Opinion

EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST: Daily Newspaper For Sale

The owners of Cook Islands News are seeking expressions of interest from parties interested in acquiring the publishing and printing business.

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Pet Talk: Tethering, tying or torturing?

There were several complaints. People were very distressed to see the degree of damage. And she couldn’t walk writes Dr Michael Baer.

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Ruta Mave: ‘We are privileged, we have first world problems’

As Rose lay huddling on the floating door, Jack clung to the side of it while his body was immersed in the freezing waters after the Titanic had hit the iceberg.

Letter: The effective method is ‘invisible’

Dear Editor, The Wednesday 28 June headline story, ‘$400k to be spent on coastal and foreshore erosion research’.

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Thomas Wynne: How do we treat strangers in our land?

As a son of migrant parents, and having endured the time we now know as the Dawn Raids, I have always been cognizant of the racism we felt as a community of migrant workers, and the children of migrant workers, into a country that at first welcomed us with open arms and then, closed that door again with Pacific people still being deported in New Zealand in the middle of the night, writes Thomas Wynne.

Letters: ‘It's incomprehensible’

Dear Editor, New Zealand Drug Foundation executive director Sarah Helm told this newspaper over a year ago that in New Zealand both the industry and patients have struggled with our medicinal cannabis regulations because they are overly restrictive.

Letters: What is going on?

Kia Orana, There has not been a single public TV /radio/or Cook Islands News ad announcement about the work apparently taking place on the bridge / stream just adjacent to the Rutaki side of the Vaimaanga/Sheraton Hotel site.

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Ruta Mave: Whistleblowers versus the people in power

The power of people in power to intimidate is not absent from our little community, writes Ruta Mave.

Letter: Government ‘lacks the intestinal fortitude’

Your Friday paper reported that the Government is looking to legalise medicinal cannabis by Christmas because they find it too difficult to get the job done before that.

Letter: Improving our education system

Dear Editor, Education is of paramount importance in every country, as it serves as a foundation for a successful and prosperous society.

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