Opinion

Kata: New Years Resolutions

A new year full of great expectations

We all face challenges that shape the course of our lives. But that shape and that course are still ours to choose, writes Angaroakau Williams, the first counselor and communication director of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Ten prayers for the New Year

2021 was a year filled with trials and troubles for many. Let’s start this next one on our knees. By DENNAE PIERRE/Christianity Today

Attack on award nominees ‘appalling’

Dear Editor, as someone who took the time to nominate someone for the Cook Islands News Cook Islander of the Year award, I totally disagree with Te Tuhi’s letter to the editor.

Kata: Cook Islands Police

Cook Islander of the Year

Dear Editor, I must admit that I think this is a worthy gong for those who actually deserve it.

We must learn to dance on a moving carpet

We’re all affected in some way, some more than others, we may all be in the same storm but we are definitely not all experiencing it in the same boat, writes Ruta Mave.

Kata: Hazmat Santa

There is more to Christmas than Christmas

As commercialism and commerce have taken over Christmas, we have seen it commodified and churned out like so many other aspects of Western culture, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.

Be thankful for what you have this Christmas

Looking back over the years, I can truly say that I have been blessed, writes Pastor Eric Toleafoa of the Seventh-day Adventists Church.

Kata: Rapid antigen test

Kata: Sea of responsibility

‘Speechless’ about elderly vaccination

Dear Editor, it gave me a slight shock reaction when Elder Verokura Andrew updated their vaccination trip.

Pet Talk with Dr Michael Baer

Five freedoms, the foundation of Animal Welfare, Justice Potter Stewart, in a famous US Supreme Court ruling, said, roughly, “I can’t define it, but I know it when I see it”. He wasn’t talking about animal welfare, but he could easily have been.

Kata: Proof of vaccination

Covid – disease of vaccinated or unvaccinated?

Dear Editor, Serena Hunter (in her letter on December 11 – No jab, no job policy) wrote that “Gibraltar, population of 33,000, over 118% vaccinated (beat that), and facing a surge in cases”.

Pandemic has brought out the best and worst in people

The festive and for some, silly season for 2021 is upon us.

When celebrating Christmas, remember what’s important

It’s official it’s the silly season, where we celebrate Christmas, the birth of Christ, in some circles the arrival of Santa in others amongst the red cherries, white snowflakes, and green pine trees alight with ornaments and flashing led colours, writes Ruta Mave.

Vaccinated versus unvaccinated

Dear Editor, I wish to respond to Associate Prof. John Dunn’s letter in Tuesday’s newspaper (‘Unvaccinated are a risk to others’, December 14).

Kata: EIA report