Opinion
Kata: No jab, no church
Tuesday 7 December 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion
Speaking ‘truth’ to power
Tuesday 7 December 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, Secretary of Health, Bob Williams, is rolling the dice with our lives. He has failed us on so many fronts.
UYO – Use Your Own Campaign
Monday 6 December 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Have you ever given some thought to how you can help reduce the amount of waste going into our landfill? Well here is something UYO might like to consider, writes Te Ipukarea Society.
Kata: New Recruits
Monday 6 December 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion
Waiting for Covid is like childbirth
Monday 6 December 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Editorials, Opinion
As we look to the day our borders open, what will be will be. We have done all we can to prepare, we could do better with our personal health on a long-term basis – its’ not too late, writes Ruta Mave.
Rarotonga’s growing waste problem
Monday 6 December 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, stop bringing low quality goods to the island. Chinese rubbish that you use once and it breaks.
Cooks entitled to NZ aid fund
Saturday 4 December 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Nothing brings out the racist underbelly of Aotearoa and its dirty underside more than when countries like our own, realm countries of New Zealand, receive aid, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.
Wrong immigration law repealed
Friday 3 December 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, a clerical oversight that resulted in the wrong version of the new Immigration Act being passed by Parliament last week has been repealed, and the intended Immigration Bill was tabled on Thursday, December 2 to begin its passage through the House and into law.
Leap of faith or plunge in darkness?
Friday 3 December 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Editorials, Opinion
What’s safest? To remain with self-creating and self-sustaining economic strategic plans or let’s give up the fight like our most trusted ally NZ, bust our bubble and allow Covid-19 like the rest of the world, writes Bishop Tutai Pere of the Apostolic Church.
KATA: Immigration Bill
Thursday 2 December 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion
Concerns over water shortage
Thursday 2 December 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, To Tatou Vai (TTV) spokesperson Jaewynn McKay, in response to the fact that water is running over the weir at the Papua intake, leads us to believe that it is a case of rain falling unevenly from one catchment to the next.
A little piece of Cook Islands in Israel
Thursday 2 December 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Editorials, Opinion
The ‘Lord’s Prayer’ in Cook Islands Maori is one of the latest additions to the colourful ceramic mosaic plaques at Church of Pater Noster in Israel. By Jean Mason of the Cook Islands Museum and Library Society Inc.
Thanks to those who worked behind the scenes
Wednesday 1 December 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
We are blessed to be among those about to conclude our stay in MIQ at Edgewater.
Water flowing over the weir at Papua
Tuesday 30 November 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
The water intake at Papua (Wigmore’s waterfall) is easily accessed by all. There has been no significant rain for weeks. TTV (To Tatou Vai) is running constant media notices telling us how dire is our water shortage.
A weed choked stagnant pond
Monday 29 November 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
I often swim in the clear waters in the lagoon at Tikioki, where you can feel the cool fresh seawater coming over the reef and flushing the stale water away to be refreshed twice daily reducing the weed and algae growth.
OPINION: ‘Grief remembered is love immortalised’
Monday 29 November 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in On the Street, Opinion
Should grief die or have a time limit? Some say it takes time to get over it. Other’s find it hard to move on quickly after the loss of a loved one, writes Ruta Mave.
Covid, risk and fear: Let’s get real
Saturday 27 November 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Now is a good time to address this with Cook Islands finally opening for business on January 13. Understandably there exists anxiety. I would like to make a case for optimism and excitement. Let’s examine the critical factors, writes Associate Professor John Dunn.
Home is where the heart is
Saturday 27 November 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
There is a relationship between our love of chopping down trees and trimming them back for convenience to this proposed attitude towards our people, yes, our people offshore trimmed and cut down like unwanted branches ready for the fire, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.
KATA: Water system
Saturday 27 November 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion
A time to rethink our values
Friday 26 November 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Opinion, Raro on my mind
The pandemic has taught us that money is not the only goal in life; that we can thrive with less; that happiness comes from being together and working together, writes Bishop Paul Donoghue (Catholic Church).
