Editorials
Norman George: A tribute to famed explosive experts and top educators
Tuesday 25 February 2020 | Published in Editorials
OPINION: There is gloomy melancholy when remembering past contributors and nation builders. They are the quiet ones who shun publicity and praise. Norman George remembers those who left a giant impact on this nation.
Ruth Mave: One-hit wonder diets not the answer
Monday 24 February 2020 | Published in Editorials
OPINION: From eating kangaroos to eating cookies, Google offers 59 million diet solutions – but none is the real answer to our obesity problem.
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.
Moana Moeka'a: Everything begins at home: take the keys from your kids
Friday 21 February 2020 | Published in Editorials
OPINION: Decrease the blood alcohol limit to zero. People can still have a good time. It's just that you can't drive afterwards.
Jaewynn McKay: Helmet law scope gives me headache
Wednesday 19 February 2020 | Published in Editorials
OPINION: Flimsy helmets for sale locally would offer very little protection when falling off a motorbike travelling at speed.
Jonathan Milne: Isolation is not answer to virus
Tuesday 18 February 2020 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Editorials
EDITORIAL: So how close is the COVID-19 coronavirus? With the news of infected sufferers in the Pacific, in Hawai’i and the Philippines, it feels nearer than ever.
Ruth Mave: Cutting hair removes the strength and mana of a child
Monday 17 February 2020 | Published in Editorials
OPINION: Children are special, unique and deserve respect. These aspects should rate higher in importance than their hairstyle, writes Ruth Mave.
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.
Jaewynn McKay: We might be getting there'
Wednesday 12 February 2020 | Published in Editorials
I don’t often get down to New Zealand, and in the eight years or so we’ve been living here in Tupapa, seldom for more than a few days. But this last summer I went twice, once just after Christmas when we as a family spent time on the east coast of the north island; where my husband hails from, and where we have a family home.
Norman George: A tribute to those who leave giant impact on their nation
Tuesday 11 February 2020 | Published in Editorials
Columnist Norman George pays a tribute to the police officers in the country.
Forgive us, as we forgive others
Saturday 8 February 2020 | Written by Katrina Lintonbon | Published in Editorials
Mistakes of the past will always catch up with you.
What Waitangi Day means to me here in Cook Islands
Friday 7 February 2020 | Written by Katrina Lintonbon | Published in Editorials
On Waitangi Day, February 6, I find my thoughts are automatically occupied by my tupuna rangatira.
Jay Cagica: Twelve months of tragedy
Tuesday 4 February 2020 | Published in Editorials
OPINION: It was a year ago that Jay Cagica lost his best friend Thomas Riley in a bike crash. Thomas was the first or 10 deaths in just 1 months. Today, Cagica remembers his friend and pleads for everyone to wear helmets.
Drink-driving: Families must help each other
Tuesday 4 February 2020 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Editorials
During a kaikai in Mitiaro at the weekend of the latest tragedy, the MC announced a special pure akapumaana (prayer of comfort) would be held for the families who had just lost two young boys involved in a fatal accident on Rarotonga.
Norman George: Charmed by hard-nosed business magnates
Tuesday 4 February 2020 | Published in Editorials
OPINION: Some tough businessmen have helped make Cook Islands the nation it is today.
Ruta Tangiaau Mavé: Drink-drive crashes won't be stopped by one tin hat
Monday 3 February 2020 | Published in Editorials
OPINION: Men make laws, to instantly solve issues, one they can put a lid on, wash their hands and walk away.
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.
Editorial: Let us honour Mona's legacy
Friday 31 January 2020 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Editorials
I have three sons, still at primary school. They are smart, beautiful, (mostly) kind and gentle. Thinking of what they mean to me, as I write these words, is enough to bring a pricking to my eyes.
Editorial: Other 'devils' pose greater threat
Thursday 30 January 2020 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Editorials
OPINION: It started around Christmas in a live seafood market in Wuhan, a sprawling Chinese city of 11 million people, yet one whose name was little-known to most of us in the western world – until now.
Derek Fox: What would Treaty fathers think?
Wednesday 29 January 2020 | Published in Editorials
OPINION: One hundred and eighty years ago next Wednesday in Rarotonga, Thursday in Aotearoa – the Treaty of Waitangi was signed in the Bay of Islands.
