Opinion
Virtues: Harvesting hope
Saturday 29 April 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Opinion, Virtues in Paradise
Do you dare to dream? Not the kind of dream that comes when you are asleep, but a dream for what you really want to create in your life. By Linda Kevlin-Popov.
Kata: Crown
Friday 28 April 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion
Letter:No labourers?
Friday 28 April 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
In Saturday 22 April’s front page story (Labour shortage), it stated that we have a labour shortage problem “more so here than in Tonga or Samoa”.
Letter: Vaimaanga backroad ‘disruption’
Friday 28 April 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, While amazed with the speed in which Sonny Williams, new MP for Titikaveka tackled the Vaimaanga backroad project, what he succeeded the most was to upset the landowners.
Kata: Air NZ
Thursday 27 April 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion
Tata Crocombe: We must secure our routes to key strategic airports
Thursday 27 April 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Editorials, Opinion
The Cook Islands will never reach its full economic potential without greatly improved air services that only a national airline can achieve. The Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns crashed the tourism industry, highlighting the vulnerability of the Cook Islands economy, which is 85 percent dependent on tourism.
Dr Michael Baer: The dogs of war
Wednesday 26 April 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Editorials, Local, National, Opinion
With ANZAC day marked yesterday and poppies everywhere, has anyone noticed that some of the poppies are purple? Purple poppies celebrate the animals who have served in almost every human conflict in history, writes Dr Michael Baer, Te Are Manu Vet Clinic medical director.
Kata: Debt
Monday 24 April 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion
Ruta Mave: Our greed for food is like an addiction’
Monday 24 April 2023 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
The 21st century prides itself on its technological advancements but according to the Bible, Moses was the first person to receive information from the cloud onto his tablet on Mt Sinai. It was the ten commandments. This happened over a thousand years before Jesus was born, writes Ruta Mave.
Lynnsay Rongokea Francis: Amended Crimes Act ‘progressive piece of legislation’
Saturday 22 April 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Editorials, Opinion
I commend the Government and the Opposition MPs for the passing of the Crimes (Sexual Offences) Amendment Act 2023 (“the Act”).
Thomas Tarurongo Wynne: Preserving our culture
Saturday 22 April 2023 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials, Opinion
It’s not enough to talk about our culture, we have to live and breathe it, says Papa Mitaera Ngatae Teatuakaro Michael Tavioni BEM. For us the question is how do we breathe life into our culture, our arts and the artists who continue to put our country and culture on the world stage, and usually at their own or someone else’s expense, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.
Kata: Machinery
Friday 21 April 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion
Letter: Continuing inflation . . .
Thursday 20 April 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
KiaOrana, Cook Islands News front page item, 18 April 2023 refers…TAU can try whatever sidestep they want to, trying to suggest that those fuel increases were continuing to affect power rates in Rarotonga and Aitutaki.
Kata: Weather, internet
Wednesday 19 April 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion
Kata: Outdated law
Tuesday 18 April 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion
Tata Crocombe: Diversifying the Cook Islands economy
Tuesday 18 April 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Hotelier Tata Crocombe proposes top three short, medium, and long-term action items to reinforce links between creative industries, tourism, education, and technology.
Ruta Mave: Embracing the rainbow community
Monday 17 April 2023 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
The decision to recognise our rainbow community has finally shown there is a heart in the ‘tin man’ politicians, writes Ruta Mave.
Letter: Delay in court hearing
Monday 17 April 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Leave it to Norman George to be so inconvenienced from having to wait for a Family Court hearing called at short notice to hear an urgent application for protection orders for a Cook Islands woman.
Letter: Decriminalising homosexuality
Monday 17 April 2023 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, Saturday’s headline, “We have made history” records two historical events in the Cook Islands.
