Opinion

Kata: Appropriation Bill

Te Tuhi Kelly: ‘New Zealand must step up’

New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters calling for a reset of the relationship with the Cook Islands, I think we need to look at this from a different perspective, writes Te Tuhi Kelly, leader of the Progressive Party.

Te Ipukarea Society: Citizen science to guide turtle conservation

Turtles are an integral part of marine ecosystems, and the Cook Islands is home to a few species, including the endangered Green Turtle and the critically endangered Hawksbill turtles.

Kata: Reset things

Kata: Winston nothing to worry about

Letter: Akatueraanga o te ManaTauranga

Kia Orana I te aroa ngao o to tatou Atu ko Iesu Mesia. Teia te reo o te tata Salamo ko te Atua to tatou akapuanga e te maroiroi, e tauturu vaitata roa ia kia rokoia e te tumatetenga. (Salamo 46:1)

Letter: What can MPs’ travel budget buy?

Dear Editor, Time for change. How dare the Budget include an increase of over 400,000 dollars for travel, while our people are suffering. How dare this government take that amount of close to 1 million dollars in a single year for travel.

Kata: Cats

Letter: What are we celebrating?

Despite the Cook Islands having so much going for it - best climates, cheap cost of living, low crime, no homeless, no really poor, good connectivity, easy access to NZ for health/education, etc., and Rarotongans speak better English than most New Zealanders and better Maori than most NZ Maori, 60 years of self-government doesn’t appear to be something to celebrate.

Letter: ‘Where is our mana!’

Dear Editor, I would like to point a few things, especially towards the different groups who took the protest march in front of Parliament on Monday.

Kata: Tereora building

Letter: “I know. But, for what purpose?”

With all the turmoil going on at the moment, perhaps it's a good time to reflect on what’s important to us as Cook Islanders. Read and ponder.

Kata: Passport rally

Letter: 60 years of partnership in peril?

Dear Editor, Sixty years ago, with the endorsement of the people, Albert Henry signed an agreement with New Zealand that gave us the privilege of being NZ citizens and the responsibility to govern ourselves. We have never been left ‘high and dry’.

Ruta Mave: PM’s ‘cat and mouse’ games fuel public anger

People complained of New Zealand being over patriarchal regarding the latest passport and China visit. Yet no one sees the same behaviour from our Prime Minister, writes Ruta Mave.

Kata: MP Travel and Allowances

Te Tuhi Kelly: Principle versus political survival

Dear Editor, One of the things that concerns me is the makeup of the select committee with respect to the Christian Nation proposal.

Kata: Presents from China