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$541.7m tourism earnings
25 January 2025
‘Paedophile’ gets 13 years in prison
22 January 2025
Thomas Wynne: Where were our leaders while children suffered?
25 January 2025
Cook Islands passport proposal
6 January 2025
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
Challenging ‘rape culture’
8 July 2024
Opinion
Kata: TC Pita
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Liz Raizis: Chemicals threaten our tourist-friendly organic future
OPINION: We need to keep our children and our islands safe from the ‘toxic soup’ of modern life.
Norman George: Nurse and teacher tucker relies on vaka swappas
OPINION: The pile of discarded MPs provide an argument for diverting capital surplus into public sector pay rises – regardless of who’s in power.
Ruth Mave: Understanding non-consensual sex
When talking about sex, we often make it easier by referring to the topic as something else, such as the ‘birds and the bees’!
Travis Moore: Criminalisation of same-sex threat to heterosexual relationships
The hero of our extended family is my gay brother. This is his story.
Thomas Wynne: A sickening legacy
In the 1840s, the early missionaries estimated the population of Rarotonga to be between 6000 and 7000.
Liz Raizis: Our Cook Islands family includes LGBTQ+ people, as well as 24 MPs
OPINION: Some years ago at The Rarotongan Beach Resort we had a wonderful poolside show every Sunday featuring the island-style choir, E Matike!
John Dunn: The case against criminalisation
An open letter to MPs: The recent recommendation from the Select Committee to maintain criminalisation of homosexuality demands comment. As a Cook Islander and New Zealander I am greatly saddened by this decision.
Jaewynn McKay : Beauty pageants not just about appearance, but also environment, culture and humanity
If “world peace” is the answer, what might the question be? Well in the movie Miss Congeniality the question was “what is the one most important thing our society needs?”
NORMAN GEORGE : A charter for government
Democratic Party to file High Court declaratory applications seeking rulings on legality of prisoner releases and post-election charter flight from Northern Group.
Opinion: Alcohol's the real danger
A billboard depicting a funeral says, ‘the problem with drink-driving is the mourning after’.
Opinion: Mother and daughter travel afar to bring back tools for this nation
Echoing across the old wooden chamber, steeped in formality and history, the demure figure of a man dressed in red robes and a long draping wig said this.
JAEWYNN McKAY: To tinder or not to tinder
My husband finds it amusing to tell folk that I’m a “joiner” – apparently by this he means I see a queue and join it.
Ruth Tangiaau Mave: Pay our teachers well, before they leave
Mrs Mutu, one of my primary school teachers, told me underpants were invented to stop the last drop dribbling down your leg after you’ve been to the loo.
Norman George: Our Ministry of Incorrect Services
The Prison Superintendent has been made redundant with just one month’s notice. Now he’s lifting the lid on alleged failings in prison administration.
Thomas Wynne: A grand plan to extend our borders
As the Manatua Cable goes live next year, our ability to connect Cook Islanders around the world, our ability to connect changes like never before.
Jaewynn McKay: Vaccination saves kids' lives – anything else is 'clinical incompetency'
This time last week and for just a few minutes I tortured myself. With my eyes rapidly leaking over my keyboard I watched footage shot from a cellphone in a hospital in Samoa of two mothers holding their babies for the last time and struggling to let go of their lifeless bodies.
Opinion: Why our nurses need better pay
After coming close to death, Bishop Tutai Pere tells how he was nursed back to health over seven long days by the committed staff of Rarotonga Hospital.
Ruta Mave:Our nation's Mama Bears fight for their young
When men fail to stand up and be counted, a mother’s love is a fearsome sight.
Norman George: Lengthy unjustified adjournments of Parliament a thing of the past
The Sift column has always equipped itself an investigative role by an in-depth study of critical issues, involving the public interest. In other words, it will sift and sieve the facts like turning over riverbed pebbles and shingles to look for gold. Once gold is struck, there is a loud exclamation, “Gotcha!”
Opinion: We may grapple with a changing world but we must never let go of each other
Let us disagree, and disagree strongly, but never should we let go of each other in the process and see each other as enemies.
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