Opinion
Ruta Tangiiau Mave : NZ Māori are tourists who appreciate us
Monday 18 May 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Editorials
OPINION: Why are we targeting distant continental markets, when we could be inviting our New Zealand Māori cousins over to appreciate our cultural tourism?
Shaking our tourism tree
Saturday 16 May 2020 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials
OPINION: The ripe fruit of our culture will sustain our tourism.
RAT Mavé: Quarantine provisions
Friday 15 May 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, I find it somewhat disturbing the Edgewater resort is open to the public and has the repatriated locals in quarantine.
Ellena Tavioni: Internet charges
Friday 15 May 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Letters to the Editor
Kia Orana Editor, I have no choice but to express my deep concern in regard to the charges Vodafone are making to the people of the Cook Islands.
Jaewynn McKay: Salute our volunteers – they've earned it
Wednesday 13 May 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Editorials
OPINION: People in Cook Islands are generous community people. It did not take the coronavirus pandemic to demonstrate that, it is something we already knew.
Norman George: Quarantined oldies deserve breakfast in bed for a month
Tuesday 12 May 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Editorials
OPINION: A light-hearted notice to the quarantined Golden Oldies komiti fighters – and especially to their husbands.
Brett Porter: Tourism revenues
Tuesday 12 May 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, Thomas Wynne (“It’s time to change our tourism”, May 2) asserts that the new order after Covid should be “with us in the driver’s seat, not the foreign interests that used our country as a cash register,” then left.
Rod Dixon: We've been here before
Tuesday 12 May 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, This isn’t the first time Cook Islands has locked down against a virus.
Ruth Tangiiau Mavé: Now's the time to be generous
Monday 11 May 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Editorials
OPINION: Columnist Ruth Tangiiau Mavé commends the female Opposition MPs for taking a 15 per cent pay cut to help their constituencies during the Covid-19 crisis.
Thomas Tarurongo Wynne: Mana aroa - It's who we are
Saturday 9 May 2020 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials
OPINION: Sitting down to the large Sal’s Pizza was a treat worth waiting for after five weeks of lockdown in Auckland. And as we sat at the table, preparing to give thanks, little hands reached across to the now steaming hot cheesy pizza ...
Jonathan Milne: Mothers' Day is Mamas' Day
Saturday 9 May 2020 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Editorials
This morning, about 130 returning Cook Islanders will awake in their home country, for the first time in weeks and sometimes months.
Dr Ted Hughes: Immunisation, Cook Islands' silent triumph
Thursday 7 May 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, Probably by the year’s end a vaccination for Covid-19 will be available, most likely resulting from a collaboration between Oxford University and Astra-Zeneca. Potentially such a vaccine will end the Covid-19 crisis worldwide, if people agree to be vaccinated.
Moana Moeka'a: Only in the Cook Islands
Thursday 7 May 2020 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, With my limited experience in sports administration, I find it absurd to read of Cook Islands Sports and National Olympic Committee (CISNOC) imposing restrictions (and reinforcing the prime minister's “ban”) on the resumption of certain sports (“It’s play time for 18 sports”, May 2).
Two personalities, one goal – to help build this nation
Wednesday 6 May 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Editorials
OPINION: Columnist Norman George pays tribute to Jack Cooper and Ross Hunter for their contribution to this nation.
Papa Williams: 2020 remembered for all the wrong reasons.
Wednesday 6 May 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Letters to the Editor
In 2020, one thing is glaringly clear – no developed or developing country in the world whether wealthy or poor, will come out the other side of this Covid-19 global smackdown unscathed.
Brandon Mataio Jammae Ulfsby: Food for thought
Wednesday 6 May 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Letters to the Editor
I’ve never quite understood in these golden years of tourism why the government hasn’t looked to diversify the economy.
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.
Andy Kirkwood: Sludge!
Saturday 2 May 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, Cook Islands News has identified a challenge (“Cook Islands waste worsens in Covid-19 slowdown,”April 18) that faces many small island states on the path to developed status.
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