Opinion
SBMA Opinion: Two-year milestone for seabed minerals exploration licences
Saturday 9 March 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Editorials, Opinion
Last month marked two years since the country’s first seabed minerals exploration licences were issued on 23 February 2022. A major milestone and achievement for the Cook Islands after many years of preparation.
Kata: Agriculture
Friday 8 March 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion
Letter: Growers left high and dry
Friday 8 March 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
I recently attended a dinner for growers hosted by a grower himself, Mr Kiriau Turepu.
Letter: Education scholarship
Friday 8 March 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, I am writing with interest in the government’s strategy for ensuring qualified educators are teaching our future generations.
Kata: Climate change grant
Thursday 7 March 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion
Letter: ‘More talk very little walk’
Thursday 7 March 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, The headline in the Cook Islands News, Monday, March 4, reads, Cook Islands grapples with highest childhood obesity rates in the world.
Letter: USP qualifications recognised overseas
Wednesday 6 March 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
I wanted to reassure your readers after reading the story in yesterday’s paper regarding accredited/non-accredited qualifications (Education’s teaching qualifications not recognised overseas: Ministry, March 5, 2024).
Letter: Market vendors ‘fenced out’
Wednesday 6 March 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, I’m writing to express our annoyance and anger for some vendors and public about the fenced off area behind all the huts at the eastern end of the market in town.
Kata: Swimming
Tuesday 5 March 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion
Kata: Unhealthy food
Monday 4 March 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion
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.
Letter: Health referral cost
Monday 4 March 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Who paid for what? Now, it’s how much was paid for what?
Letter: Recycling in Rarotonga
Monday 4 March 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, Recently back from holidays in Rarotonga we enjoyed a month of chilling out in Vaimaanga amongst other things reading the Cook Islands News each day.
Thomas Wynne: A man of mana - A tribute to Fa’anānā Efeso Collins
Saturday 2 March 2024 | Written by Thomas Tarurongo Wynne | Published in Editorials, Opinion
What is mana? At a funeral this week in Auckland where thousands attended, including many from our Cook Islands community, a man with mana, who loved God, his family and our community was honoured and laid to rest., writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.
Virtues of Paradise: The Gethsemane Secret: Trusting God during difficult times
Saturday 2 March 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Opinion, Virtues in Paradise
The Lenten period is here now. A perfect time to reflect on our lives. The world’s sacred texts contain great wisdom on the virtues, which are the very purpose of our lives. By Linda Kavelin-Popov, co-founder of The Virtues Project.
Kata: Pacific Arts
Saturday 2 March 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion
Kata: Immigration
Friday 1 March 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion
Kata: EMCI vs CI Disability Council
Wednesday 28 February 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Kata, Opinion
Pet Talk: Five freedoms- the foundation of animal welfare
Wednesday 28 February 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Opinion, Pet Talk
Justice Potter Stewart, in a famous US Supreme Court ruling, said, roughly, “I can’t define it, but I know it when I see it”. He wasn’t talking about animal welfare, but he could easily have been.
Letter: Rethinking ‘village politics’
Wednesday 28 February 2024 | Written by Supplied | Published in Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Dear Editor, It’s been a few years since I have had to deal with someone having a go at me for my opinion and making it personal (Letter: Village voters, February 20).