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Ocean acidification will affect pearl farmers
Thursday 4 October 2012 | Published in Environment
The marine resources ministry has tentative plans in place to deal with increasing ocean acidification levels. According to non-profit environmental group Oceana, the Cook Islands are in the top five nations most likely to have food security problems caused by climate change and ocean acidification in coming years. An author of the study, Matthew Huelsenbeck, […]
Helmet giveaway to save lives
Thursday 4 October 2012 | Published in Local
A visiting official from the World Health Organisation weighed in on the Cooks helmet debate this week – and it looks likely the government will pay heed. On Tuesday afternoon, WHO Western Pacific region director-general Dr Shin Young-soo signed a country cooperation strategy with health minister Nandi Glassie to help tackle the country’s health problems, […]
Voyagers bring vaka home
Thursday 4 October 2012 | Published in Local
After 18 months of voyaging Te Moana Nui A Kiva and 12 days of enduring harrowing sea and wind conditions on their final leg home – voyaging canoe Marumaru Atua and her weary crew finally returned home yesterday morning. The beating drums and waving family and friends welcomed the vaka to Avatiu harbour where a […]
ET takes out Parlour title
Thursday 4 October 2012 | Published in National
He has won some of the highest accolades in the sport of rugby league but now, New South Wales legend Andrew Ettingshausen can add the Gary Parlour Trophy to that list. The former Australia and New South Wales rugby league veteran, who represented the Aitutaki Game Fishing Club over the weekend, had his name etched […]
Home boys take it to Kiwi cousins
Thursday 4 October 2012 | Published in National
The home-based Cook Islands under 13 rugby league team yesterday dominated all facets of their first test match against their visiting counterparts from New Zealand to comfortably win the match 44-12. The local boys were out to prove themselves after suffering at the hands of a classy visiting Samoan under 13 side earlier in the […]
Spend more on child welfare, Pacific told
Thursday 4 October 2012 | Published in National
Early investments in children and the quality of social services that support families can reap the greatest economic benefit for Pacific countries. Government representatives learned this at a UNICEF conference in Vietnam on reducing poverty and disparities for children in East Asia and Pacific. Investing early in children’s nutrition, education, care and protection, will have […]
Investing in children the key
Thursday 4 October 2012 | Published in National
Government representatives from 16 countries across East Asia and the Pacific met in Vietnam recently to discuss how fiscal and social policies can halt growing disparities in an uncertain global economic environment. For the participating representatives the message is clear – investing in children is the key to reducing social and economic gaps. Economic growth […]
No shortage of tuna for Tauhunu
Thursday 4 October 2012 | Published in National
Tauhunu Fishing Club is back at it again, hunting those yellow fin tuna. Despite a 75 percent turnout of club members, the tournament still proceeded. One member said that the time and tide was perfect, and sure enough, lots of tuna were hauled last Saturday during the Tauhunu Fishing Club competition. At sea Sebong blew […]
Hutchin family milestone celebrated
Thursday 4 October 2012 | Published in National
It was a family reunion of a different kind on Monday as 17 descendants of Reverend JJK Hutchin visited Takamoa on the 100th anniversary of his death on Monday. Born John Joseph Knight Hutchin, the missionary spent 30 years of his life on the island before passing away aged 54 en route to Wellington for […]
Imanuela Akatemia explores cultural centre
Thursday 4 October 2012 | Published in National
Cook Islands culture, myths and legends were the order of the day on Wednesday for students of Imanuela Akatemia Christian School, who spent the morning at the Highland Paradise cultural centre in Arorangi. Dressed in their best pareu wear including head and neck ei – the students hiked through the centre garden learning all about […]
Dreadlocks chopped for breast cancer
Thursday 4 October 2012 | Published in National
Sixteen years of growing his symbolic dreads came to an end for Johnpaul Koteka on Tuesday, but it was all in the name of a good cause. Koteka chopped his beloved hair to raise funds for the Rarotonga Breast Cancer Foundation at a function at the Vai Villas. Not bad for someone who, a day […]
Women urged to enter politics
Thursday 4 October 2012 | Published in National
About 100 local women gathered at the Assembly of God church in Takuvaine yesterday to hear about why they should become more involved in politics. The Cook Islands National Council of Women held its second day of a three-day workshop, in the second phase of a national project to raise awareness on why it is […]
Prepaid data available
Thursday 4 October 2012 | Published in National
Prepaid smartphone users will be able to connect to the internet as Telecom Cook Islands released news of prepaid data packages on Monday. Curious consumers will need to have a smartphone and normal mobile phone to access the prepaid data packages. Data can be spent browsing the internet as well as downloading applications to use […]
3 children go to Aust
Thursday 4 October 2012 | Published in National
Three of the eight children left without a mother after she died in a motorcycle crash last month will soon leave the country for Australia. Single mother Maniu Jack, of Pue, died from serious injuries sustained in a head-on motorbike crash on September 21. Only three of her children were living with her at the […]
Telecom accused of illegal price fixing
Thursday 4 October 2012 | Published in National
The owner of local business The Computer Man is angry at the “anti-competitive practices” of rival Telecom Cook Islands. The computer shop and services owner, Mike Pynenburg, says his plans to open a new store and internet cafe at Mana Court have been put into “disarray” by Telecom recently slashing its wi-fi hotpot service cost […]
Who's the real boss?
Thursday 4 October 2012 | Published in Smoke Signals
“The questions [in their letters to the editor] asked by James Beer and William Framhein about the CITC alleged Coca Cola tax scandal have been to the point and need addressing by government,” a smoke signaller writes. “Instead, we read financial secretary Richard Neves’ pathetic reply that says it’s not worth further investigating [Tuesday’s CI […]
Legal fishing practice crucial says McCully
Wednesday 3 October 2012 | Published in Environment
New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Murray McCully addressed the United Nations last week in New York, updating the general assembly on the recent Pacific Leaders Forum in the Cook Islands. In his speech to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), McCully talked of the responsibility New Zealand feels to small island states in the Pacific – […]
Ponia denies ocean acidification affecting resources
Wednesday 3 October 2012 | Published in Environment
The Cook Islands is in the top five nations most likely to have food security problems caused by climate change and ocean acidification, international environmental group Oceana said last week. The non-profit group ranked the Comoros islands in the Indian Ocean as most vulnerable to the increasing acidity of the world’s water, which is caused […]
Vaka Marumaru Atua expected today
Wednesday 3 October 2012 | Published in Local
Yesterday at press time Cook Islands Voyaging Society president Ian Karika had received no word from Marumaru Atua crew, but was predicting the vaka would be coming in today. At about 8.30am yesterday he heard she was 45 nautical miles off Rarotonga and moving at a speed of 2.5 knots. As of press time there […]
Police step up road patrols
Wednesday 3 October 2012 | Published in Local
Police are stepping up their road safety campaign after six motorbike accidents last weekend. While none were fatal, two young men had a lucky escape after the scooter they were riding hit the Nikao sea-wall early on Sunday morning. The driver was underage and alleged to be under the influence of alcohol. Over the next […]
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