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No debt in China deal
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Niki Rattle: A call for stronger human rights protections
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Solid and Hazardous Waste Bill referred to Parliament committee
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Cook Islands has its first mosque
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CI Muslim opens up about her faith and journey
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Man found guilty of rape, burglary
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Opinion
Ruta Mave: When ‘special friends’ become predators
Grooming used to be a political terminology used when speaking of an upcoming potential candidate for future elections. It still resides in the political arena but it has become a sickness, Ruta Mave writes.
Ruta Mave: Why does corruption continue?
The Transparency International report indicates bribes and sexual favours are part of getting anything done in the ‘Crook Islands’. The mothers fighting for sport funding might need to address their skill set and try again.
Letter: Food quality standards
Dear Editor, I would like to highlight two recent instances of concern.
Letter: Looking for ‘female’ Tiare Māori
Dear Editor, Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust is doing some research on the local types of Tiare Māori and Tiare Taina. At present, it looks likely that we have about 10 of each.
Letter: Olympic funding decisions questioned
The contentious decisions made by CISNOC is insisting two average paddlers should be funded before two Olympians.
Letter: Milestone or millstone?
Monday’s newspaper reported on the call for MFEM to come clean on the questions surrounding the 17km of Te Mato Vai pipes that were dug up and replaced.
Letter: Rarotonga’s biggest problem
Dear Editor, I have been visiting family in Rarotonga for the last month, fortunate to be able to enjoy the natural beauty of the island.
Pet Talk: Something to crow about . . .
When I was a child, we lived in a small country called Swaziland. It has since changed its name, to Eswatini. I can remember a lot about the country and our time there, even though it was a long time ago. One of the things I remember well are the bags of chicken heads and feet, sold in shops as “Walkie-Talkie”. A fantastic name.
Letter: Where are the welcome signs?
When is Aviation Security Services going to do something about the sloppy appearance and behaviour of their staff at the airport?
Letter: Allocations of Olympic funding
I write in support of other families who are still waiting for promised funding from Tokyo Olympics and are questioning the allocations of Olympic Solidarity Funding.
RUTA MAVE: Deaths, taxes and sabbaticals
We may not wish to lose our close ones but we less wish to hold onto them if it means a living death.
LETTER: Questionable funding allocations
Dear Editor, I write as a solo mother unhappy with our national sports committee CISNOC’s decisions with respect to funding allocations.
LETTER: Where is the customer service?
Dear Editor, I’m a local of many years. My partner is a Cook Islander.
RUTA MAVE: A promise to love and to hold until death do us part
With the statistics of marriage these days saying only 55 per cent remain married, the average length of time for a marriage is around 20 years.
Letter: Stats on vaccinated catching Covid
Dear Editor, So reinfection rates for Covid-19 are on the rise, mask wearing being encouraged (hopefully not being made compulsory in public places and just for those who do feel safer wearing one).
LETTER: Justice system
Our Cook Islands legislature, inadvertently, or otherwise, has created a perfect storm of institutionalised injustice. Beat the crap out of your wife, and then burn her with a cigarette and you get a lecture from the Court and sent home. Beat the crap out of your wife and then burn her with a marijuana cigarette […]
LETTER: Plastic pollution: ‘Do as I say, not as I do’
Cook Islands News reported on December 2 of the “emotional plea” made by the Cook Islands delegation to the 190 nations gathered to negotiate a new treaty on plastic pollution.
LETTER: Collaborate on customary law
Dear Editor, Kia Orana e te tangata ma’ata o te Nuti Peapa. Inangaro au i te ‘ōronga atu i toku manako no runga i tēia tumu manako pu’apinga i runga nei tei tātā’ia i roto i tā au nūti peapa o te Ru’itoru rā 28 no Tītema. Te turu nei au i te manako e […]
RUTA MAVE: Yesterday is gone, tomorrow never comes, today is a gift because it’s the present
As children we make impressions of the world from how we saw it or interpreted it growing up. As adults we have the ability to make decisions about life different from what we experienced, writes Ruta Mave.
LETTER: Get set for financial blessings
Dear Editor, Kia orana! I, Pastor Temu Ngarima George, managing director of Tevaka Nui Mission, would like to share the blessing that the good Lord brought to my attention for the next 10 years for this paradise called Cook Islands.
Sheraton sign please!
Dear Editor, If I had a dollar for every time a visitor to the Cook Islands has asked me what the story is behind the old Sheraton Hotel complex, I’d be a wealthy man and maybe have a castle in Poland.