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Articles by Utopia Support
Quake victims just emerging
Monday 19 March 2018 | Published in Regional
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – A community worker from Mogulu in Papua New Guinea’s Western Province says some people have only just managed to walk out from landslip affected areas three weeks after the 7.5-magnitude earthquake rocked the Highlands.
Beetle pest threatens livelihoods
Monday 19 March 2018 | Published in Regional
SOLOMON ISLANDS – Solomon Islanders are facing a bleak future as the coconut rhinoceros beetle marches across its fertile plains, killing their “tree of life” by the millions.
Atoll bones most likely Earhart's
Monday 19 March 2018 | Published in Regional
PACIFIC – Bones discovered on a Pacific island in 1940 are “likely” to be those of famed pilot Amelia Earhart, according to a US peer-reviewed science journal.
Post-quake disease threat grows
Monday 19 March 2018 | Published in Regional
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – The official death toll following Papua New Guinea’s 7.5 magnitude earthquake has risen to 145 but still has further to climb, officials have said.
Help for drought-stricken village
Monday 19 March 2018 | Published in Outer Islands
An Aitutaki village hard-hit by drought is to be one of the first to benefit from a new water supply system planned by Infrastructure Cook Islands (ICI).
NZ to be more of a true partner to Pacific
Saturday 17 March 2018 | Published in Regional
PACIFIC – New Zealand’s Foreign Minister says the government is going to put its money where its mouth is in terms of aid to the Pacific.
PM given suspended sentence
Saturday 17 March 2018 | Published in Regional
VANUATU – Vanuatu’s deputy prime minister, Joe Natuman, says he won’t be stepping aside immediately after being given a two-year suspended sentence.
CNMI launches canoe building programme
Saturday 17 March 2018 | Published in Regional
MARSHALL ISLANDS – The CNMI’s Department of Community and Cultural Affairs has launched its own traditional canoe programme but says it’s not competing with a private sector-driven programme to build 500 traditional canoes by 2030.
Beer should apologise: Finance minister
Friday 16 March 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, James Beer wrote an open letter to the prime minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern which was published in CINews on Saturday.
Nicholas gives coaching a go
Friday 16 March 2018 | Published in Rugby Union
Cook Islander Ryan Nicholas has returned to New Zealand after spending 13 years living and playing rugby in Japan.
BYU student puts God first in life
Friday 16 March 2018 | Published in Church Talk
Kayla Kaimarama was always fascinated with politics when she was growing up in Arorangi, Rarotonga. She is now on the path to becoming a political analyst, the first in her family to pursue an education outside of high school.
Shedding light on persecution awareness
Friday 16 March 2018 | Published in Church Talk
The Colosseum in Rome was recently lit up with the colour of blood.
Dogs shot for a reason...
Friday 16 March 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Regarding the letter to the editor of CI News claiming that dogs are “private property”, police do not destroy dogs without reason.
Water intake situation updated
Friday 16 March 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Wednesday’s report about our national goals was very timely indeed. It reminded me to write an update of Te Mato Vai discussions from the point of view of landowners of certain intakes.
NES director responds to development letter
Friday 16 March 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor
National Environment Service (NES) director Joseph Brider has responded to a letter in Thursday’s CINews regarding the development of the Ocean Escape property on the Turangi-Matavera boundary.
Call for answers over Te Mato Vai project
Friday 16 March 2018 | Published in Environment
The Cook Islands government appears to have reached the bottom of the funding barrel for the long-running Te Mato Vai water mains project, says the Opposition spokesman for finance and the economy, James Beer
Turning bottles into sand
Friday 16 March 2018 | Published in Environment
Work now being done at WATSAN (Water, Waste and Sanitation) division of Infrastructure Cook Islands (ICI) could see most of Rarotonga’s empty glass bottles end up as sand. A cost-benefit analysis of glass crushing is one of three projects being undertaken by WATSAN’s first dedicated waste programme coordinator, Hilary Boyes, who hails from Wanaka in New Zealand and will be with ICI for the next six months. Boyes has been involved in waste management all over the world, most notably in Vancouver, Canada, where she helped set up organic waste collection for composting purposes. She also worked as an on-site coordinator during the construction of a large natural gas project site in Australia. “By crushing glass into the particle size of sand, the glass can be substituted for sand in concreting and leave the sand where it belongs,” says Boyes. “Speaking with experts in concreting they advise that coral sand isn’t actually ideal for concreting and crushed glass is the preferred option.” A side benefit of recycling glass bottles by crushing them into sand is that it also saves sand being mined for construction purposes. The rate of natural production of sand is much slower than extraction, which means using sand as aggregate in concrete is unsustainable, especially on small islands. And sand mining can also have other undesirable effects, says WATSAN director Jaime Short. “The continued mining of sand with the holes being filled with soil and worse still, hazardous waste that is often reported dumped in these holes, will have disastrous effects on lagoon and human health.” In the 2018/19 budget bidding, ICI is vying for an industrial glass crusher and the findings of Boyes’ cost-benefit analysis will ensure the correct size of crusher is purchased - and that parts are easily obtainable. “The long-term view is to have this operation taken over by the private sector and we do hope that it can be a profitable venture to attract a private-sector operator,” says ICI secretary Ngametua Pokino. “We also hope that it will create more attention and action on realising that waste actually is a resource.” ICI now asks the public to separate glass bottles when putting them out for collection, but the glass cannot actually be sent off the island as its international value is too low. Instead, the bottles are used as cover for the landfill and crushed glass from a small single-bottle feed crusher is used as fill on driveways. The industrial crushing idea has been floating around for some time and there are already private-sector initiatives out there. For example, Brad and Ngere from Brad’s Auto Body Repairs have their own crusher and use cullet-sized crushed glass in pavers – and in the construction of their home. Andy Olah of Timberland also approached ICI about glass crushing and has been a longtime proponent of the repurposing of glass bottles. All these local real-life examples for glass crushing will contribute to the analysis, and Malcolm Sword of General Transport is also providing some technical advice for the project. - Release/SB
National plan goals 'off-track'
Friday 16 March 2018 | Published in Politics
The Cook Islands have a long way to go in achieving all the 16 goals in the National Sustainable Development Plan (NSDP) by 2020.
A conversation with Marjorie Crocombe
Friday 16 March 2018 | Published in Local
“Fierce, formidable, strong, unstoppable…” Those are just some of the words used to describe Dr Marjorie Tuainekore Crocombe at a special event held at USP on Wednesday night.
National Football Championship drawn
Thursday 15 March 2018 | Published in Football
The draws for the 2018 National Football Championship, a tournament set for senior men and women players from Rarotonga and the outer islands, have been decided.
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