Dear Editor, I am struggling to comprehend the rationale behind the recent list of prohibited dog breeds released to the public by the Police department.
Dear Editor, Last Sunday I went to Church, the Avarua Christian Church, a usual practice that I’ve done over many years growing up as a child from the village of Tupapa. As I approached the front steps of the Church, I noticed that the front had been upgraded and looked good. There were the usual men greeting arrivals and we exchanged pleasantries warmly.
Dear Editor, all wars are expensive and the Cook Islands government War on marijuana has been no different.
Well by now you will have heard that we have our first case of Covid-19 in the Pa Enua, in Aitutaki.
Dear Editor, to those commenting on the visiting Mexican artist and what seems to this writer to be very inviting artwork on the sea wall at Nikao, the last time I looked at a world map Mexico fronts on the same Pacific Ocean as does the sea wall.
The mixed messages girls grow up with are relentless - don’t mess with bad boys, find yourself a nice boy.
When western thinking arrived in what would soon be called the Cook Islands in 1903, Missionary advanced the way we saw the world, the way we saw ourselves and the way we saw time had already begun to unfold as we unravelled all our traditional knowledge, customs and ways of knowing and put them in a box handed to us by our colonisers with the word “etene” on it.
The following comments are made, in part, as a response to the statements made by Prime Minister Mark Brown on Cook Islands Television on March 1, 2022.
Dear Editor, can the Minister of Police and PM Mark Brown explain how much did the big booze up for the Kukupa at the Avatiu wharf last Friday evening cost the tax payers of this country?
Dear Editor, I write to ask people like Mr Nubono, who came on TV the night before last, not to glibly say things like “Covid is not dangerous”; “not to worry”, “that it’s just a flu”, etc. Tell that to the families of about six million people around the world so far who have died from it.
When it comes to injuries, the noise and blood only tell some of the story, writes Dr Michael Baer.
Dear Editor, how about if we stop arguing and work together?
Dear Editor, I am writing to make my situation public in regards to the mural being painted on the Nikao Seawall.
People in countries that have suffered war are faced with the dilemma of packing what is most important in your life into one suitcase and start running.
It was very clear from the speeches made at this week’s licencing ceremony that government fully expects exploration to lead to full scale mining as a logical and natural progression, writes Te Ipukarea Society.