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15 February 2025
No-confidence motion against PM and his Cabinet faces delays
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10 February 2025
No debt in China deal
8 February 2025
Thomas Wynne: Haka with the taniwha or dance with the dragon?
8 February 2025
‘Paedophile’ gets 13 years in prison
22 January 2025
Thomas Wynne: Where were our leaders while children suffered?
25 January 2025
$541.7m tourism earnings
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
Anxiety on the rise: Cook Islands faces mental health challenge
7 September 2024
MCI rejects ‘dark fleet’ label
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Opinion
Thomas Wynne: Protecting the future
As we celebrate 60 years of self governance, with the theme “Kua kite au i toku turanga, e avaiki toku – I know who I am, I have a homeland” – we also reflect on significant moments for us as a country, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.
Te Ipukarea Society: Fresh eyes on the Takitumu Conservation Area
The care with which the TCA is managed is clear, preserving its unique ecosystems and biodiversity, writes Gemma Langley.
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.
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.
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?
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?
Students of grief, the Teacher has come...
Someone once said things come in threes. Three would have been enough, but each day our small communities have been hit by the loss of yet another loved one. Another young one gone too soon, or another Mama or Papa taken as the sun sets on their lives.
A vote the drop that fills the bucket
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter, and voting is the foundation stone for political action.
Tuna stock claims need some context
On the front page of the CINews on May 15 there was an article by Alfred Cook, manager of World Wide Fund for Nature’s Western and Central Pacific.
Who stands at the tomb of your life?
Our small community has been left reeling this week at the tragic and sudden deaths of two great men.
Tax write-off issues still remain
Political commentator John Scott takes a look at the secrecy behind the government’s decision to write off tax owing by various businesses and private individuals before January 1, 2010. The decision sparked outrage, leading to conjecture that it may have been designed to specifically benefit certain political figures.
Upbeat launch for Demo Party campaign
Last Tuesday afternoon, Democratic Party supporters gathered at Maeva Nui Park opposite the Banana Court to announce the candidates running for the party in the June 14 general elections.
The responsibility of democracy
Back in the ’70s, along with close to 50 per cent of the New Zealand population, I marched against apartheid. I marched because apartheid or the separation of people by colour and race was for myself and many others in New Zealand, morally wrong.
Making a point about air travel
With both the Herald and the Cook Islands News carrying articles and letters on this subject, I thought it timely to share this suggestion.
History depends on who tells the story
Standing in a marbled two story private school in Ankara in Turkey back in 2006, I looked up over the main entrance and there was a picture of one of Turkey’s if not the world’s’ greatest statesmen, Mustafa Ataturk.
Demos want a positive election
Despite the constant sniping by Minister of Finance Mark Brown on television, the Democratic Party is not going to go down the “eye for an eye” campaign direction.
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