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Articles by Melina Etches
Diesel leak at Avatiu harbour
Thursday 26 September 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Environment
The powerful smell of diesel at Avatiu harbour has caused concern that a fuel pipeline is leaking.
Apii Avarua determined to hold trophy
Wednesday 25 September 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Other Sports
More than 120 volunteers have signed up to assist with the Prince of Wales primary school athletics championships to be held on Wednesday next week. St Joseph’s primary school is hosting the event, and principal Shelley Berry says children are training hard. Athletes are invited for a ‘breakfast of champions’ before the day starts at 8.30am.
From the heart
Wednesday 25 September 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Education
Students aged from 8 to 12 years will sing their hearts out tomorrow night at the National Auditorium.
Official inquiry into how Lady Moana lost boy overboard
Wednesday 25 September 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Local
The Ministry of Transport has launched an investigation into the disappearance overboard of 7-year-old Lapana Tupou from the MV Lady Moana.
Tables turned on tug
Tuesday 24 September 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Technology
The Vision fishing vessel filled in for the Ports Authority Toa tugboat yesterday, helping the LPG tanker Maea enter and dock at Avatiu harbour.
Fundraiser for 7yo Lapana's family
Tuesday 24 September 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Local
Junior Tupou, father of missing 7-year-old boy Lapana, will return to New Zealand this week to reunite with his wife and family.
'Heartbreaking' The islands mourn
Sunday 22 September 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in National
Support and sympathy is flowing in for the family of the small boy missing overboard from the interisland vessel Lady Moana.
Apii Nikao gala sproutsentrepreneurs
Saturday 21 September 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Education
Eleven-year-old Naomi Tereora from Apii Nikao sewed dresses for the first time that sold at the school’s gala day.
Sea search for 7-yr-old ends
Saturday 21 September 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in National
The search for seven-year old Rakahanga boy Lapana Tupou who disappeared from the Lady Moana vessel on Wednesday has ended.
All the colour of the carnival
Friday 20 September 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Other Sports
Hula girls, Mario the cartoon character and men in wigs featured in last night’s 4km Fun Run to kick start the annual Round Rarotonga Road Race weekend.
Medallist is back – and he's in a hurry
Thursday 19 September 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Other Sports
Look out for the Cook Islands Olympian golden boy Alex Beddoes: he’s pumped up and ready to race the annual 10km in this year’s Round Raro festival.
Round Raro: Do the maths: RRRR = 4 X medals
Thursday 19 September 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Other Sports
This is what the Round Rarotonga Road Race means: it gives athletes like these four young men a chance to realise their dreams.
Round Raro: No wheels this time, for Dan
Thursday 19 September 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Other Sports
Richard Vinsen first competed in the round the island race in 1998, and has attempted to take part every year – but thanks to a motorbike injury, the Island Car director has had to take some time off.
Offshore trust company 'credible and reliable'
Wednesday 18 September 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Economy
The lawyer for a Rarotonga company named in a $1 million assets freezing order has spoken out to defend the company’s integrity.
Miss Cook Islands will equip me 'to serve my people better'
Tuesday 17 September 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Entertainment
As a McConnell Dowell site engineer, Maruia Willie isn’t entering Miss Cook Islands for endorsement of her beauty. It’s a chance to build networks to better serve her people. Maruia Willie felt blessed to have both her grandmothers Mereana Tangata and Tepaeru Willie stand alongside her on stage for 2019 Miss Cook Islands reveal night on Saturday.
'Just cherish them'
Tuesday 17 September 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Weekend
Nine-year-old Scorpfield Wichman Anthony was killed by his grandfather. He has never before been named. At the request of his mother, we now give him a voice. This is how she wants her boy to be remembered.
Never a chance to say goodbye
Tuesday 17 September 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Local
Scorpfield Wichman Anthony’s great-grandparents remember the boy they never had the chance to say goodbye to.
From dust to digital
Monday 16 September 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Entertainment
Sixty-two years, and nobody ever told him. Dr Ranginui Fariu was genuinely surprised to learn he had featured in a Tereora College school photo published in the first existing edition of Cook Islands News, in 1957 shortly after the paper first launched.
Cooks cyber-attack is 'not if but when'
Monday 16 September 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Technology
More than 200 jobs pressure-testing businesses’ vulnerability to cyber-attack have revealed a brutal truth: the greatest weakness in companies’ IT systems is not the computers, but the people.
'Stunning': The faces of the Cooks
Monday 16 September 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Local
Best wishes to the brave, stunning and enchanting young women named to contest Miss Cook Islands Association pageant this year.
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