Opinion
RUTA MAVE: ‘We ask others what we as nation are not prepared to do ourselves’
Monday 10 October 2022 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Opinion
We may be small and unremarkable but we know how to punch it out to the big guns to stand up and call the large nations of the world to attention, to take heed and stock of themselves and look at us small minions.
Letter: Time to review our legal system
Monday 10 October 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, I write in support of the plight of inmate Teina Simiona Ataera and his young family (‘They put me in this situation’: Authorities mum on claims of inhumane treatment at prison, Cook Islands News, October 7).
Plastic waste is growing at an unhealthy rate
Saturday 8 October 2022 | Written by Te Ipukarea Society | Published in Environment, Opinion
In efforts to smash out plastic waste, Te Ipukarea Society partnered up with Cook Islands Sports and National Olympic Committee (CISNOC) to run a month-long “Plastic Battle competition”.
Kata: Cook Islands Games
Thursday 6 October 2022 | Written by CI News Staff | Published in Kata, Opinion
LETTER: Wealth, health and spiritual balance
Thursday 6 October 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, Replying to ghost writer of 26.09.22, referencing Bishop Pere as to a Freudian’s Id, Ego, and Superego theory, hailed as the founding father of psychoanalysis, which is used in the treatment of mental illness.
Kata: Secret Service
Wednesday 5 October 2022 | Written by CI News Staff | Published in Kata, Opinion
LETTER: Everybody counts, or nobody counts
Wednesday 5 October 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, We are now into the seventh year of the disappearance of Lissette Gonzalez Brito, a 44-year Venezuelan woman who lost her life at sea in August of 2016.
Kata: US-Cook Islands relationship
Monday 3 October 2022 | Written by CI News Staff | Published in Kata, Opinion
RUTA MAVE: Challenging the legality of Queen’s Memorial ‘day off’
Monday 3 October 2022 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Opinion
Government is the largest employer in the Cook Islands so are they paying everyone to have the day off? Are they paying double time for all those employees who worked on September 30 for the opening of the Cook Island Games? Ruta Mave writes.
LETTER: Queen’s Memorial ‘public holiday’
Monday 3 October 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, There is nothing like a good old debate regarding what constitutes a public holiday and what does not, not just in a legal sense but in a social sense. There is much confusion around this and unfortunately this has to rest with those who are charged with ensuring clarity around what is or is not recognised (by law) as a public holiday.
It’s time to clean up our act
Saturday 1 October 2022 | Written by Te Ipukarea Society | Published in Opinion
International Coastal Cleanup Day is dedicated to raising awareness about the growing pollution on our beaches and in our environment. This year, Te Ipukarea Society ran a coastal cleanup which took place at the Social Centre, with over 300 Apii Nikao students and 20 students from Gisborne Girls’ High School, visiting from New Zealand.
Public holiday proclamation: Questioning the authority
Thursday 29 September 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, With no disrespect for our late Sovereign, nor the King’s Representative, Sir Tom (Marsters), I have to question the putative authority being employed to give an aura of legitimacy to the Crown’s unilateral proclamation that Friday 30 September 2022 is a Public Holiday but more particularly, from an employer’s perspective, the urgent need to be reliably informed in view of the announcement that s. 38 of the Employment Relations Act 2012 applies along with all the responsibilities and commitments that entails.
Kata: Cook Islands Games
Wednesday 28 September 2022 | Written by CI News Staff | Published in Kata, Opinion
PET TALK: Cancer in pets
Wednesday 28 September 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Opinion, Pet Talk
Our pets suffer from many of the same cancers we get. Mammary tumours (breast cancer) is very common in female dogs, less so in cats but it tends to be severe (malignant) when cats do get it, writes Dr Michael Baer of Te Are Manu Veterinary Clinic.
Kata: Electoral petition
Tuesday 27 September 2022 | Written by CI News Staff | Published in Kata, Opinion
RUTA MAVE: ‘Don’t blame the Russia-Ukraine war, the shame is ours’
Monday 26 September 2022 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Opinion
The food freight subsidy offered by government is not going to save the outer islands from an empty bank account, not when the same government sold our precious tuna to the European Union purse seine fishing boats for a lame $0.16 per kilo while we are expected to pay $30 per kilo for tuna caught in our own waters by our own fishermen.
Kata: Cook Island games
Saturday 24 September 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion
Birds are species worth flying high for – our future depends on it
Saturday 24 September 2022 | Written by Te Ipukarea Society | Published in Opinion
Te Ipukarea Society participants have recently returned back from the 100th Birdlife Anniversary and Global Congress event held in Cambridge UK.
LETTERS: Aitutaki claims top award
Saturday 24 September 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, I loved Aitutaki (Aitutaki crowned Oceania’s top island destination, September 23). I stayed at Tom’s Beach House and the ladies made me ei’s. I had the most amazing time and was only there a week. I rented/borrowed bike and rode all over and went on two lagoon tours. That was in 1999/2000 and […]
Kata: Cannabis
Friday 23 September 2022 | Written by CI News Staff | Published in Kata, Opinion
