A large crowd gathered at the National Auditorium on Sunday for the annual Cyclone Season Prayer Service, as two to three named cyclones are expected to pass through the Cook Islands this tropical cyclone season.
After watching the fast-developing Cyclone Lola over Vanuatu before the cyclone season starts, whether we are prepared as a nation to protect our most vulnerable in a disaster has been on my mind, writes Merita Tuari’i.