Opinion

Kata: Air NZ Tyre Issue

Saturday 24 February 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion

Kata: $1.3m charter

Friday 23 February 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion

Kata: Mangoes

Thursday 22 February 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion

Kata: Inflation

Wednesday 21 February 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion

Letter: Use of weed

Wednesday 21 February 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Dear Editor, There was an anonymous letter writer in your paper, who wrote in disdain about my "endless letters or propaganda to have the use of weed decriminalised in the Cook Islands".

Letter: Keeping a check on the dollars and sense

Wednesday 21 February 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

The Prime Minister in Parliament yesterday (February 19) continued to dodge the issue of cost of living that is too high for us Cook Islanders.

Kata: Budget

Tuesday 20 February 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion

Letter: Village voters

Tuesday 20 February 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

The letter to you by Te Tuhi Kelly a week or so ago about village voters not having the intellectual capacity to think, choose and vote the person they want to represent them is highly offensive and racist.

Letter: Tourism budget request

Tuesday 20 February 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

$3.5m to protect Cook Islands’ ‘Golden Goose’? Has it occurred to those promoting tourism and forever singing its praises that if the golden eggs are not shared with all then, ‘what’s the point?’.

Letter: Cook Islands’ green dream

Tuesday 20 February 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Dear Editor, Kia Orana, once upon a time long, long ago, well some nine years ago anyway (about 2015), the then prime minister Henry Puna made the bold and audacious statement that the Cook Islands would be 100 per cent green energy by 2020.

Kata: Golden Eggs

Monday 19 February 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion

Ruta Mave: Are MPs living up to their ‘honourable’ title?

Monday 19 February 2024 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion

Oh, dear it seems we do have adulterers in our midst who hold high standing public office. Adultery is not against the law – you can’t be charged for it. But it is against God’s Seventh commandment law; so how many ‘hail Mary’s’ is the penance for breaking it? Ruta Mave writes.

Kata: $354m fine

Saturday 17 February 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion

Thomas Wynne: A call for solidarity

Saturday 17 February 2024 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials, Opinion

Am I my brother’s keeper, is a question that funnels down the halls of time, and as Tuakana to our Maori brothers in Aotearoa, what are our responsibilities, if any, towards our teina especially during this critical time for them, asks Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.

Virtues in Paradise: The power of unity

Saturday 17 February 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Opinion, Virtues in Paradise

In small islands and towns, it’s tricky to work out solutions to conflict, writes Linda Kavelin-Popov.

Kata: Nurse Shortage

Friday 16 February 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion

Letter: Bouquets and brickbats

Friday 16 February 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

There is the old adage about bouquets and brickbats and here is my short list of some of who qualify for one or the other.

Letter: Starlink versus local provider

Friday 16 February 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Dear Editor, I know there are naysayers out there who think Starlink is not offering any benefits to our economy and hence shouldn’t be allowed into the country.

Kata: Marijuana

Thursday 15 February 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion

Letter: Ex-Deputy PM pay

Thursday 15 February 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Now that “Hon” Tapaitau has been found guilty, and will be sentenced in due course, when will he repay all that extra money he was so unreasonably paid as DPM?