Opinion
Kata: CIFA Pacific Games
Wednesday 29 November 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion
Letter: Friday Night Christmas dinner and fundraiser
Wednesday 29 November 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Not everyone goes out at night to boogie and brawl! The smarter ones, the older generation does it all in style! And it is not an all-out boozing party like the excuses some of our friends give not to attend. Most of us don’t drink! Alcohol and non-alcohol drinks are available.
Letter: ‘Keep shaking the tree, Thomas’
Wednesday 29 November 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, I agree with much of what Thomas Wynne has been writing in the Cook Islands News over the last three Saturdays with regard to re-examining the Albert Henry Case of 1978-79
Kata: Crash
Tuesday 28 November 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion
Letter: Quad bike accident
Tuesday 28 November 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
I am writing to you as a continuing returning tourist whose family have rewardingly participated in most tourist activities the island has to offer over approximately a 20-year period.
Letter: Wynne’s note omits key fact
Tuesday 28 November 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
I wish to comment briefly on “The Last of the Pooh-Bahs”, by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne, 18 November 2023, although I do not wish to relitigate the “fly-in voters” case.
Kata: Cost of goods
Monday 27 November 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion
Ruta Mave: Israel’s retaliation greater than the Hamas crime?
Monday 27 November 2023 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
On Thursday, November 24, the whole of America stopped to celebrate Thanksgiving, and thankfully, missiles of mass destruction stopped falling on the Gaza strip as part of a 4-day ceasefire with negotiations to release Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners, writes Ruta Mave.
Letter: ‘Pontificating without knowledge’
Monday 27 November 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Editorials, Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, I too have been dismayed and concerned about Thomas Wynne’s scurrilous article “The last of the pooh-bahs” in the Cook Islands News (Saturday, November 18) attacking Sir Gavin Donne and others of the Albert Henry saga.
Kata: Rain dancer
Saturday 25 November 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion
Virtues of Paradise: Healing family violence
Saturday 25 November 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Opinion, Virtues in Paradise
How do we stop family violence? How do we heal multi-generational abuse?
Thomas Wynne: Shaking the tree- A reexamination of the Albert Henry case
Saturday 25 November 2023 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Me ruru koe i te pu rakau, matakite eaa te ka pururu mai, if you shake the tree, be careful what falls out, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.
Letter: Caring is sharing – Taporoporo, Tu’atu’a mamarie
Saturday 25 November 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Meitaki maata our dear Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Awakened in the early hours of Friday, November 24, to a most extraordinary sound of music so nice, cool, silent and gentle but lo, it was only raindrops falling.
Letter: Quad bike accident
Saturday 25 November 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
I am writing to you as a continuing returning tourist whose family have rewardingly participated in most tourist activities the island has to offer over approximately a 20-year period.
Letter: A champion of the rule of law
Saturday 25 November 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, I did not witness the earlier years of Albert Henry’s reign so cannot comment on his contribution in that period, but when I returned to Rarotonga to work as a lawyer in 1975, Albert had become a tyrant committed to staying in power. This was at the expense of hundreds of Cook Islands families who stood up against the abuses of government. Most were forced to leave their homeland to survive.
Kata: Crash
Friday 24 November 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion
Letter: Nightclub brawl
Friday 24 November 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
The women of the Cook Islands have little to celebrate after one, trying to stop an alcohol fuelled brawl at Rehab was punched in the face by a man who was fined all of $500, given his passport and a get out of jail card, and allowed to return to Australia.
Letter: Call for petition
Friday 24 November 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
The petition started by Miss T Koteka bringing sense, focus and some clarity to the Courts and the Police regarding the Rehab nightclub brawl … public uproar seemed to have clearly made some difference.
Letter: Ozzie or Cozzie: Team Cook Islands uniform
Friday 24 November 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
I saw Wesley Roberts photo after winning gold in swimming.
Letter: Where’s the fish?
Friday 24 November 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
I saw a disturbing greedy photo the other week of one family on one boat showing their catch of the day, three marlin and two yellow fin tuna. No catch and release, they landed them all. There is no way they could eat one of those fish let alone all of them. I wonder if the boat company shared the lottery win with them when they sold them off at $20 to $30 per kilo.