Editorials
Dr Gerhard Sundborn: Are we being kind to our Cook Islands whanau over Covid-19?
Tuesday 30 June 2020 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Editorials
OPINION: It is vital Jacinda Ardern embraces the kindness she talks about, and throws Cook Islands a lifeline.
Ruth Tangiiau Mavé: Some of us are 'losing the plot'
Monday 29 June 2020 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Editorials
OPINION: The key to keeping a community docile is apply heat to the point of uncomfortable, but not unbearable.
Teanaroa Worthington: Little more mana tiaki than Avatea
Saturday 27 June 2020 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Editorials
The debate over changing the name of our country will continue unabated until it is resolved.
Thomas Tarurongo Wynne: Our people have been through the wringer
Saturday 27 June 2020 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials
OPINION: We are a people of adaptation and not a colony.
John Scott: 'Parliament is a cowboy operation'
Friday 26 June 2020 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Editorials
OPINION: In its race to repair the perceived damage to Members' integrity and punish a Cook Islands News reporter, Parliament once again has shown that when it comes to procedure it is still something of a cowboy operation down there.
Chief Uri Mataiapo Danny Mataroa : Reflections on Hereiti File's vaka journey
Thursday 25 June 2020 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Editorials
OPINION: Well written Hereiti. I'm sorry that you had to be shocked into your culture by being called a plastic Cook Islander but it worked, so really I'm glad it made you angry! (“What if we travelled north by vaka, not by plane?” June 14)
Ananish Chaudhur, Simon Thornley, Michael Jackson: Bizarre that NZ border remains closed to Cook Islands
Thursday 25 June 2020 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Editorials
OPINION: The recent fiasco that allowed people to leave New Zealand quarantine without testing, risking spread of Covid-19, highlights how nebulous that government’s claim of total elimination always was.
Jonathan Milne: MPs are all in this together
Tuesday 23 June 2020 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Editorials
EDITORIAL: For the past few months, our Parliamentarians have said repeatedly, “we’re all in this together”. Last night, they demonstrated that newfound unity.
Ruta Tangiiau Mavé : When PM leaves his job, he won't be destitute
Monday 22 June 2020 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Editorials
OPINION: Our leaders pocket increased salaries and allowances, while cancelling $6m in pay rises for nurses and teachers.
Thomas Tarurongo Wynne: Law doesn't define what what it means to be Maori
Saturday 20 June 2020 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials
OPINION: We should not cut off our akapapa any more than we should cut down our tupuna trees.
Jonathan Milne: Pray that Brown's optimism is warranted
Saturday 20 June 2020 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Editorials
EDITORIAL: Cook Islands has dug deep into its rainy day fund set aside for devastating cyclones. That money runs out by September, and then we turn to the overseas banks to bail us out.
Lynnsay Rongokea Francis: Embrace the richness cultural diversity brings
Friday 19 June 2020 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Editorials
OPINION: Consultation on the definition of a Cook Islanders has renewed debate about adopted children inheriting land.
Sr Elizabeth Browne-Russell: 'I have a dream…'
Wednesday 17 June 2020 | Written by Katrina Lintonbon | Published in Editorials
OPINION: There is a great movement taking place worldwide. Though the present focus of this movement is on “Black Lives Matter” in the wake of police brutality of an African-American man, the ripple effect speaks to me of a great shift in` human consciousness which even we in the Cook Islands cannot ignore or be divorced from.
Balaji Chandramohan: Bollywood bound for our beaches?
Tuesday 16 June 2020 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Editorials
OPINION: Affluent Indian travellers and Bollywood producers will look to Cook Islands as the borders open.
Ruta Tangiiau Mavé: New law would define adopted Eskimos as CIs
Monday 15 June 2020 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Editorials
OPINION: Who am I? I am the eldest daughter of a long line of eldest daughters on both sides of my family.
Thomas Tarurongo Wynne : Everyone has the right to breathe
Sunday 14 June 2020 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials
OPINION: Do you believe in human rights? Do you believe in God? And will you stand with black America?
Luana Scowcroft: Remembering a true eco-warrior
Sunday 14 June 2020 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Editorials
OPINION: Sue Fletcher-Vea led from the front in the fight for our environment.
Tata Crocombe: Do not treat us as second-class citizens
Friday 12 June 2020 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Editorials
OPINION: The New Zealand Government’s approach is bizarre, in only being willing to consider incorporating Cook Islands in the travel bubble once Australia has joined, and now announcing that Japan and even Tasmania will take precedence over the Cook Islands.
Regina Scheyvens & Apisalome Movono: The promise and peril of a Pacific tourism bubble
Tuesday 9 June 2020 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Editorials
OPINION: Pacific nations have largely avoided the worst health effects of Covid-19, but its economic impact has been devastating. With the tourism tap turned off, unemployment has soared while GDP has plummeted.
Ruta Tangiiau Mavé: All lives matter
Monday 8 June 2020 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Editorials
OPINION: Racism, like Covid-19, is a pandemic we have to be careful not to let it spread.
