Opinion

Letter: Kata cartoon

Dear Editor, I write to register my disgust and contempt on the Kata cartoon that you published in your newspaper on Tuesday 6th June.

Pet Talk: Food glorious food

Food is one of life’s greatest pleasures. Sitting down to dinner is the best. The best. Well at least the best since breakfast. We can eat food for pleasure, but the reason we need food is for energy, writes Te Are Manu clinic medical director Dr Michael Baer.

Letter: Home grown medicinal cannabis products

The Government revealed in a press release on 19-5-23 to this paper that it does not have the money to start up a medicinal cannabis programme.

Letter: Original founders of Te Uki Ou

Dear Editor, Re Te Uki Ou School 30-year celebration story in the Cook Islands News last Monday, May 29. Interesting how original founders of Te Uki Ou were casually referred to as a group of parents. Nameless and irrelevant.

Thomas Tarurongo Wynne : Occupation right issue

Outward migration and depopulation are not new for us as our people have been doing this since the 1940s though it has become ever more present in the Pa Enua, in Ngaputoru and Rarotonga since the arrival and departure of Covid-19, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.

Kata: Turtle tour

Letter: ‘If Tahiti can pay a living wage, so can we’

Mr Editor, Monday’s Cook Islands News carried a story concerning minimum wage in Vanuatu. What caught this reader’s eye was the details of Cook Islands latest minimum wage at US$5.45 and French Polynesia at US$9.11.

Kata: Golden mile

Kata: Internet speed

Letters: Defendant facing raft of charges ‘out of control’

Kia orana Editor, While reading the news briefs from the Criminal Court, I noticed the article about a man who had been on the wrong side of the law in the past, and had recently started a spate of drinking and reoffending, that even his lawyer and the Justice of the Peace were puzzled about.

Kata: Ministry annual funding

Ruta Mave: ‘Simply the Best’: Tina Turner changed rugby league forever

The death of Tina Turner had fans all over the world grieving including male Australian league players and fans who to this day hold her song ‘Simply the Best’ as their anthem to the beautiful game, writes Ruta Mave.

Letter: Public versus private sector

Dear Editor, At over 40 per cent the Cook Islands has the greatest percentage of public servants in the free world.

Thomas Tarurongo Wynne: Where there is a demand there is a supply

Alcohol use and abuse in the cultural fabric of who we are as Cook Islanders is concerning, and its use as a medicine to numb the pain of many of our social ills, inner pain and heartache says more about ourselves then maybe we realise, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.

Kata: Super Fund

Letter: Where’re the checks and balances?

Dear Editor, This is not favourable treatment, it’s more like criminal hijacking at the highest level? (Favourable treatment: PERC report on Penrhyn cyclone shelters project, Tuesday 23 May 2023)

Letter: Supermarket closure

CITC’s announcement that, in the process of upgrading power for the Supermarket, that we will see changes in the fresh and dry foods departments can only be good news.

Letter: Medicinal cannabis debate

Dear Editor, An anonymous letter writer, in this paper, the Cook Islands News, made statements about myself and medicinal cannabis that are false.

Kata: Budget

Dr Michael Baer: Pa Enua visits for work ‘but still a pleasure’

I have been very lucky. Travelling to the outer islands regularly has become part of my job. In the last fortnight I have been to Mauke and Aitutaki. I went for work, but it was still a pleasure, writes Dr Michael Baer, Te Are Manu Vet Clinic medical director.