Opinion

OPINION: Cook Islands benefitting from Covid-free status

Like me, you can’t have helped but notice that we are back in the visitor business again. No, we’re not back up to the sort of numbers we were getting pre-Covid, but they have been steadily growing, writes Prime Minister Mark Brown.

OPINION: Fashion at the Olympic Games

In the Cook Islands before the missionaries came, we used local plants and rauti to cover our heads, necks, shoulders and hips. It was the missionaries who covered us from neck to toe with colonial clothes especially the muumuu, which was more like a nightdress formless and plain, writes Ruta Mave.

Discovering your life’s purpose

The fruit of purpose is a fruit we can all eat from, unlike the fruit of self service and self-promotion which is bitter and rotten to the core, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.

OPINION: Sharing culture brings people together

When Wes Tikiariki Roberts, the ‘Atiu Rocket’, led the Cook Islands team into the stadium in Tokyo during the Olympic Games official opening ceremony, Cook Islander hearts swelled with pride, and Australia was cheering him on as well, writes Dr Christopher Watkins, the Australian High Commissioner to Cook Islands.

OPINION: Trawling for ocean plastics on Marumaru Atua enroute to Suwarrow

The Marumaru Atua vaka is enroute to Suwarrow now, after visiting four northern group islands and Aitutaki so far. It carries with it a message of ocean health. One area the vaka is focusing on is oceans plastics, writes Te Ipukarea Society.

LETTERS: Tuna catches on the slide

Letters for Saturday July 24

KATA: Lots of pork, no fish

KATA: Secret agent

KATA: A different kind of tourist

Rarotonga Sailing Club to host barbecue bash

A barbecue pitmasters competition is set to raise money for the Rarotonga Sailing Club and celebrate barbecuing.

KATA: Herd immunity

OPINION: The Five Freedoms - addressing animal welfare

The ‘Five Freedoms’ have formed the basis for animal welfare standards the world over since the 1960s. So what are the ‘Five Freedoms’? And how can they help us to have a positive impact on the animals in our care? Dr Ellen McBryde explains.

KATA: Fish shortage

RUTA MAVE: Monkey see, monkey do

The more we plead poverty the more we sit with our hands in our laps looking mournful like a Labrador dog, the more we lose our self-drive, pride, mana and self-identity.

Connecting with our culture

It’s hard to describe in words but yesterday’s investiture of Ngamaru Tupuna Ariki on Enuamanu signifies a time of transition, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.

OPINION: Deep sea mining discussions – what’s the rush?

There appears to be strong community support for building the capacity of locals to better prepare them to make decisions regarding deep sea mining, writes Te Ipukarea Society.

KATA: Race to the finish

LETTERS: Police deserve better recognition

Letters for July 17, 2021