Opinion
Letter: Next empire built on nepotism?
Thursday 6 March 2025 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, It is most encouraging to read some of the details of the Chinese and Japanese inter-island vessels to be operated by government.
Kata: Drive not found
Wednesday 5 March 2025 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion
Kata: Math success
Tuesday 4 March 2025 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion
Te Tuhi Kelly: Reshaping education for the next generation
Tuesday 4 March 2025 | Written by Te Tuhi Kelly | Published in Editorials, Opinion
The latest Education NCEA results are pretty embarrassing to be honest. The headline says it all – “29 teachers leave: Mokoroa explains teacher shortage and declining results – Cook Islands News”, writes Te Tuhi Kelly.
Letter: Plaque instead of shade?
Tuesday 4 March 2025 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
The destruction of the still-living Utu tree in the Arorangi CICC grounds was not widely debated in the community.
Letter: Time for change
Tuesday 4 March 2025 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
According to Prime Minister Brown, this isn’t about his failure to talk with Cook Islanders – it’s about New Zealand exerting control.
Letter: ‘We have had enough’
Tuesday 4 March 2025 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Prime Minister Mark Brown has finally found the time to sit down – not with his people, but with New Zealand’s Prime Minister Christopher Luxon.
Letter: Media manipulation or public backlash?
Tuesday 4 March 2025 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, Prime Minister Mark Brown accuses New Zealand of using its media to undermine his government, as if the anger Cook Islanders are feeling is somehow manufactured by foreign newsrooms.
Kata - Water petition
Monday 3 March 2025 | Written by CI News Staff | Published in Kata, Opinion
March 3, 2025
Ruta Mave: When ‘special friends’ become predators
Monday 3 March 2025 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Opinion
Grooming used to be a political terminology used when speaking of an upcoming potential candidate for future elections. It still resides in the political arena but it has become a sickness, Ruta Mave writes.
Letter: Recognising Herman’s leadership at SBMA
Monday 3 March 2025 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, As the Cook Islands Seabed Minerals Authority (SBMA) bids farewell to its esteemed former SBM Commissioner, Alexandrya Herman, with high respect and honour whom we had often referred to as our Esther, a woman of faith, resolute, with extraordinary passion and thriving vision, we take a moment to reflect on her exceptional leadership and contributions over the past five years.
Letter: Echoes of 1996
Monday 3 March 2025 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, In 1996, the Cook Islands went bankrupt. Lloyd Powell of the Asian Development Bank was appointed as the Bankruptcy Trustee during the forced restructuring process.
Virtues in Paradise: Fruits of the spirit
Saturday 1 March 2025 | Written by Supplied | Published in Opinion, Virtues in Paradise
Does your heart ever ache over something you’ve lost? Linda Kavelin-Popov writes.
Kata: Putin & Trump
Saturday 1 March 2025 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion
Thomas Wynne: Readying the sails for home
Friday 28 February 2025 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Four years ago, in December 2019, like so many of our people, I made the difficult decision to leave behind all I knew and had built – my wife, my parents, my family – to seek new skills and new learnings beyond the reef in another government and Parliament, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.
Te Ipukarea Society: Deep sea mining - Exploring the unknowns
Friday 28 February 2025 | Written by Te Ipukarea Society | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Polymetallic nodules look like lumps of coal scattered across the seafloor. They have a similar purpose as coal as well, to provide energy. But they have many other reasons to exist, most of which we do not yet know or understand.
Kata: Winston to China
Friday 28 February 2025 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion
Letter: Fund the Police, Not MP Travel
Friday 28 February 2025 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
For years, the Cook Islands Police Service has been crying out for more frontline officers. They need 46 staff across all divisions. Recruitment is frozen. The Maritime Division is stretched to breaking point. There’s barely anyone left for community policing—just one officer, trying to cover an entire nation.
Letter: Response to Warren Wichman’s ‘Celebrating War”
Friday 28 February 2025 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Warren Wichman, The 105mm Howitzer provided by the NZ Defence Force, was for the contribution Cook Island men and women have made to the NZ Defence Force from WW1 onwards.
Letter: Out of touch with reality
Friday 28 February 2025 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Kia Orana Editor, Poor Mark Brown is simply out of touch with reality.