Opinion

LETTERS: The road to riches is deep down

Letters for Monday 18 October, 2021.

OPINION: Protecting all peoples under their care

Covid-19 does not discriminate on race, gender, age, or religion, as shown from statistics across the world but it does show up in higher numbers for those vulnerable by age and health fragility.

KATA: Outer islands facilities

Exercising fairness when addressing key land issues

Greed is as much a problem as is absentee landowners and those that have profited much from turning their kainga into a cash register. If we want to address absentee landowners, and we should, we should also address this issue of land banking and greed at the same time.

‘Muddy buddies’ eco stream walk

For a fun school holiday activity this week, Te Ipukarea Society (TIS) and Muri Environment Care (MEC) invited kids on an eco-walk along Muri’s Aremango stream and the Aroko salt marsh, writes Te Ipukarea Society.

LETTERS: Robust process before vax decision

Letters for Saturday October 16, 2021

KATA: James Bond

LETTERS: No jab, no job policy

Letters for Friday October 15, 2021

LETTERS: Fair and valid questions

Letters for Thursday October 14, 2021

KATA: No jab, no job declaration

PET TALK: What should you be looking for

Just this week, we’ve had two cats brought into the vet clinic with blocked bladders. This is a serious emergency, almost always affecting male cats. Dr Ellen McBryde discusses what you should be looking out for, as well as steps you can take at home to help prevent this condition.

LETTERS: Looking at the alternatives

Letters for Wednesday October 13, 2021

LETTERS: Conflicts of interest

Letters for October 12, 2021

KATA: Youth vaccinations

OPINION: We should try to forgive but not forget

Once the news hits, the result is the flooding of messages to social media supporting the accused and giving them support saying they don’t believe the charges, that they are still the honest, truthful beings they grew up with, or associated with.

LETTERS: Spread love and kindness

Letters for October 11, 2021

Preparing our hearts and minds for Covid

We must learn to live with this virus, like we do with the hurricane season, and equip and prepare our health response and our bodies, but more our hearts and minds because it is there we will truly win this battle, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.

KATA: Chartered Flights

LETTERS: Referendum on seabed mining

Letters for Saturday October 9, 2021

KATA: United against trees party