Opinion

Patti and Ernie Beugh: New Quarantine addiction

Tuesday 5 May 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Letters to the Editor

Kia orana from Qualicum Beach, Canada.

Ruta Tangiiau Mavé: Many vulnerable lives have been saved by vaccines

Tuesday 5 May 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Editorials

OPINION: Last December my son was going to New Zealand amid the measles outbreak. I rang Public Health to make an appointment for his vaccination.

Thomas Tarurongo Wynne: It's time to change our tourism, like it or not

Saturday 2 May 2020 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials

OPINION: The decisions we make today on changing our tourism co-dependent relationship will determine the nation our children inherit.

Kata: Cook Islands Uni Students

Saturday 2 May 2020 | Written by Kata | Published in Kata

Don Carlaw: Police flag

Friday 1 May 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear editor, I fail to understand why the police find it necessary to stop all traffic moving past their building during their daily flag raising ceremony.

Wilkie Rasmussen: Government must call a new election

Friday 1 May 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear editor, This Covid -19 phenomenon exposes the failures of the Government with regard to economics. There is no export in agriculture, in black pearls, in fish, in arts and crafts and so on.

Jonathan Milne: Thank you to our community

Friday 1 May 2020 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Editorials

Editor's Note: It’s been a month now since we explained to readers, in a note on our front page, that we needed to reduce the size of our printed newspaper, to ensure we had enough colour plates and newsprint to get us through the Covid-19 lockdown.

Kata: Contact sports

Friday 1 May 2020 | Written by Kata | Published in Kata

Kata: No contact sports

Thursday 30 April 2020 | Written by Kata | Published in Kata

Kata: Bars remain close

Wednesday 29 April 2020 | Written by Kata | Published in Kata

Norman George: There is honour among thieves

Tuesday 28 April 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Opinion

OPINION: The most dishonourable thing that can happen in the underworld of mobsters and gangsters is betrayal, writes Norman George.

Kaka: Safer roads

Tuesday 28 April 2020 | Written by Kata | Published in Kata

Ruta Tangiiau Mavé : Sustaining a new normal

Monday 27 April 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Editorials

OPINION: It's not the end of the world as we know it, sings REM, and I feel fine. When all this is over, we can all go back to normal – in fact, most of us want to go back to normal as soon as possible.

Katrina Tanirau: Their sacrifices for our freedoms

Friday 24 April 2020 | Written by Katrina Lintonbon | Published in Editorials

EDITORIAL: Getting up before sunrise isn’t everyone’s idea of a good time, but on April 25 I make an exception. Standing in silent darkness alongside thousands of other people gives you time to think about the magnitude of what is being commemorated.

Thomas Tarurongo Wynne: We doom ourselves to repeat history

Friday 24 April 2020 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials

OPINION: In 1914, when War broke out in Europe, a young man by the name of Thomas Wynne enlisted in the Irish Fusiliers and was sent to Belgium to fight in a War he probably knew little about other than it was possibly an opportunity for what some called adventure, some honour, some for God and country.

Kata cartoon: Managing anxiety and stress

Thursday 23 April 2020 | Written by Kata | Published in Kata