Opinion

Letters: Why planting is dying

Wednesday 11 September 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear editor It was interesting to see Kiriau Terepu in the paper promoting Agriculture.

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Let he who is without sin

Wednesday 11 September 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear editor, On behalf of the Rainbow community (LGBTQI) and with a soft note, we would like to say to Ngarima George – if he is not a sinner himself, he should be throwing the stones on us the parents of these lovely children.

Letters to the Editor

Kata September 11

Wednesday 11 September 2019 | Published in Kata

Kata

Change the flag or change the name

Tuesday 10 September 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear editor The latest $1 billion drug bust aboard a Cook Islands-flagged yacht is one of many strange stories of Cook Islands flags in the papers.

Letters to the Editor

Editorial: It is our people who protect our islands

Tuesday 10 September 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Editorials

Debate is raging over whether the coconut rhinoceros beetle, an invasive pest that can devastate coconut palms, has got a foothold (or trunkhold) in Tongareva.

Editorials

Letters: Reaching for the stars

Tuesday 10 September 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Kia orana editor, I want to pass on some suggestions for the new name of the Cook Islands and when you guys should announce it, if possible.

Letters to the Editor

Kata September 10

Tuesday 10 September 2019 | Published in Kata

Kata

Journalism Tour: A long trip to the beach in Hawai'i

Monday 9 September 2019 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Opinion

Aloha! After a week of hustle and bustle for the US visa, I finally made it to Honolulu, Hawaii, for the first leg of the East West Center’s Pacific Islands Journalism Reporting Tour, funded by the US State Department.

Opinion

Norman George: Wicked wit of Winston

Monday 9 September 2019 | Published in Opinion

I bought a book called The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill while passing through London. Enjoy…

Opinion

Letters: Paying to bring doctors home

Monday 9 September 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Kia orana editor, Recently, New Zealand modified the qualifying rules for their old age pensions (Super).

Letters to the Editor

Letters: Sinking the Great Fleet

Monday 9 September 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear editor, Thank you Papa Ngarima for your response (Letters, Sept 7). I do indeed claim tupuna status to Ngaputoru, Aitutaki and the Northern Pa Enua to Raiatea and I know from whom I descend and I believe that I stand in a position to be able to talk with some authority on this matter regarding the ‘Great Fleet’.

Letters to the Editor

Quadruple bottom-line decision-making: Social, ecological, financial – and spiritual

Saturday 7 September 2019 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Opinion

We must be careful and mindful of the choices we make. They have consequences. If you hadn’t noticed, the world is changing and changing very, very quickly and sometimes that change happens so fast we don’t always have time to consider it well before that change is made.

Opinion

Letters: A fishy tale

Saturday 7 September 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Speaking to a friend last week, she was telling me about these two kids on Facebook who decided to take their pet fish in the fish tank for a swim with them ... in their swimming pool!

Letters to the Editor

Letters: 'Hold to your korero, we hold to ours'

Saturday 7 September 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear editor, Kia Orana in the name of Jesus. Amene

Letters to the Editor

Editorial: Searching together for a sewage fix

Friday 6 September 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Editorials

As you drive up the road behind the old palace at Turangi, at first you pass beautifully kept houses and trimmed lawns. Further up, the valley begins to close in, the creeping weeds strangling the trees.

Editorials

Kata September 6

Friday 6 September 2019 | Published in Kata

Kata

Letters: Pastor's late-night musings

Thursday 5 September 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear editor, Kia orana in the wonderful name of Jesus and Halleluia to His Name. On Monday night I was watching and listening to the Cook Islands Television just after 10pm.