Saturday 10 June 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion
Friday 9 June 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, Kata is a national treasure of the Cook Islands. The political wit and astute observations of our social fabric combine to provide a near Dickensian ledger of our country, warts and all over the years of our democratic development.
Thursday 8 June 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Tuesday’s front page headline, ‘Hawaii, Sydney routes to contribute $20m annually’.
Thursday 8 June 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, I write to register my disgust and contempt on the Kata cartoon that you published in your newspaper on Tuesday 6th June.
Wednesday 7 June 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Opinion, Pet Talk
Food is one of life’s greatest pleasures. Sitting down to dinner is the best. The best. Well at least the best since breakfast. We can eat food for pleasure, but the reason we need food is for energy, writes Te Are Manu clinic medical director Dr Michael Baer.
Tuesday 6 June 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
The Government revealed in a press release on 19-5-23 to this paper that it does not have the money to start up a medicinal cannabis programme.
Tuesday 6 June 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, Re Te Uki Ou School 30-year celebration story in the Cook Islands News last Monday, May 29. Interesting how original founders of Te Uki Ou were casually referred to as a group of parents. Nameless and irrelevant.
Saturday 3 June 2023 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Outward migration and depopulation are not new for us as our people have been doing this since the 1940s though it has become ever more present in the Pa Enua, in Ngaputoru and Rarotonga since the arrival and departure of Covid-19, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.
Thursday 1 June 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion
Wednesday 31 May 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Mr Editor, Monday’s Cook Islands News carried a story concerning minimum wage in Vanuatu. What caught this reader’s eye was the details of Cook Islands latest minimum wage at US$5.45 and French Polynesia at US$9.11.
Wednesday 31 May 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion
Tuesday 30 May 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion
Tuesday 30 May 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Kia orana Editor, While reading the news briefs from the Criminal Court, I noticed the article about a man who had been on the wrong side of the law in the past, and had recently started a spate of drinking and reoffending, that even his lawyer and the Justice of the Peace were puzzled about.
Monday 29 May 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion
Monday 29 May 2023 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
The death of Tina Turner had fans all over the world grieving including male Australian league players and fans who to this day hold her song ‘Simply the Best’ as their anthem to the beautiful game, writes Ruta Mave.
Monday 29 May 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, At over 40 per cent the Cook Islands has the greatest percentage of public servants in the free world.
Saturday 27 May 2023 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Alcohol use and abuse in the cultural fabric of who we are as Cook Islanders is concerning, and its use as a medicine to numb the pain of many of our social ills, inner pain and heartache says more about ourselves then maybe we realise, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.
Saturday 27 May 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion
Friday 26 May 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, This is not favourable treatment, it’s more like criminal hijacking at the highest level? (Favourable treatment: PERC report on Penrhyn cyclone shelters project, Tuesday 23 May 2023)
Thursday 25 May 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
CITC’s announcement that, in the process of upgrading power for the Supermarket, that we will see changes in the fresh and dry foods departments can only be good news.