Opinion

Kata: Air NZ

Tata Crocombe: We must secure our routes to key strategic airports

The Cook Islands will never reach its full economic potential without greatly improved air services that only a national airline can achieve. The Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns crashed the tourism industry, highlighting the vulnerability of the Cook Islands economy, which is 85 percent dependent on tourism.

Dr Michael Baer: The dogs of war

With ANZAC day marked yesterday and poppies everywhere, has anyone noticed that some of the poppies are purple? Purple poppies celebrate the animals who have served in almost every human conflict in history, writes Dr Michael Baer, Te Are Manu Vet Clinic medical director.

Kata: War

Kata: Debt

Ruta Mave: Our greed for food is like an addiction’

The 21st century prides itself on its technological advancements but according to the Bible, Moses was the first person to receive information from the cloud onto his tablet on Mt Sinai. It was the ten commandments. This happened over a thousand years before Jesus was born, writes Ruta Mave.

Lynnsay Rongokea Francis: Amended Crimes Act ‘progressive piece of legislation’

I commend the Government and the Opposition MPs for the passing of the Crimes (Sexual Offences) Amendment Act 2023 (“the Act”).

Thomas Tarurongo Wynne: Preserving our culture

It’s not enough to talk about our culture, we have to live and breathe it, says Papa Mitaera Ngatae Teatuakaro Michael Tavioni BEM. For us the question is how do we breathe life into our culture, our arts and the artists who continue to put our country and culture on the world stage, and usually at their own or someone else’s expense, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.

Kata: Machinery

Letter: Continuing inflation . . .

KiaOrana, Cook Islands News front page item, 18 April 2023 refers…TAU can try whatever sidestep they want to, trying to suggest that those fuel increases were continuing to affect power rates in Rarotonga and Aitutaki.

Kata: Weather, internet

Kata: Outdated law

Tata Crocombe: Diversifying the Cook Islands economy

Hotelier Tata Crocombe proposes top three short, medium, and long-term action items to reinforce links between creative industries, tourism, education, and technology.

Ruta Mave: Embracing the rainbow community

The decision to recognise our rainbow community has finally shown there is a heart in the ‘tin man’ politicians, writes Ruta Mave.

Letter: Delay in court hearing

Leave it to Norman George to be so inconvenienced from having to wait for a Family Court hearing called at short notice to hear an urgent application for protection orders for a Cook Islands woman.

Letter: Decriminalising homosexuality

Dear Editor, Saturday’s headline, “We have made history” records two historical events in the Cook Islands.

Thomas Tarurongo Wynne: The power of Parliament

Parliament is where the needs of the country, and not a single electorate, are met, discussed and turned into law so as the people can thrive and not just survive, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.

Kata: Roads

Letter: Delay in court hearing

Dear Editor, I wish to complain about the poor attitude of the Ministry of Justice in allocating the sittings of the High Court of the Cook Islands.