Opinion

Letter: A rebuttal to ‘The last pooh bah’

Re: Sir Gavin Donne, highly revered Chief of Justice and first Queen’s Representative of the Cook Islands. I write to record my disgust and repudiation about the article titled “The Last Pooh Bah” written by Thomas Wynne last Saturday, 18 November 2023.

Kata: Brawling

Letter: Some solutions to our criminal law problems

Dear Editor, A follow up to my letter published in yesterday’s Cook Islands News.

Kata: Diplomatic immunity

Letter: Call for urgent review of Cook Islands’ criminal law system

Dear Editor, Re: Our failed criminal law system:

Kata: TTV Board

Ruta Mave: Cook Islands: Lost in identity, lost in translation

Who are we? Sitting in the middle of the Pacific Ocean open and swaying to all manner of whims and calls from whom we think we are going to get our next meal ticket from, writes Ruta Mave.

Letter: League 9s

A simple question, I haven’t read anything regarding CISNOC’s plan to assist with the Rugby League teams’ situation days ago.

Letters: Prosecuting liquor outlets

Dear Editor, Following the trouble at Rehab Bar this writer has been waiting for any comment from the Police as to any suggestion that serving already intoxicated patrons might lead to violence fuelled by the legal drug alcohol.

Thomas Wynne: The last of the pooh-bahs

Who is Sir Gaven Donne, who upon his passing was referred to by the Sydney Morning Herald as ‘The Judge who toppled a government,’ the man who brought down our first political leader and father of our nation, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.

Letter: ‘Pa Ariki acted in good faith, Crown must follow suit’

Dear Editor, In answer to your correspondent’s queries (Ring road compensation – a threat? Cook Islands News, November 16).

Kata: Traffic

Opinion: Working together for a successful Pacific Games

Over the coming weeks, the Pacific will be coming together to celebrate a love of sport at the Pacific Games – the most significant sports event on the Oceania calendar. This year’s theme is ‘Challenge, Celebrate, Unite’, writes Australia’s High Commissioner to the Cook Islands Phoebe Smith.

Kata: Corodiles in Solomon Islands

Letter: USP Student Association

Whoever representing USPSA said USPSA was “apolitical” (Fiji Times 3/11 ) clearly does not know its history of student activism/political activism against tyranny, dictatorships, political persecution of freedom fighters in the region and beyond, nuclear testing and armament, solidarity with anti-colonial struggles, and solidarity with indigenous people against State violence and dispossession.

Letter: Ring road compensation – a threat?

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Letters: Communication breakdown

Dear Editor, Is it too difficult for national federations/CISNOC (Cook Islands Sports and National Olympic Committee) to name teams/managers/coaches/entertainers etc who are representing the country at this month’s Pacific Games in Solomon Islands?

Pet Talk: ‘Big shoes to fill … but those shoes aren’t mine’

Mark Twain had the dubious pleasure of seeing his own obituary printed in the paper and over the last week I have had a similar feeling. While far from being an obituary, a Facebook post about me leaving has attracted heaps of comments, writes Dr Michael Baer, the outgoing Te Are Manu Vet Clinic medical director.

Kata: Pac Games

Letter:Israel-Hamas war

We condemn what the Hamas did to the Israeli civilians on the 7th of last month.