Opinion

LETTERS: Fuel price

Dear Editor, yes, fuel (prices) will continue to rise, and so will the inflation rate, and also the cost of living across the board … sad fact of the times we live in. Government can assist with cuts in the fuel tax for starters, and that will assist the consumer/iti tangata quickly.

Kata: Petrol Prices

A picture is worth a thousand words

I live in paradise far from this bitter cold war, I can choose to ride a bicycle when petrol is too high, I don’t need to know war to feel the pain of those facing it right now, writes Ruta Mave.

LETTERS: Stray dogs attacking pets

Dear Editor, you cannot turn a dog away from attacking people or animals.

Break the silence, don’t let periods stop you

That’s a wrap with the Maine Mura awareness raising campaign presentations! ‘Maine Mura’ is an awareness raising initiative discussing the importance of women’s health and reusable feminine hygiene products that our young ladies and women here on Rarotonga can use during their menstrual cycle, writes Te Ipukarea Society.

When the village fails the innocent

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

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

LETTERS: Inequality, inequity and gender bias

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

Kata: Self Isolation

LETTERS: In search of the truth

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

LETTERS: Stop the marijuana war

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

Kata: Gender Bias

LETTERS: Actions speak louder than words

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

Break the bias

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

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’

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.