Opinion

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

LETTERS: The ‘painting’ is on the wall?

Dear Editor, I am writing to make my situation public in regards to the mural being painted on the Nikao Seawall.

War can’t give life it can only take it away

People in countries that have suffered war are faced with the dilemma of packing what is most important in your life into one suitcase and start running.

Golden apples or forbidden fruit?

It was very clear from the speeches made at this week’s licencing ceremony that government fully expects exploration to lead to full scale mining as a logical and natural progression, writes Te Ipukarea Society.

LETTERS: Seabed minerals exploration

Dear Editor, seabed mining announcements for the three companies, followed by a glamorous signing ceremony, all smiles and accolades by PM Mark Brown.

Never before has the word become so weaponised

Listening to the flurry of news reports on the invasion of the sovereign country Ukraine by President Putin and his army, I couldn’t help but notice the comparison between other narratives of tyranny, nazification and the weaponisation of words like freedom fighters around us today.

Kata: Russian Imperialism

Masters of our own destiny

Charles Dickens in his most famous novel ‘Tale of Two Cities’, opened up his story line with this most historically popular and famous statements – “It was the best of times and it was the worst of time”, writes Bishop Tutai Pere.