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2023 National Netball Squad confirmed
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Medals for Cook Islands Oe Vaka at World Champs
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Government owed $255k in late loan repayments
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‘Rarotonga is not safe’: Police
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TMO responds to anti-obesity drug proposal
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Two year, three months’ jail for $118,000 forgery
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‘Pick up your mess’: Rubbish dumped behind Parliament
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TMO responds to anti-obesity drug proposal
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Puna reiterates support to Cook Islands
3 July 2023
Humble Warrior Punches for Gold
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Corruption report exposes ‘bribe and sexual favours’
17 January 2023
Bigger and busier 2023: PM
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Corruption in the Cook Islands?
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Health ministry focuses on NCDs and mental health
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Reported domestic ‘violent’ incidents on the rise: Police
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Tragedy: Mother drowns trying to save daughter
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A year of ‘marked progress’
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Moana target 2025 World Cup
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Opinion
Letter: Easy steps for cannabis legalisation
Dear Editor, The Cook Islands Government said the more they look into legalising medicinal cannabis the more problems they come across. This should not be the case, they are overthinking and complicating what is a simple task.
Ruta Mave: Reduce stress: Lower your expectations
One way I find to reduce stress levels is to reduce my levels of expectation. For the most part people don’t know or see the difference between very good and perfection in the production of goods and services, writes Ruta Mave.
Time for a woman to lead the country
In New Zealand, the country, where close to 90,000 Cook Islanders live as a matter of right by virtue of holding New Zealand citizenship, the prime minister is a woman.
Reaching the other side of bereavement
For everything there is a season. Each significant change brings us to a fork in the road, a new decision point. The question arises: What season is this in my life? A life-changing loss of someone close, as I have experienced in the last year, can turn us inside out. When the last child leaves the home nest, when we retire, develop an illness, make a move, there is a vacancy of the familiar that sooner or later must be filled. A new homecoming beckons on the other side of the emptiness. We are called to reassess, review and revise our life design. If we choose to make this a mindful process, it can lead us to fresh happiness. As author Christina Baldwin says, “Change is the egg of the phoenix.” It is in the human spirit to rise from the ashes over and over. A friend whose husband died recently told me in a tearful phone call, “I need to move. This house is all about ‘us.’ I need to find my way to ‘me.’” People promised me, in the midst of my bereavement, that I would eventually get to the other side. Thankfully, that happened. I find that this cataclysmic change has created a new space in my life. I am aware that like Alice, I can fall into a hole, or venture deeply into trust, taking the necessary time to discern what this season of my life will hold. This is what I have discovered so far. Being is more important than doing. My brother John grew in virtues as he faced his own death. He dived deeply into trust, gratitude, awe and joy. As he let go of doing — driving, working, cr
Time to share unconditional love
It’s a numb, incredulous feeling that almost passes through us when we hear the tragedy of a person passing in an accident.
Demo Party to offer tailor-made solutions
In the past people have complained about political parties failing to deliver what they promise.
Returning voters raise suspicions
I was at Avatiu wharf last Friday to say goodbye to a family returning home to Penrhyn on one of Tapi Taio’s inter-island vessels.
Encourage your children's emerging virtues
My island granddaughter surprised me as we walked the beach recently.
We want to learn, but who will teach us?
We want to learn, but who will teach us?
We're born to be the greatest version of ourselves
When our family started The Virtues Project nearly 30 years ago, the word “virtues” was not popular. It sounded too righteous, too “churchy”.
Our neighbours show pride in their nations
A sea of red and a sea of blue, waving flags and choruses of song flooded the stadium as over 10,000 people - the equivalent of the entire population of Rarotonga, supported their rugby league teams in a much-anticipated clash between Tonga and Samoa
Time to revisit political reform
CINews correspondent “Unionist” turns his mind to the subject of political reform and takes a close look at the implications of the decline in voters in the outer islands.
Getting real about our 'golden goose'
Two things of note stood out in our tropical isles last week.
Trust is hard to earn, easy to lose
“Entrusted” is a word that has seemed to pop up over and over again lately, along with this whole idea of trustworthiness, what we can do to earn it, and how we can lose it so easily.
Openness and gratitude will help in testing times
The world’s sacred texts contain great wisdom on the virtues which are the very purpose of our lives.
Better skills key for public servants
The Public Service Leaders’ conference held last week at the Edgewater Resort was an excellent step in the right direction.
Finance minister gets it wrong again
Yet again we read another blunder by the Minister of Finance.
Rarotonga visit prompts thoughts on friendship
I recently visited Rarotonga from my home on Aitutaki.
Shipping problems in need of urgent action
This week I heard a Papa phone a radio talkback show to confront Finance minister Mark Brown about the state of shipping services to the Northern Group islands.
A legacy of change lives on
I could hardly see over the large oak mantlepiece, the large clock chimed on the hour and among the photos of my great-grandfather and great-grandmother were more photos and trinkets of every kind. Everything seemed so much larger then, and so much higher. And yet when we revisit places when we are much older, those things we saw when we were young children seem so much smaller.
Constitution change would be needed
Those who debate the issue of possible UN membership are perhaps not aware of the fact that any change in our relationship with New Zealand would require amendments to our constitution.
Puna's silence is deafening
Don’t you people think it is so unfair? We never hear a word from the prime minister. Not a whisper from the country’s top jock.