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Top cop position advertised
7 December 2024
Police need numbers and bigger budget
9 December 2024
Niki Rattle: A call for stronger human rights protections
10 December 2024
Solid and Hazardous Waste Bill referred to Parliament committee
10 December 2024
DPM defends CIIC finance and travel policies
6 December 2024
Cook Islands has its first mosque
14 November 2024
CI Muslim opens up about her faith and journey
16 November 2024
RAC to address mosque legality
19 November 2024
I don’t expect much change: PM Brown on US Elections
6 November 2024
Fifth weekly Sydney flight to Rarotonga announced
23 October 2024
CIIC directors seek $350,000 in damages over defamatory claims
21 October 2024
Man found guilty of rape, burglary
24 September 2024
Tenants face water bill burden
8 October 2024
Concerns over Minister’s role in inmate work releases: PAC
5 October 2024
Tourism contribution set to surpass half-billion dollar mark
25 September 2024
Parliament Clerk sparks outrage over deep sea mining statement
23 September 2024
Deep sea dilemma: Cook Islanders weigh the cost of mineral riches
21 September 2024
Anxiety on the rise: Cook Islands faces mental health challenge
7 September 2024
Cook Islands deep sea mining poll sparks controversy
7 September 2024
MCI rejects ‘dark fleet’ label
3 August 2024
Rising seas, rising costs: Climate impacts on Cook Islands economy
2 September 2024
Inflation eases but concerns remain
31 August 2024
Prime Minister defends $659,000 MPs travel bill
23 August 2024
Taxpayers foot $659,000 bill for MPs travel and allowance
22 August 2024
Corruption report exposes ‘bribe and sexual favours’
17 January 2023
PM Brown eager to hand over Forum chair role to Tonga
13 August 2024
ICI explains road works delay in front of old Sheraton site
10 August 2024
Housing crisis hits tourism industry
27 July 2024
MCI rejects ‘dark fleet’ label
3 August 2024
Challenging ‘rape culture’
8 July 2024
Opinion
Virtues in Paradise: The best present you can give
Christmas is nearly here, and there is so much to do – preparing for visiting family, finding gifts for the children, serving the church, writes Linda Kavelin-Popov.
Coconut trees, too much of a good thing
Coconut trees are often called the ‘Tree of Life’ in the Cook Islands and other Pacific islands because every part of the tree is useful. But too many coconut trees can be a problem.
Thomas Wynne: Ma te inangaro One in love
Relevance, this was the question discussed at the Te Koutu Nui Conference this week with regard to our leaders and a question maybe, we can ask also of ourselves.
Editorial: Standing barefoot on your own ground
Talking to Taungaroa Emile yesterday, I don’t think his tears were those of sadness.
Editorial: Bluesky prepares for a rainy day
BLUESKY this week announced that it would be cutting the price of internet data. Strangely coincidental that the Manatua Cable project is just around the corner from being completed isn’t it?
Editorial: Different water streams woven together
Few things in recent year have divided this country as much as the word “chlorine’, people tell me.
Editorial: Te Maeva Nui is history in the making
When Puaikura’s warriors with blackened eyes stepped to the front of the stage, a hush fell over the crowd.
Norman George: Top 10: Long life for PM, life in prison for drug dealers
“Last but not least, I believe we have a birthday boy today: Henry Puna celebrates his 70th birthday. Happy Birthday Prime Minister!”
Editorial: Animal abusers are a tiny but ugly minority
Wandering around Punanga Nui market this weekend with our little golden-furred terrier Rusty, everyone wants to come up and pat him. (In some cases, they’re a lot happier to see him than to see me!)
Editorial: Cooks come together with life and love and pride
Since I was younger I’ve always loved Float Day. The day people converge in town to watch, catch up and be enlightened with the creations of each entrant. It’s fun when trying to debate which one is the best.
Norman George: A week to remember for our people
Two major events on the Rarotonga calendar in one week shot our little nation to great heights!
Editorial: An emotional return for athletes
Anania Piri was visibly emotional as she walked into the Rarotonga International Airport arrival lounge full of supporters on Saturday.
Thomas Tarurongo Wynne: Repeating social media or thinking things through?
If you tell a lie long enough, people will believe it. That’s why we must take time to form informed positions on debates like chlorine.
Editorial: Journalism Charter is a living pledge of accountability
The new Cook Islands News journalism charter will be a living document. That means we welcome your suggestions – and we invite you to hold us accountable to it.
COOK ISLANDS NEWS JOURNALISM CHARTER
Respect, responsibility, integrity, fairness and accuracy. These are the principles we will strive to uphold.
Editorial: Behind every good athlete is a great family
When I talked to Margie Matenga yesterday, the netball legend was busy with a crying toddler: her grand-daughter Rain, 2, whom she was looking after while Rain’s mum led the Black Pearls into last night’s Pacific Games netball final.
Opinion: Suppressed tried and true
Dear Editor, Mr. Wynne’s piece “In Sickness and in Health” states: “… one cannot look at our history from 1915 to 1965 and dismiss the critical role… our Ariki and Mataiapo have played in where we are today”.
Editorial: Chickens, eggs and police pay
Pay rises and inflationary price increases: which comes first, the chicken or the egg?
Editorial: Our identity in a name
What's in a name? A name is the grouping of several letters of an alphabet, or other symbols, which represent the identity of a person, an object, a country; in this case the Cook Islands and its people.
Norman George: Norman's nagging nightmare
Tighten your seat belts, it is going to be a bumpy ride. Have you ever thought of your worst nightmare? Waking up to find out that we are no longer in control of our country? The prime minister and Queen’s Representative under the control of a foreign interest?
Thomas Tarurongo Wynne: In sickness and in health
There were concerns Ariki were complicit in the loss of Cook Islands Maori self-determination, but in the second part in a series, Thomas Wynne says they played a critical role in improving their people’s health and education.
Editorial: Sickeningly real impacts on our kids
POP QUIZ: NaCL is the formula of Sodium chloride, a strongly-flavoured chemical compound that is key to one of the proposed means of disinfecting Rarotonga’s drinking water. Consumed in sufficient quantities it causes poisoning and death.
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