Opinion

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.

KATA: Saturday May 1

LETTER: Support for no levy on imported eggs

"Why should egg eaters have to pay higher prices to support one business? The answer? They shouldn’t."

KATA: Where are the vaccines?

KATA: Shark caught

PET TALK: To spay or not to spay

Desexing (a.k.a. spaying, neutering, fixing, sterilising, castrating) has the obvious benefit of population control by reducing unwanted or unnecessary pregnancies, but there is more to it than meets the eye. Dr Ellen McBryde of Te Are Manu Veterinary Clinic discusses why we desex our dogs and cats.

KATA: Egg shortage

KATA: Water treatment waste

OPINION: In the boots of a valiant Anzac soldier

Anzac Day, resplendent in its red poppies, marks the anniversary of the first key military action fought by Australia and New Zealand forces during the First World War. In 1915 The Anzac soldiers formed part of the allied expedition which set out to capture Constantinople, now named Istanbul, in Turkey. They landed at Gallipoli on April 25 and met fierce resistance.