Opinion
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: No contact sports
Thursday 30 April 2020 | Written by Kata | Published in Kata
Derek Fox: Never mind takeaways, I just want a haircut
Wednesday 29 April 2020 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Opinion
OPINION: There will be stories told about the time of ‘the coronavirus’ for decades to come; just as there were about the flu pandemic which spread around the world in 1918-19, infecting an estimated 500 million people – a third of the world population at the time.
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.
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
Raymond Newnham: “Business pleads for austerity”
Thursday 23 April 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Letters to the Editor
I have read your article entitled “Business pleads for austerity” which was in Monday’s paper.
Malcolm Laxton-Blinkhorn: Paid to fill up?
Thursday 23 April 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, Reading the news on BBC about oil prices and how they are negative and oil producers are paying buyers to take their oil. Does that mean fuel suppliers here will pay us to fill up? Just a thought! Malcolm Laxton-Blinkhorn
Kata cartoon: We are in neutral
Wednesday 22 April 2020 | Written by Kata | Published in Kata
Norman George: Carrying the big artillery of the nation
Tuesday 21 April 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Editorials
OPINION: The gift of leadership is a rare combination of talent, perseverance, good fortune and sometimes luck. Some people are born into greatness. Others have greatness thrust upon them. The rest had to work to earn it.
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