Opinion

Letter: Reconsider land law sub-committee

Dear Editor, I read with interest the appointment of the special sub-committee regarding two private member’s bills currently before the house. (Cook Islands News, Friday 23 February).

Ruta Mave: The price of deception: Love, lies and power plays

There is no difference between a mistress and a prostitute, because the base of beneficial rewards lies solely on the delivery of sex, writes Ruta Mave.

Thomas Wynne: From simply surviving to thriving

Cook Islanders in New Zealand have built strong communities and faced challenges, but the question remains whether their dreams of prosperity have been met and whether they should reconnect with their island homes. By Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.

Kata: Air NZ Tyre Issue

Kata: $1.3m charter

Kata: Mangoes

Kata: Inflation

Letter: Use of weed

Dear Editor, There was an anonymous letter writer in your paper, who wrote in disdain about my "endless letters or propaganda to have the use of weed decriminalised in the Cook Islands".

Letter: Keeping a check on the dollars and sense

The Prime Minister in Parliament yesterday (February 19) continued to dodge the issue of cost of living that is too high for us Cook Islanders.

Kata: Budget

Letter: Village voters

The letter to you by Te Tuhi Kelly a week or so ago about village voters not having the intellectual capacity to think, choose and vote the person they want to represent them is highly offensive and racist.

Letter: Tourism budget request

$3.5m to protect Cook Islands’ ‘Golden Goose’? Has it occurred to those promoting tourism and forever singing its praises that if the golden eggs are not shared with all then, ‘what’s the point?’.

Letter: Cook Islands’ green dream

Dear Editor, Kia Orana, once upon a time long, long ago, well some nine years ago anyway (about 2015), the then prime minister Henry Puna made the bold and audacious statement that the Cook Islands would be 100 per cent green energy by 2020.

Kata: Golden Eggs

Ruta Mave: Are MPs living up to their ‘honourable’ title?

Oh, dear it seems we do have adulterers in our midst who hold high standing public office. Adultery is not against the law – you can’t be charged for it. But it is against God’s Seventh commandment law; so how many ‘hail Mary’s’ is the penance for breaking it? Ruta Mave writes.

Kata: $354m fine

Thomas Wynne: A call for solidarity

Am I my brother’s keeper, is a question that funnels down the halls of time, and as Tuakana to our Maori brothers in Aotearoa, what are our responsibilities, if any, towards our teina especially during this critical time for them, asks Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.

Virtues in Paradise: The power of unity

In small islands and towns, it’s tricky to work out solutions to conflict, writes Linda Kavelin-Popov.

Kata: Nurse Shortage

Letter: Bouquets and brickbats

There is the old adage about bouquets and brickbats and here is my short list of some of who qualify for one or the other.