Opinion
Time for Change – Taui te Tuatau
Saturday 30 March 2019 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Opinion
I remember sitting at school in my 7th Form and going through our school’s constitution with my friend Robert Hucker (son of Auckland city Councilor, Bruce Hucker) and realising as we pondered through the rules and regulations that we could nominate each other to stand in our school board elections.
Waiting for potential by-election petition
Monday 25 March 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, With the Electoral Office’s release last week of the official and final Atiu count confirming Independent Te-Hani Brown with 80 votes, and Demo’s Nandi Glassie securing 50 votes, we now await a period of seven days to see whether or not the Democratic Party will file a petition alleging voting irregularity during the election.
Tolerance is one of the great virtues
Saturday 23 March 2019 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Opinion
I remember entering the mosque in the city of Antalya in Turkey, looking up at its vastness and space, as the men gathered for prayer. It had been a visit of schools in Turkey and of dialogue, run by a group called the dialogue society and it was to build just that.
Something backwards here over bongs
Saturday 23 March 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor The recent court case refers where the defendant was fined $800 for having a bong.
Our responsibility to share love
Monday 18 March 2019 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Opinion
Someone shattered the lens by which we see ourselves, the way we see our neighbours, those that are the same and especially those that are different last week. Someone took that lens and smashed it into 50 pieces with more pieces falling to the floor as we speak, as we ponder, as we gather our thoughts after the shock of what transpired in Christchurch last week.
Koutu Nui working to revive customs
Thursday 14 March 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Kia Orana Editor, On behalf of the Koutu Nui - we agree with the views expressed by Ellena Tavioni in her letter to the CI News.
Proud to be known as Cook Islanders
Tuesday 12 March 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, A recent documentary I watched made reference to the “Lapita Tribe of people” from the island of Papua New Guinea, a hardy race of people who travelled the vast oceans thousands of years ago.
Embrace islands in name change
Monday 11 March 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Please allow me to raise some concerns of mine with regards to the issue of a name change for our country.
Protect our traditional customs
Friday 8 March 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Last year a decision by the Privy Court in London disrespected our Cook Islands Traditional Land Customs and allowed a non-blood adopted child land rights in his adopted father’s family land.
No-one should be left behind
Wednesday 6 March 2019 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Opinion
A washing machine, microwave, bedding … the list went on as a plea for a mama in our community went out as she desperately needed what amounted to the necessities for living here in Rarotonga.
Have an opinion, but don't abuse
Wednesday 6 March 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, That letter in the Monday paper was a good attempt to put down the efforts in Atiu of the Brown family.
Te-Hani 'lost the respect of her voters'
Monday 4 March 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Former Demo MP Te-Hani Brown’s lesson to learn from her brief sojourn into politics is quite simple: “Get into politics for the right reasons, not the wrong reasons!”
Glassie 'a humble man'
Monday 4 March 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, In your newspaper dated February 25, minister Mark Brown publicly admitted how easy it is for the Cook Islands Party-led coalition government and Te-Hani Brown to waste public money on by-elections when he said if the Demos really care about the cost to the country, they should leave the seat unopposed.
Change the helmet law
Monday 4 March 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Amazing to see that the Police are on to the wedding scammers. Good job!
Lock up the scammers
Tuesday 26 February 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I am back for a while and wanted to reply to your article on the front page yesterday about trade practices.
Barking with no dog in ring
Tuesday 26 February 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
The deputy prime minister sure is doing a lot of talking for someone who doesn’t even have a dog in the fight isn’t he?
We are no simpletons!
Tuesday 26 February 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
I find it appalling that deputy prime minister Mark Brown still continues to treat the public as simpletons, with his on-going and constant mixture of disseminating news of all sorts of varieties; truth, half-truths, real news, fake news, misinformation, disinformation, half-lies, manipulated BS and so on.
Nandi's homecoming along better roads
Friday 22 February 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, We are so grateful that’s how Nandi felt on his return back to Atiu after his loss in the last election to young Te-Hani, because he no longer has to go through the dusty township of Atiu.
A moment to relish shattered
Friday 22 February 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Former Demo MP Te-Hani Brown’s election success in 2018 as the Cook Islands’ youngest ever elected MP for Areora-Tengatangi-Ngatiarua in Atiu, was a historical moment to savour for her family and friends.
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