Opinion

Kata: Fertiliser shortage

Friday 22 March 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion

Kata


Letter: Broken trust

Friday 22 March 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Dear Editor, I am still trying to wrap my mind around the justification made by (Minister) Tingika Elikana during the recent consultations that because we now have more money compared to 10 years ago, this warrants increasing our number of Ministers in Parliament.

Letters to the Editor


Kata: TAU Billing

Thursday 21 March 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion

Kata


Letter: Spot on, Iriti!

Thursday 21 March 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Kia orana, a couple of great Letter to the Editor from Iriti Maoate.

Letters to the Editor


Letter: Life’s most important lesson

Thursday 21 March 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Dear Editor, We can all wonder what our under-paid school teachers, sweltering in sauna-hot classrooms think about our ‘honourable' members of Parliament, in their aircon offices, crying for more money so that they can skip work more often.

Letters to the Editor


Kata: Metre Reader

Wednesday 20 March 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion

Kata


Te Tuhi Kelly: The pros and cons of increasing the size of Cabinet or voting by proxy

Wednesday 20 March 2024 | Written by Te Tuhi Kelly | Published in Editorials, Opinion

Once again, a couple of controversial amendments that more than meets the eye, I suspect. Would increasing the size of Cabinet or voting by proxy have been mooted if the Democrats as a proper Opposition were in fact an opposition, writes Te Tuhi Kelly, Leader of the Progressive Party of the Cook Islands.

Editorials


Letter: Hemp legal in Cook Islands

Wednesday 20 March 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Dear Editor, In an article in the Cook Islands News on December 12, 2023, the esteemed senior defence lawyer Norman George pointed out that hemp, not being a prohibited drug, saying it should not even be mentioned in the amendment.

Letters to the Editor


Kata: Dog repatriation

Tuesday 19 March 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion

Kata


Letters: Avatiu football

Tuesday 19 March 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

I am a recent convert to soccer. I have followed the progress of the Avatiu Women’s soccer team at the OFC tournament in the Solomon Islands.

Letters to the Editor


Letters: Paychecks and proxy votes

Tuesday 19 March 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Dear Editor, Overworked? Underpaid? Daily stress trying to get the job done? And all the while still facing the weekly family financial burdens with cost of living, inflation, etc.

Letters to the Editor


Kata: Cabinet

Monday 18 March 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion

Kata


Ruta Mave: Are we eating ourselves to death?

Monday 18 March 2024 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion

In the Pacific, large people denoted wealth to eat and store fat for times of famine from cyclones. In European societies poor women were fat while, husbands were thin. But rich men were fat and rich wives thin. Now rich or poor everyone is fat, writes Ruta Mave.

Editorials


Virtues in Paradise: Our thoughts lead to our actions

Sunday 17 March 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Opinion, Virtues in Paradise

We live in our minds. We dwell in our thoughts. The world’s sacred texts speak of thought as the source of our being, our very reality. “For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.” (Proverbs 23:7)

Opinion

Thomas Wynne: Proxy voting- Is MP travel more important than Parliament?

Sunday 17 March 2024 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials, Opinion

To proxy or not to proxy is the question being discussed at vaka meetings as Government has decided on a course where proxy votes, or votes counted when absent, will be included when Parliament sits, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.

Editorials


Kata: Te Aponga Uira

Saturday 16 March 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion

Kata


Kata: Workload

Friday 15 March 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion

Kata


Letter: The roadway that disappeared

Friday 15 March 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Kia orana. Can anyone out there assist with info and photographs? Back in about 1984/85, there was a major construction of a roadway, more or less across from the Police Station today, and going across in the direction of the Boiler.

Letters to the Editor


Letter: Soaring cost of living

Friday 15 March 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Dear Editor, The cost of living is hitting low to middle income families like a kick in the stomach! Asking the same families to grow food crops, is only a temporary solution to a long-term problem.

Letters to the Editor


Kata: Penrhyn Byelection

Thursday 14 March 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion

Kata


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