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Letter: What are we celebrating?

Dear Editor, In January 2024, a year ago now, on a beach at Mauke, two older teenaged girls kicked and bashed a younger teenaged girl with intellectual disabilities, while the third girl (friend of the other two) filmed it and put it on the internet.

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Ruta Mave: Passport plan leaves Cook Islands vulnerable and isolated

Prime Minister Mark Brown’s passport proposal presents as more personal than from the people. He sounds like a spoilt teenager who has graduated from his ‘L’ plate to a full driver’s licence, declaring to his parents that he is all grown up now, and wants to be independent, writes Ruta Mave.

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Letter: More MOE swanning around

Can anyone explain why the director of finance at MoE would be attending an early childhood education meeting in Fiji focussing on strengthening the provision of pre- and in-service professional development for early childhood educators recently?

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Letter: Love and respect

At last. It is with the greatest of love and respect that we wish to congratulate President Donald J. Trump elect on his timely return.

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Ruta Mave: A mixture of mad, sad and glad

Red White and Blue Americans have voted and there was a mixture of mad sad and glad reactions within and outside of the ‘land of the free’ - unless you are an immigrant, coloured or pregnant or so it appears from the outside looking in.

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COME ON, SMOKE IT!

BIG FISH “Who signed the European Union Cook Islands fishing deal?” a Smoke Signaller asks. “The Minister of the Ministry of Marine Resources may like to enlighten the public. I presume that there is a paper trail authorising the signing of these documents. Or do we have the tea lady heading off to Brussels to […]

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Thomas Wynne: Is it his story or your story?

In a world increasingly thrown into conflict, be it military, social, or cultural, how have we stopped listening to each other and instead become obsessed with being either right or wrong, for or against, standing with or standing against, condemning or supporting a cause? writes Thomas Wynne.

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Letter: Who signed ?

Regarding your apology to Ben Ponia, we readers would like to know who signed the EU Cook Islands fishing deal?

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Te Ipukarea Society: Rat assassin

This Conservation Project was a collaborative effort alongside Cook Islands Voyaging Society, Island Conservation, BirdLife International, the Atiu Island Government, Takutea Trust, Takili Talagi-Tairi and Te Ipukarea Society. Funding support came from SPREPs predator Free Pacific Programme and NZ MFAT whose generous support helped bring the long planned Takutea project to fruition.

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Virtues in Paradise: The Gift of Sacred Curiosity

Did you know that you have a treasure to offer everyone? This includes your nearest and dearest, your children, your parents, your students, and your employer, writes Linda Kavelin-Popov.

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Smoke Signals: MARKET SHARE

“Location, location, location is a mantra commonly used overseas for determining the value of real estate,” writes a smoke signaller.

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Letter: Stop noisy speedsters on main road

The decision to slow Avarua traffic to 30kph will be seen as welcome by most, maybe not so much by VIP's (Very Impatient People).

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Letter: Embarrassing

I find it highly presumptuous that the Prime Minister Mr Mark Brown congratulated the convicted felon Trump "on behalf of Government and people of the Cook Islands'

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