Opinion

LETTERS: Government is ‘not a family business’

Letters for July 30, 2021

KATA: Extended stay for a unique visitor

LETTERS: Jungle trek ‘challenging but amazing’

Letters for Wednesday July 28

KATA: Dying to see the turtles

KATA: Forging a new track

LETTERS: Promoting political agendas?

Letters for July 27, 2021

OPINION: Cook Islands benefitting from Covid-free status

Like me, you can’t have helped but notice that we are back in the visitor business again. No, we’re not back up to the sort of numbers we were getting pre-Covid, but they have been steadily growing, writes Prime Minister Mark Brown.

OPINION: Fashion at the Olympic Games

In the Cook Islands before the missionaries came, we used local plants and rauti to cover our heads, necks, shoulders and hips. It was the missionaries who covered us from neck to toe with colonial clothes especially the muumuu, which was more like a nightdress formless and plain, writes Ruta Mave.

Discovering your life’s purpose

The fruit of purpose is a fruit we can all eat from, unlike the fruit of self service and self-promotion which is bitter and rotten to the core, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.

OPINION: Sharing culture brings people together

When Wes Tikiariki Roberts, the ‘Atiu Rocket’, led the Cook Islands team into the stadium in Tokyo during the Olympic Games official opening ceremony, Cook Islander hearts swelled with pride, and Australia was cheering him on as well, writes Dr Christopher Watkins, the Australian High Commissioner to Cook Islands.

OPINION: Trawling for ocean plastics on Marumaru Atua enroute to Suwarrow

The Marumaru Atua vaka is enroute to Suwarrow now, after visiting four northern group islands and Aitutaki so far. It carries with it a message of ocean health. One area the vaka is focusing on is oceans plastics, writes Te Ipukarea Society.

LETTERS: Tuna catches on the slide

Letters for Saturday July 24

KATA: Lots of pork, no fish

KATA: Secret agent

KATA: A different kind of tourist

Rarotonga Sailing Club to host barbecue bash

A barbecue pitmasters competition is set to raise money for the Rarotonga Sailing Club and celebrate barbecuing.

KATA: Herd immunity