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Wigmore is new minister
Wednesday 5 August 2009 | Published in Local
Thursday 30: Titikaveka MP Robert Wigmore will be sworn in as a cabinet minister today. Prime minister Jim Marurai made the announcement yesterday after cabinet decided on the replacement for sacked minister Wilkie Rasmussen. Marurai sent notice to Queen’s Representative Sir Frederick Goodwin that he had approved the warrant of appointment for Wigmore. Wigmore’s swearing-in […]
KIDS PAGE - The importance of freindliness
Wednesday 5 August 2009 | Published in Features
1 August: Mangaia School and Apii Rutaki are again the stars of Kids’ Page this week. The preschoolers have been busy drawing and the Year 4 students talk about the importance of friendliness. Meanwhile Apii Rutaki hosted a flag raising ceremony for their adopted countries Wallis & Futuna and the USA for the World Youth […]
ENTERTAINMENT - Entries flood in for Pacific Break
Wednesday 5 August 2009 | Published in Features
1 August: MELBOURNE – Record numbers of entries continue to arrive for Pacific Break 2009, Radio Australia’s search for the best unsigned musical talent of the Pacific. Pacific Break, is now in its second year and is again offering the winner a once in a life-time opportunity, to showcase their musical talents plus play live […]
Reflections on Cook Islands history
Wednesday 5 August 2009 | Published in Features
1 August: The Cook Islands became a self-governing nation on August 4 1965. This page reflects on this very special day in the history of the nation. Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II who, to this day remains the official head of state – sent “warmest greetings” to her people on Constitution Day, 1965. She said […]
Dana wins Pacific journalism award
Wednesday 5 August 2009 | Published in Features
1 August: Cook Islands News reporter Dana Kinita was the pride of Pacific media when she was named PINA Young Print Journalist of the Year at the 2009 Pacific Media Summit gala awards dinner in Vanuatu last week. Dana, our crime and justice reporter, had returned to Rarotonga from the summit a day earlier, after […]
Fiji presence questioned at summit
Wednesday 5 August 2009 | Published in Features
1 August: A Cook Islands delegate demanded to know why the Fiji regime were invited to an event which openly promotes media freedom. Two officers of the Fiji ministry of information attended the week-long Pacific Media Summit in Vanuatu this week. In a last minute change, editor of Pacnews Makereta Komai was replaced with lance […]
OIA: Cooks show the way
Wednesday 5 August 2009 | Published in Features
1 August: Cook Islands was strongly represented at the Pacific Media Summit in Vanuatu this week. Eight delegates attended the Pacific Islands News Association event and were involved in several pre-summit workshops and forum discussions. Managing editor Cook Islands News, John Woods was invited to speak during a freedom of information workshop ran by the […]
5 August: King or the People?
Wednesday 5 August 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Who should rule, the King or the People? Not long ago, the right to rule in the Tinomana Family was decided by the “Court” and the title is to rotate between the descendents of the three wives of the King. A current controversy exists today with the Makea Family. The “Court” has said […]
5 August: Who's to blame for the utu?
Wednesday 5 August 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Through your esteemed paper, I’d like to ask a couple of questions which I hope some brilliant legal mind out there can answer for me: Who is responsible for paying for the damage caused by an utu seed falling on the windscreen of my car and completely shattering it, whilst I was travelling […]
5 August: Sewage problem haunts Tepuka residents
Wednesday 5 August 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I am concerned that the sewage problem in Tepuka is still haunting the Tepuka residents. Back in 1994 when I was the chairman of the Health Board under the Minister Joe Williams, the Tepuka residents complained about the toxic smell coming from the sewage. The board immediately conveyed the message to the minister […]
3 August: Why didn't you?
Wednesday 5 August 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Before sacked minister Wilkie Rasmussen goes to Australia I have a question for him. Tell us Wilkie why don’t you expose the ‘horrific level of corruption’ now, or why didn’t you expose it as it happened or when it was exposed to you? Why wait when you get back from Australia? Come on […]
3 August: Do you love your kids?
Wednesday 5 August 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, My friends and I would like to state our opinion about the article ‘Terrible price to pay’ on Tuesday 14 July 2009. We think that teenage drink driving is a disappointment. It can cause innocent families to lose their loved ones. It is very unforgivable for young teenagers to die from drink-driving. We […]
3 August: None other than the Lord
Wednesday 5 August 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Re: – Michael is not Jesus! Dan 10:13 But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia. Who was Michael, who here came to Gabriel’s assistance? The […]
1 August: Get it right
Wednesday 5 August 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I see a copy-error in my Churchtalk article in yesterday’s Cook Islands News. A few words were left out of the last paragraph which should have read: “While I applaud this nation’s desire this week, to celebrate the coming of the Christian gospel to its shores, I appeal to our orometua to challenge […]
1 August: Make the right choice
Wednesday 5 August 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Last week on Tuesday 14 July 2009, my friends and I were reading the article “Terrible price to pay”. After we had read this article we decided to write to you about our opinion. It sounds like the teenage girls just wanted to have fun, drinking, smoking and speeding. This is a problem […]
1 August: When will they ever learn?
Wednesday 5 August 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, We are fast moving down the same track which led to the country becoming bankrupt in 1995/96. The causes are the same and have nothing to do with the current world economic depression. Our problems are all self-made. Through a fortunate set of circumstances, tourism is going very well at the moment and […]
1 August: Where's Jake & Wolfgang?
Wednesday 5 August 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, My attention was understandingly drawn to the report on the Air New Zealand Tourism Awards in the Cook Islands News of Thursday, July 30. Looking at the list of award winners I was not pleasantly surprised to note that at least two peoples names were conspicuous by their absence. The first name that […]
1 August: Room for improvement
Wednesday 5 August 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Had the Tourism Industry Council Awards been all about a big night out, then yes, I would have been able to say I totally enjoyed my evening. But the awards part, the main reason I was at the event, left a bad taste in my mouth. Yes I was an entrant. The application […]
Thursday 30: Congratulations
Wednesday 5 August 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, To the Tourism Industry Council and everyone who took part in Friday night’s inaugural Air New Zealand Tourism Awards — congratulations! What a wonderful evening. To everyone who was nominated and to those who won an award, well done. To the organising committee of Vaka Eiva, you rock. Congratulations on winning the Supreme […]
5 August: POLITICAL REFORM?
Wednesday 5 August 2009 | Published in Smoke Signals
What’s going on with Government’s promise after receiving the Electoral Reform Committee’s report over four years ago, a smoke signaller asks. “It goes to show that the two mainstream parties cannot be trusted and both parties have failed. People Power, where are you?”
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