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Ruta Mave: ‘Silent steal’ is eating our country alive

Ruta Tangiiau Mave — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 19:25:02 +0000

Pink collar crime is small bills, big fraud. The silent steal, and it is eating our country alive, writes Ruta Mave.

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Ruta Mave: The dangers of unchecked power in leadership

Ruta Tangiiau Mave — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 19:18:52 +0000

If you visited a number of businesses around the world and asked who is the biggest jerk in the company? Most will point to a manager, minister, supervisor or head chef.

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Ruta Mave: The importance of prioritising your peace in relationships and careers

Ruta Tangiiau Mave — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 20:43:33 +0000

There comes a point in life where you realise that some things, some people and some situations are no longer worth your time energy and emotional investment. That is when you are done. Not mad, not bothered, just done. I am done. Protect your peace at all costs, writes Ruta Mave.

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Ruta Mave: ‘This is a joke not justice’

Ruta Tangiiau Mave — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 20:00:04 +0000

Back in the day when discipline meant something and if you were disobedient, cruel or lying you were punished with the use of physical force like the wooden spoon, hair brush, or Dad’s belt or hand so that you would remember it and choose not to do it again – or else, writes Ruta Mave.

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Ruta Mave: ‘You can only help those who want to help themselves’

Ruta Tangiiau Mave — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:43:14 +0000

If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it is yours. If it doesn’t come back, it never was. The narcissist version is if it comes back, it is yours, if it doesn’t then go out and hunt it down because if you can’t have it then no one else can either, writes Ruta Mave.

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Ruta Mave: When kindness becomes a responsibility

Ruta Tangiiau Mave — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 18:40:14 +0000

Charity should begin at home but often the poor ones give the most help, and the rich ones use it as an election campaign, writes Ruta Mave.

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Ruta Mave: Redefining Father’s Day and celebrating the true heroes

Ruta Tangiiau Mave — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 19:49:14 +0000

Did you know Father’s Day is September which is nine months before Mother’s Day in May. That pretty much speaks for itself, writes Ruta Mave.

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Ruta Mave: The reality of leadership in the Cook Islands

Ruta Tangiiau Mave — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 18:58:57 +0000

Snoop Dogg is a popular hip-hop rapper named after Snoopy from the peanut’s cartoons. He is a successful cannabis businessman and now the grand-daddy of the recent Paris Olympics.

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Ruta Mave: Who are we, what are we and are we for real?

Ruta Tangiiau Mave — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 18:46:26 +0000

The Cook Islands is the diamond of the Pacific, shining brightly. A diamond is forged from the ashes of fire and immense pressure and as we stand before the funding nations of the world begging for more of their funding - because we say without it, we cannot survive, writes Ruta Mave.

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Ruta Mave: The reality of women’s leadership in the Cook Islands

Ruta Tangiiau Mave — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 18:36:40 +0000

We have come a long way from a women’s place being barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen, writes Ruta Mave.

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