Opinion

Kata: Te Kukupa II

Letter: Fire dangers

A few well-known retailers are flaunting several laws by selling electrical items that have flaws.

Letter: ‘We’re not bold enough’

Dear Editor, It’s been long pointed out to the Government that there is an existing legal framework to legalise both the importation and cultivation of medicinal cannabis under the Ministry of Health Act 2013 and the amended Drugs Act 2009 respectively.

Kata: Grassroots partnership

Letter: MFEM clarifies business loans

Dear Editor, In response to the letter from Covid Bank on August 3, 2023, I would like to inform your readers about the loans the Cook Island Government made during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Kata: Possible future in Aitutaki

Letter: ‘We have gone backwards’

Dear Editor, C’mon you ding-a-lings – you are sending a small sports team to the Youth Commonwealth Games in Trinidad and Tobago and we don’t even know who they are and what sports they are representing us and what is their level of performance and what chances they have to bring home a medal?

Letter: Anti-obesity drugs

As my last effort to generate some awareness and discussion, a later article in Nature says that “a weekly dose of Wegovy (aka semaglutide) slashed the risk of severe cardiovascular events by 20 per cent in adults with heart disease and either overweight or obesity.

Letter: Too little too late for Aitutaki lagoon and reef

A couple of weeks back the National Environment Service (NES) announced $400,000 funding to undertake a foreshore study of Rarotonga and Aitutaki.

Kata: Mushroom soup

RUTA MAVE: Our creatives deserve better

If people paid thousands for a church rebuild, they would never see, they would equally pay to see their culture captured on film, writes Ruta Mave.

Kata: Anti-obesity drugs

A region committed to peace: 38 years of the Treaty of Rarotonga

Nearly four decades since the Treaty of Rarotonga was signed, which established the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone, it is more important than ever before, writes Australian High Commissioner to the Cook Islands Phoebe Smith.

PM Brown meets with Troika Leaders to discuss Forum priorities

Prime Minister Mark Brown, who is the Pacific Islands Forum chair, had the first formal meeting of the Troika Leaders at the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS) in Suva, Fiji, this week.

Letter: Pick up the tita

Dear Editor, Can you please enquire and tell your readers the size of the budget for the National Environment Service?

Kata: Plant for health and wealth

Kata: Potholes

Letter: Potholes

Earlier this week, the writer and spouse were travelling anti-clockwise through Puaikura at dusk and, just before the new asphalt roadway gifted to Tinomana Ariki by the ever-generous Chris Vaile of Triad, two tourists on a motor scooter, in the fading light of the day, tried to swerve to miss one of the uncountable potholes.

Letter: ‘Don’t diss our uniforms’

Dear Editor, To the letter writer who criticised the beautiful uniforms of our youth teams at the 7th Youth Commonwealth Games in Trinidad and Tobago.

Kata: Specialist