Opinion
PET TALK: Caring for your new puppy or kitten
Wednesday 31 March 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Editorials, Opinion
You’ve just adopted a new family member, what next? In the first edition of this fortnightly column, Dr Ellen McBryde, the lead veterinarian at Te Are Manu Charity Vet Clinic, provides some vital tips.
LETTER: ‘PM Brown giving us false hope’
Wednesday 31 March 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
"I believe Mark Brown is misleading our anxious and desperate business sector, all the people in our country who are hurting financially and giving us false hope."
OPINION: Democratic Party calls for vaccine before travel bubble
Tuesday 30 March 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Editorials, Opinion
To the New Zealand government, the Cook Islands Opposition is appealing for the Covid-19 vaccine to be rolled out here for our 17,000 people before the two-way travel bubble opens between our two countries, writes Opposition leader Tina Browne.
Letter: Key questions on seabed mining
Tuesday 30 March 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, The Seabed Minerals Commissioner’s letter on Monday (March 22) didn’t answer the question of what potential risks to the environment from mining were presented to communities in the pa enua.
KATA: Bubble discrimination?
Monday 29 March 2021 | Written by CI News Staff | Published in Kata, Opinion
OPINION: ‘Good decision is always based on knowledge’
Monday 29 March 2021 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Jacinda Ardern’s hardest decisions for us, are not between good and bad or right and wrong. But between two goods and two rights, writes Ruta TangiiauMave.
OPINION: Foreign values misunderstood, misrepresented as our own
Sunday 28 March 2021 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Mata kite Mata, kanohi kite kanohi – nothing comes as intimate or as powerful as the face to face meetings between, families, friends, or foes, and that moment when you greet. Be it a shaking of hands and pat on the back or high five hand slap, or the powerfully moving gesture of the hongi.
LETTER: Citizen Against Corruption
Sunday 28 March 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
If the recent private prosecution against PM Mark Brown and former MP Henry Puna proves anything it is this; the ordinary citizen of this country has the freedom to seek recourse through the courts to address matters of concern regarding the government.
LETTER: Mass vaccination before bubble’
Sunday 28 March 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor My response to the Chamber of Commerce’s chief executive comments re “there is no scientific reason to delay” (the opening of the border for two-way quarantine-free travel between New Zealand and Cook Islands) in Thursday’s edition of Cook Islands News (What’s the hold-up Jacinda?), is that, I would rather be safe, than sorry.
KATA: Travel bubble postponed. Again.
Friday 26 March 2021 | Written by CI News Staff | Published in Kata, Opinion
India’s stake in the evolving geopolitics of Pacific Islands
Thursday 25 March 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Editorials, Opinion
The appointment of former Cook Islands Prime Minister Henry Puna as the Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum is watched with interest from the corridors of power in New Delhi. By Balaji Chandramohan.
KATA: Raising the compulsory retirement age
Thursday 25 March 2021 | Written by CI News Staff | Published in Kata, Opinion
LETTER: The rights of the LGBTQI+ community
Thursday 25 March 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
"... when it suits Mr Brown and Parliament, they can move with speed especially when it suits their purposes and yet this same swiftness to protect the fundamental rights and freedoms of our LGBTQI community sits in the dark."
OPINION: ‘What’s the hold-up Jacinda?’
Thursday 25 March 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Ready when you are. That’s the message the Cook Islands Chamber of Commerce has for New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her government when it comes to opening the borders for two-way quarantine-free travel between the two countries.
LETTERS: Justice = equality, fairness, access for all
Wednesday 24 March 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Mailbox for Wednesday March 24, 2021
KATA: The elusive Cooks-NZ bubble
Wednesday 24 March 2021 | Written by CI News Staff | Published in Kata, Opinion
KATA: Democratic right
Tuesday 23 March 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion
OPINION: ‘Tourism contributed more than $1 million a day to our economy’
Tuesday 23 March 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Editorials, Opinion
This week in his fortnightly column, Prime Minister Mark Brown talks about the country’s financial future – looking ahead to when borders open fully with New Zealand and also beyond as work begins on a recovery plan to restore Cook Islands economy to where it was pre-Covid.
Behind every great man is a surprised mother and wife
Monday 22 March 2021 | Written by Supplied | Published in Editorials, Opinion
The differences between man and woman have been explained, described and immortalised, forever. Still, we’re surprised after the honeymoon ‘this is not the same person you dated when you were single’, writes Ruta Tangiiau Mave.
KATA: New Speaker of Parliament
Monday 22 March 2021 | Written by Emmanuel Samoglou | Published in Kata, Opinion
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