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Purse seiners will harvest sustainably: Brown
Monday 18 April 2011 | Published in National
Cook Islanders shouldn’t let emotional arguments against purse seining deter them from making practical, sound decisions, says Finance Minister Mark Brown. While reassuring that government is listening to concerns being publicly expressed over the prospect of foreign owned purse seiners working in Cook Islands waters, Brown says not all purse seining is bad. The Ministry […]
Costs 'disheartening'
Saturday 16 April 2011 | Published in Local
Government is having to spend close to $500,000 to cover court-ordered costs to Apex Agencies and the Operation Slush Fund case. This was revealed by Finance Minister Mark Brown yesterday when he tabled the supplementary budget in parliament yesterday. Apex Agencies owns local fuel distribution company Toa Petroleum. Additional payments to Apex Agencies will total […]
George rejected from House
Saturday 16 April 2011 | Published in Local
Independent MP Norman George is to be hauled before a Privileges Committee which will decide whether he was in contempt of a summons from the Queen’s Representative when he refused to attend the swearing in of MPs. To calls of ‘shame, shame’ and ‘cruelty’ from opposition benches, government MPs voted in parliament yesterday for George […]
Writer's life celebrated
Saturday 16 April 2011 | Published in Features
The life and work of prolific Cook Islands artist Alistair Te Ariki Campbell is being celebrated in an exhibition at the Pataka Porirua Museum of Art and Culture in New Zealand. Campbell, who was born on Penrhyn, was a renowned poet, playwright, and novelist in New Zealand where he spent most of his life. He […]
Jazz artists return for tribute concert
Saturday 16 April 2011 | Published in Features
Kiwi singer-songwriter Caitlin Smith and San Francisco soul sensation Edna Love will be performing a tribute to the late Jeannine Peyroux on Wednesday at the Little Polynesian. Both performed at the Billy TK Jnr’s Blues and Jazz Festival on Rarotonga two years ago, and recently called manager Te Tika Mataiapo Dorice Reid from San Francisco […]
Tuaman hits Raro!
Saturday 16 April 2011 | Published in Features
The island was hit with David Tua fever yesterday as the Samoan heavyweight boxer visited Nukutere School and various businesses on the island. Nukutere College hosted the well rested boxer for breakfast at 8am yesterday as part of the school’s ongoing ‘breakfast with the stars’ programme. Tua had to swap his trademark black leather cap […]
Just paint it!
Saturday 16 April 2011 | Published in Features
Take a moment and look on the brighter and happy side of life. That’s what local artists Kay and Ian George of The Art Studio in Arorangi hope people will do when they visit the studios first exhibition of the year titled – Just Paint It. Kay says that with so much going on in […]
CITC staff donate to Are Pa Metua
Saturday 16 April 2011 | Published in Features
Members of the Are Pa Metua enjoyed a great feast this week thanks to staff of the CITC Building Centre. On the last Friday of every month the Building Centre staff dress up in their best pareu wear and donate $2 each to go towards a charity and this time round – the Are Pa […]
Kids raise $14,500
Saturday 16 April 2011 | Published in Features
Students give of themselves for nothing in return but the joy of service to others. This was the theme of the Nukutere College run-a-thon on Thursday which raised $14,500 for victims of the Christchurch earthquake. The school presented Nga Jessie of Red Cross with the cheque and a promise that another cheque would handed over […]
Maori medicine works wonders
Saturday 16 April 2011 | Published in Features
The news that really rocked this week’s National Economic Development Summit is the revelation that Cook Islands plant remedies could revolutionise modern medicine. For nearly a century, a colonial ban on ‘black magic’ pushed traditional Cook Islands healing practices and Maori medicines into the shadows – plants with healing properties were ‘known about, but not […]
Criticism of te reo gutless, insulting
Saturday 16 April 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, This is in response to your smoke signaller’s comments (Friday April 15) about me. I want to spell out very clearly to this gutless prick, that I am a Cook Islander with a culture and a language and that is my identity and I am proud of it, and which entitles me with […]
MOU puts us at risk
Saturday 16 April 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, It is quite disappointing that Minister Teina Bishop has placed his signature on the MOU with the Chinese for purse seine fishing, exploratory or otherwise. I wonder whether he understands the risk he has placed on this country’s fishing resource. Maybe the PM will come on board and relook at this deal. I […]
Youth football champs kick off
Saturday 16 April 2011 | Published in National
The biannual National Youth Football Championship will take place today at the CIFA complex in Matavera with the first games kicking off at 2pm. The 14 teams competing in the tournament are keen to pit themselves against each other. A win from the first games will be an advantage to progress through to the semi […]
Arorangi school goes quiet for reading
Saturday 16 April 2011 | Published in National
Taku Tarekareka Tipoti I teia mataiti I top ake nei, kua aere matau kit e BCI Stadium no te akakoroanga o te tarekareka tipoti i te ra 8 i te popongi. Kia tae matau kit e BCI Stadium kua karanga a Maine Ritioti kia aao matou i to matou au kakau tipoti. I te akamata […]
Call for more EIA consultation
Saturday 16 April 2011 | Published in National
More community consultation, and accordingly greater transparency, is needed in the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report process for proposed developments throughout the Cook Islands, economic task force members are being told. Mauke resident June Hosking spoke at a public infrastructure session of this week’s national economic development summit held at the National Auditorium. Hosking said […]
Rally call to sustain development
Saturday 16 April 2011 | Published in National
While remaining separate entities, Cook Islands government ministries and departments will work closer than ever to achieve sustainable economic development, the national task force hopes. Task force chairman John Tierney addressed a public session on “linkages” during a national economic development summit this week, when he spoke of the importance being placed on collaboration between […]
Take a health check
Saturday 16 April 2011 | Published in National
The Ministry of Health is issuing all Cook Islanders a call to action. The ministry’s presentation at the National Economic Development Summit this week drew attention to the recent finding that 77% of Cook Islanders are at risk of contracting non-communicable diseases like diabetes, heart disease, stroke, cancer and lung disease. People who have high […]
Budget reduced by $13.2 m
Saturday 16 April 2011 | Published in National
The Cook Islands Party Government tabled its first supplementary budget yesterday in Parliament which seeks total appropriation of $144,446,88. This is a reduction of $13.2 million from the 2010-11 budget of $157,689,887.The reduction is mostly due to the reprogramming of a Food and Agriculture Organisation grant of $5 million and an ADB $9.5 million loan […]
All islands need water tanks
Saturday 16 April 2011 | Published in Smoke Signals
“The heading in the newspaper [yesterday] ‘Water tanks for all’ is an incorrect heading because it only looks at people living in Rarotonga,” writes a smoke signaller. “Here again the government of the day forgets that there are people living in the outer islands. We are not connected to a municipal water supply, we have […]
Bishop writes autobiography
Friday 15 April 2011 | Published in Church Talk
Wellington-born Bishop Robin Leamy, a priest of the Society of Mary and former Bishop of Rarotonga, this week launched his autobiography, Truly Blessed – My Story. The book covers his formative years in the capital, his many years of ministry as priest and bishop in Christchurch and the South Pacific, and his time serving in […]
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