Let’s not wait another year to remember mothers, let’s do it more often during the year and say Happy Mother’s Day every day, writes Ruta Mave.
It’s absurd how the Cook Islands News can take such a significant milestone, like a female national athlete becoming the secretary general of our National Sports Organisation, and twist it to include irrelevant personal jabs. Kez earned her position on her own merits, regardless of who her father is.
It’s time to reflect on those things that give us strength, vibrance and a sense of self, says Thomas Wynne.
OPINION: When the nativity scene is depicted in traditional paintings, for example, it is always with soft glowing light. In the manger there’s hay, and animals including cows.
Flowers, now, a little browner, litter the vinyl floor. They are remnants of just moments before, when joy and thankfulness greeted each other as families and friends, came through the airport arrival doors to the welcome arms of those who had been waiting so patiently to see them.
Frustration over lack of progress with drug education.
Small Rotary club punches well above its’ weight. Rotary came to Rarotonga in the mid-1960’s and earlier this year we celebrated our first 50 years.
Agricultural production turns into a lemon, the dangers of over-eating and how to regain your fitness.
PM’s stance on same-sex relationships a case of “political fence-sitting, claims former Clerk of Parliament.
When it comes to leadership in my family, women hold dominion, surviving and achieving through each generation.
Life is like that; when we have a final destination in our minds and we set our course, only to find the wind we had hoped for has dissipated and we must now tack away … but the ultimate destination remains the same.
Ahead of New Zealand High Commissioner Tessa Temata’s funeral tomorrow, friends remember how she touched the lives of many.
OPINION: We need to keep our children and our islands safe from the ‘toxic soup’ of modern life.
OPINION: The pile of discarded MPs provide an argument for diverting capital surplus into public sector pay rises – regardless of who’s in power.
When talking about sex, we often make it easier by referring to the topic as something else, such as the ‘birds and the bees’!
The hero of our extended family is my gay brother. This is his story.
In the 1840s, the early missionaries estimated the population of Rarotonga to be between 6000 and 7000.
OPINION: Some years ago at The Rarotongan Beach Resort we had a wonderful poolside show every Sunday featuring the island-style choir, E Matike!
An open letter to MPs: The recent recommendation from the Select Committee to maintain criminalisation of homosexuality demands comment. As a Cook Islander and New Zealander I am greatly saddened by this decision.
If “world peace” is the answer, what might the question be? Well in the movie Miss Congeniality the question was “what is the one most important thing our society needs?”
Democratic Party to file High Court declaratory applications seeking rulings on legality of prisoner releases and post-election charter flight from Northern Group.
A billboard depicting a funeral says, ‘the problem with drink-driving is the mourning after’.
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