Opinion
Gerry Mitten: Make Cook Islands a Garden of Eden
Friday 6 March 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, I recently read an opinion piece by Ruth Tangiiau Mavé in the Cook Island News, this struck me as a brilliant no-brainer.
Richard Denny: 'The whole world has gone mad'
Thursday 5 March 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, It surprises me how the world has gone mad over coronavirus.
Jaewynn McKay: Leaders will step up in this time of crisis
Wednesday 4 March 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Editorials
OPINION: Now is not the time for political point-scoring. The threat of coronavirus is the time to come together as a people, as a nation.
Norman George: 'Mistreatment' in police cells
Wednesday 4 March 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, On Thursday in the High Court, not for the first time and with increasing frequency, I made submissions on two guilty plea traffic cases.
Norman George: Our hospital is a UN of good health professionals
Tuesday 3 March 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Editorials
OPINION: As our hospital treats four sick passengers from the cruise liner MSC Magnifica, we pay tribute to the generations of brave doctors and nurses who have served our people.
Kevin Cook: Travel ban is for our own safety
Tuesday 3 March 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, Reading your editorial this morning (“Sweat equity counts for little”, Feb 29) my opinion is, it seems that you are mischief-making.
RAT Mave: Spend MP's salary on road works
Tuesday 3 March 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, Can Prime Minister Puna remind us taxpayers why he insists we pay MP Albert Nicholas $72,000 a year, when it is widely known he is a fugitive from the New Zealand courts for allegedly taking a $40,000 rental car? Voters, don’t say it’s because he cuts your lawn and hedge. Government could hire more machines and labourers for less.
Glass half empty or half full?
Monday 2 March 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Editorials
OPINION: Coming up with other options for our economy is important.
Ku Mak: Calls for consistency in travel bans
Monday 2 March 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Letters to the Editor
One Filipino was turned back because the Philippines was added to the list of banned countries. There was no evidence to suggest he was a carrier of the virus.
Jonathan Milne: Sweat equity counts for little
Saturday 29 February 2020 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Editorials
OPINION: I know Rarotonga designer Mark Serito. He works long hours, tough hours, to support his partner and young son.
Thomas Wynne: Prosperity or profit?
Saturday 29 February 2020 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials
OPINION: Sir Albert Henry’s call went out that no one in the tribe should be left behind, did that mean that everyone share in our prosperity? Or just a few politicians and business leaders?
Jonathan Milne: Going beyond the call of duty
Friday 28 February 2020 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Editorials
EDITORIAL: This week our son Joe was turning eight. We’d promised to cook him burgers on the barbecue we’d bought off Rarotonga Buy/Sell/Swap page – but surprise, surprise, when I tried to put it together that afternoon, the barbie’s gas inlet had a left-hand thread, and the gas hose had a right-hand thread.
Papa Williams: Mismanagement by successive governments
Friday 28 February 2020 | Written by Kata | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, I applaud Richard Thomson (“Seabed salvation a pipedream”, Letters, Feb 20) because unequivocally, he is absolutely correct, in his criticism of the management of the economy by successive Cook Islands governments.
Rota T Williams: Cooks' wartime coastwatchers honoured
Friday 28 February 2020 | Written by Kata | Published in Letters to the Editor
Kia orana. If you are so informed about the 17 New Zealand coastwatchers why not write their story? (Michael Field, Letters, Jan 30).
Kata: Pacer+
Friday 28 February 2020 | Written by Kata | Published in Kata
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