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16 February 2025
‘Serious questions’: Opposition challenges China partnership
15 February 2025
No-confidence motion against PM and his Cabinet faces delays
15 February 2025
Ruta Mave: People’s Republic of China red flag
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
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
Opinion
Fund the Police, Not MP Travel
For years, the Cook Islands Police Service has been crying out for more frontline officers. They need 46 staff across all divisions. Recruitment is frozen. The Maritime Division is stretched to breaking point. There’s barely anyone left for community policing—just one officer, trying to cover an entire nation.
Response to Warren Wichman’s ‘Celebrating War”
Dear Warren Wichman, The 105mm Howitzer provided by the NZ Defence Force, was for the contribution Cook Island men and women have made to the NZ Defence Force from WW1 onwards.
Facing up to the inevitability of death
There is something that will happen to all of us, something we often don’t want to think or talk about until it’s too late.
Public service captains have much to do
Finally, after months of waiting, the people to steer our public service through for the next three years have been announced.
When history becomes flesh and blood
One of the benefits, or sometimes the curse, of having been around awhile is that often historical events are not just dry words on a page or grainy black and white pictures, but real life flesh and blood occasions because you were there.
Te mana henua, land court and politics
What a blooming headache it has become, don’t you think?
Rule of law versus the media
The Chief Justice is not “omniscient.”
Parliament in ruins thanks to neglect...
The institution of Parliament is now in ruins, desecrated, vandalised and allowed to fall apart.
Boxing, politics and gay rights
Tropical Chronicles – Wilkie Rasmussen I have heard of the sport of boxing being referred to as the “gentleman’s sport”.
Auckland revisited – and that All Black list
It is often said that a week off The Rock makes a difference.
Churches have major role to play in the running of our country
A late amendment to the Cook Islands Constitution was added in 1997.
More to celebrations than meets the eye
Now that Te Maeva Nui and Constitution Day are done and dusted, we all can move on. Move on to what though, some of you may ask? Some may be lucky to assume or stumble into great wealth and fortune.
Political reform – or 'deform?'
Most of the commentaries I hear on the subject of political reform should correctly be called ‘political deform’.
Smoke Signals
Bluesky, now it’s time to talk Come on ‘Blueskam’, when are you going to fess up to ripping us off with unexplained excess data charges?
Ui Ariki response 'like air-freshener'
Norman is back! After a short break political veteran and lawyer Norman George continues his weekly column in CI News with a look at Prime Minister Henry Puna’s recent challenge to the Ui Ariki. Future columns will be published as usual on Wednesday.
'Tau affair' raises cultural questions
Columnist Derek Fox discusses an incident where in NZ, Ngapuhi leader Sonny Tau was caught smuggling protected kereru or wood pigeons. Hunting kereru carries a penalty of up to $100,000 fine or up to six months in jail. There is also a rahui on hunting kereru across much of Northland.
Jet blast blows egg on some faces
It seems that I am not the only one who believes in reverse psychology.
The mother of all Cook Islands laws
Next to the Constitution, the Crimes Act 1969 is the mother of all our laws.
Time to call general election
Let me put a question to CI News readers out there. Should Prime Minister Henry Puna dissolve Parliament and call a new general election?
Old TVs a roadside problem
Dear Editor, On April 6, 2013 you published a story with the headline “Community urged to stop dumping”.
