Opinion

Virtues in Paradise: Too stressed to be blessed?

How are you really? Do you ever stop to ask yourself that question? Or like most people, do you sometimes drift into a state of gradually increasing anxiety or low-level depression? By Linda Kavelin-Popov.

Thomas Wynne: We walk in two worlds

‘E rua oku, takai’anga vaevae i teia nei ao’ is a phrase often thrown around by many of us that walk in te ao Maori and te ao Papa’a, but how true is it, questions Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.

Letter: Liquor licences

Dear Editor, A recent letter writer to Cook Islands News suggested that the Liquor Licensing Authority, when publishing public notices of liquor license applications, identify the actual location of the intended (legal) drug outlets, instead of just naming the relevant village.

Kata: Fact Find Medicinal Marijuana

Kata: Technical recession

Kata: Money on food

PET TALK: Unwanted puppies and how to stop them

I have always admired people who are able to start a job and see it through, despite not seeming to make progress, writes Dr Michael Baer of Te Are Manu Vet Clinic.

Kata: Chickens

Kata: Te Kukupa II

Ruta Mave: Standing up for what is right

The absence of courage in our society these days is not cowardice, it is complacency, conformity and contradiction, writes Ruta Mave.

Letter: Immigration regulation

E te Etita, E marekakore nei au i te ture ou (Regulation) i anga ia e te Immigration.

Letter: Walking the talk

Dear Editor, We will find out today whether the recent review of the budget by the Public Accounts Committee was a waste of time or not.

Kata: NZ Economy

Kata: PERCA

Thomas Tarurongo Wynne: We belong to the land

Our connection to the land is all that keeps us from the ravages of a secular, commodified, and consumerist world beyond the safety of our reefs, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.

Letter: How effective are warnings?

Dear Editor, Cook Islands Police spokesman Trevor Pitt says, in response to the suggestion that the Cook Islands Game Fishing Club might have breached the conditions of its liquor license by continuing to serve a very drunk patron that, ‘A warning to liquor outlets is long overdue’.

Kata: Commonwealth Heads

Letter: A warning to liquor outlets is long overdue

Mr Editor, Friday’s newspaper tells the story of the school teacher’s Court case and her seeking name suppression while facing charges of drink driving after registering 1000 micrograms of alcohol per litre of breath.

Kata: Hospital Food

Letter: Living under God’s blessing

Dear Editor, I am enjoying reading the series written by Howard Henry on the arrival of Christianity to the Cook Islands 200 years. The one on Atiu on Saturday, June 10 2023 was an amazing read.