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Articles by Rashneel Kumar
Half-price internet, and they won't cut off the phones
Thursday 19 March 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Technology
Monopoly telco Vodafone is responding to the Covid-19 economic crisis by giving domestic customers free phone connections and half-price broadband.
Annual sports awards postponed
Tuesday 17 March 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Other Sports
Sporting federations are being asked to cancel or postponed their upcoming competitions due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Marathon runner's dream on hold
Tuesday 17 March 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Other Sports
Lichu Sloan’s dream of running her first marathon in the Cook Islands will have to wait, atleast for a year.
International pressure for equal rights for gay men
Tuesday 17 March 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Local
Call for all Cook Islanders to voice their support for same-sex law reform in select committee submission.
Tourism hoping for help
Tuesday 17 March 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Economy
Government prepares to dip into cash reserves to pay for stimulus package. Resorts and tour companies are to start laying off staff as the coronavirus causes an unprecedented tourism drop-off.
League considers cancelling games
Monday 16 March 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in League
Government is discouraging gathering of groups of more than 50 people, involving sporting events.
Top of the table clash
Saturday 14 March 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Netball
Avatiu will be bracing for a tough challenge when it takes Arorangi in round two of the Netball Domestic Season 2020 today.
Tennis elects new president
Saturday 14 March 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Other Sports
Davina Hosking-Ashford has become the new president of Tennis Cook Islands.
Unbeaten Eels takes on Bears
Saturday 14 March 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in League
Avatiu Eels’ unbeaten run is at stake in the weekly rugby league competition.
Clerk's lawyer challenges dismissal
Saturday 14 March 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Local
Support for sacked Clerk of Parliament Tangata Vainerere continues to gain momentum.
Air NZ goes to ground in deluge of enquiries
Saturday 14 March 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Economy
New Zealand Prime Minister puts tight new controls on travel to the Pacific – but her national airline makes first cut the deepest.
Cook Islanders gather for annual Touch meet in Australia
Friday 13 March 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Touch Rugby
Mangaia won the overall prize in the Cook Islands Annual Touch Tournament held in Victoria, Australia.
Cooks creates 'island fortress'
Friday 13 March 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Health
Health authorities have send six people’s swabs to New Zealand for coronavirus testing. The results are expected within a week.
Virgin takes a flight out
Friday 13 March 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Economy
First coronavirus – and now tourism industry faces another big blow.
Rejected tourists disembark
Friday 13 March 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Economy
More than 100 tourists last night disembarked their cruise ship in Rarotonga, after Tahiti announced it would turn them away.
Triathlete Henderson breaks the 15 hour mark.
Thursday 12 March 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Other Sports
Injuries fail to deter local triathlete from achieving his target.
Phone consultation encouraged as Health streamlines its services
Thursday 12 March 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Health
Patients are being encouraged to do phone consultations with medical practitioners as the Health ministry streamlines its services to battle the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak.
$1.4m to fight coronavirus
Thursday 12 March 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Economy
Government is clawing back unspent cash from different agencies to fight the threat of Covid-19.
Our flower in space: Tiare and NASA
Thursday 12 March 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Local
A Cook Islander is leading a United States school team in a project to make future space missions safer.
Football tourney postponed amid coronavirus fears
Wednesday 11 March 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Football
A regional football tournament which was supposed to be held on Rarotonga later this month has been postponed amid the threat of the Covid-19 coronavirus.
