Opinion

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LETTERS: Suspended Deputy PM’s salary

Dear Editor, extraordinary that Hon. (Robert) Tapaitau is still being paid the Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) salary – $137,750! (Additional charges, Cook Islands News 25/3/22).

An hour to shape our future

Earth Hour 2022 focuses on the theme #ShapeOurFuture.

My reo lives in my heart

I am fortunate, because for as long as I can remember Maori was spoken in our home, just never to me, although at times about me, especially when I had misbehaved, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.

Total commitment to Christ

A person’s attitude is perhaps the hardest of all personal attributes to change.

Kata: Covid-19

LETTERS: Govt grant ‘delay frustrating’

Dear Editor, it seems that one cannot get it right, you have Sole Trader Grant application on a waiting list that has taken more than three weeks to process, when your application was already submitted on the first of the month.

Kata: Isolation

LETTERS: NZ ‘essential’ for support

Dear Editor, with the arrival of Covid-19 to the Cook Islands, and with it the need for our people to quarantine or to isolate in order to protect others, Government is providing financial support to those who cannot work due to infection or resident in the same households.

Covid-19 battle: There is light at the end of the tunnel

We cannot predict the future, but as Cook Islanders we can, should and always will hope and plan for the best, working to overcome each new challenge as it arises, writes Prime Minister Mark Brown.

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LETTERS: Reduction in welfare packages

Dear Editor, it was disheartening to hear on the radio talk back show on March 18, 2022 from TMO (Te Marae Ora Ministry of Health) staff and other agencies that the welfare packages that was issued to Covid-19 affected homes was reduced by the governing agencies.

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The eyes of the Lord are everywhere

Who you are when no one is watching is who you really are, and it’s this private self that is judged by God, not the self you pretend to be in public, writes Ruta Mave.

LETTERS: 'Reopen Pa Enua borders'

Dear Editor, why is the rest of the Pa Enua closed except Aitutaki?

Genie in a bottle: The magic of glass

Sand has become a hot commodity here on Rarotonga and Aitutaki. Yes, for the picture-perfect beach shots, but also for increased interest to build, writes Te Ipukarea Society.

What dies becomes the fertiliser of our lives

If we measure our lives in season, there are those seasons when the Sun shone so brightly and others where it was grey and cold and it just seemed to rain, rain and rain, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.

LETTERS: Animal rights and welfare

Dear Editor, following some time of having my neighbour’s piglets digging up my gardens and yard on a daily basis (a yearly event) I approached said neighbour – a good bloke and quietly and politely requested that he please contain his piglets on his own property.

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