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Ministers to outer islands
Monday 23 April 2012 | Published in National
Cook Islands Party cabinet ministers will be focusing their attention on domestic issues this week, with four ministers expected to travel to two outer islands before the week’s close. Prime Minister Henry Puna remains on his constituency Manihiki and is expected to stay there until the middle of the week. Minister Mark Brown will join […]
What does China want from the Cook Islands?
Monday 23 April 2012 | Published in National
China offers the Cook Islands investment, infrastructure, labour and expertise through the developmental partnership that is flourishing between the two countries. But what does the Cook Islands offer China in return? Professor Stewart Firth and assistant professor Kate Hannan offer some explanations. It’s clear what the Cook Islands is receiving out of its budding relationship […]
Pa Ariki makes plea to women
Monday 23 April 2012 | Published in National
In an effort to steer the Cook Islands in a healthier direction, Takitumu chief Pa Marie Ariki is taking the initiative to set up a Wellness Clinic at her Mata Enua palace. She approached Cook Islands News about writing a weekly Thursday message to her people. This is the first of what promises to be […]
Mitiaro a key biodiversity area
Saturday 21 April 2012 | Published in Environment
Te Ipukarea Society visited Mitiaro last month to raise awareness about the unique biodiversity on the island and the identification of Mitiaro as a Key Biodiversity Area and Important Bird Area. This follows visits to Mangaia, Mauke, Atiu and Aitutaki where similar work was done. Mitiaro qualifies as an Important Bird Area because of the […]
Webb Ellis Cup coming to Raro
Saturday 21 April 2012 | Published in Local
One of the world’s greatest sporting trophies – the Webb Ellis Cup – is coming to Rarotonga. The 4.5kg silver gilt trophy won by the All Blacks at the Rugby World Cup last year will be on the island for four days – coinciding with the Federation of Oceania Rugby Unions (FORU) annual general meeting […]
Businessman makes $153,000 civil claim
Saturday 21 April 2012 | Published in Local
An Arorangi business is proceeding with a claim of over $153,000 against Robert Heather Wichman and police commissioner Maara Tetava. Motherland Limited, trading as The Sharp Shop, and its director Peter Robertson are plaintiffs in a case against Wichman, one of the landowners of the Arorangi property on which the business is situated. Robertson alleges […]
Takitumu land decision delayed
Saturday 21 April 2012 | Published in Local
The Privy Council will not hand down a decision in the Takitumu land dispute case currently before it for another two months. According to Terri Judd, legal affairs correspondent for United Kingdom newspaper The Independent, tensions have been running high in the London court. As the highest court in the Commonwealth, it is the final […]
Catching kotawa, making taro smack
Saturday 21 April 2012 | Published in Features
On this week’s kids page we feature stories written by students of Niua School on Pukapuka. The students, with the help of Amelia Borofsky, have put together a book as a guide for visitors to their northern group island. First, you clean your place where you plant your taro. Second, you clean out all the […]
8-year-old selling own crop
Saturday 21 April 2012 | Published in Features
At eight years old, Carey Jnr Hosea-Winterflood is already a man of the land and an entrepreneur. When he was just four, the St Joseph’s student took an interest in what his father was doing in the garden. He asked for pointers, and he and his father visited an Arorangi fruit orchard for tips. The […]
Rarotonga's Hawaiian legend up for award
Saturday 21 April 2012 | Published in Features
Rarotonga knows Rudy Aquino as a humble performer with smiling eyes and a long white ponytail (his wife jokes that it’s platinum blonde) who lets his music do the talking. He’s too modest to admit it, but the man is a legend. Aquino and his former band, the original Hawaiian Aliis (later Don Ho and […]
Young dancers do their culture proud
Saturday 21 April 2012 | Published in Features
Stunning costumes, expert dancing and loads of enthusiasm set the tone for a fantastic night of Cook Islands culture on Thursday. Twenty-two junior and intermediate dancers took to the stage to wow the near packed Are Karioi on Thursday night in the 2012 junior and intermediate dancer of the year competition. Most, if not all, […]
Fund a study into local crime
Saturday 21 April 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Perhaps it is time to find funding for a study into the incredible amount of theft that is taking place on Rarotonga. I am sure an independent study will bring some answers rather than rely on the police or government. It may be found that each and all of us are to blame […]
Boot camp for thieves
Saturday 21 April 2012 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, In regards to trouble with youth stealing and the system not working as punishment – we have seen in the States a form of boot camp. Offenders attend this camp for six months. The camp could be on an outer island or motu. Make it so hard and so miserable that the thought […]
Vaka crew feeling the call of home
Saturday 21 April 2012 | Published in National
Kia Orana kotou katoatoa! We send our love and greetings from the sweltering hot deck of Marumaru Atua early on Sunday afternoon of April 15. There is a little breeze which is only allowing us to puff along at three to four knots, which has been the case for the last few days this week […]
WOF revamp underway
Saturday 21 April 2012 | Published in National
Draft legislation designed to lift the standards of motor vehicle fitness tests and documentation remains in the pipeline, with Cook Islands Police and Crown Law in consultation on the proposed laws. The legislation has been in the works since 2010, when police first convened a committee to explore the possibility of introducing updates to the […]
Eye care improves over a decade
Saturday 21 April 2012 | Published in National
Since eye care specialist Jo Simms started visiting Rarotonga a decade ago, eye care services at Rarotonga Hospital have “improved quite a lot”. Simms says that visiting specialists do still have to refer some cases to New Zealand, but that for the most part, surgeries, laser treatments and check-ups can be done here in the […]
Call that a deal?
Saturday 21 April 2012 | Published in Smoke Signals
A smoke signaller writes: “Watching the Toa tanks being moved, one is left to wonder what drugs the former government was experimenting with when it agreed to pay $5 million for a fuel terminal where the lease was about to run out. The responsible minister’s most recent public remark seems to have been that it […]
Te Kapua anga o te kopu tangata
Friday 20 April 2012 | Published in Church Talk
Na te Atua i anga i te kopu tangata. Kua anga oki te Atua i te tane e te vaine, ei akamata i te kopu tangata. Ko te kopu tangata, ko te au tamariki te ka anau ia mai, e te metua tane, e te metua vaine. Kare te kopu tangata e akamutu i te […]
The importance of the Holiness of God
Friday 20 April 2012 | Published in Church Talk
As we approach the subject of the holiness of God, let us be mindful of the importance of this divine attribute. “The Bible says that God is holy, holy, holy. Not that He is merely holy, or even holy, holy. He is holy, holy, holy. The Bible never says that God is love, love, love, […]
CICC conference raises youth issues
Friday 20 April 2012 | Published in Church Talk
A national youth conference was held last week at the Sinai Hall to raise youth issues. Issues that were discussed include suicide, teenage pregnancy, alcohol abuse, smoking and domestic violence. “Our main focus was to raise issues concerning youth today; the main reason is that we’ve seen the growth in youth that are involved in […]
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