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Articles by Ruta Tangiiau Mave
Ruta Mave: Israel’s retaliation greater than the Hamas crime?
Monday 27 November 2023 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
On Thursday, November 24, the whole of America stopped to celebrate Thanksgiving, and thankfully, missiles of mass destruction stopped falling on the Gaza strip as part of a 4-day ceasefire with negotiations to release Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners, writes Ruta Mave.
Ruta Mave: Cook Islands: Lost in identity, lost in translation
Monday 20 November 2023 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Who are we? Sitting in the middle of the Pacific Ocean open and swaying to all manner of whims and calls from whom we think we are going to get our next meal ticket from, writes Ruta Mave.
Ruth Mave: Challenging our cultural ideas about disabilities
Monday 13 November 2023 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Why is it necessary to teach our Christians to love unconditionally and see everyone as equals in the eyes of God? writes Ruta Mave.
Ruta Mave: Pacific Islands Forum: A lot of talk, but will any action follow?
Monday 6 November 2023 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Opinion
You can fool some of the people some of the time but you can’t fool all the people all of the time. This is not who we are, we have history of it but we are not all like it. Some of us are honest, hardworking people who care about our people and some of us are politicians, writes Ruta Mave.
Ruta Mave: Friends and family sharing what we should remember
Monday 30 October 2023 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Opinion
Happy Day of the Dead tomorrow, it is Halloween, the time when the veil between those living and those departed souls is the thinnest, so communication can be made with loved ones, or as the movies tell it, with those in the past who have a grudge against you.
Ruta Mave: An opportunity to make the right decision on Vaimaanga road diversion
Monday 23 October 2023 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Every man and his dog are commenting on the old Sheraton site and its development and rightly so because prior to the announcement the current ring road will cut in behind the complex, everyone was happy to see the site being cleaned up, writes Ruta Mave.
Ruth Mave: We do have the freedom of speech and ability to vote
Monday 16 October 2023 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Big changes don’t just happen by large referendums. Large changes occur by the accumulation of small actions, attitudes and voices. The voice has started.
RUTA MAVE: Cook Islands should invest in agriculture, not marijuana and seabed mining
Monday 9 October 2023 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Opinion
If the question is “What are the Crook Islands good for?”, the shameful answer is that they are good at begging for money, but shameful at giving it to help others, writes Ruta Mave.
Ruth Mave: Take every opportunity, who knows where it will lead
Monday 2 October 2023 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Wood Allen said 80 per cent of success is turning up.
Ruta Mave: Reduce stress: Lower your expectations
Monday 25 September 2023 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
One way I find to reduce stress levels is to reduce my levels of expectation. For the most part people don’t know or see the difference between very good and perfection in the production of goods and services, writes Ruta Mave.
Ruta Mave: ‘You are who you associate with’
Monday 18 September 2023 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Step right up, step right up ladies and gentleman, welcome to the greatest show on earth. The circus is here where everything is an illusion and people are notably con-artists turning tricks looking for the next score. Welcome to our government.
Ruta Mave: The sun has set and the day has started with the sun rise
Monday 11 September 2023 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
She came to us from Esther Honey. A white long haired fluffy puppy with a toffee brown patch on her floppy ears. We called her Roxy, Aunty called her Rosie Rocky Richie or Racey - like mothers do when they are trying to remember which child until they hit the right name – Roxy.
Ruth Mave: It’s a Tupperware party
Monday 4 September 2023 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
We are now opting to live a life of hand outs with no drive or inclination to give ourselves a hand up. We win the beggars award because we have so many hands out to so many countries
Ruta Mave: Be real, be authentic, be transparent
Monday 28 August 2023 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
They can debate climate change and how everyone else in the world needs to tighten their carbon emission belts while sitting smugly in new electric cars, that ticks some sustainability box.
RUTA MAVE: Our creatives deserve better
Monday 14 August 2023 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Opinion
If people paid thousands for a church rebuild, they would never see, they would equally pay to see their culture captured on film, writes Ruta Mave.
Ruta Mave: Rarotonga roosters: ‘Proud by day loud by night’
Monday 31 July 2023 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Roosters are bold and beautiful during the day, strutting around in their fancy plumage of sun kissed orange, yellow sandy creams, rich emerald greens and poignant dark ebony. Proud by day loud by night, what is the point of them? Ruta Mave explains.
Ruta Mave: A balancing act of diversity and protection
Monday 24 July 2023 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
As immigration works to diversify, protect and control the number of workers into our country and culture, the parallels to the myna bird are many, writes Ruta Mave.
Ruth Mave: Keeping an eye in the sky
Monday 17 July 2023 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
A long time ago sky father Ranginui and earth mother Papatuanuku were bound so closely to each other their children lived between them in darkness.
Ruth Mave: The power of any message lies in the singer, not the song
Monday 10 July 2023 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Hallelujah is a song originally penned and sung by Leonard Cohen that has been sung by many singers where some elevate the song greater than others, writes Ruth Mave.
Ruta Mave: ‘We are privileged, we have first world problems’
Monday 3 July 2023 | Written by Ruta Tangiiau Mave | Published in Editorials, Opinion
As Rose lay huddling on the floating door, Jack clung to the side of it while his body was immersed in the freezing waters after the Titanic had hit the iceberg.