Opinion

KATA: Curfew checks

OPINION: Covid-19 vaccination: Get the facts before jabs

As a Cook Islander I expect robust explanatory or educational efforts by Te Marae Ora and the Cook Islands Government to the people of the Cook Islands about the Pfizer vaccine, writes Wilkie Rasmussen.

OPINION: When dogs bite

No surprises here – dog bite wounds are one of the most common reasons pet owners contact the vet clinic. But why do dogs bite? And what can we do about it? By Dr Ellen McBryde of Te Are Manu Vet Clinic.

OPINION: Journey to recovery ‘may be a road short lived’

Te Marae Ora’s response to this dengue outbreak must be challenged with serious questions, writes Opposition leader Tina Pupuke Browne.

KATA: Bubble burglaries

Why a mother’s work is never done

They say the first 40 years of motherhood are the hardest. Personally, the day you become a mother is right up there with pain, fear and excitement, the eternal elements of being a mother, writes Ruta Mave.

OPINION: Work with TIS ignited a passion to protect environment

Former Te Ipukarea Society staff member, Liam Kokaua, shares his experience working for the Society, and his current work in Aotearoa

KATA: Manihiki MP Akaiti Puna

OPINION: Building upon the Henry Puna dynasty

There are examples of countries that when their leaders retired, they handed over the top job to their wives. Are we seeing this in the Cook Islands now? By Wilkie Rasmussen

KATA: Audit office in overdrive

LETTER: Freeze wages of $60k plus

"Because when everyone got the internet and power subsidies, all government workers got an unintended pay rise."

KATA: Dengue in the outer islands

KATA: Advertising for the Land Court sitting

KATA: Vaccine fears

KATA: Travel bubble hopes

OPINION: Saluting our workers on May Day

Good people with good hearts are being run by incompetence and nepotism up high. They work for the man or the ministry, and the man and the ministry work them to death, writes Ruta Tangiiau Mave.

OPINION: We are living in the ‘next normal’

It’s hard for this current generation to believe that there was a time in the world when you hopped on a plane and they asked you whether you wanted to sit in the smoking section or the non-smoking section, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.

OPINION: Seabed mining sector confronts technical difficulties

Apart from the very real concern about the environmental impacts of deep-sea mining on our ocean ecosystem, there remains many serious technological difficulties to overcome, writes Te Ipukarea Society.