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Man found guilty of rape, burglary
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Tourism contribution set to surpass half-billion dollar mark
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23 September 2024
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7 September 2024
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MCI rejects ‘dark fleet’ label
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Rising seas, rising costs: Climate impacts on Cook Islands economy
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Prime Minister defends $659,000 MPs travel bill
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Taxpayers foot $659,000 bill for MPs travel and allowance
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Corruption report exposes ‘bribe and sexual favours’
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Next expert please
Wednesday 23 May 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, We are all used to the ‘experts’ who visit us for a few days, give us their expert advice on what we should be doing, and then depart forever.
No free ride for this Grey Power taxpayer
Wednesday 23 May 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, In 1964 I started work in New Zealand, doing two jobs and paying tax accordingly.
Palmerston to get cyclone shelter
Wednesday 23 May 2018 | Published in Outer Islands
A request for tenders has been issued by Infrastructure Cook Islands (ICI) for the construction of a cyclone shelter on the atoll of Palmerston.
Cook Islands joins denuclearisation calls
Wednesday 23 May 2018 | Published in Politics
Prime minister Henry Puna has joined together with other regional leaders to call on North Korea to take concrete action towards the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula.
Cook Islanders embroiled in NZ building scandal
Wednesday 23 May 2018 | Published in Local
Global Fibre8 Limited, an international supplier of building materials based in New Zealand, is facing legal action for selling faulty products.
Answers sought on Te Mato Vai issues
Tuesday 22 May 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The last time I directed a question through this column to the minister of finance (CINews February 12, 2018), it related to migrant workers and their superannuation rights.
Review report highlights 'then and now' issues
Tuesday 22 May 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Your page one story in CINews, May 17, reviews some of the recommendations of the 1998 report of the Commission of Review into electoral matters.
Call to stop Manatua cable project
Tuesday 22 May 2018 | Published in Local
The Manatua cable project should be stopped, says Opposition deputy leader James Beer.
Election candidates explain their aims
Tuesday 22 May 2018 | Published in Politics
CINews this week begins a series of articles profiling candidates in next month’s general election.
Pacific rugby squad gets player backing
Monday 21 May 2018 | Published in Regional
PACIFIC – A proposed combined Pacific Islands Super Rugby team has the backing of a number of former players and administrators.
PACIFIC BRIEFS 21/05/2018
Monday 21 May 2018 | Published in Regional
NCD GRAPHIC DESIGN CONTEST LAUNCHED
France displays Pacific 'schizophrenia'
Monday 21 May 2018 | Published in Regional
FRENCH PACIFIC – A leading French Polynesian pro-independence politician has described the French government’s stance towards its Pacific colonies as “schizophrenic”.
They're doing well, for sure!
Monday 21 May 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, If the Minister of Finance really believed his own spin that we are all doing so well and “many Cook Islanders are making more money than before”, then why did the government give a few taxpayers a state handout by writing off their core taxes?
Don't ask for a free ride
Monday 21 May 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Recently the Grey Power has had ads playing on TV asking that they don’t get taxed.
More praise for Rarotonga hospital staff
Monday 21 May 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Last week I underwent a small surgical procedure at Rarotonga hospital which involved going to theatre and having to be anesthetised.
Call for faith a bit rich coming from Nicholas
Monday 21 May 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Faith is a powerful word that is embedded in the Holy Bible.
Ungrateful lot should pay their taxes
Monday 21 May 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Grey Power members who get the New Zealand pension - double the pension I receive as a Cook Islander, want their pension paid here in the Cook Islands, but don’t want to pay tax.
Pensioner is happy to do right thing
Monday 21 May 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, As an 82-year-old pensioner myself, I couldn't agree less with this Grey Power view that pensioners shouldn’t have to pay tax.
Te tero – E pute moni no te akatere anga i te Basileia
Monday 21 May 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
E te Etita, Kare e kai nga manga kare e tutaki ko te tero, e pute moni na te Kavamani, no te te akatupu anga e te tutaki anga i tana au angaanga no te iti tangata mei te paruru e te rapakau anga maki, te tua o te apii, e te akava.
Tuna stock claims need some context
Monday 21 May 2018 | Published in Opinion
On the front page of the CINews on May 15 there was an article by Alfred Cook, manager of World Wide Fund for Nature’s Western and Central Pacific.
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