Articles by Utopia Support

Kia Orana Air not taking off

Saturday 5 May 2012 | Published in Local

Kia Orana Air, the low-cost domestic airline first proposed in mid-2008, is now grounded indefinitely. Managing director Mark Lusby announced yesterday that he has abandoned the venture. This follows approval to operate the airline business in January 2010 and protracted delays attributed to the economic downturn and recent problems in finding a site for an […]

New arts group forms

Saturday 5 May 2012 | Published in Features

A group of Cook Islands artists has officially formed with the hopes of raising the online presence of local artists on the internet and social media outlets. The project, being called the Cook Islands Arts Community, has been formed in answer to what organisers believe is a “considerable interest within our arts community for an […]

Nudes with attitude all about respect

Saturday 5 May 2012 | Published in Features

Art has the power to provoke thought and emotions as well as challenge viewers on their perceptions and the recent exhibition titled ‘ReSpect’ by Nanette Lela’ulu at the Beachcomber Contemporary Art gallery has done just that. On display at BCA are four portraits of fellow artists Reuben Paterson, Sylvia Marsters, Shigeyuki Kihara, John Ioane and […]

Cup looked like gold from another galaxy

Saturday 5 May 2012 | Published in Features

Rutaki School students write about meeting Jerome Kaino and the Web Ellis Cup, in this week’s Kids Page. Grade 3 to 6 students put their use of similes into practice to describe their experience. I looked all around and was amazed to see Jerome Kaino looked like a lion. The trophy looked liked a shining […]

'First taste'

Saturday 5 May 2012 | Published in Features

One week of work experience at the Ministry of Internal Affairs during the school holidays was an eye opener forTereora College student, Aleena Maunga. The year 13 student was expected to gain work experience in the area of customer services to gain the relevant credits towards her business administration and computing course as part of […]

Real Chinese kai out west

Saturday 5 May 2012 | Published in Features

Sino Resto, Arorangi’s new Chinese restaurant, is selling ‘real’ Chinese food. That’s according to Chinese chefs An Lee and Song Lin Chen, who are bringing their Chinese culinary expertise to Rarotonga. The restaurant opened on Christmas Eve and since then has had a lot of attention from tourists and Cook Islands people. It serves well-known […]

Blossom first to enter Miss Cook Islands

Saturday 5 May 2012 | Published in Features

Just once this week, All Black Jerome Kaino turned up to a photo shoot and wasn’t the star. On Wednesday morning, the Miss Cook Islands Pageant Association publicly announced its first Miss Cook Islands contestant, who posed for photos with her chaperone Julia Evans, Edgewater management and staff, and of course, Kaino. She is Miss […]

Amelia Borofsky finds her pito in Pukapuka

Saturday 5 May 2012 | Published in Features

For Amelia Borofsky, Pukapuka is no longer a distant, fraying memory. Having spent four months on the northern atoll, Pukapuka is woven into her spirit, and she speaks of the place with emotion and passion. “I fell in love (with Pukapuka), I really feel like I fell in love the way you fall in love […]

Enforce contracts

Saturday 5 May 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I read in yesterday’s paper of the situation at Titikaveka College and my heart really ‘bleeds’ for them as they have to deal with a teacher shortage. I think we do suffer a skills shortage across the board in most professions here in the Cook Islands and feel that there is an easy […]

Long live press freedom!

Saturday 5 May 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Congratulations to your reporters Eric Parnis and Rachel Reeves for their insightful World Press Freedom Day articles highlighting the fact that press freedom is every citizen’s right. However, it’s disturbing to read that the flow of information is not so free in the Cook Islands as we are entitled to expect. I must […]

Saddened

Saturday 5 May 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, As I prepare to leave the Cook Islands, I am saddened by my time in Rarotonga. I fell in love again with Pukapuka, but am left disappointed by my experience here. As I wrote in previous letters, a lot of my valuable belongings were stolen by an identifiable suspect. After three weeks of […]

'Fabrication and exaggeration'

Saturday 5 May 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, The way some people write about and run Norman George down, got me fuming in disappointment because of the total fabrication and exaggeration of facts. I know a lot of people only see Norm from a distance, hear him on radio or see him on television, but never take the time to sit […]

Growing list of national problems

Saturday 5 May 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, To see our political leaders falling over themselves to attend global talkfests when the most immediate problems they should be dealing with are here in this country is disgraceful. Clamoring on jets at every opportunity to zoom off to far away, exotic destinations are certainly not going to help solve the country’s problems. […]

Kata - May 3, 2012

Saturday 5 May 2012 | Published in Kata

Kata - May 5, 2012

Saturday 5 May 2012 | Published in Kata

Netball spreads outdoors today

Saturday 5 May 2012 | Published in Netball

Today’s netball buzz spreads from the Telecom Sports Arena to the Arorangi netball courts at Raemaru Park as the club hosts Avatiu on their newly upgraded hard courts. The games outdoors in Arorangi have generated much excitement as players and supporters are sure to break out the picnic baskets for a fun family day out […]

Pa explains war against diabetes

Saturday 5 May 2012 | Published in National

Pa Marie Ariki is passionate about changing lives in the Cook Islands – educating her people about their health and encouraging them to change dietary habits so as to avoid contracting diabetes. Below is a speech she gave to the Rarotonga Rotary Club. Diabetes is a permanent change in your internal chemistry, which results in […]

Siren test

Saturday 5 May 2012 | Published in National

The Ngatangiia community will hear their new tsunami warning siren for the first time on Wednesday, May 9, when it undergoes its first test. The siren, located at the Muri Meeting House, will be switched on about midday on Wednesday to test the system and find its reach in the surrounding community. Hotels in the […]

Cows moo in downtown Avarua today

Saturday 5 May 2012 | Published in National

The Town Market opposite Banana Court will be turned into a paddock today where cow sculptures created by Rarotonga children will be exhibited to the public. CITC and Anchor invite local business and art lovers to the public exhibition of sculptures submitted by the schools around Rarotonga. CITC and Anchor have been working with all […]

Goodie bags for fishing associations

Saturday 5 May 2012 | Published in National

A $25,000 investment through the government’s Fishing Development Fund will give fishers across the Cook Islands greater access to safety equipment. The Cook Islands Fishers Association will distribute 30 bags stuffed with safety equipment to fishing clubs throughout the country thanks to the investment. The Fishing Development Fund purchased a swatch of equipment, such as […]