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Kata - December 2, 2011

Friday 2 December 2011 | Published in Kata

$750 generated

Friday 2 December 2011 | Published in National

Aotearoa Society Rarotonga members are planning to hold an annual garage sale, following the success of last weekends inaugural fundraising event. The society offered vendors space for $20, staged a membership drive, and sold $10 plates of traditional Kiwi boil-up, soup, rewana bread, barbequed sausages and cups of tea and coffee. Members also sold hand-made […]

Busy week for prizegivings

Friday 2 December 2011 | Published in National

Rarotonga schools are busy this week preparing for end of year prizegivings and parent days. Yesterday Arorangi School had its prizegiving at 9am at Aroa Nui Hall. Today Titikaveka College and four primary schools are set to hold their own achievement ceremonies. At 9am Avatea, Nikao Maori and Avarua prizegivings begin at the schools (Avatea […]

Hooray, the NCEA exams are over!

Friday 2 December 2011 | Published in National

Secondary school students throughout the Cook Islands can breathe a sigh of relief now that their end-of-year examinations are over. The last National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) exam in the country was for level two economics and it took place at Princess Anne Hall in Nikao from 10.30am on Tuesday. All Cook Islands examination […]

Police await results from coroner

Friday 2 December 2011 | Published in National

Police are still waiting for directions from the coroner following their investigation into a ten-year-old Takuvaine girls death recently. The girl died just one day shy of her eleventh birthday at Rarotonga hospital on November 6. Police commissioner Maara Tetava has quashed suspicion that she died as a result of violence, saying there is no […]

Distracted drivers pose danger

Friday 2 December 2011 | Published in National

Distracted drivers are dangerous drivers. Thats the message coming from Cook Islands Police after a young woman was taken to hospital this week with head injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident that occurred because she was not paying proper attention to the road. The woman, aged in her late teens, ran up the rear of […]

Time for a uniform change at Tereora

Friday 2 December 2011 | Published in National

Tereora College sporters will pull on a new uniform for physical education classes next year in the first uniform change of many planned for the school. The current, white sports uniform will be dropped next year and replaced with a navy blue singlet and rugby shorts for Tereora students. The singlet will feature the schools […]

Students revamp bus stops

Friday 2 December 2011 | Published in National

Teenage painters have taken to the bus stops in Arorangi and, no, they arent graffiti addicts wanted by the law. Instead, these year 9 and 10 Tereora College students have gone out with paint buckets and brushes in hand to help revamp the village bus stops and bring a bit of colour to the roadside. […]

Tiare Week winners named

Friday 2 December 2011 | Published in National

The Ministry of Justice and the Tuarai Clinic have been named as the winners of the 2011 Tiare Week Decorated Properties Competition winners. The pair was named as the competition winners for their colourful and well thought out floral designs in line with this years theme te au akairo o toku matakeinanga or signs of […]

Government must fund footpaths

Friday 2 December 2011 | Published in Smoke Signals

“No dispute, the nation needs footpaths!” a smoke signaller writes. “But the suggestion that bikeways and footpaths could be supported by businesses and donations from the public is utter nonsense! Why should an already stretched tax paying private sector and general public pay for footpaths?Is there not enough money in the coffers of the Tourism […]

Cautionary advice on seabed mining

Thursday 1 December 2011 | Published in Environment

The Cook Islands and the Pacific region have been urged to take a precautionary approach to seabed mineral exploration to ensure the communitys interests and the environment are properly protected. Doctor Russell Howorth, a director of the Secretariat of the South Pacifics Applied Geoscience and Technology Division (SOPAC), has sounded a cautionary note during his […]

TAU refutes surge claim

Thursday 1 December 2011 | Published in Local

Computer system problems and failures since last weeks island-wide power cut are causing consternation. Since Thursdays island-wide power cut on Rarotonga, computer parts suppliers have had a bolt in demand for new batteries and power packs. They say it shows there was a surge in the power grid, but Te Aponga Uira says it has […]

CISNOC accounts hit by meltdown

Thursday 1 December 2011 | Published in Local

Members of the Cook Islands Sports and National Olympic Committee (CISNOC) will have to wait a little longer for an updated financial report of the organisation. In early November new CISNOC treasurer Dan OBrien promised members he would give them a breakdown of the organisations fiscal status by the end of the month. But fate […]

Uirangis ready to go

Thursday 1 December 2011 | Published in Local

Cook Islands’Miss South Pacific contestant Uirangi Bishop with supporters Miss South Pacific 2010 Joyana Meyer and Edgewater Resort and Spa general manager Chris McGeown giving her a final farewell

Kata - December 1, 2011

Thursday 1 December 2011 | Published in Kata

Big fish on Manihiki!

Thursday 1 December 2011 | Published in National

A total of 200 kilograms of fish has been caught during a competition in Manihiki. Nehemia Kaina won the major prize for the heaviest wahoo caught a 15kg beauty however the $500 prize money was not claimed because no wahoo more than 30kg were caught. Benjamin Ravengakore captured the largest tuna, of 25.8kg, and the […]

Bug lady helps out in Mauke

Thursday 1 December 2011 | Published in National

When Ministry of Agriculture entomologist Maja Poeschko visited Mauke she was taken on a whirlwind tour of local pest issues. Three days wasnt enough time as she likes to really study one square metre at a time, looking for the many life forms that most are unaware of. Maja learned that the fruit piercing moth […]

Trochus tender won by local firm Ora Moana

Thursday 1 December 2011 | Published in National

Cook Islands company Ora Moana Ltd has successfully tendered for this years Aitutaki trochus, which is being harvested at present. Ora Moana has the same owners and directors as fellow Rarotonga-based firm Moana Gems. Owner/director Raymond Newnham is currently out of the country, but the Ministry of Marine Resources (MMR) confirms all 17 tonnes of […]

Memorial ride around island

Thursday 1 December 2011 | Published in National

A memorial ride will take place next weekend to mark the death of triathlete Pauline Atera and raise awareness of road safety. The Cook Islands Triathlon Association is organising the event, to be held on Saturday, December 10, or Sunday, December 11, in remembrance of Atera, who died on Sunday after being hit by a […]

Fateful SPCA meeting

Thursday 1 December 2011 | Published in National

Members of the Cook Islands Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) are being urged to attend an annual general meeting of the organisation tonight. SPCA president Alistair Macquarie says the meeting will begin at 5pm at the RSA building in Nikao. On the agenda are the presidents report and treasurers report as […]