Opinion

The Takitumu Conservation Area

Cleaning up around the office this past week we came across a fact sheet from around 1997 for the Takitumu Conservation Area (TCA).

LETTERS: What about our roads?

Dear Editor, it has been some time now since I have written an editorial to the paper, and it is because I generally like to take action directly with entities who can assist when I have a community issue to resolve.

Kata: Petrol

LETTERS: ‘Antivaxxers should thank the vaccinated’

Dear Editor, from May 1st traveling is easier with the lifting of vaccination mandates, no thanks to antivaxxers complaining to the paper.

Kata: Speed guns

LETTERS: Unseen casualty of Covid-19 pandemic

Dear Editor, the Prime Minister and his officials have got it wrong, there will never be a post Covid pandemic.

Kata: Permanent Residency

LETTERS: Foreign workers leaving

Dear Editor, with regards to Don Carlaw’s letter about foreign workers leaving.

Kata: Minimum wage increase

Moving Cook Islands past and beyond the Covid-19 pandemic

Government will continually be looking at how we can better manage our new reality of living with Covid-19, writes Prime Minister Mark Brown.

LETTERS: ‘NZ stealing our workers’

Dear Editor, Jacinda Ardern and her Government really have something to answer for over the way they have robbed Cook Islands businesses of most of their Filipino workers and also a lot of their Fijian workers.

School holiday programme to boost local environmental learning

This Earth Day, Te Ipukarea Society is creating an opportunity for stakeholder collaboration and a space for local environmental learning for our future leaders.

The choices we make shape our experience of life

Easter reminds those of us of faith that under immense stress and pressure, Jesus made a choice and one that would lead him to the Cross – this is something many of us took time and reflected on yesterday, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.

Kata: Vaccine

LETTERS: ‘Start investing in our people’

Dear Editor, how are Fijian/foreign workers able to ‘live’ in the Cooks with a job that pays minimum wage and ‘still’ send money back to their families?

Kata: Isolation

LETTERS: ‘People need to speak up!’

Dear Editor, I have had two conversations with two different people this week who tested positive for Covid but did not isolate or report themselves to Te Marae Ora.

Kata: Rakahanga Vax

LETTERS: ‘Everyone is feeling the struggle’

Dear Editor, nothing comes for free!

Looking for silver lining as everything can be a lesson

The earth revolves in orbit around the sun in 365 days, six hours and nine minutes at a speed ranging from 29.29 to 30.29 km/s.