Opinion

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.

Letter: Starlink versus local provider

Dear Editor, I know there are naysayers out there who think Starlink is not offering any benefits to our economy and hence shouldn’t be allowed into the country.

Kata: Marijuana

Letter: Ex-Deputy PM pay

Now that “Hon” Tapaitau has been found guilty, and will be sentenced in due course, when will he repay all that extra money he was so unreasonably paid as DPM?

Letter: EVs replacing government fleet

Dear Editor, The 25 EV (electric vehicle) cars bought with public funds for the Pacific Islands Leaders Forum Meeting is a continuing story.

Kata: War

Pet Talk: Te Are Manu welcomes new medical director and adjusts service hours

The team at Te Are Manu (TAM) have hit the new year at full steam. We are very fortunate and thankful to the relief staff and volunteers who worked with TAM through the festive season. It was a busy time for human and animal alike.

Letter: Cannabis laws

I’m publicly asking the Prime Minister Mark Brown to make use of his power as our top elected official to live up to the promise and grant a full, complete and unconditional pardon to all our people who are still being subjected to this day to the brutal, barbaric and laws on marijuana.

Kata: Winston Peters

Letter: Roadside collection message ‘confusing’

Dear Editor, My apologies to the kids whose school holiday project became the finished piece of Infrastructure’s attempt to inform us about our roadside collection.