Opinion
Editorial: Fruitful reminder of the good in life
Monday 14 October 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Editorials
The story is told of a timid curate, invited to breakfast at the Bishop’s residence. “I’m afraid you’ve got a bad egg,” the Bishop exclaimed.
Norman George: Te Kukupa police boat Princess Paruru Moana serves us well
Monday 14 October 2019 | Published in Opinion
The offer of a free patrol boat from Australia by Prime Minister Bob Hawke came as a pleasant surprise for us in 1985. We had longed to engage the Asian fishing pirates who raided our ocean and uninhabited islands like Suwarrow, Manuae and Takutea to steal our fish and shell fish.
Letters: It's sad to see Tiare Taporo in a Samoa dry dock
Monday 14 October 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I have been very interested from time to time in news of the steel North Sea trawler which was converted and refitted in Newfoundland and renamed Tiare Taporo – taking largely under false pretences the famous name of my family’s New Zealand kauri-built schooner owned by AB Donald Ltd of Auckland.
Opinion: Helmet law to save mothers from grief
Saturday 12 October 2019 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Opinion
The nine funerals I have been to in the time I have lived here are nine I can never forget, and more so for the families left in their wake.
Letters: The new future of the Cook Islands
Saturday 12 October 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, Since 1965 when we gained our independence from New Zealand, we have been flogging the same old political horse and discourse – and how has that been for you?
Letters: Shipping our life blood
Saturday 12 October 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, Taio Shipping is the bloodline to the outer islands, the Cook Islands extremities. Without our connections to the Pa Enua we are not fully embodied.
Kata October 12
Saturday 12 October 2019 | Published in Kata
Letters: Lack of male dancers 'shames' CINAT name
Friday 11 October 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, Kia Orana ite aroa maata o te Atua. Let me remind u all that 51 years ago the late Prime Minister of the Cook Islands Papa Arapati Enere (KBE) made a powerful rebuke statement at the Festival in 1968.
Letters: Tavini meitaki
Friday 11 October 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
E maata te angaanga meitaki ta Teariki Heather i rave no te katoatoa. Kare ra tetai e ariki i tona tu meitaki.
Editorial: Pay peanuts, get airport bunkseats
Friday 11 October 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Editorials
I know about budget airlines. Living and working in the UK, my wife and I were trapped in Prague when easyJet cancelled our late-night flight back to London.
Kata October 11
Friday 11 October 2019 | Published in Kata
Letters: A plea for some rational discussion
Thursday 10 October 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
It’s high time some rational objectivity was introduced to the debate around chlorination, given the current attitude of Te Vai Ora and their advocates to argue every point and deconstruct historical facts (“Anti-chloriners reject water as cause of 1964 gastro deaths”, October 8).
Letters: The state of politics in the Cook Islands
Thursday 10 October 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, Having lived and married a local, and settled in the Cook Islands for almost 10 years now, I have gained an appreciation of the state of our nation and the inherent challenges we face going forward through a large network of friends, family, local community leaders, public servants, politicians, youth, Christians, foreign workers, social media, local news media, and whistle-blowers and of course my first-hand experience and the experience of others at the hands of some despicable employers here in the Cooks.
Editorial: Ssh, do you want to know a secret?
Thursday 10 October 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Editorials
Journalists aren’t well-known for keeping secrets. We tend to demand disclosure and transparency of our leaders.
Kata October 10
Thursday 10 October 2019 | Published in Kata
Kata October 9
Wednesday 9 October 2019 | Published in Kata
Letters: The big picture beyond seabed mining
Wednesday 9 October 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, They sold our fish at the cheapest deal that the fishing boats have ever made and now they think they got a good deal for the seabed mining? Bunch of peanuts.
Jonathan Milne: These hills will not remain remote
Tuesday 8 October 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Opinion
EDITORIAL: This weekend, my friend David and I absconded. We shirked all home and childcare responsibility and climbed up the valley behind Avatiu to Te Rua Manga.
Kata October 8
Tuesday 8 October 2019 | Published in Kata
Norman George: Dealing with mentally challenged clients
Monday 7 October 2019 | Published in Opinion
In the 30 years that I have been practicing law in the criminal bar, I have come across a variety of individuals. The snappy chatty know-alls usually are the “con artists,” the drug dependent pickle brained “where am I type?”
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