Tag: Christchurch
Do you know this man?
More than a year after a disgruntled reader began leaving unsolicited notes in local letterboxes and on car windscreens, the individual has finally been...
Managed isolation: a perfect five-star holiday
Anju Butani cannot understand why anyone would want to abscond from managed isolation at a five-star hotel.
Having arrived from India on June 30 and...
School mufti day to show solidarity
In the wake of the Christchurch shootings, students at Pakuranga College decided to do what they could to show their support to the families...
How can you not feel hope?
A steady procession of people filed past Pakuranga’s Masjid Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq on Friday night as the community came together to stand with Muslim...
OPINION: Reforms needed on guns and spies
I applaud the Parliament for being willing to quickly take strong, decisive and near unanimous action to reform New Zealand’s gun laws in the...
‘Let us rise from this tragedy’
Fifty people died in an act of terror at the Masjid Al Noor Mosque and the Linwood Masjid Mosque in Christchurch last Friday. The...
‘It could have been any of us’
In the wake of the terror attacks on two mosques in Christchurch last Friday which claimed the lives of 50 people, the Times has...
Pakuranga College boxers take home three medals
This year’s Boxing New Zealand National Championships in Christchurch was a stand-out for east Auckland, with Pakuranga College students bringing home two golds and...
Character Crusaders strength
It took character and a magnificent defence for the Crusaders to deny the frustrated Lions in Saturday's Super Rugby final at Christchurch's tattered AMI...