Opinion

LETTERS: Inequality, inequity and gender bias

Dear Editor, the drawing Kata presented for International Women’s Day is an absolute disgrace.

Kata: Self Isolation

LETTERS: In search of the truth

Dear Editor, when a Prime Minister says something, people normally pay attention, but when that same Prime Minister, Mark Brown in this case, utters untruths or a lie, someone has to call him to account.

Kata: Isolation

LETTERS: Stop the marijuana war

Dear Editor, all wars are expensive and the Cook Islands government War on marijuana has been no different.

Kata: Gender Bias

LETTERS: Actions speak louder than words

Dear Editor, to those commenting on the visiting Mexican artist and what seems to this writer to be very inviting artwork on the sea wall at Nikao, the last time I looked at a world map Mexico fronts on the same Pacific Ocean as does the sea wall.

Kata: Covid-19

Break the bias

The mixed messages girls grow up with are relentless - don’t mess with bad boys, find yourself a nice boy.

‘Ka mua, ka muri’: Walking backwards into the future

When western thinking arrived in what would soon be called the Cook Islands in 1903, Missionary advanced the way we saw the world, the way we saw ourselves and the way we saw time had already begun to unfold as we unravelled all our traditional knowledge, customs and ways of knowing and put them in a box handed to us by our colonisers with the word “etene” on it.

‘We are the people’

The following comments are made, in part, as a response to the statements made by Prime Minister Mark Brown on Cook Islands Television on March 1, 2022.

Kata: Medicine

LETTERS: Te Kukupa’s final hurrah

Dear Editor, can the Minister of Police and PM Mark Brown explain how much did the big booze up for the Kukupa at the Avatiu wharf last Friday evening cost the tax payers of this country?

KATA: Mass testing

LETTER: Prevention is better than cure

Dear Editor, I write to ask people like Mr Nubono, who came on TV the night before last, not to glibly say things like “Covid is not dangerous”; “not to worry”, “that it’s just a flu”, etc. Tell that to the families of about six million people around the world so far who have died from it.

Kata: Ukraine Resistance

LETTERS: ‘Stop arguing and work together’

Dear Editor, how about if we stop arguing and work together?

Kata: Fines