Opinion – Cook Islands News https://www.cookislandsnews.com Tue, 31 Dec 2024 19:27:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 Letter: What are we celebrating? https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/letter-what-are-we-celebrating/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=letter-what-are-we-celebrating https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/letter-what-are-we-celebrating/#respond Tue, 31 Dec 2024 19:27:55 +0000 https://www.cookislandsnews.com/?p=275756 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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]]> https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/letter-what-are-we-celebrating/feed/ 0 Ruta Mave: Passport plan leaves Cook Islands vulnerable and isolated https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/ruta-mave-passport-plan-leaves-cook-islands-vulnerable-and-isolated/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ruta-mave-passport-plan-leaves-cook-islands-vulnerable-and-isolated https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/ruta-mave-passport-plan-leaves-cook-islands-vulnerable-and-isolated/#respond Mon, 30 Dec 2024 19:11:00 +0000 https://www.cookislandsnews.com/?p=275732 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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]]> https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/ruta-mave-passport-plan-leaves-cook-islands-vulnerable-and-isolated/feed/ 0 Letter: Leave the Blackrock Preschool where it is! https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/letter-leave-the-blackrock-preschool-where-it-is/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=letter-leave-the-blackrock-preschool-where-it-is https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/letter-leave-the-blackrock-preschool-where-it-is/#respond Mon, 30 Dec 2024 19:08:43 +0000 https://www.cookislandsnews.com/?p=275730 Dear Editor,

Kia Orana. Why is CIIC (Cook Islands Investment Corporation) evicting Apii Potiki from their really fit for purpose premises where they have been for so long, and moving them to House #52 on the corner of the main road?

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]]> https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/letter-leave-the-blackrock-preschool-where-it-is/feed/ 0 Letter: Focusing on ‘growth’ in 2025 https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/letter-focusing-on-growth-in-2025/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=letter-focusing-on-growth-in-2025 https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/letter-focusing-on-growth-in-2025/#respond Mon, 30 Dec 2024 19:07:31 +0000 https://www.cookislandsnews.com/?p=275728 Dear Editor

Good on the Prime Minister for focusing on “growth” in 2025. May this writer humbly suggest that the government begins with truly aggressive growth in the number of vehicles on our uncrowded and under-utilised roads?

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]]> https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/letter-focusing-on-growth-in-2025/feed/ 0 Thomas Wynne: Leave the ancient mountain where it is https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/thomas-wynne-leave-the-ancient-mountain-where-it-is/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=thomas-wynne-leave-the-ancient-mountain-where-it-is https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/thomas-wynne-leave-the-ancient-mountain-where-it-is/#comments Sat, 28 Dec 2024 19:30:00 +0000 https://www.cookislandsnews.com/?p=275674 For this current government to potentially threaten our ability to hold a New Zealand passport is a concern not just to those at home but to all of us who hold this passport and have akapapa or genealogical ties back to our beautiful Ipukarea, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.

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]]> https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/thomas-wynne-leave-the-ancient-mountain-where-it-is/feed/ 1 TIS: Deep sea mining threatens our ocean and our way of life https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/tis-deep-sea-mining-threatens-our-ocean-and-our-way-of-life/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tis-deep-sea-mining-threatens-our-ocean-and-our-way-of-life https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/tis-deep-sea-mining-threatens-our-ocean-and-our-way-of-life/#respond Sat, 28 Dec 2024 19:30:00 +0000 https://www.cookislandsnews.com/?p=275676 Today’s article is contributed by Te Ipukarea Society president, and Ocean Ancestors advocate, June Hosking, currently living in Mauke.

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]]> https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/tis-deep-sea-mining-threatens-our-ocean-and-our-way-of-life/feed/ 0 Letter: Passport and stamp https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/letter-passport-and-stamp/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=letter-passport-and-stamp https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/letter-passport-and-stamp/#respond Tue, 24 Dec 2024 20:03:50 +0000 https://www.cookislandsnews.com/?p=275630 Dear Editor,

If the passport is primarily about identity, here’s an idea that avoids political and emotional upheaval: run a competition to design a new Cook Islands heritage immigration stamp.

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]]> https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/letter-passport-and-stamp/feed/ 0 Letter: Cultural and sports passport? https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/letter-cultural-and-sports-passport/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=letter-cultural-and-sports-passport https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/letter-cultural-and-sports-passport/#respond Tue, 24 Dec 2024 20:02:17 +0000 https://www.cookislandsnews.com/?p=275628 Dear Editor,

Do we really need to be insulted any further? I am now sick and tired of Prime Minister Mark Brown’s continuous arrogance. (New Zealand rejects Cook Islands passport plan, Cook Islands News, December 23, 2024)

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]]> https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/letter-cultural-and-sports-passport/feed/ 0 PM Mark Brown’s Christmas message: A time for reflection and joy https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/pm-mark-browns-christmas-message-a-time-for-reflection-and-joy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pm-mark-browns-christmas-message-a-time-for-reflection-and-joy https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/pm-mark-browns-christmas-message-a-time-for-reflection-and-joy/#respond Tue, 24 Dec 2024 20:00:48 +0000 https://www.cookislandsnews.com/?p=275625 Kia Orana tatou katoatoa e te iti tangata tapu na Te Atua.

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]]> https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/pm-mark-browns-christmas-message-a-time-for-reflection-and-joy/feed/ 0 Christmas message from Opposition leader Tina Browne: Unity and hope https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/christmas-message-from-opposition-leader-tina-browne-unity-and-hope/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=christmas-message-from-opposition-leader-tina-browne-unity-and-hope https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/opinion/christmas-message-from-opposition-leader-tina-browne-unity-and-hope/#respond Tue, 24 Dec 2024 19:57:34 +0000 https://www.cookislandsnews.com/?p=275623 Kia orana tatou katoatoa ite aroa rahi e te humaria o to tatou Atu. Koia i akatae mai ia tatou ki teia openga mataiti.

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