Wednesday 18 November 2009 | Published in Local
The ministry of health (Te Marae Ora) will restart the national immunisation programme on November 25. The programme has been on hold following the death of an infant in Mitiaro last month following what should have been a routine immunisation. The ministry has assured the public that child immunisation is still very safe and side […]
Wednesday 18 November 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, We refer to your front page article in the Cook Islands News on Monday November 16 headed ‘Protest gone too far’. It made for interesting reading when you quoted the many half truths from the local politician Teina Bishop. We feel we have to respond and convey the real facts. The protest group […]
Wednesday 18 November 2009 | Published in Smoke Signals
“On the TV news the other night, New Zealand consumers were reported to be getting hit harder and harder by rising food prices, some of the highest in the world,” a reader says. “If the Cooks buys almost all its food from New Zealand, what does it make our prices? Then compare our lower income […]
Tuesday 17 November 2009 | Published in Environment
The Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA), the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) and the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) launched the Pacific Islands regional plan of action (PI-RPOA) on sharks. At least 80 species of sharks and rays are found within the Pacific Islands region. Around half of these species […]
Tuesday 17 November 2009 | Published in Local
Queen’s Representative Sir Frederick Goodwin and his wife Lady Goodwin will represent the Cook Islands at the late New Zealand high commissioner Tia Barrett’s tangi this week. Barrett, 62, passed away on Saturday at Auckland’s Middlemore Hospital after being flown to New Zealand from Rarotonga on a medical evacuation flight just over a week ago. […]
Tuesday 17 November 2009 | Published in Local
Prime minister Jim Marurai is attending the World Summit on food security in Rome and he spent some time at the weekend exploring the Vatican. He walked around St Peter’s Square and the Basilica – and up the 2000 steps to the top of the dome, which has an amazing view of all of Rome. […]
Tuesday 17 November 2009 | Published in Local
The Pacific Parliamentary Assembly on Population and Development-Forum Presiding Officers and Clerks Biennual (PPAPD-FPOC) thematic conference began at the Edgewater Resort & Spa yesterday. Sixty two delegates from the region are taking part in discussions around the theme of ‘Pacific parliamentarians rally for sustainability, equity and accountability.’ Presenting the first paper to the conference, United […]
Tuesday 17 November 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Kia orana Eaa te tuatua Maori no te kupu reform. Eaa tona aiteanga e tona puapinga no tatou i teia ra. Eaa tona ngai tu kaui. Manganui te kupu Maori tau no te akamarama i teia kupu papa’a – akaouanga/akatuke’ anga/ taui’anga e te vai atura. Kiriti mai au i te kupu akaou’anga ei tatara […]
Tuesday 17 November 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Having been to your very beautiful country on a few occasions, I would just like to point out that the whole world is not rich! I for one will not be back to your wonderful island and have to pay that large of a departure tax. I think someone’s head got hit by […]
Tuesday 17 November 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I read with sadness about a young baby who died after being injected with poisons (vaccinated) and the plan by our health officials to do the same to 10% of the population including pregnant women with untested and unproven swine flu vaccines. My research into and knowledge of vaccines spurs me to express […]
Monday 16 November 2009 | Published in Local
The ministry of health is working on reactivating the national child immunisation programme at the end of the month. The nation-wide programme, halted at the beginning of the month, has been undergoing review by public health following the death of a 15-month-old toddler in Mitiaro after the child was immunised. Acting secretary of health Tupou […]
Monday 16 November 2009 | Published in Local
Aitutaki’s Arutanga-Reureu-Nikaupara MP Teina Bishop admits the Sunday flight protest movement on the island is getting out of hand. A rash of new protest signs has blighted the island after some were torn down recently. CINews asked Bishop to comment on the growing tension over the protest. Bishop says the signs are becoming a real […]
Monday 16 November 2009 | Published in Local
Tia Barrett, New Zealand’s High Commissioner to the Cook Islands, died in Auckland’s Middlemore Hospital on Sunday morning (NZT). Mr Barrett, 62, had been flown to Auckland from Rarotonga on a medical evacuation flight a week earlier. NZ Foreign Minister Murray McCully said on behalf of the government and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and […]
Monday 16 November 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I read Adrian Southwick’s entry about the $55 departure tax and I would like to address a couple of the issues he raised. The Cook Islands does NOT have ‘one of the most expensive departure taxes in the world’ Here’s a quick comparison of the departure taxes/fees imposed by different countries. The data […]
Monday 16 November 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Learning conversational Maori to earn PR is pretty easy. How lucky you are to earn it, just by practising speaking simple Maori on the streets, at home and in hotels. If you have been given that PR, look after it, you will never know when it will be terminated if you abuse it. […]
Monday 16 November 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The debate about whether or not permanent residents should speak te reo Maori is older than most people think. I remember it was being discussed in January 1999 at the country’s National Languages Workshop, and probably before then too. This workshop involved not only teachers from throughout the country but public and private […]
Monday 16 November 2009 | Published in Netball
Local netballers have a chance to try out the fast paced super series style of play with the Avatiu-Nikao netball club holding a super series fundraiser on Saturday December 12. The eight-team tournament is open to any group from netball clubs to church groups. There are just four more spaces left for this inaugural competition. […]
Monday 16 November 2009 | Published in Smoke Signals
Our MPs are notoriously well travelled, attending the most obscure and unjustified courses and talkfests the world over, and they take flak for it, but mostly they just arrogantly ignore the cries of ordinary people for feedback, justification, and accountability. CINews has tried several times to request a travel diary or itinerary of cabinet ministers, […]
Saturday 14 November 2009 | Published in Local
A Democratic Party MP who was at a meeting of supporters of Te Kura O Te Au in Arorangi on Monday says he was invited to attend. Manihiki MP Apii Piho says he was asked last week to attend a meeting but was unsure as to what the meeting would be about. Piho says Penrhyn […]
Saturday 14 November 2009 | Published in Local
Prime minister Jim Marurai is pleased that cabinet has agreed to free up the telecommunications sector and allow competition, but he says it could take until February next year until changes are formalised under law. This week, Marurai tabled a set of proposals before cabinet, asking for a directive on the future of the telecommunications […]
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