language that was born and derived in their DNA of rhythm and skin pigment to Africa, but is solely Made in America," writes Ruta Mave.
Defining moments
Saturday 27 February 2021 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials, Opinion
We should know by now that life is defined by moments and especially those we didn’t see coming.
