Opinion

Ruta Mave: Be thankful while the countdown is on

Finally, it is December and we can hear Christmas coming with all the jingles bells and whistles.

TIS: Scientists raise alarm over radioactivity risks in polymetallic nodule mining

Is the radioactivity of polymetallic nodules an problem? The simple answer to that question is, we do not know. Yet.

Letter: Radio ga ga

Kia Orana, I am just an average PR enjoying my dinner and listening to my local station Cook Islands Radio. It is so frustrating to night after night, listen to the third replay of a music reel during 12 hours.

Letter: Leaders need to pull fingers

Dear Editor, It is so good to see that we have won medals from the swimming team at the Pacific Games in the Solomon Islands.

Letter: Rarotonga’s Death toll: Is it statistically abnormal?

Dear Editor, I once again find myself having the blessed good fortune to spend multiple weeks in wonderful Rarotonga.

Kata: CIFA Pacific Games

Letter: Friday Night Christmas dinner and fundraiser

Not everyone goes out at night to boogie and brawl! The smarter ones, the older generation does it all in style! And it is not an all-out boozing party like the excuses some of our friends give not to attend. Most of us don’t drink! Alcohol and non-alcohol drinks are available.

Letter: ‘Keep shaking the tree, Thomas’

Dear Editor, I agree with much of what Thomas Wynne has been writing in the Cook Islands News over the last three Saturdays with regard to re-examining the Albert Henry Case of 1978-79

Kata: Crash

Letter: Quad bike accident

I am writing to you as a continuing returning tourist whose family have rewardingly participated in most tourist activities the island has to offer over approximately a 20-year period.

Letter: Wynne’s note omits key fact

I wish to comment briefly on “The Last of the Pooh-Bahs”, by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne, 18 November 2023, although I do not wish to relitigate the “fly-in voters” case.

Kata: Cost of goods

Ruta Mave: Israel’s retaliation greater than the Hamas crime?

On Thursday, November 24, the whole of America stopped to celebrate Thanksgiving, and thankfully, missiles of mass destruction stopped falling on the Gaza strip as part of a 4-day ceasefire with negotiations to release Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners, writes Ruta Mave.

Letter: ‘Pontificating without knowledge’

Dear Editor, I too have been dismayed and concerned about Thomas Wynne’s scurrilous article “The last of the pooh-bahs” in the Cook Islands News (Saturday, November 18) attacking Sir Gavin Donne and others of the Albert Henry saga.

Kata: Rain dancer

Thomas Wynne: Shaking the tree- A reexamination of the Albert Henry case

Me ruru koe i te pu rakau, matakite eaa te ka pururu mai, if you shake the tree, be careful what falls out, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.

Letter: Caring is sharing – Taporoporo, Tu’atu’a mamarie

Meitaki maata our dear Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Awakened in the early hours of Friday, November 24, to a most extraordinary sound of music so nice, cool, silent and gentle but lo, it was only raindrops falling.

Letter: Quad bike accident

I am writing to you as a continuing returning tourist whose family have rewardingly participated in most tourist activities the island has to offer over approximately a 20-year period.

Letter: A champion of the rule of law

Dear Editor, I did not witness the earlier years of Albert Henry’s reign so cannot comment on his contribution in that period, but when I returned to Rarotonga to work as a lawyer in 1975, Albert had become a tyrant committed to staying in power. This was at the expense of hundreds of Cook Islands families who stood up against the abuses of government. Most were forced to leave their homeland to survive.