Articles by Utopia Support

Youngsters delight in sailing ship

Saturday 28 August 2010 | Published in Features

Hundreds of eager youngsters scampered around the deck of the tall ship Picton Castle this week as the vessel played host to young and old alike. The crew has hosted school children from Avatea, Avarua and Nikao Maori aboard the 180ft ship, giving them tours and letting them grab the wheel. It was part of […]

Call for recipes

Saturday 28 August 2010 | Published in Features

The Sixty Plus group are focusing on putting together a book of Cook Islands recipes, and are appealing for contributions. The group celebrated its third birthday last week with a lunch at Cafe Ariki which was attended by around 40 people. Since it started, the group has been meeting socially as well as getting involved […]

Muri building for new businesses

Saturday 28 August 2010 | Published in Features

The new two-story development across the road from Pacific Resort in Muri is quickly coming together. The complex, owned and built by landowner Tareu Uka, is expected to be finished by the end of the year. Treasure Chest, the shop currently adjacent to Pacific Resort, is moving across the road to inhabit three units of […]

Team BCI in new colours

Saturday 28 August 2010 | Published in Features

Be sure to visit BCI on Monday where all BCI staff on Rarotonga and the nine outer islands branches will be showing off their new uniforms. The new uniforms include a stylish mix of corporate and smart casual to ensure a professional look is maintained. The women’s corporate shirt has the BCI’s corporate teal with […]

Aqua makes a splash in Muri

Saturday 28 August 2010 | Published in Features

Muri Beach Resort is this week celebrating the grand opening of Aqua, an onsite cafe bar featuring breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert menus, wicker lounges and a daily happy hour. Aqua is open to the public, offering “good coffee, cocktails and cafe cuisine” and a laidback, open-air dining venue decked out with comfortable chairs and […]

Tales of a tall ship

Saturday 28 August 2010 | Published in Features

The Cooks-registered tall ship Picton Castle is coming up in conversation all around the island this week, and for good reason – of the 250 ships on the register, she’s the Cooks’ star. Picton Castle sets sail for Palmerston and Pukapuka on Tuesday. She’s cancelled her trip to Tonga in order to transport provisions to […]

Tall ship has a rich history

Saturday 28 August 2010 | Published in Features

The pride and joy of the Cook Islands shipping register, Picton Castle, has quite a rich history. The first chapter opens across the world in Europe in 1928 when she was born a motorised fishing trawler. Local Waterfront Service Training director Ron Bird, who hails from Yorkshire, remembers that she was built at Cochran Yard […]

Cooks are 'pretty much there'

Saturday 28 August 2010 | Published in Features

Captain Daniel Moreland has sailed around the world six times – an impressive feat for any seafarer – and he’s got friends in faraway places to prove it. He’s midway into his last world voyage, but doesn’t ever plan to stop sailing. “Sailing around the world is amazing and I love it, but time marches […]

Short explains run off voting

Saturday 28 August 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Mann Short won the Democratic Party run off in Ngatangiia against Iaveta Short and Steven Peyroux held on Wednesday night in a first-past-the-post single round of voting. CI News had previously been told that there would be a second round of voting if none of the participants got more than 50 per cent – and […]

We're not puppets

Saturday 28 August 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I am writing in response to the news interview with Teroro Totini on local TV last Friday August 20 regarding the decision that their Demo committee made nominating Maoate as the Ngatangiia candidate for the Democratic party. I believe that we are living in a democratic society and ruling with freedom of choices, […]

Results are a joke

Saturday 28 August 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, May I suggest to the three wannabes in Ngatangiia to stop making excuses, pack up your rubbish and go and do what you do best and leave politics alone. The results of the run-off are a big joke, Mann Short with only 8% of total votes in Ngatangiia, Iaveta 6% and Stephen 5%. […]

Kata - August 28, 2010

Saturday 28 August 2010 | Published in Kata

9/11 ignorance

Saturday 28 August 2010 | Published in Smoke Signals

Sir Geoffrey Henry’s removal from a Noumea-bound Air New Zealand flight for his terrorist remark made in jest brought a couple of critical comments by text. “Sir Geoffrey mentioned terrorism on a plane – hello! – what did he expect, red carpet and more bubbly? Shame on him, he needs to reflect back to Sept […]

Who does our story point to?

Friday 27 August 2010 | Published in Church Talk

Paul, here, is describing when he went out into the churches of Judea following his time with Peter (refer to verses 18-22). Who do we glorify? Is it the living God or ourselves? Do we heap glory upon other men and reduce it from what should be heaped onto Jesus? The situation of Paul was […]

Just part of God's plan

Friday 27 August 2010 | Published in Church Talk

Nancy Watkinson says brush with death just a part of His purpose Nancy Watkinson, who together with her husband Murray founded Celebration on the Rock, walks with a limp, a residual effect of a near-fatal accident at Avarua last year. Six surgeries after the crash, she’s got plates and pins holding her pelvis and femur […]

Political reform advocate frustrated

Friday 27 August 2010 | Published in Local

Political reform advocate Iaveta Short has expressed frustration at the lack of support from MPs for change. During talks with other key advocates on a political reform referendum yesterday, Short said he was disappointed it had been left until the last minute to consider a referendum. He said he supported the non-binding referendum being held […]

Ngatangiia 'candidates' to meet

Friday 27 August 2010 | Published in Local

The Democratic Party executive is hoping the issue of candidacy for Ngatangiia can be resolved at a meeting between MP Sir Terepai Maoate and run-off winner, Mann Short, next Tuesday. Suggestions of holding a run-off between the two have been made just a day after the controversial run-off between Short, Iaveta Short and Stephen Peyroux. […]

No terrorist

Friday 27 August 2010 | Published in Local

Sir Geoffrey Henry returned home in a buoyant mood yesterday saying the furore of his “terrorist” remark is making “a mountain out of an anthill”. The Cook Islands Sports and National Olympic Committee president had been on his way to Noumea but returned to Rarotonga in the early hours of Thursday morning after being unable […]

Impressed with Pacific Divers

Friday 27 August 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I’ve watched with interest the comments made back and forth about who is interfering with the whales. I have to say that I have dived with Pacific Divers on a few occasions and I was impressed with how tough they were about diver safety and also about protecting the underwater environment. As an […]

Reduce MP numbers

Friday 27 August 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, When it comes to much needed political reform, I strongly support the view that the number of seats in Parliament must be reduced significantly to better reflect the country’s diminishing population. Having more seats in Parliament does not lead to better governance but in fact a greater drain on the public purse. In […]