Opinion

Why a mother’s work is never done

Monday 10 May 2021 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Opinion

They say the first 40 years of motherhood are the hardest. Personally, the day you become a mother is right up there with pain, fear and excitement, the eternal elements of being a mother, writes Ruta Mave.

OPINION: Work with TIS ignited a passion to protect environment

Saturday 8 May 2021 | Written by Te Ipukarea Society | Published in Editorials, Opinion

Former Te Ipukarea Society staff member, Liam Kokaua, shares his experience working for the Society, and his current work in Aotearoa

KATA: Manihiki MP Akaiti Puna

Saturday 8 May 2021 | Written by CI News Staff | Published in Kata, Opinion

OPINION: Building upon the Henry Puna dynasty

Saturday 8 May 2021 | Written by Wilkie Rasmussen | Published in Opinion, Tropical Chronicles

There are examples of countries that when their leaders retired, they handed over the top job to their wives. Are we seeing this in the Cook Islands now? By Wilkie Rasmussen

KATA: Audit office in overdrive

Friday 7 May 2021 | Written by CI News Staff | Published in Kata, Opinion

LETTER: Freeze wages of $60k plus

Thursday 6 May 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

"Because when everyone got the internet and power subsidies, all government workers got an unintended pay rise."

KATA: Dengue in the outer islands

Thursday 6 May 2021 | Written by CI News Staff | Published in Kata, Opinion

KATA: Advertising for the Land Court sitting

Wednesday 5 May 2021 | Written by CI News Staff | Published in Kata, Opinion

KATA: Vaccine fears

Tuesday 4 May 2021 | Written by CI News Staff | Published in Kata, Opinion

KATA: Travel bubble hopes

Monday 3 May 2021 | Written by CI News Staff | Published in Kata, Opinion

OPINION: Saluting our workers on May Day

Monday 3 May 2021 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion

Good people with good hearts are being run by incompetence and nepotism up high. They work for the man or the ministry, and the man and the ministry work them to death, writes Ruta Tangiiau Mave.

OPINION: We are living in the ‘next normal’

Saturday 1 May 2021 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials, Opinion

It’s hard for this current generation to believe that there was a time in the world when you hopped on a plane and they asked you whether you wanted to sit in the smoking section or the non-smoking section, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.

OPINION: Seabed mining sector confronts technical difficulties

Saturday 1 May 2021 | Written by Te Ipukarea Society | Published in Editorials, Opinion

Apart from the very real concern about the environmental impacts of deep-sea mining on our ocean ecosystem, there remains many serious technological difficulties to overcome, writes Te Ipukarea Society.

KATA: Saturday May 1

Saturday 1 May 2021 | Written by Emmanuel Samoglou | Published in Kata, Opinion

LETTER: Support for no levy on imported eggs

Saturday 1 May 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

"Why should egg eaters have to pay higher prices to support one business? The answer? They shouldn’t."

KATA: Where are the vaccines?

Friday 30 April 2021 | Written by CI News Staff | Published in Kata, Opinion

KATA: Shark caught

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

PET TALK: To spay or not to spay

Wednesday 28 April 2021 | Written by Dr. Ellen McBryde | Published in Editorials, Opinion

Desexing (a.k.a. spaying, neutering, fixing, sterilising, castrating) has the obvious benefit of population control by reducing unwanted or unnecessary pregnancies, but there is more to it than meets the eye. Dr Ellen McBryde of Te Are Manu Veterinary Clinic discusses why we desex our dogs and cats.