Opinion

Letter: Obesity

I was very surprised and pleased to receive a briefing from Nature magazine that anti-obesity drugs are available.

Letter: Legal aid

The miserly $40k budget for legal aid is continuing evidence that our "honourable" members of Parliament honour nothing but their own inflated egos and, in too many cases, inflated bellies.

Letter: The fashion police say ‘save’ the 80s

No one wants to say this out loud before our youth compete at the Commonwealth Games but it has to be said.

Kata: New black pearl

Letter: Show them the door

We are one year removed from the general election where 64 per cent of the formal votes cast were in favour of legalising medicinal cannabis.

Letter: Award winning plan ‘ridiculous’

Dear Editor, I just came across an article which I had kept and put aside, from Cook Islands News, September 13, 2022, titled “20+ years timeframe for award winning town plan”.

Kata: Emergency services

Ruta Mave: The weather apps can’t seem to get it right

There are places in the world who need rain – you should be grateful, you should feel blessed, writes Ruta Mave.

Kata: Public money

Thomas Wynne: Free association with New Zealand has never been free

As we celebrated 58 years as a country, on the 4th of August 1965, we, like so many other countries reflect on that journey to statehood and the challenges ahead for our country today, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.

Virtues in Paradise: Atirai’s story of determination and success

Everyday heroes exist all around us, yet only when we pause to listen to their stories can we be inspired by their courage or learn from their wisdom, writes Linda Kavelin-Popov.

Kata: Pacific Mini Games

Letter: Government loans to businesses

Dear Editor, The $7 million loaned out during the Covid pandemic by the Government for business start-ups and development needs to be fully accounted for to ensure all loans have been spent for the purpose intended (Cook Islands businesses receive $7 million in Government loans, Cook Islands News, July 27).

Pet talk: Kitten season is on the way

I really love this time of year. The whales are here and put on a show for anyone who wants to see them. They jump, roll, slap their tails; generally, they just seem to be having fun, writes Dr Michael Baer, Te Are Manu Vet Clinic medical director.

Kata: Price Tribunal

Ruta Mave: Rarotonga roosters: ‘Proud by day loud by night’

Roosters are bold and beautiful during the day, strutting around in their fancy plumage of sun kissed orange, yellow sandy creams, rich emerald greens and poignant dark ebony. Proud by day loud by night, what is the point of them? Ruta Mave explains.

Letter: Loss of sand and Motu Toa

Dear Editor, With regards to Des Eggelton’s response to the Te Ipukarea Society article last Saturday (22 July 2023), “We can’t go back but we can look back and learn”, we appreciate his first-hand knowledge in correcting the incorrect statement that sand for the airport had come from Muri.

Kata: Cold, wet and rainy

Kata: Turtle Tour wars