Opinion

When the village fails the innocent

Saturday 12 March 2022 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in On the Street, Opinion

They say it takes a village to raise a child and when the village fails the innocent, and fails women, something very precious dies within us all, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.

LETTERS: Illegal use of marijuana

Saturday 12 March 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Dear Editor, it is really annoying to read in your column about letters from MPs and people with high status in the community supporting the illegal use of marijuana (Cannabis accused gets letter of support from Aitutaki MP, March 2, 2022).

Kata: RESPONSE TO GENDER EQUALITY LETTER

Friday 11 March 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion

LETTERS: Inequality, inequity and gender bias

Friday 11 March 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Dear Editor, the drawing Kata presented for International Women’s Day is an absolute disgrace.

Kata: Self Isolation

Thursday 10 March 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion

LETTERS: In search of the truth

Thursday 10 March 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Dear Editor, when a Prime Minister says something, people normally pay attention, but when that same Prime Minister, Mark Brown in this case, utters untruths or a lie, someone has to call him to account.

Kata: Isolation

Wednesday 9 March 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion

LETTERS: Stop the marijuana war

Wednesday 9 March 2022 | Written by Caleb Fotheringham | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Dear Editor, all wars are expensive and the Cook Islands government War on marijuana has been no different.

Kata: Gender Bias

Tuesday 8 March 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion

LETTERS: Actions speak louder than words

Tuesday 8 March 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Dear Editor, to those commenting on the visiting Mexican artist and what seems to this writer to be very inviting artwork on the sea wall at Nikao, the last time I looked at a world map Mexico fronts on the same Pacific Ocean as does the sea wall.

Kata: Covid-19

Monday 7 March 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion

Break the bias

Monday 7 March 2022 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Opinion

The mixed messages girls grow up with are relentless - don’t mess with bad boys, find yourself a nice boy.

‘Ka mua, ka muri’: Walking backwards into the future

Saturday 5 March 2022 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in On the Street, Opinion

When western thinking arrived in what would soon be called the Cook Islands in 1903, Missionary advanced the way we saw the world, the way we saw ourselves and the way we saw time had already begun to unfold as we unravelled all our traditional knowledge, customs and ways of knowing and put them in a box handed to us by our colonisers with the word “etene” on it.

‘We are the people’

Saturday 5 March 2022 | Written by Te Ipukarea Society | Published in On the Street, Opinion

The following comments are made, in part, as a response to the statements made by Prime Minister Mark Brown on Cook Islands Television on March 1, 2022.

Kata: Medicine

Friday 4 March 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion

LETTERS: Te Kukupa’s final hurrah

Friday 4 March 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Dear Editor, can the Minister of Police and PM Mark Brown explain how much did the big booze up for the Kukupa at the Avatiu wharf last Friday evening cost the tax payers of this country?

KATA: Mass testing

Thursday 3 March 2022 | Written by CI News Staff | Published in Kata, Opinion

LETTER: Prevention is better than cure

Thursday 3 March 2022 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion

Dear Editor, I write to ask people like Mr Nubono, who came on TV the night before last, not to glibly say things like “Covid is not dangerous”; “not to worry”, “that it’s just a flu”, etc. Tell that to the families of about six million people around the world so far who have died from it.