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Landslides reported
Tuesday 24 January 2017 | Published in Regional
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Reports emerging from Bougainville indicate a number of landslides after yesterday’s magnitude 7.9 earthquake.
Thurston set to end rep career
Monday 23 January 2017 | Published in League
He OWNS three State of Origin records that may never be surpassed and is the Kangaroos' greatest ever point-scorer, but Johnathan Thurston insists he has more memories to create in what will be his final year of representative football.
Waterfall fee not OK
Monday 23 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
SINCE when did it become okay to hold tourists up at the road entrance by the old Sheraton and demand five bucks to go and see the waterfall?
Different rules for different folks
Monday 23 January 2017 | Published in Smoke Signals
SEEMS LIKE THE idea of one rule for some taxpayers and another rule for those close to politicians also applies to the road rules. Spotted driving through town midday on Wednesday of last week, one 18 or 19-year-old daughter of a cabinet minister, on a bike without a helmet. No worries, it’s who you know, not what you know, that is important in the Crook Islands.
Finance minister needs some lessons about taxation
Monday 23 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Can someone please tell the minister for finance the purpose of tax?
Lagoon crisis response 'incompetent'
Monday 23 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
THE COMBINED government department response to the crisis in Muri lagoon remains, if not criminal, then incompetent in the extreme.
Dinner with the High Commissioner
Monday 23 January 2017 | Published in Local
Around 50 people representing Rarotonga’s business sector met the new New Zealand High Commissioner to the Cook Islands Peter Marshall and his wife Pamela at a dinner in Maraerenga on Thursday night.
Expat teachers get their bearings
Monday 23 January 2017 | Published in Local
Cook Islands students will be back in their classrooms from Monday January 30, 2017 but the holidays end a bit sooner for the country’s teachers and principals.
Vessel can use motors
Monday 23 January 2017 | Published in Local
Pacific Schooners Ltd has made assurances that its vessel the Tiare Taporo, which has been stationary in Avatiu Harbour for several months, is capable of moving using its own motors.
Mangaia joins doctor-less islands
Monday 23 January 2017 | Published in Outer Islands
The MINISTRY of Health’s doctor on Mangaia has resigned and will not be replaced.
Bad weather diverts jet to Cook Islands
Monday 23 January 2017 | Published in Local
Bad WEATHER over Tahiti resulted in an Air France Airliner being diverted to Rarotonga yesterday morning.
Living by virtues the doorway to happiness
Monday 23 January 2017 | Published in Opinion
DO YOU love your life? If you do, it’s a sure sign you’re living by your virtues, because they are the portals to happiness, the essence of a well-lived life. Many people ask, what are virtues? There’s nothing new about love, nothing original about justice.
Siblings have a blast on trip from Australia
Monday 23 January 2017 | Published in Local
SCHOOL holidays have been a real blast for two youngsters who spent five weeks away from their home in Australia to be with their families and friends in Rarotonga and Aitutaki.
Papa Haua can now rest with family on Palmerston
Monday 23 January 2017 | Published in Outer Islands
WITH A Nikao landowner standing firm on a decision to level 15 graves where relatives from the outer islands are buried, a Palmerston Island family has removed the remains of family members.
Website keeps tabs on fishing activity
Monday 23 January 2017 | Published in Environment
This weekly column is supplied by Te Ipukarea Society and covers environmental and conservation issues of interest to the Cook Islands.
Board members to fill vital roles
Monday 23 January 2017 | Published in Local
NEW TE REO Maori Commission and Historical Sites board members were officially appointed at the National Auditorium earlier this week.
'Onwards and outwards' for Hut 24
Monday 23 January 2017 | Published in Hot on the Rock
A BUSINESS known as “Happened at Tauira’s Hut 24 plans to expand to boost its customer services and provide its specialty Manihiki and Rarotongan dishes to the public.
Marae Moana Establishment Trust responds to Ministry of Marine Resources publicity over fishing buffer zones
Monday 23 January 2017 | Published in Environment
THE SIZE of marine protected areas or “fishing exclusion zones” around islands is the final decision to be confirmed by Cabinet before Marae Moana, the Cook Islands Marine Park is legally designated.
Rarotonga also in danger
Monday 23 January 2017 | Published in Local
NEWS of the “fish kill” in Aitutaki lagoon follows a marine biologist’s revelations that if Rarotonga’s lagoon is not cleaned up in two years, it may be too late to save it.
Lack of oxygen kills Aitutaki fish
Monday 23 January 2017 | Published in Outer Islands
THE MINISTRY of Marine Resources (MMR) has concluded that a fish-die off in the Aitutaki lagoon earlier this month was most likely caused by oxygen depletion.
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