Opinion

Our people are our greatest resource

Saturday 31 July 2021 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Opinion

It saddens me that we are forced to look to foreign workers to fill our current labour shortage when maybe we could fill that with our own people, even if it were for three or six month contracts.

WTF – Where's the Fish?

Saturday 31 July 2021 | Written by Te Ipukarea Society | Published in Opinion

Everyone is wondering WTF? - Wheres the Fish? Anecdotally, across the Cook Islands people are talking about this big issues saying catches are low, even for this time of year, writes Te Ipukarea Society.

KATA: Defence in indecent assault case

Friday 30 July 2021 | Written by CI News Staff | Published in Opinion

LETTERS: Government is ‘not a family business’

Friday 30 July 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Letters for July 30, 2021

KATA: Extended stay for a unique visitor

Thursday 29 July 2021 | Written by CI News Staff | Published in Kata, Opinion

LETTERS: Jungle trek ‘challenging but amazing’

Wednesday 28 July 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Letters for Wednesday July 28

KATA: Dying to see the turtles

Wednesday 28 July 2021 | Written by CI News Staff | Published in Kata, Opinion

KATA: Forging a new track

Tuesday 27 July 2021 | Written by CI News Staff | Published in Kata, Opinion

LETTERS: Promoting political agendas?

Tuesday 27 July 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Letters for July 27, 2021

OPINION: Cook Islands benefitting from Covid-free status

Tuesday 27 July 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Editorials, Opinion

Like me, you can’t have helped but notice that we are back in the visitor business again. No, we’re not back up to the sort of numbers we were getting pre-Covid, but they have been steadily growing, writes Prime Minister Mark Brown.

OPINION: Fashion at the Olympic Games

Monday 26 July 2021 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion

In the Cook Islands before the missionaries came, we used local plants and rauti to cover our heads, necks, shoulders and hips. It was the missionaries who covered us from neck to toe with colonial clothes especially the muumuu, which was more like a nightdress formless and plain, writes Ruta Mave.

Discovering your life’s purpose

Friday 23 July 2021 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials, Opinion

The fruit of purpose is a fruit we can all eat from, unlike the fruit of self service and self-promotion which is bitter and rotten to the core, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.

OPINION: Sharing culture brings people together

Friday 23 July 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Editorials, Opinion

When Wes Tikiariki Roberts, the ‘Atiu Rocket’, led the Cook Islands team into the stadium in Tokyo during the Olympic Games official opening ceremony, Cook Islander hearts swelled with pride, and Australia was cheering him on as well, writes Dr Christopher Watkins, the Australian High Commissioner to Cook Islands.

OPINION: Trawling for ocean plastics on Marumaru Atua enroute to Suwarrow

Friday 23 July 2021 | Written by Te Ipukarea Society | Published in Editorials, Opinion

The Marumaru Atua vaka is enroute to Suwarrow now, after visiting four northern group islands and Aitutaki so far. It carries with it a message of ocean health. One area the vaka is focusing on is oceans plastics, writes Te Ipukarea Society.

LETTERS: Tuna catches on the slide

Friday 23 July 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Letters for Saturday July 24

KATA: Lots of pork, no fish

Friday 23 July 2021 | Written by CI News Staff | Published in Kata, Opinion

KATA: Secret agent

Friday 23 July 2021 | Written by CI News Staff | Published in Kata, Opinion