Opinion

Kata: Road surface

Thomas Wynne: How do we treat strangers in our land?

As a son of migrant parents, and having endured the time we now know as the Dawn Raids, I have always been cognizant of the racism we felt as a community of migrant workers, and the children of migrant workers, into a country that at first welcomed us with open arms and then, closed that door again with Pacific people still being deported in New Zealand in the middle of the night, writes Thomas Wynne.

Letters: ‘It's incomprehensible’

Dear Editor, New Zealand Drug Foundation executive director Sarah Helm told this newspaper over a year ago that in New Zealand both the industry and patients have struggled with our medicinal cannabis regulations because they are overly restrictive.

Letters: What is going on?

Kia Orana, There has not been a single public TV /radio/or Cook Islands News ad announcement about the work apparently taking place on the bridge / stream just adjacent to the Rutaki side of the Vaimaanga/Sheraton Hotel site.

Kata: Work Visa fee

Kata: Work visa

Kata: Starlink

Kata: National Environment Service

Kata: Immigration

Ruta Mave: Whistleblowers versus the people in power

The power of people in power to intimidate is not absent from our little community, writes Ruta Mave.

Letter: Government ‘lacks the intestinal fortitude’

Your Friday paper reported that the Government is looking to legalise medicinal cannabis by Christmas because they find it too difficult to get the job done before that.

Letter: Improving our education system

Dear Editor, Education is of paramount importance in every country, as it serves as a foundation for a successful and prosperous society.

Kata: Drum up

Virtues in Paradise: Too stressed to be blessed?

How are you really? Do you ever stop to ask yourself that question? Or like most people, do you sometimes drift into a state of gradually increasing anxiety or low-level depression? By Linda Kavelin-Popov.

Thomas Wynne: We walk in two worlds

‘E rua oku, takai’anga vaevae i teia nei ao’ is a phrase often thrown around by many of us that walk in te ao Maori and te ao Papa’a, but how true is it, questions Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.

Letter: Liquor licences

Dear Editor, A recent letter writer to Cook Islands News suggested that the Liquor Licensing Authority, when publishing public notices of liquor license applications, identify the actual location of the intended (legal) drug outlets, instead of just naming the relevant village.

Kata: Fact Find Medicinal Marijuana

Kata: Technical recession

Kata: Money on food

PET TALK: Unwanted puppies and how to stop them

I have always admired people who are able to start a job and see it through, despite not seeming to make progress, writes Dr Michael Baer of Te Are Manu Vet Clinic.