Opinion

The Takitumu Conservation Area

Saturday 23 April 2022 | Written by Te Ipukarea Society | Published in Opinion

Cleaning up around the office this past week we came across a fact sheet from around 1997 for the Takitumu Conservation Area (TCA).

Opinion

LETTERS: What about our roads?

Saturday 23 April 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Opinion

Dear Editor, it has been some time now since I have written an editorial to the paper, and it is because I generally like to take action directly with entities who can assist when I have a community issue to resolve.

Opinion

Kata: Petrol

Friday 22 April 2022 | Written by RNZ | Published in Kata, Opinion

Kata

LETTERS: ‘Antivaxxers should thank the vaccinated’

Friday 22 April 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Opinion

Dear Editor, from May 1st traveling is easier with the lifting of vaccination mandates, no thanks to antivaxxers complaining to the paper.

Opinion

Kata: Speed guns

Thursday 21 April 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion

Kata

LETTERS: Unseen casualty of Covid-19 pandemic

Thursday 21 April 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Dear Editor, the Prime Minister and his officials have got it wrong, there will never be a post Covid pandemic.

Letters to the Editor

Kata: Permanent Residency

Wednesday 20 April 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion

Kata

LETTERS: Foreign workers leaving

Wednesday 20 April 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Opinion

Dear Editor, with regards to Don Carlaw’s letter about foreign workers leaving.

Opinion

Kata: Minimum wage increase

Tuesday 19 April 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion

Kata

Moving Cook Islands past and beyond the Covid-19 pandemic

Tuesday 19 April 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Opinion

Government will continually be looking at how we can better manage our new reality of living with Covid-19, writes Prime Minister Mark Brown.

Opinion

LETTERS: ‘NZ stealing our workers’

Tuesday 19 April 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Opinion

Dear Editor, Jacinda Ardern and her Government really have something to answer for over the way they have robbed Cook Islands businesses of most of their Filipino workers and also a lot of their Fijian workers.

Opinion

School holiday programme to boost local environmental learning

Saturday 16 April 2022 | Written by Te Ipukarea Society | Published in Opinion

This Earth Day, Te Ipukarea Society is creating an opportunity for stakeholder collaboration and a space for local environmental learning for our future leaders.

Opinion

The choices we make shape our experience of life

Saturday 16 April 2022 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Opinion

Easter reminds those of us of faith that under immense stress and pressure, Jesus made a choice and one that would lead him to the Cross – this is something many of us took time and reflected on yesterday, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.

Opinion

Kata: Vaccine

Thursday 14 April 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion

Kata

LETTERS: ‘Start investing in our people’

Thursday 14 April 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Opinion

Dear Editor, how are Fijian/foreign workers able to ‘live’ in the Cooks with a job that pays minimum wage and ‘still’ send money back to their families?

Opinion

Kata: Isolation

Wednesday 13 April 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion

Kata

LETTERS: ‘People need to speak up!’

Wednesday 13 April 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Opinion

Dear Editor, I have had two conversations with two different people this week who tested positive for Covid but did not isolate or report themselves to Te Marae Ora.

Opinion