Opinion

Pet Talk: Basic care and hygiene for your pets

Taking care of a pet is a rewarding experience, but it also comes with responsibilities. Ensuring your pet is healthy, clean and comfortable is essential for their well-being, writes Dr Rose Hasegawa, medical director Te Are Manu Vet Clinic.

Kata: Water users

Michael Tavioni BEM: Call for accountability in Government and MPs travel expenses

In a recent issue of Cook Islands News, the government’s travel expenditure for the last financial year was published and I for one really appreciated the opportunity to see the particular details of this, writes Michael Tavioni BEM.

Kata: Commonwealth club

Ruta Mave: The reality of leadership in the Cook Islands

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.

Letter: $100m water system ‘fails to deliver’

Dear Editor, Do we have a water crises, or are we suffering the after-effects of Idiotic Decisions in Crises?

Kata: Ministers travel

Thomas Wynne: What is lawful is not always what is right

Travel for government is an absolute necessity, that much is true, but it should never be treated as a blank cheque, without public scrutiny and a scrutiny balanced against the many pressing priorities a community faces, writes Thomas Tarurongo Wynne.

Kata: International conference

Letter: Wigmore Falls fee questioned

Dear Editor, Interesting to see that new access fee sign at the entrance to the Wigmore/Papua falls road. The last time the “Landowner” did this, the reason/justification was that the funds raised would be used to upgrade the road to the falls.

Kata: Chiefly title dispute

Letter: The Court’s role in title disputes

Dear Editor, I would like to respond to Te Tuhi Kelly’s recent letter/article in the Cook Islands News headed “Traditional title dispute’.

Kata: ToTatou Vai costs

Letter: Traditional title dispute

Following on from the recent case in Aitutaki in which the court made a ruling on a traditional title. This has huge implications for future titles and cultural grievances between anau.

Letter: Open letter to Rarotonga burglars

Dear Editor, This is really an open letter to the person who has been burglarising ours and many other properties in the Avarua area in the past months (although it’s possible he doesn’t read therefore won’t be seeing this).

Kata: Break-in

Kata: Paris Olympics

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

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.

Kata: New Pa Enua mayors