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'Avaiki or Kuki Airani? Debate 'very much alive'

Saturday 20 July 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Culture

Cook Islanders have nominated some of their favourite Maori names for this country.


In the name of art

Thursday 18 July 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Culture

When the sensitive subject of proposing to change the country’s name re-emerged in March, local artist Mahiriki Tangaroa kept thinking about it. It kept nagging away.

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Editorial: Our identity in a name

Wednesday 17 July 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Opinion

What's in a name? A name is the grouping of several letters of an alphabet, or other symbols, which represent the identity of a person, an object, a country; in this case the Cook Islands and its people.

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Banking on the community

Wednesday 17 July 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Local

The town centre now has clean bright barbeque tables for people to use, courtesy of Bank South Pacific (BSP).

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Community invited to help choose nation's new Maori name

Tuesday 16 July 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Culture

Changing the name of “Kuki Airani” to a traditional tupuna Maori name is back on the agenda of the Ui Ariki this week.

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Luciana: flagbearer to captain

Monday 15 July 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Netball

Optimism for netballers, with Nicholas ‘stronger than ever'. Luciana Nicholas, flag bearer for the 2019 South Pacific Games team, was named captain of the Cook Islands Netball Black Pearls squad for last night’s opener against Tokelau.

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KidsPage: Cutting new life from old wood

Saturday 13 July 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Education

On Aitutaki, the students of Araura College are creating incisive artworks from blocks of wood.

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'Feeling Te Maeva Nui vibe'

Saturday 13 July 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Culture

Young dancers are rehearsing late into night as excitement builds ahead of the country’s biggest annual cultural event, Te Maeva Nui festival.

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Revival of Reo Maori – not Kuki

Saturday 13 July 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Culture

Language renaissance would feature Maori name to replace “Kuki Airani”.

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From tropical Raro to icy US lakes 'the old-fashioned way'

Friday 12 July 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Local

The difference could barely be more stark: from the tropical atolls of the Cook Islands, to the Great Lakes on the border of Canada and the US, that ice over in winter.

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'We will forever remember you Raro'

Thursday 11 July 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Local

The two-masted Marconi rigged schooner Argo has stopped by in Rarotonga with 17 students from the US and a crew of seven.

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The final straw

Thursday 11 July 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Economy

Trader Jack’s was the first bar on the island to ban plastic straws, two years ago.

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Safety fears: Islands lose AM radio

Thursday 11 July 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in National

Radio Cook Islands has criticised the decision to demolish the 107-metre Matavera AM radio mast, leaving the outer islands with no secure communications with the outside world.

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Take 'emotion' out of water row

Wednesday 10 July 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Local

Chlorination is the “only way” to keep Rarotonga’s water pipes safe and clean, say two experts.


Air Force medal: 'It was earnt by my family'

Wednesday 10 July 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Education

Andrea McNabb was the first Royal New Zealand Air Force recruit to pass every phase test with 100 per cent – a record she still holds today.

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Thirteen years of pay rises hard to justify

Tuesday 9 July 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, The 45 per cent pay raise? I agree with the 2.5 per cent per year – from the year an MP was elected.


Nearly a thousand people gather for opening of the new house for Palmerston

Tuesday 9 July 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Culture

Martha Soatini had dreams of a castle for the construction of a Palmerston house.

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New Kiwis 'honoured'

Monday 8 July 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Local

After 17 years of living in the Cook Islands, Halatoa Fua has taken the oath of allegiance to New Zealand alongside a handful of others to receive his citizenship this month.

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Painter having a whale of a time

Saturday 6 July 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Education

When visiting painter Gonzales Aladana saw a whale breaching off the Rarotonga reef, he was inspired.

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Unique plantain varieties protected in overseas bunker

Saturday 6 July 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Health

Banana crops around the world are facing collapse because of a devastating disease – so the Cooks have taken a step to safeguard the country’s colourful range of fruit.

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