Opinion
Editorial: Don't let inmates come out angry
Saturday 14 September 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Editorials
OPINION: In Corrective Services and in the prison at Arorangi there are honest men and women of integrity – prison officers and counsellors and chaplains and more – working very hard to solve the problem of rehabilitating violent criminals. But they can’t do it on their own.
Editorial: $5000 for the emperor's new clothes
Friday 13 September 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Editorials
I bought a nice new shirt from Tuki’s the other week. I’m wearing it right now. It’s purple. It cost me $30.
Letters: What happened to 'buy local'?
Friday 13 September 2019 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, Anneka Brown (“Are you being squeezed”, Sept 7) highlights government’s clear failure to comprehensively support our planters and farmers, who have worked very hard to contribute to our country’s food security.
Kata September 13
Friday 13 September 2019 | Published in Kata
Letters: Place $5 bounty on predators
Thursday 12 September 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, Staying again in Aitutaki Beach Villas we are concerned about the future of the corals that are suffering since years because of climate changing and the Crown of Thorns Starfish.
Letters: Another pensions raid?
Thursday 12 September 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor The letter from Roger Malcolm regarding the freeing up of his Cook Islands pension from the Government to be used to pay off the student loan of the Aitutaki Student Doctor loan.
Kata September 12
Thursday 12 September 2019 | Published in Kata
Editorial: Culling much-loved roosters a fowl idea
Wednesday 11 September 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Editorials
Cook Islands bird-lovers will be cock-a-hoop at news that a French court has ruled to protect a rooster’s crowing.
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: 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.
Kata September 11
Wednesday 11 September 2019 | Published in 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.
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.
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.
Kata September 10
Tuesday 10 September 2019 | Published in 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.
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…
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: 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’.
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.
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