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Opinion
Church Talk: The 2024 festive season and what it truly means
The festive season is a time of celebration, family gatherings, and joy. For many in the Cook Islands, this period is about reconnecting with loved ones, sharing meals, and participating in cultural and spiritual traditions, writes Pastor Eric Toleafoa from the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Pet Talk: Keeping your pets cool and comfortable this summer Christmas
The holiday season is a time of joy, family, and festivity, but for pet owners, it can bring unique challenges, writes Dr Rose Hasegawa, medical director Te Are Manu Vet Clinic.
LETTERS: Deep sea exploration and mining
Letters for Saturday November 20, 2021
LETTERS: It’s better to be safe than sorry
Letters for Friday November 19, 2021
Between a rock and a hard place
There are no bad employees, just bad employers, because if there were bad employees or potentially bad employees, they should have been filtered out with a proper pre-employment process and would not have been considered for employment.
Covid-19 modelling ‘frightening’
Letters for Thursday November 18, 2021
Where is the medicinal cannabis?
Letters for Wednesday November 17, 2021
OPINION: ‘Do what is possible and let God do the impossible’
Like we have done as a nation for the past 200 years, we gather together in prayer and we offer up our faith in return for the safety, security and prosperity promised to us by Our Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ. But is our faith alone enough? Prime Minister Mark Brown writes.
LETTERS: Wage subsidy scheme explained
Letters for Tuesday November 16, 2021
OPINION: Setting goals like making the bed
Pre-Covid it was work, work, work, lockdown has allowed us to live a well-rounded interesting life outside work. Covid has given us a chance to reconnect with family, children, nature and most importantly ourselves.
OPINION: The reality of the matter
Vaccination will mean less chance of hospitalisation and this is clear from statistics here in New Zealand and globally but in the end, we must be prepared for the reality that we will face when we open up on January 13.
Keeping Cook Islands’ interests at its core in seabed minerals issues
This week was a historic milestone for the Seabed Minerals Authority (Authority). We announced the three seabed minerals companies that met the qualification criteria in the Act, and would be proceeding to the next stage of the exploration licensing process, writes Seabed Minerals Commissioner Alex Herman.
Privy Council case on purse seine fishery expansion finally being heard
It has been quite a long time since we started discussions with the Cook Islands Government on the expansion of the purse seine industrial fishery in the Cook Islands.
LETTERS: On your own head be it!
Letters for Saturday November 13, 2021
Welcoming the Gospel message
I was privileged to be part of the bicentennial Gospel celebrations held in Aitutaki recently. Watching the re-enactment of the event (the arrival of the Gospel to Aitutaki 200 years ago) was indeed a humbling experience, writes Pastor Eric Toleafoa of the Seventh-day Adventists Church.
Online Comments
Online comments for Friday November 12, 2021
OPINION: Abusing government’s wage subsidy scheme
Once the borders re-open, it would not surprise me if more Cook Islanders vote with their feet and move offshore to greener pastures and better – and less exploitative – working conditions, writes Moana Moeka’a.