Opinion

Virtues in Paradise: Seeing through a lens of virtues

The way we see others has a deep impact on them and also on us., writes Linda Kavelin-Popov.

Thomas Wynne: What’s in a vote?

By the time this editorial goes to print, we will know the outcome of the New Zealand General Election, and that outcome will have been determined by hundreds, if not thousands of voters, who also live and reside in the Cook Islands and overseas, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.

Letter: Australian Indigenous Voice referendum

Kia Orana! My husband and I left Cook Islands just yesterday (Tuesday) after a 10-day vacation on Rarotonga. The weather was not kind during our stay but the friendliness of the local people more than made up for that, on this our fifth visit.

Letter: Marijuana doctor

Dear Editor, I think you are biased. You print the same stuff from Steve Boggs regularly but not from other people.

Letter: Govt needs to reassess ‘no issues’ stance

Dear Editor, In reference to Government’s “no issues” statement regarding the road closure (‘No issues’: Government on Sheraton road closure, Cook Islands News, October 12). There are a couple of important issues that I can think of that need to be addressed.

Letter: Vaimaanga ‘horseshoe’ road plan

Dear Editor, I have read with interest the recent articles and smoke signals in your paper relating to the proposed and scary horseshoe road plan for the old Sheraton site.

Kata: Medical Marijuana Law

Kata: Winston Peters

Letter: Boggs takes a slog

Ruth Mave's article about me in your Monday paper was filled with ignorance regarding medicinal cannabis.

Kata: Cabinet

Kata: Trump

RUTA MAVE: Cook Islands should invest in agriculture, not marijuana and seabed mining

If the question is “What are the Crook Islands good for?”, the shameful answer is that they are good at begging for money, but shameful at giving it to help others, writes Ruta Mave.

Kata: Ministry of Justice

Kata: International Law

Letter: Leave us alone already

Dear Editor, A large majority of Cook Islanders favour legalising medicinal cannabis, as of 2022, 64 per cent of the formal votes cast in the last election support legislation.

Kata: Cannabis

Pet Talk: ‘Don’t eat reef fish, or feed it to your pets’

Ciguatera poisoning, or as we know it, fish poisoning, occurs all over the world in animals and people. We can’t cure it in animals, all we can do is make them comfortable, writes Dr Michael Baer, Te Are Manu Vet Clinic medical director.

Letter: New Vaimaanga development

I refer to the letter regarding public concerns over the ring road (more of a horseshoe road really) which is being promoted as part of the development of the old Sheraton site.

Letter: Noisy motorbikes a menace

Dear Editor, It was with great delight that I read in Monday’s Cook Islands News (2/10/23), that there are at least two other persons on Rarotonga who share my frustration at the number of “noisy and illegal” motorbikes yahooing around various parts of Rarotonga.

Letter: Why fix something that isn’t broken?

Dear Editor, Please can somebody tell me, why we are fixing something at a huge expense, that isn’t broken?