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Back to New York

Saturday 26 February 2011 | Published in Features

From having to google to find out where the Cook Islands is, New York’s Volta gallery now knows the country is able to make global art statements, says BCA gallery owner Ben Bergman. Bergman and partner Luke Brown leave tomorrow night for New York where BCA is staging its second exhibition there, this time featuring […]

Raro 'DNA' to show in Portugal

Saturday 26 February 2011 | Published in Features

Local artist Loretta Reynolds will introduce her distinctly Cook Islands style of contemporary art to Portugal this year. When she received an email invitation to display her work in a Lisbon gallery, her instinctual reaction was to dismiss it as spam. But after communicating with the curators at Colorida Galeria de Arte e Design – […]

CI student helps get design course back

Saturday 26 February 2011 | Published in Features

Cook Islander and Waiariki Institute of Technology student Tara Ngari can now work towards realising her dream of becoming an interior designer after the course she enrolled in was reinstated this week. But on the first day of class earlier this month – Ngari and fellow Interior Design students were told the Interior Design course […]

Build-your-own pastas and salads

Saturday 26 February 2011 | Published in Features

The Pacific Village Cafe on the main road in Muri is set to open in two weeks’ time. The cafe will offer build-your-own salads and pastas, freshly-baked pizzas and pre-made sandwiches, plus coffee, juices and smoothies. The ‘build-your-own’ model allows diners to tailor their meals to their taste buds by pairing a type of pasta […]

Henrys advocate greater care for motu

Saturday 26 February 2011 | Published in Features

The phenomenal logistics involved in serving as the location of the Survivor and BBC Shipwrecked television series has well prepared Aitutaki entrepreneurs for the forthcoming inaugural international kite surfing competition. To be held June 29-July 2 on Maina Iti, the event will draw over 35 international competitors plus supporters and media. Local businessman Mike Henry […]

Water slaps and whoops

Saturday 26 February 2011 | Published in Features

Our boat headed into the Aitutaki lagoon and I wished I had listened harder when mum tried teaching us how to fly fish years ago. She was connected to the Fish and Game Council. I was connected to the branch of a willow tree via some nylon and a lure. My first assignment upon arrival […]

It's not like they show it on TV

Saturday 26 February 2011 | Published in Features

I’m writing to you from Christchurch. Yes I’m here because of the earthquake, I’m here as part of a group setting up to co-ordinate a Maori response to help alleviate the plight of the tens of thousands of people who are really suffering and will continue to be affected for months and months after Ruaumoko […]

Kata - February 26, 2011

Saturday 26 February 2011 | Published in Kata

It's netball time!

Saturday 26 February 2011 | Published in Netball

It’s all on today at the Telecom Sports Arena as netballers hit the courts for the first round of the 2011 netball season. The courts were warmed up by the open, masters and corporate mixed grades on Wednesday night and the babes will open up games starting at 11 o’clock this morning. The Titikaveka club […]

Winning water and sanitation poems

Saturday 26 February 2011 | Published in National

In this week’s Kids Page we feature the top three poems from the recent water and sanitation competition for schools in Vaka Takitumu. A two-week competition by the European Union Muri Water and Sanitation Project in partnership with the Muri Environment Care group and Government included poetry, poster and essay contests with special emphasis on […]

Mangaia honours its student leaders

Saturday 26 February 2011 | Published in National

Mangaia School’s 27 new school leaders, including this year’s prefects, have been honoured at a special school assembly. The school’s 2011 primary prefects are Angela Whyte, Dawn Teio, and Metuavaine Atariki. Secondary prefects are Stephanie Piiti, Grace Matapo, Tequila Daniel, Arumetua Parima, Terrence Ngametua, and Stormmel Ruatoe. Stephanie Piiti has been chosen as head prefect. […]

Numero tai no te – mural revealed today

Saturday 26 February 2011 | Published in National

Those curious to see what is behind the black plastic hanging over part of the CITC supermarket can do so today, at the official unveiling of a new locally-themed mural. CITC food general manager Dan O’Brien says the photo mural has been 12 months in the making. “That wall was unsightly and boring so we […]

Lending books again

Saturday 26 February 2011 | Published in National

This week children at Araura primary school and college were once again able to borrow library books and take them home to read. Ministry of Education literacy adviser Kathy George has been in Aitutaki for the past two weeks setting up an automated library for the school. Helping her cataloguing, colour coding and entering on […]

High hopes and heartened: Tim Arnold

Saturday 26 February 2011 | Published in National

By Tim Arnold From a political reform perspective, it is very early days. Only with Henry Puna’s confirmation as Prime Minister, by Parliament last week, have we moved past the “provisional government” of the past 90 days or so. Early signs are encouraging. As Prime Minister, Henry Puna has dealt swiftly and decisively with the […]

Airfare increases push up CPI

Saturday 26 February 2011 | Published in National

An increase in the prices of overseas airfares meant that for between the June quarter of 2010 and the September quarter of 2010, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) number for transport jumped by 2.5%. The CPI number for the September quarter of last year was up by 0.6% over the previous quarter and had increased […]

Sexual health manuals highly rated

Saturday 26 February 2011 | Published in National

A series of training manuals on adolescent reproductive health was presented to the Ministry of Education by the Cook Islands Family Welfare Association (CIFWA) to distribute to schools across the Cook Islands. The manuals, which come in a set of 14 separate booklets, are the brainchild of CIFWA youth division member Matamaru Tereapii. The young […]

High-rise rescue training

Saturday 26 February 2011 | Published in National

Rarotonga and Aitutaki fire fighters are in the midst of a senior training programme, which yesterday saw a person rescued from a four-storey building at the international airport. Fire Service chief Nga Jessie says four fire fighters from Rarotonga and one from Aitutaki will complete the three-week training programme next week. Another five Rarotonga fire […]

Familiar faces back on staff

Saturday 26 February 2011 | Published in National

Cook Islands News welcomes back some familiar faces this month. Well-known local journalist Florence Syme-Buchanan joins the newsroom as senior journalist in what will be her third stint with the newspaper. Florence started here as a cadet reporter as a 16-year-old straight out of school, and then went on to study journalism at the Auckland […]

Maternity leave still a priority

Saturday 26 February 2011 | Published in National

Prime Minister Henry Puna said on Friday afternoon that government is still committed to its manifesto promise to introduce paid maternity leave for every working mother in the Cook Islands. “Sadly the current situation has been and is that only mothers working in the public service get paid maternity leave for six weeks and yet […]

Families get together to cope

Saturday 26 February 2011 | Published in National

Cook Islanders living in the hardest-hit areas of Christchurch are in contact with others nearby, and are receiving help from the New Zealand Army. Hornby resident Sharon Maea says those in the eastern suburbs of the city, close to where the earthquake was centred, are being dished out food and other essential supplies by soldiers. […]