Dear Editor, Our modern society likes to proclaim itself to be multicultural and secular, and the direction seems to be a future without old-fashioned religious ballast where science is the tool for constant progress and prosperity, happiness for everything and everyone.
Residential water meters are not to measure what we use, it is how we will pay for government’s monumental blunders and excuses, writes Ruta Mave.
Dear Editor, This letter is in response to the front page story the other day about the dangers of swimming alone at Avaavaroa passage in Takitumu despite the many signs around the beachside.
Most people in the Cook Islands know there is a problem with our fisheries resource. I want to have a look at this problem in this first article and then in subsequent articles look at some of the reasons this might have happened, as well as identify the social and economic impact on our country, writes Reuben Tylor.
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.
Kia Orana Editor, Reading the article in Cook Islands News, July 5, 2023, regarding Nga Puna’s salary and bonus payments makes scary reading.
Readers have been asking why Cook Islands News has reduced the number of pages in mid-week editions in recent weeks.
The owners of Cook Islands News are seeking expressions of interest from parties interested in acquiring the publishing and printing business.
There were several complaints. People were very distressed to see the degree of damage. And she couldn’t walk writes Dr Michael Baer.
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.
Dear Editor, The Wednesday 28 June headline story, ‘$400k to be spent on coastal and foreshore erosion research’.
As a son of migrant parents, and having endured the time we now know as the Dawn Raids, I have always been cognizant of the racism we felt as a community of migrant workers, and the children of migrant workers, into a country that at first welcomed us with open arms and then, closed that door again with Pacific people still being deported in New Zealand in the middle of the night, writes Thomas Wynne.
Dear Editor, New Zealand Drug Foundation executive director Sarah Helm told this newspaper over a year ago that in New Zealand both the industry and patients have struggled with our medicinal cannabis regulations because they are overly restrictive.
Kia Orana, There has not been a single public TV /radio/or Cook Islands News ad announcement about the work apparently taking place on the bridge / stream just adjacent to the Rutaki side of the Vaimaanga/Sheraton Hotel site.