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Articles by Rashneel Kumar
Benefit for league players
Tuesday 31 March 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in League
Expats contracted by local rugby league clubs are eligible to apply for unemployment benefit. Players from Fiji, Samoa and Papua New Guinea are left stranded on Rarotonga after the cancellation of the domestic league competition.
Tough calls: Saving money to save lives
Tuesday 31 March 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Economy
Government reveals the cost-cutting that is helping to pay for the coronavirus economic response package.
Immigration Bill select committee receive extended time
Monday 30 March 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Economy
The select committee looking into the Immigration Bill 2020 has been given extended time to report back to Parliament, due to the coronavirus crisis.
Staying strong
Monday 30 March 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Local
Government is promising financial support to stranded Cook Islanders after abandoning plans to isolate them in hotel near Auckland International Airport.
Aussie emissary: 'We want to hear the singing start again'
Saturday 28 March 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Weekend
It’s been a bittersweet arrival for the first resident Australian High Commissioner to Cook Islands and his partner.
Doctors go home to help with Covid-19
Saturday 28 March 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Local
Cook Islanders are finding ways to help tourists and expat workers stranded penniless on these islands. A German couple were elated to be allowed to board a plane to Auckland yesterday, in the first leg of a long, long trip home.
'Be patient, don't lay off workers'
Saturday 28 March 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Local
Government is pleading with struggling businesses to keep their expat workers on the payroll.
Boy's innovation that sticks out
Friday 27 March 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Local
Desperate times call for innovation. Amidst the coronavirus crisis, Manny Okotai, 10, has come up with a brilliant invention to help people practise social distancing correctly.
MP returns after three weeks injured in hospital
Friday 27 March 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Politics
MP Albert Nicholas spent about three weeks at Rarotonga hospital after sustaining injuries in last month’s serious accident in Nikao.
Aussie visitors: leave on next available flight
Thursday 26 March 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Local
“Australians who are here on holiday, it’s time to go home.”
Foreign banks' behaviour is 'unacceptable'
Thursday 26 March 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Economy
Government threatens to legislate to force banks to give debt relief to those struggling to make repayments in economic downturn.
Growers call for support
Wednesday 25 March 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Local
Growers are calling on government support as the coronavirus crisis forces them to put a halt on agricultural production.
Cargo vessels 'remain on schedule'
Wednesday 25 March 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Economy
Freight shipping schedules for the Cook Islands in the coming month will not be affected by the coronavirus crisis.
Tzar of the South Seas
Tuesday 24 March 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Entertainment
Singer Tzar is back in Raro, and dreaming of putting together a family band. It is the one life experience about which musician Teuira Williams hasn’t been able to put the pen to the paper: his near-death experience out at sea.
Stores tighten coronavirus controls
Tuesday 24 March 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Economy
Leading food outlets on Rarotonga have started putting in measures to restrict the spread of the coronavirus.
Authority is to hold big banks to account
Saturday 21 March 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Economy
The Financial Supervisory Commission says they will ensure banks honour the commitment they have made to deliver government’s economic response package.
Golf postpones 2020 season a week after opener
Friday 20 March 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Other Sports
The Rarotonga Golf Club has postponed all its club and sponsored events from today, due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Government solicits banks' agreement to loan holidays
Friday 20 March 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Economy
ANZ holds out on government’s plea for three-month debt repayment holidays for struggling Cook Islanders.
Tough battle for top awards
Thursday 19 March 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Other Sports
Eleven awards will be given out at the annual Cook Islands Sports Awards to be held later in the year.
Netball comp postponed until May 1
Thursday 19 March 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Netball
The 2020 Rarotonga Netball Competition has been postponed. Mii Maui, Netball Cook Islands president, said the executives and its members/clubs have made a collective decision to postpone the competition until May 1.