Tag: James Belfield Editorial
At a Covid crossroad
Kelly Klink contacted the Gulf News on Tuesday to talk roadblocks.
This is a woman who has led and won a battle all the way...
The phony war
In many respects, level three does little to allow Waiheke to get back on its feet financially. Certainly, there’s an influx of construction workers,...
Let’s stay connected
Chances are you’ve just picked this special edition of Gulf News out of your letterbox – possibly off a stand in a dairy or...
Now wash your hands
Sat at the bar, sipping a first gin and tonic and watching the queue for the 11.45 wind and sway its way back through...
A working bee for the soul
At the heart of Polynesia there’s a lonely jutting atoll called Niue, and in the heart of Niue there’s a man who can charm...
Same but different
Steve moved into the street just before Christmas in 1989 when we were both 14, and I’ve known him well ever since.
I suppose right...
The law of unintended consequences
The dotterel at Whakanewha are thriving, and so too the pied stilt and oystercatchers. Prowling cats and stoats have come a cropper in the...
Four ways to diffuse a powder keg
It’s all too easy to switch off the festive magic of the holidays.
A bit like when someone turned on the lights at a school...
An island steeped in wine
The box arrives with a familiar clink and a thump every year in the days before Christmas: three red, three white, always from the...
Pooling resources
The stump fairly thrummed as we placed our hands on its bark-stripped surface.
It stands about four metres high in a patch of bush not...