Written by Tauraki Rongo This year’s Cook Islands Language week theme will continue to explore into the 2021 theme. Atutui’ia au ki te oneone o toku Ui Tupuna – Connect me to the soils of my ancestors. Over the years our theme has changed continuously, and while it was good for exploring words or phrases …
Written by Tauraki Rongo Today, there’s so much talk about Climate change and greenhouse gas emission, and how it’s going to affect low lying Islands and areas. It’s been talked about for years, so a lot of people have heard about it, but do they really know what it is? Do we really know how …
Written by Tauraki Rongo This week we celebrate the life of one of our greatest leaders, Dr Joseph Williams. As the event began to shape up through the last two to three weeks planning, I suddenly realised that two great leaders that the Cook Islands have ever had passed at the same time. I believe …
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Written by Tauraki Rongo I watched some of the productions done by our youth towards Pink shirt day. So this is all about bullying right? Trying put an end to bullying because of the mental health consequences suffered by some victims. Some really good stuff came out. I love the testimonies shared by some people …
After talking to David Maruariki and featuring his journey over the last couple of weeks, I couldn’t help but think of my younger brother Tereapii or Apii as he is known to many. Apii and David use to hang around in Avatiu sharing their arts amongst other passions. Apii is youngest of our clan and …
Last week we explored Davids passion for Cook Islands language, and how he’s building his children’s capacity to be able to speak the Reo. This week we will explore his other passion one that he picked up at quiet a young age. I say young because carving takes a lot of skills and patience, and …