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Niki Rattle: A call for stronger human rights protections
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Solid and Hazardous Waste Bill referred to Parliament committee
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DPM defends CIIC finance and travel policies
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Cook Islands has its first mosque
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RAC to address mosque legality
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Fifth weekly Sydney flight to Rarotonga announced
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CIIC directors seek $350,000 in damages over defamatory claims
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Man found guilty of rape, burglary
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Tenants face water bill burden
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Tourism contribution set to surpass half-billion dollar mark
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Parliament Clerk sparks outrage over deep sea mining statement
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Anxiety on the rise: Cook Islands faces mental health challenge
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Cook Islands deep sea mining poll sparks controversy
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MCI rejects ‘dark fleet’ label
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Rising seas, rising costs: Climate impacts on Cook Islands economy
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Prime Minister defends $659,000 MPs travel bill
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Taxpayers foot $659,000 bill for MPs travel and allowance
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Corruption report exposes ‘bribe and sexual favours’
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Opinion
Letter: Cook Islands Christian Movement
Dear Editor, William Framhein is the interim secretary of Cook Islands Christian Movement Inc (CICMI) that wants to undo the legislation that decriminalised homosexuality.
Letter: Praise for PM Brown
Dear Editor, As far as I see it, the PM Mark Brown is doing more work than anyone else in government, and I don’t mean blowing rubbish and cutting hedges on the side of the road.
Lock them up and throw away the key!
He kissed her, tears rolling down his eyes and he hugged his children, knowing their time together was about to come to an end.
Power to change our lives is within us
One of the most uplifting and hopeful teachings in the world’s sacred scriptures is that we have the power to change our lives for the better.
Tei te tuatua vaa ua ra te putaua - The time for talk is over.
What do we fill in its place if we are as Jackie Tuara wrote in a letter to CINews this week: a people forgetting who we are, and the essence of what makes us Maori.
Speaker process far from impartial
My views about how I regard the performance of our parliament as a complete shambles are well documented (CIs News 13.10.14) so, as parliament is shortly expected to be convened, I would like to make some suggestions and comments on how we might take this opportunity of a new parliament to finally try and recognise one particular problem and do something intelligent about it.
Has integrity become old-fashioned?
“The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether you are on a section gang, a football field, in an army or in an office.” These were the reflective words of Dwight Delano Eisenhower as he pondered his time in office as the United States’ 34th president.
Moemoe a Panako - don't be found sleeping
Nationalism is fast becoming a dirty word.
Ko koe, ko au, ko tatou
When did we start measuring our people by dollars and cents?
Old ways will not open new doors
It’s always telling when people who move here to live or to work start a sentence with, “back in New Zealand” (or wherever they may be from), “we do it this way”.
Guarding Pacific's 'triple star'
When Irishman Thomas Bracken wrote the New Zealand National Anthem in 1870, he included the lines, “Guard Pacific’s triple star”, from the shafts of strife and war.
Petition information 'quite alarming'
Political commentator John Scott says he is “amazed” at some of the material the court is being asked to accept during the electoral petitions proceedings now underway. He discusses some of the reasons for his discomfort in this opinion piece for CINews. The long-time Rarotonga resident has expert knowledge of the role of parliament in Cook Islands politics.
TMN more than song and dance
It is so true that to everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven.
The cost of nationhood
In 1858, the Kingdom of Rarotonga or Mātāmuatanga Rarotonga, was the name given to an independent kingdom established in what we now know as the Cook Islands.
The sacred is not for sale
The clash between our development as a tourist destination and preserving our culture, sacred places and identity have come to the fore this week, with young eco-warrior Liam Kokaua mobilising people to stop a planned development at Avana Point.
What does our prison say about us?
If people from other countries were able to check out our prison on the island, how would they then judge our society and what would they say about these invisible members of our population?
Time for a government reality check
I watched and listened to the Finance minister, Mark Brown, on CITV News on Thursday once again doing what he does best - re-arranging the goal posts to align with his preconceived notions on how our world should operate.
Plight of indigenous people a real shock
Columnist Thomas Wynne comments on an eye-opening conference he attended in Australia last week. Wynne’s regular column, which usually appears on Saturday, will instead be printed in Monday’s CINews.
We need to make people our priority
I visited an old papa this week, who lived in a house that can only be described as fit to be condemned.
Election result poses a big question
As each party summons its troops and gathers over the next few days, vying for the opportunity to govern the country, the question we may need to ask ourselves is, have the Cook Islands people won this election?
All changes demand careful thought
“Be careful what you ask for, because when you pray for rain, you have to deal with the mud as well...”
Our democracy an endangered species
I read a couple of letters in last Saturday's CIs News extolling all the so-called achievements that have been made under the present CIP government and I asked myself at what cost, not only in dollar terms but, to democracy?
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