Opinion
Editorial: Temata stood beside the vulnerable
Tuesday 10 December 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Editorials
It’s easy to casually throw around words like “strong”, like “brave”, even “hero”. But for New Zealand High Commissioner Tessa Temata, who died in office this week, these words carry real meaning.
Kata: Parliament Sitting December 2019
Tuesday 10 December 2019 | Published in Kata
Ruth Mave: Understanding non-consensual sex
Monday 9 December 2019 | Published in Opinion
When talking about sex, we often make it easier by referring to the topic as something else, such as the ‘birds and the bees’!
Letters: Support for anti-chlorine group
Monday 9 December 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
The conscientious action taken by Anna Rasmussen, Tere Carr, Justine Flanagan and Andy Kirkwood, who form the face and team of “Te Vai Ora Maori” should be applauded.
Letters: Cleaner water treatment options
Monday 9 December 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Has water authority (government) investigated cleaner water treatment option before making commitment to chlorinate water on Rarotonga?
Travis Moore: Criminalisation of same-sex threat to heterosexual relationships
Monday 9 December 2019 | Published in Opinion
The hero of our extended family is my gay brother. This is his story.
Letters: Police office suspended, not sacked
Saturday 7 December 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
The police officer embroiled in an assault case presently before the court has not been dismissed, contrary to reported comments in your newspaper.
Letters: Banking agreement
Saturday 7 December 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Kia orana editor, Like Mr Faireka, I too am baffled as to the Cook Islands News article headline of a new Chinese bank starting up in the Cook Islands.
Letters; Ill-informed MPs make us a banana republic
Saturday 7 December 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
The Parliamentary Select Committee is out of touch with modern-day Cook Islands and the world for that matter.
Thomas Wynne: A sickening legacy
Saturday 7 December 2019 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Opinion
In the 1840s, the early missionaries estimated the population of Rarotonga to be between 6000 and 7000.
Kata Dec 7
Saturday 7 December 2019 | Published in Kata
Liz Raizis: Our Cook Islands family includes LGBTQ+ people, as well as 24 MPs
Friday 6 December 2019 | Published in Opinion
OPINION: Some years ago at The Rarotongan Beach Resort we had a wonderful poolside show every Sunday featuring the island-style choir, E Matike!
Letters: Wetland sewage treatment
Friday 6 December 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, Gerry Burke from Ireland is my name, and this is a follow-up letter to one I wrote you and all Cook Islanders last year.
Letters: Web access for those with disabilities
Friday 6 December 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
The government has included a Universal Access Plan into its revised Telecommunications Bill 2019, offering concessions for internet access and services "of reasonable quality" and "at a reasonable cost" for "particular groups of persons or to persons in particular areas".
Kata: LGBT
Friday 6 December 2019 | Published in Kata
John Dunn: The case against criminalisation
Thursday 5 December 2019 | Published in Opinion
An open letter to MPs: The recent recommendation from the Select Committee to maintain criminalisation of homosexuality demands comment. As a Cook Islander and New Zealander I am greatly saddened by this decision.
Jaewynn McKay : Beauty pageants not just about appearance, but also environment, culture and humanity
Thursday 5 December 2019 | Published in Opinion
If “world peace” is the answer, what might the question be? Well in the movie Miss Congeniality the question was “what is the one most important thing our society needs?”
Letters: Amend the law for all
Thursday 5 December 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Christianity is our way of life in the Cook Islands and we are not all akatutuvaine, they are special like everyone else.
Letters: Kindness after Gary Donison's death
Thursday 5 December 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
On behalf of our family, thank you to the staff of Aitutaki Lagoon Private Island Resort and everyone else who has extended kindness and compassion to our dear sister-in-law, Leslie Donison, as she navigates the unthinkable.
Letters: Govt must mend the law for all
Thursday 5 December 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Thank you so much Louisa Wall for your tautoko in the kaupapa, I am the Cook Islands’ first transgender to have a sex change, in 1976.
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