Opinion

Letter: Leave the Blackrock Preschool where it is!

Dear Editor, Kia Orana. Why is CIIC (Cook Islands Investment Corporation) evicting Apii Potiki from their really fit for purpose premises where they have been for so long, and moving them to House #52 on the corner of the main road?

Letter: Focusing on ‘growth’ in 2025

Dear Editor Good on the Prime Minister for focusing on “growth” in 2025. May this writer humbly suggest that the government begins with truly aggressive growth in the number of vehicles on our uncrowded and under-utilised roads?

Kata: Santa in Cook Islands

Thomas Wynne: Leave the ancient mountain where it is

For this current government to potentially threaten our ability to hold a New Zealand passport is a concern not just to those at home but to all of us who hold this passport and have akapapa or genealogical ties back to our beautiful Ipukarea, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.

TIS: Deep sea mining threatens our ocean and our way of life

Today’s article is contributed by Te Ipukarea Society president, and Ocean Ancestors advocate, June Hosking, currently living in Mauke.

Kata: Christmas feast

Kata: Cooks passport

Kata: Towel and sunscreen for Santa

Letter: Passport and stamp

Dear Editor, If the passport is primarily about identity, here’s an idea that avoids political and emotional upheaval: run a competition to design a new Cook Islands heritage immigration stamp.

Letter: Cultural and sports passport?

Dear Editor, Do we really need to be insulted any further? I am now sick and tired of Prime Minister Mark Brown’s continuous arrogance. (New Zealand rejects Cook Islands passport plan, Cook Islands News, December 23, 2024)

PM Mark Brown’s Christmas message: A time for reflection and joy

Kia Orana tatou katoatoa e te iti tangata tapu na Te Atua.

Christmas message from Opposition leader Tina Browne: Unity and hope

Kia orana tatou katoatoa ite aroa rahi e te humaria o to tatou Atu. Koia i akatae mai ia tatou ki teia openga mataiti.

Kata: Christmas stress

Ruta Mave: A call for peace and justice this Christmas

It is the eve of Christmas eve, where shopping for last minute Santa presents, food and drinks intensity is creeping to stratospheric proportions, writes Ruta Mave.

Letter: Passport proposal

Dear Editor, It was with disbelief that most New Zealanders watched on the evening Television 1 News, Sunday night (NZ time), the story about your Prime Minister, Mark Brown, intention to make a break from New Zealand.

Letter: Cook Islands passport - personal ambition or national interest?

Dear Editor, Here’s my observation of this focus on the Cook Islands Passport, designed I might add, to draw attention away from seabed mining.

Kata: ADB loan

Virtues in Paradise: The best present you can give

Christmas is nearly here, and there is so much to do – preparing for visiting family, finding gifts for the children, serving the church, writes Linda Kavelin-Popov.

Coconut trees, too much of a good thing

Coconut trees are often called the ‘Tree of Life’ in the Cook Islands and other Pacific islands because every part of the tree is useful. But too many coconut trees can be a problem.

Thomas Wynne: Recognising the signs of spiritual manipulation

Should any religion be free to travel like a vine as it pleases? Or should we learn to discern between something that bears good fruit and something that chokes, kills, and destroys? Thomas Tarurongo Wynne writes.