Opinion

Letters: Hello academics

Kia koe e te Etita, Kua mataora au i te kite i te au aronga katu marama no te au university tuketuke o te pa enua i vao ake ia Rarotonga tei tere mai i teia epetoma i topa ake nei.

Kata: Obsolete notes

Kata: Fukushima Nuclear wasterwater

Letters: Warning signs are still being ignored

Dear Editor, This letter is in response to the front page story the other day about the dangers of swimming alone at Avaavaroa passage in Takitumu despite the many signs around the beachside.

Reuben Tylor: Looking at Cooks fisheries

Most people in the Cook Islands know there is a problem with our fisheries resource. I want to have a look at this problem in this first article and then in subsequent articles look at some of the reasons this might have happened, as well as identify the social and economic impact on our country, writes Reuben Tylor.

Kata: Surfers ignore warnings

Ruth Mave: The power of any message lies in the singer, not the song

Hallelujah is a song originally penned and sung by Leonard Cohen that has been sung by many singers where some elevate the song greater than others, writes Ruth Mave.

Letters: ‘Certainly more than adequate for any public servant’

Kia Orana Editor, Reading the article in Cook Islands News, July 5, 2023, regarding Nga Puna’s salary and bonus payments makes scary reading.

Smaller papers explained

Readers have been asking why Cook Islands News has reduced the number of pages in mid-week editions in recent weeks.

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.

Kata: Performance bonus

Kata: Kings Rep residence

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.

Kata: MFEM

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’.

Kata: Road surface

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.