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Articles by Ruta Tangiiau Mave
Ruta Mave: Rarotonga’s water treatment system – a costly unnecessary mess?
Monday 29 April 2024 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
The water quality didn’t need fixing, the pressure did. The water isn’t tainted, the Government is, writes Ruta Mave.
Ruta Mave: Are we ready for the UN high chair?
Monday 15 April 2024 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
The American president JF Kennedy said “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what can you do for your country.” Our Prime Minister’s motto appears to be “Ask every country you meet what can they do for our country”, writes Ruta Mave.
Ruta mave: Beyond the partial eclipse- A total cover-up of corruption?
Monday 8 April 2024 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
The trial may be only a partial eclipse of the theft by the three convicted but although we are not able to see it, there probably lies a total cover up of, corruption beyond our comprehension that we are kept completely in the dark about, writes Ruta Mave.
Ruta Mave: Egg-cellent adventure- Why Easter Egg Hunts are a tradition worth keeping
Tuesday 2 April 2024 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
April first was also Easter Monday and the idea of a rabbit distributing colourful chocolate eggs seems like a plausible April fool prank, writes Ruta Mave.
Ruta Mave: Zero tolerance for corruption- CJ Keane sends powerful message
Monday 25 March 2024 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
The happy family photo in the paper taken outside the court after the sentencing before descending the steps into the police vehicles waiting to take the three convicts to jail totally bemused me, writes Ruta Mave.
Ruta Mave: Are we eating ourselves to death?
Monday 18 March 2024 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
In the Pacific, large people denoted wealth to eat and store fat for times of famine from cyclones. In European societies poor women were fat while, husbands were thin. But rich men were fat and rich wives thin. Now rich or poor everyone is fat, writes Ruta Mave.
Ruta Mave: The unspoken realities of strong women
Monday 11 March 2024 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Women’s day was celebrated with shared food and drink involving conversation, discussion and sharing of platitudes to being a unique, diverse, all-encompassing woman. Women waved flags of unity and sisterhood holding their heads high. Then, later that day, they would return to their roles as wife, mother, other at the beck and call of men. By Ruta Mave.
Ruta Mave: Empowering women to reclaim their dignity
Monday 4 March 2024 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Opinion
Twenty years ago, Alan Rickman’s character in Love Actually bought his secretary a gold necklace, his wife Emma Thompson discovers this fact. Her emotions of grief and betrayal played out on film as she struggles to compose herself so she can pretend nothing is wrong, has reduced many a wife to tears as the stark and awful reality for women whose husband cheats. Most wives choose to stay, writes Ruta Mave.
Ruta Mave: The price of deception: Love, lies and power plays
Monday 26 February 2024 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
There is no difference between a mistress and a prostitute, because the base of beneficial rewards lies solely on the delivery of sex, writes Ruta Mave.
Ruta Mave: Are MPs living up to their ‘honourable’ title?
Monday 19 February 2024 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Oh, dear it seems we do have adulterers in our midst who hold high standing public office. Adultery is not against the law – you can’t be charged for it. But it is against God’s Seventh commandment law; so how many ‘hail Mary’s’ is the penance for breaking it? Ruta Mave writes.
Ruta Mave: The seventh commandment - ‘Thou shalt not commit adultery’
Monday 12 February 2024 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Opinion
In the religious community we live in, is there any denomination of church that allows or believes that breaking the seventh commandment from God is, okay?
Ruta Mave: What goes around comes around
Monday 5 February 2024 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Last week I was looking for some positivity to write about, after realising corruption featured as the common theme in my articles last year, writes Ruta Mave.
Ruta Mave: Looking on the bright side
Monday 29 January 2024 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
After four years of writing a weekly opinion column there comes a time that you wonder what can be written that is different. For inspiration I looked at what I had written this time last year and not surprisingly, I found the same problems by the same people in the news, corruption and lack of health have not changed.
Ruta Mave: Time for women to demand the credit they deserve
Monday 22 January 2024 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
This acceptance of male power tripping behaviours as normal shows just how indoctrinated it is and how we continue to be slaves to patriarchy, writes Ruta Mave.
Ruta Mave: What’s in a flag?
Monday 15 January 2024 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Opinion
The first official interview for Prime Minister Mark Brown was a nine-year-old interviewer who asked “What’s your favourite country apart from the Cook Islands, and are you thinking of changing our flag?”
Ruta Mave: The silent struggle for morality in the Cook Islands
Monday 8 January 2024 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
The silent acceptance of constant abuses of power by those in leadership roles from corruption, theft, fraud, assault on women and drink driving is frankly despicable, writes Ruta Mave.
Ruta Mave: Beyond midnight: Embracing a new year with meaning, not mandates
Wednesday 3 January 2024 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
We need to protect our culture from becoming boring, beige bromeliads and insist on remaining bright colourful Cook Islanders, writes Ruta Mave.
Ruta Mave: A tribute to the mums who make Christmas magical
Wednesday 27 December 2023 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Your mum does everything for your family, this year make sure she gets more than one present, writes Ruta Mave.
Ruta Mave: Where’s the Opposition we deserve?
Monday 18 December 2023 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
I object – I am an objector. I oppose because I don’t agree. No, I oppose because I am the opposition, writes Ruta Mave.
Ruta Mave: We all need to be listening and looking
Monday 11 December 2023 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Local, National
Men treating women as important and deserving respect at home, work and in the courtrooms will initiate change for the White Ribbon campaign.
