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Articles by Utopia Support
Two jets land minutes apart
Monday 14 May 2018 | Published in Local
Visitors waiting to experience a jet landing at the seawall were treated to an unexpected bonus on Saturday afternoon as two Air New Zealand jets landed at Rarotonga International Airport within minutes of each other.
PM Puna travelling to Japan
Monday 14 May 2018 | Published in Politics
Prime minister Henry Puna will attend the Pacific Islands Leaders Meeting (PALM) being held next week in Fukushima, Japan.
Tourists urged to mix with locals
Monday 14 May 2018 | Published in Local
The head of the South Pacific Tourism Organisation says that better inclusion of local experiences and indigenous people is the key to offering unique travel experiences.
The passing of a legend
Monday 14 May 2018 | Published in Local
Cook Islands legend and sporting icon Teanuanua Teariki Kamana, OBE, known to most as Papa Dan Kamana, has passed away at the age of 93.
Saving Suwarrow's seabirds
Saturday 12 May 2018 | Published in Environment
This weekly column is supplied by Te Ipukarea Society. It deals with conservation and environmental matters of interest to the Cook Islands.
Mackenzie has high aims in new role
Saturday 12 May 2018 | Published in Local
Teina Mackenzie was elected deputy chair of the Pacific Women in Maritime Association (PacWiMA) at their second regional conference held late last month in Papua New Guinea.
CIP need to stop making it happen
Saturday 12 May 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Reading the Friday, May 4 issue of the CINews daily paper, caretaker PM Puna typically displays his usual arrogance, with gloating approval of his CIP government’s appalling track record over the past seven years, his very own comments becoming an open and scathing indictment of past and current incompetencies as government.
Harry lives the Suwarrow life
Saturday 12 May 2018 | Published in Outer Islands
Travel some 900-odd kilometres north by northwest of Rarotonga, up towards the islands of Nassau and Pukapuka, and you’ll find Suwarrow, a national park of the Cook Islands since 1978.
Fisherman finds drugs buried on beach
Saturday 12 May 2018 | Published in Regional
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Police in Papua New Guinea believe a village fisherman accidentally disturbed a drug-running operation after finding nearly 60 kilograms of what is suspected to be illicit drugs buried on a remote beach.
Solar power comes to Mitiaro
Saturday 12 May 2018 | Published in Outer Islands
Prime minister Henry Puna officially opened the first of four solar power stations in the southern group islands under the Cook Islands Renewable Energy Project on the island of Mitiaro on Thursday.
Black, white and something in between
Saturday 12 May 2018 | Published in Hot on the Rock
One’s black. One’s white. One’s a bit of a mixture.
Quick Rip 7s launched here
Saturday 12 May 2018 | Published in Rugby Union
A new game – Quick Rip 7s, was launched in the Cook Islands this week in a joint Pacific Sporting Partnership (PSP) involving the Cook Islands Rugby Union (CIRU) and the New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRU), sponsored by NZ Aid.
Governor wants major disaster declared
Saturday 12 May 2018 | Published in Regional
Hawai‘i – Hawai‘i’s governor has asked President Donald Trump to declare the state of Hawai‘i a major disaster area.
TIS refresh first aid skills for Suwarrow trip
Saturday 12 May 2018 | Published in Local
Te Ipukarea Society (TIS) recently completed a two-day first aid course in anticipation of their upcoming trip to Suwarrow (see story page 18).
Teen should be sent back to Nauru
Saturday 12 May 2018 | Published in Regional
NAURU – A psychiatrist has said an acutely unwell child held within Australia’s offshore detention regime should not be returned to Nauru because his long-running detention there is causing his mental illness.
Cooks to host football qualifiers
Friday 11 May 2018 | Published in Football
In a little under two weeks, the under-19 teams of Tonga, Samoa, American Samoa and host team Cook Islands will compete at the Oceania Football Confederation U19 Championship Qualifiers at the CIFA Complex in Matavera.
Hospital staff are 'wonderful'
Friday 11 May 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Through your newspaper I would like to convey our thanks to the wonderful staff at the Rarotonga Hospital for their recent treatment of my wife.
Patience that never, ever quits
Friday 11 May 2018 | Published in Church Talk
“Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth” - Revelation 2:10
Govt ignores the majority
Friday 11 May 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, A number of decisions made by this present government over the last two terms of parliament have affected some, if not all Cook Islanders and were enacted despite serious protestations from various sectors of the public.
Voters should ponder issues
Friday 11 May 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, During a visit to Rarotonga a couple of years ago, landowners from Manihiki threatened the government that damage would be carried out on newly installed solar panels on their island if they were not given lease or rent monies while they were in Rarotonga.
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