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Articles by Jonathan Milne
Editorial: Jacqui exits the hive, but who's been stung?
Wednesday 25 September 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Editorials
The best thing about the Goldman Environmental Prize is that it recognises the efforts of the worker bee, not the leader whose job it is to celebrate and champion the honey.
Editorial: No photo evidence of Brown's snub
Tuesday 24 September 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Editorials
It was no doubt humiliating for Cook Islands deputy prime minister Mark Brown to be excluded from the official photograph of delegates to the United Nations Climate Summit in New York this week.
Editorial: Beaky the whale picks ABs win
Monday 23 September 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Editorials
Britain’s Paul the Octopus accurately predicted 8 from 8 games at the 2010 FIFA World Cup by choosing food from flagged containers.
Major search for 7yo Rakahanga boy missing overboard
Thursday 19 September 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in National
A big air and sea search is underway after a small boy was reported missing overboard from an inter-island vessel near Aitutaki.
Baudinet eyes new heights
Wednesday 18 September 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Other Sports
Fresh off the plane back from the Middle East, Cook Islands tennis star Brett Baudinet was off to the office to get back to work on his local businesses.
Editorial: Honouring the voice of the child
Tuesday 17 September 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Editorials
Some of our reporters went to the glamorous Miss Cook Islands launch at the weekend. Some went to the Senior A rugby semis.
Cook Islands issues AC/DC coins – but don't expect to spend them
Monday 16 September 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Entertainment
A coin broker has issued a pair of commemorative Cook Islands coins to honour two classic AC/DC albums.
A new Pacific Tattoo
Monday 16 September 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Culture
For some young men it would be a dream come true: being the sole male in a team of 16 dancers flying to Sydney to perform in the international Edinburgh Tattoo South Pacific Showcase.
Concerns at work release for prisoner
Monday 16 September 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Local
Community members have expressed concern at how early in his six-year sentence prison inmate Ngaakitai Taria Pureariki has been allowed out on work release.
Long road to forgiveness for convicted killer
Saturday 14 September 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Crime
He was one of Cook Islands’ leading tourism operators, until last year he beat his grandson to death. Now, Ngaa Taria is seeking redemption – but has he earned it?
Editorial: Don't let inmates come out angry
Saturday 14 September 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Editorials
OPINION: In Corrective Services and in the prison at Arorangi there are honest men and women of integrity – prison officers and counsellors and chaplains and more – working very hard to solve the problem of rehabilitating violent criminals. But they can’t do it on their own.
Editorial: $5000 for the emperor's new clothes
Friday 13 September 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Editorials
I bought a nice new shirt from Tuki’s the other week. I’m wearing it right now. It’s purple. It cost me $30.
Tap and go for water
Friday 13 September 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Health
The new water authority is almost ready to switch on the new intakes and begin treating Rarotonga’s water – but for a court bid to bar chemicals from the water catchments.
Barefoot v shoes in 100m sprint
Wednesday 11 September 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Other Sports
About 175 athletes showcased their skills on the track and in the field at the Youth Athletics Championships.
Editorial: Culling much-loved roosters a fowl idea
Wednesday 11 September 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Editorials
Cook Islands bird-lovers will be cock-a-hoop at news that a French court has ruled to protect a rooster’s crowing.
Cock-a-doodle don't!
Wednesday 11 September 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Local
A French court has ruled in favour of a cockerel owner after their bird’s early morning crowing provoked a noise pollution complaint from neighbours.
Tourism boss: Fight fat with tax
Wednesday 11 September 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Health
He’s one of the Cooks’ biggest resort owners; now Tata Crocombe has put his weight behind health experts’ calls for a “junk food tax” to shrink the country’s waistlines.
Editorial: It is our people who protect our islands
Tuesday 10 September 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Editorials
Debate is raging over whether the coconut rhinoceros beetle, an invasive pest that can devastate coconut palms, has got a foothold (or trunkhold) in Tongareva.
Inside the locked gates of the new water intake
Monday 9 September 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Weekend
It’s been raining since 2013, says Ake Utanga. The land specialist for government’s Project Management Unit is mulling over when the last serious dry spell was, when water stopped running from Rarotonga taps. She reckons there’s been rain for a while.
Scientists' call: Tax junk food
Monday 9 September 2019 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Health
All sugary, fatty and salty foods should be taxed, says study. Jonathan Milne and Gray Clapham report. Scientists are urging policy makers to “seriously consider” introducing a broad junk food tax to help curb the obesity epidemic.
