Opinion

Kata: Speaker of Cook Islands Parliament

OPINION: Solidarity in numbers: Fighting for workers’ rights

There are some people interested in starting up a new workers union to provide support for workers faced with employment relations issues, writes Te Tuhi Kelly, Leader of the Progressive Party.

OPINION: Love is a word but marriage is a sentence – for life

Keeping love alive takes more than one day, writes Ruta Mave, reflecting on Valentine’s Day which was celebrated on Sunday.

United we stand, divided we fall

The tools of unity are not leverage or self-interest, nor are they arrogance and pride, because all of these will split a country, a family, a region into parts they may never heal again or come together.

READER: 'It's not what you know, it's who you know'

"I have seen a large amount of people in positions who are just there because it’s a job and who they know."

Kata: Absentee voting in Parliament

LETTERS: Changing narrative regarding USP

"It is a Fiji Government problem that is impacting USP and correspondingly it is Fiji Government credibility that is seriously eroded."

OPINION: ‘New Zealand Maori owe their heritage to us’

There's a reason why a lot of New Zealand Maori say they fell like they're at home when in Rarotonga - because they are. Ruta Tangiiau Mave writes.

Silence in the face of evil

Do we have a stomach for horrific crimes committed by someone in leadership, be it civil society, government or the church, asks Thomas Wynne in his weekly column.

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Rain and intakes

Finding solutions to water shortage

Dear Editor As far back as 2012 I have been writing letters in this same vein.

Watchdogs

Freedom of speech vs hate speech

Dear Editor, The Cook Islands Opposition Democratic Party is calling on the Prime Minister to confirm George Pitt, whose abrasive, unsubstantiated style of writing attacks Cook Islanders from all walks of life, is being paid out of the public purse.