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Ruta Mave: The price of questionable partnerships

Collaboration is the action of working with someone to produce something, it is the cooperation of people, an alliance and partnership that forms stronger bonds so more can be achieved than alone, writes Ruta Mave.

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Thomas Wynne: The truth cannot be buried

The exhumation of a woman’s body in Ma’uke, and the homicide investigation now underway, is just heartbreaking, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.

Letter: ‘No to paying for my water’

Dear Editor, Well, aren’t we busy bees on this island coming up with all sorts of ideas and ways to make money. Way to go whoever you are that comes up with these brain waves and of course, always including the people in the decision making as you go. Now it’s water.

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Letter: Water charges ‘poverty to the people’

Dear Editor, This week To Tatou Vai is hosting vaka consultations on water charges. The imposition of user-pays is the authority following through on neocolonial development policy.

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Ruta mave: Beyond the partial eclipse- A total cover-up of corruption?

The trial may be only a partial eclipse of the theft by the three convicted but although we are not able to see it, there probably lies a total cover up of, corruption beyond our comprehension that we are kept completely in the dark about, writes Ruta Mave.

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Letter: Cannabis laws vs public opinion

Dear Editor, It was reported in the Cook Islands News on 9-12-23, a jury of nine women and two men found an Aitutaki man guilty of supplying cannabis following a two-day trial on Rarotonga.

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Thomas Wynne: Charting our course in a shifting world

There is always plenty of room at the table to eat. This is something my grandmother and mother have always said, and more importantly, they practiced what they preached, which is how we have lived our lives, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.

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Letter: Cook Islands voices matter

Dear Editor, A question to the Editor about the column published by Thomas Wynne. No discredit to his column at all. It can be a great read and it is an Opinion column and he does that and you have published it for many years.

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Letter: The real cost of their crimes

Dear Editor, I raise questions on the sentencing of former Cook Islands deputy prime minister Robert Tapaitau and two other former high-ranking Government officials (Nga Puna and Diane Charlie-Puna), handed jail terms for fraud and corruption charges.

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Ruta Mave: Egg-cellent adventure- Why Easter Egg Hunts are a tradition worth keeping

April first was also Easter Monday and the idea of a rabbit distributing colourful chocolate eggs seems like a plausible April fool prank, writes Ruta Mave.

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Letter: Marijuana a cure for costly pig feed?

Dear Editor, There is a special provision in the Narcotics and Misuse of Drugs Act 2004, number 33, that allows you to grow as many marijuana plants as you want, as long as you don’t use it for a pharmacological effect.

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Virtues in Paradise: Reviving what matters most

Easter is a holy season – honouring the sacrifice Jesus made by giving his life for humanity and celebrating that he rose from the dead, writes Linda Kavelin-Popov.

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Thomas Wynne: Amazing Grace: How a hymn was born from a life redeemed

Amazing Grace, that saved a wretch like me – such an amazing grace to us all, is captured so beautifully in a song so many of us would have sung at one time in our lives, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.

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Letter: Responsible ownership, not bans!

Dear Editor, I am struggling to comprehend the rationale behind the recent list of prohibited dog breeds released to the public by the Police department.

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