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Hold-ups on new education HQ
Tuesday 29 November 2011 | Published in National
The Ministry of Education is still on track to move into its new headquarters near Tereora College in mid-December, despite not having furniture ready or a fully-completed building to move in to. After three years of basing itself at the Aitutaki hostel at Maraerenga, the ministry should be in its new building by the time […]
Surplus: cancel the savings tax
Tuesday 29 November 2011 | Published in Smoke Signals
A smoke signaller writes: Finance minister Mark Brown’s announcement that Government will have a $2.5 million surplus by the end of this financial year seems to prove that Government did not need to introduce Mark Brown’s interest tax on investment in the first place. So what was all the fuss about, Mark, trying to balance […]
State of tourism discussed
Monday 28 November 2011 | Published in Local
The first of a series of informational meetings on the state of the tourism industry will be held this week, bringing the Cook Islands Tourism Corporations global marketing push to the breakfast table. The corporations first meeting in the so-called Global Marketing Breakfast Update series will be held on Tuesday at Tamarind House. The meeting […]
Meeting to extend neighbourhood watch
Monday 28 November 2011 | Published in Local
Having proven itself as an effective tool to cut crime, the Ngatangiia Neighbourhood Watch initiative is likely to continue. It started as a trial, but organiser Sisi Short says it has been hugely successful, and that during night patrols there has been no crime in her village. She wants to keep it going. We all […]
Cyber crime targeted
Monday 28 November 2011 | Published in Local
A police programme aimed at combating cyber crime will be launched this week with a training seminar. The Cook Islands police have taken a strategic approach to reduce the risk of crime over the internet by adopting the Cyber Safety Pacifica programme, trialled elsewhere in the region including Niue. Internet use throughout the Pacific varies, […]
Prince William joins Irish Sea rescue mission
Monday 28 November 2011 | Published in National
Britains Prince William co-piloted a helicopter that rescued two people after a Cook Islands-registered ship was hit by an enormous wave in the Irish Sea at the weekend. Prince William joined a frantic search and rescue mission after the cargo ship sank, leaving several members of the Russian crew missing. The second in line to […]
Agents experience Cook Islands first-hand
Monday 28 November 2011 | Published in National
A group of 10 travel agents from New Zealand have been visiting the Cook Islands on an educational trip coordinated by the Cook Islands Tourism New Zealand office. Cook Islands Tourism New Zealand office sales and marketing manager Kelly Hansen is escorting the agents who won their places from their successful roadshow earlier this year. […]
New Red Cross Centre ready
Monday 28 November 2011 | Published in National
Though the new Red Cross building at Tupapa wont be officially opened until March next year, the facilities will soon be ready to take in evacuees in the case of a cyclone hitting Rarotonga over the intervening months. The new Cook Islands Red Cross Society headquarters is virtually finished and in a few weeks time […]
Anything is auctioned
Monday 28 November 2011 | Published in Smoke Signals
If you venture online you will see various auctions for Cook Islands items like stamps and coins at such venues as eBay and New Zealands immensely popular TradeMe.co.nz. One sharp-eyed smoke signaller however has spotted an unusual auction a $20 departure tax receipt, dating back to 1985! The person offering the receipt, who goes by […]
What PICI stands for
Saturday 26 November 2011 | Published in Environment
– PICI is advocating for the protection of sharks through the creation of a shark sanctuary in all of the Cook Islands Exclusive Economic Zone. – PICI is a local organisation that works with communities in the areas of research and conservation. – PICI hopes the Cook Islands government will pass a law that will […]
Shark sanctuary advocated
Saturday 26 November 2011 | Published in Environment
The Cook Islands is in a unique position to become a world leader in the protection of an important symbol of Polynesian heritage the shark. Members of the community are working together to spread the word and support Rarotonga-based Pacific Islands Conservation Initiative (PICI) in advocating for the government to create the Cook Islands Shark […]
NES enters deep sea mining discussion
Saturday 26 November 2011 | Published in Environment
The National Environmental Service will next week receive a crash course introduction to deep sea mining at an international workshop held in Fiji. The National Environmental Services senior biodiversity officer Joseph Brider will join legal adviser to Deputy Prime Minister Tom Marsters, Paul Lynch, at the Fiji conference. The pair will be attending the regional […]
Oversight to blame for power cut
Saturday 26 November 2011 | Published in Local
A procedural oversight is to blame for Te Aponga Uiras Rarotonga-wide power cut on Thursday afternoon, chief executive Apii Timoti says. In a press release issued by TAU yesterday, Timoti says the procedural oversight occurred during a cleaning process on one of the companys fuel day tanks. This procedure has since been strengthened by the […]
Ministry performance has improved
Saturday 26 November 2011 | Published in Local
Government ministries are performing better than in previous financial years, the Office of the Public Service Commissioner (OPSC) has discovered. Earlier this month OPSC submitted an information paper to cabinet on the annual performance review of heads of ministries (HOMs) for the financial period from July 1, 2010 to June 30, 2011. OPSC is mandated […]
Big ups and hip-hop love
Saturday 26 November 2011 | Published in Features
King Kapisis newest music video, filmed in Rarotonga, was officially released on Thursday. The song is called Clap ya Hands and features shots of the Muri lagoon, Punanga Nui marketplace, Polynesian Tattoo hut, Pacific Resort Rarotonga, and a host of local faces. Miss South Pacific 2010-2011 Joyana Meyer dances throughout, as Pacific Resort staff drum […]
Annie Crummer wins premiere award
Saturday 26 November 2011 | Published in Features
Singer Annie Crummer, who has Cook Islands roots, has been honoured with the premiere senior arts award at the Creative New Zealand Arts Pasifika Awards in Wellington. Chair of Creative New Zealands Pacific Arts Committee, Pele Walker, said the awards are an opportunity to celebrate the creative success of those making a difference internationally, nationally […]
Trevs Ticket catches its second wind
Saturday 26 November 2011 | Published in Features
Twice-famous, Trevor Richards (formerly Trevor Tombleson) is living his dream all over again. The 60-something owner of Polynesian Tax Free Ltd, who moonlights as Whateva Treva on 88FM, is remembering what it feels like to be a 20-something rocker. His band Ticket took the New Zealands 1970s acid-rock scene by storm but disbanded in 1973. […]
Local Girl Guide inspired in Mexico
Saturday 26 November 2011 | Published in Features
A Rarotongan Girl Guide made the long trip to Mexico last month to get some guidance of her own. Twenty-five-year-old Tuati Mauke joined up with Girl Guides members from across the world at an international Girl Guides get together in the central Mexican city Cuernavaca in October. In Mexico, Mauke learnt a number of advocacy […]
New caf on the southside
Saturday 26 November 2011 | Published in Features
Coffee lovers who live on Rarotongas south side will welcome Coco Latte, a cafe and healthy eatery that opened this week in the space across from Wigmores Superstore. The newest addition to the Coco Putt enterprise owned by Tokerau Tooks Turia and partner Meegan and their New Zealand counterparts. Manager Jo Bevin oversees the cafe […]
Rentraro picks up Telecom prize pack
Saturday 26 November 2011 | Published in Features
Rentraro.com had just one house up for rent when it was first launched in 1996 and now the Cook Islands upstart has more than 100 available for bookings to tourists. This month, website owner Pai Chambers and her company Heritage Holdings received the Telecom internet marketing award at the biennial Air New Zealand Tourism Awards […]
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