Opinion

Letter: Ten-year fishing ban needed

Dear Editor, I think we have already destroyed our fish stocks and what is left is struggling and if we do not watch out our EEZ will be without fish in a few years’ time.

Letter: From vape to smoke?

It can’t be only me that wonders what happens when vapes are banned.

Kata: Sea burials objected

Letter: Sea burial ‘sustainable’ option

Dear Editor, In response to the article in Cook Islands News, May 4 edition “Health ministry to regulate sea burials after public concerns”.

Kata: Burials

Pet Talk: Ears: More than just hearing

What do ears do? The obvious answer is – hear sounds. Without getting too scientific, that is true. But ears do other things too. They allow us to judge the nature, direction, and intensity of the sound.

Letter: Saving our fish stocks

Dear Editor, I wish to respond to recent letters by Messrs Reuben Tylor and Josh Mitchell.

Kata: Sovereign's day

Ruta Mave: ‘We need checks and balances made regularly’

The definition of stress is doing the same thing year after year but expecting a different result, writes Ruta Mave.

Letter: $102 million ‘Infrastructure Asset’

Acknowledging the response from To Tatou Vai CEO Apii Timoti in regard to 2024/25 Budget appropriation (May 27).

Kata: Trump

Thomas Wynne: The people of the land and ocean

Land – nothing is more contentious, beautiful, divisive, or unifying than land. Our caretaking of land has been thousands of years in the making as we moved from Moana or ocean, to land, to ocean, and back to land again, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.

Letter: Cook Islands fishery debate

Dear Editor, I am loathe to take up the pen again on the issue of the tuna fishery resources in and around Cook Islands waters, but since I’ve been referenced in Mr. Tylor’s latest effort please indulge me this reply (More questions than answers, Cook Islands News, May 30, 2024).

Kata: Public Accounts

Kata: Customs

Reuben Tylor: More questions than answers

In a three-part series, retired lawyer Reuben Tylor argues commercial fishing in the Northern Cook Islands can impact on our catches of yellowfin tuna in the South.

Letter: TAU’s ‘average’ excuse doesn’t add up

Dear Editor, Well, well, well. So TAU (Te Aponga Uira) are feeding us too higher voltage (Voltage ‘increase’ sparks concerns, residents report appliance damage, May 29).

Kata: Higher volts

Letter: CISNOC Sports Awards

Evidence of CISNOC supporting their own when Aquatics wins a lot because the head of selection is the head of Aquatics? Wes (Roberts) and Lanihei (Connolly) might deserve sportsman and woman of the year but not everything.

Letter: CISNOC to Paris?

Dear Editor, Re your article ‘CISNOC head Graham to step down after accounts finalised’ in Monday, 27 May’s issue of Cook Islands News, I guess it doesn’t really matter when the special meeting to finalise the accounts is held, as the CISNOC president will still be going to the Paris Olympics with – most likely – the previous CEO and secretary general, Owen Lewis.