Opinion

Opinion: PIF leaders fail to get meaningful action on nukes

Over the past week at the 52nd Pacific Island Leaders Forum Meeting, many issues concerning the region’s historical struggle for a Nuclear Free Pacific were discussed, writes Talei Luscia Mangioni.

Ruth Mave: Challenging our cultural ideas about disabilities

Why is it necessary to teach our Christians to love unconditionally and see everyone as equals in the eyes of God? writes Ruta Mave.

Letter: Fix the leaks

Dear Editor, To Tatou Vai is calling for water conservation and top of the list is - No Car Washes.

Review: Plunging into the unknown

Deep Rising is a documentary film directed by Matthew Rytz, narrated by Jason Momoa who is also the executive producer. It runs for 93 minutes. It was released in October 2023 and was premiered in Rarotonga on Tuesday, November 7 with further screenings on November 8 and 16.

Thomas Wynne: The greatest limit is the one we place on ourselves

Anyone who has sailed the ocean like our tupuna and ancestors knows the ocean is many things, but passive is not one of them, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.

Kata:Climate change fund

Kata: Nauru at Forum

Kata: Gaza

Kata: Fukushima Nuclear Wastewater

Forum Opinion: Pacific needs powerful voice against superpower dominance

The Pacific Islands Forum chair and Cook Islands Prime Minister, Mark Brown, is emerging as one of the more powerful Pacific leaders’ voices in projecting the region’s concerns and priorities to the world, writes Dr Shailendra Bahadur Singh.

Letter: Where are the women at the Pacific Islands Forum Leadership?

Dear Editor, The leadership line up in the Cook Islands News Pacific Islands Forum Supplement on Saturday and again at the opening of the Forum yesterday was a sad gender affair. PM Fiame Naomi Mata’afa of Samoa was the only woman leader.

Kata: $100 ticket

Ruta Mave: Pacific Islands Forum: A lot of talk, but will any action follow?

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.

Letter: Who owns Rarotonga’s roads?

Dear Editor, My opinion article in the Cook Islands News of 21.10.23 called for community consultation on horseshoe roads, and has so far generated a considerable number of comments.

Kata: Forum traffic

Pardon for Papa Arapati - We now begin to unravel the many layers of guilt

Forgiveness does not change what was done, or alter the deeds of the past, rather, forgiveness or a pardon alters the future and makes it larger than what it was before, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.

Kata: Foreign travel

Letter: A dog and pony show

The KR’s Prerogative of Mercy and Pardon for Papa Arapati, signed and sealed to be a done deal before the eyes of the southern hemisphere focus on the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders meeting, is certainly a historic event.

Letters: MPs travel: ‘Abusing the system’

Dear Editor, In only three months, MPs have spent 98 per cent or $246,347.03 of the annual $250,000 budget for MPs travel. Election promises by all parties shows that they would cut back on overseas travel, especially after the downturn in the economy from Covid. No, it was the opposite.