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Double gold for Darts
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Health ministry focuses on NCDs and mental health
23 January 2023
Te Marae Ora out to prevent dengue outbreak
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Reported domestic ‘violent’ incidents on the rise: Police
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PM Brown vows to change law
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Call for government to address Aitutaki water shortage issue
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Tragedy: Mother drowns trying to save daughter
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‘QR’ effectively becomes ‘KR’
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A year of ‘marked progress’
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Moana target 2025 World Cup
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‘No safety risk’: Airport waiting for funding to swap cracked slabs
12 November 2022
Missing teenager: ‘We’re not sure whether he is still alive’
15 November 2022
Stricter rules for e-cigarettes proposed in Amendment Bill
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We’re halfway there!
16 November 2022
Strategic plan focuses on rehabilitating offenders
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From the river to the ocean
18 November 2022
Pero’s national airline dreams dashed again
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Opinion
Thomas Tarurongo Wynne: An attitude of gratitude
Grateful - it’s such a powerful posture of the heart and I just wanted to highlight two of those reasons, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.
Three questions for NES
From time to time we see that the National Environment Service is looking to add new staff positions. Looking for three at the moment.
'Santa from Hell' faces day of reckoning
We Cook Islanders like to be renowned for our kindness, God-fearing Christian saintliness and for being civil to one another.
Family Law Bill could do with additions
I do not expect the important Family Law Bill to be put before Parliament for the two-day maximum priority Christmas party sitting of Parliament next week.
Same-sex debate galvanises opinions
I want to expand on a topic which I touched on briefly previously.
Homecoming on my mind.
Dan and I are beyond ready to complete our long trip away and come home to Paradise.
Budget grab could be disaster too
By Norman George, lawyer
Caring for our elders vitally important
While we are traveling outside the Cook Islands, I rely on friends emailing or messaging me with news from home.
Civil defence failure is shameful
By Norman George, Lawyer “Rarotonga, we have a problem.” A spate of recent drownings and what appears to be the systematic failure of the police and other emergency services to react on time is catastrophic, shameful and inexcusable.
A weekend to remember
Norman George - laywer Sometimes it is glorious to be away and isolated- protected by the Pacific Ocean. Events this last weekend around the world is a mixture of horror and glory.
Avatiu MP faces difficult decisions
A week can be a long time in politics.
One law for all Cook Islanders
Unless I am wrong, and someone should correct me if I am, traffic accidents fall under the category of “strict liability” offences.
The Cook Islands Act 1915 – still strong after 100 years
2015 has been a year of milestones, the most notable of them being the 50th anniversary of the beginning of self-rule in the Cook Islands in free association with New Zealand. Last Sunday marked another important event in the history of this nation: 100 years since the passage of the Cook Islands Act 1915. With land occupation right issues having been in the headlines recently, Lawyer Brian Mason details how the Act came about.
Facing up to the inevitability of death
There is something that will happen to all of us, something we often don’t want to think or talk about until it’s too late.
Public service captains have much to do
Finally, after months of waiting, the people to steer our public service through for the next three years have been announced.
When history becomes flesh and blood
One of the benefits, or sometimes the curse, of having been around awhile is that often historical events are not just dry words on a page or grainy black and white pictures, but real life flesh and blood occasions because you were there.
Te mana henua, land court and politics
What a blooming headache it has become, don’t you think?
Rule of law versus the media
The Chief Justice is not “omniscient.”
Parliament in ruins thanks to neglect...
The institution of Parliament is now in ruins, desecrated, vandalised and allowed to fall apart.
Boxing, politics and gay rights
Tropical Chronicles – Wilkie Rasmussen I have heard of the sport of boxing being referred to as the “gentleman’s sport”.
Auckland revisited – and that All Black list
It is often said that a week off The Rock makes a difference.
Churches have major role to play in the running of our country
A late amendment to the Cook Islands Constitution was added in 1997.
