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Man found guilty of rape, burglary
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Prime Minister defends $659,000 MPs travel bill
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Taxpayers foot $659,000 bill for MPs travel and allowance
22 August 2024
Corruption report exposes ‘bribe and sexual favours’
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Challenging ‘rape culture’
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Articles by Utopia Support
Puaikura FC juniors travel to Aitutaki for development tour
Saturday 21 January 2017 | Published in Football
FIFTY-SIX junior players from the Puaikura Football Club departed Rarotonga yesterday morning en route to Aitutaki where they will spend a week on a development tour.
Brown's tax cut fails to impress
Saturday 21 January 2017 | Published in Smoke Signals
FINANCE MINISTER MARK Brown’s promised one per cent tax cut hasn’t impressed one smoke signaller, who has labelled it pathetic.
CIRU president clarifies sevens issue
Saturday 21 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
REGARDING the article in Thursday’s newspaper quoting the Cook Islands Rugby Union 15s coach Stan Wright that the U18s sevens team which participated in the inaugural World Schools 7s tournament in Auckland, New Zealand on 17 December 2016 “was done on our own without any help or encouragement from CIRU executives”.
Knight that man!
Saturday 21 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
TAPI TAIO of Taio Shipping should be knighted for the work his company has done as a local business.
Our neighbours the ones really leading the way
Saturday 21 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
WHEN IT comes to leading the Pacific in policy on climate change as per prime minister Henry Puna’s weekly column recently, the fact that this man can talk his way into free trips to Abu Dhabi on a regular basis is testament only to his ability to croon.
'They're making us second class citizens'
Saturday 21 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
THE DECISION to use nurses rather than doctors in the outer islands is all part of the rundown of government services everywhere except the tourist islands of Rarotonga and Aitutaki.
Te Ki o te Moana e te Mou o te Enua
Saturday 21 January 2017 | Published in Church Talk
Tumu Tapura: Te Marae Moana
Workshop puts technicians in the picture
Saturday 21 January 2017 | Published in Local
A WORKSHOP for training audio and visual technicians of the Ministry of Cultural Development was held at the National Auditorium in Avarua this week.
Refresher for airline employees
Saturday 21 January 2017 | Published in Local
In COLLABORATION with the Cook Islands Tertiary Training Institute (CITTI), Air Rarotonga staff were hosted to a comprehensive training session at the Ngatangiia Campus this week.
Ripe fruit prompts fruit fly warnings
Saturday 21 January 2017 | Published in Local
The AGRICULTURE ministry is urging the public to remove any ripe fruit from pawpaw trees so they don’t become breeding sites for fruit flies.
NCEA results great start to the year
Saturday 21 January 2017 | Published in Local
IT HAS been a great start to 2017 for NCEA students, parents and teachers of the Cook Islands, according to Ministry of Education secretary Gail Townsend.
DPM's wife loses battle with cancer
Saturday 21 January 2017 | Published in Local
Tarome Heather, wife of deputy prime minister Teariki Heather, died on Wednesday afternoon following a battle with cancer.
Napa extends his stay with Sydney Roosters
Saturday 21 January 2017 | Published in League
THE SYDNEY Roosters have staved off rival outfits to re-sign firebrand front-rower Dylan Napa on a two-year contract extension.
Proud legacy of medical care squandered
Saturday 21 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
ONE OF NEW Zealand’s great achievements, when it was the colonial power in the Cook Islands was that by 1955 permanent medical staff were stationed on all inhabited islands of the Cook Islands, a smoke signaller says.
Tax amnesty poor start to government's year
Saturday 21 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
IN MY opinion, PM Henry Puna and his CIP government have openly misgoverned our country over the last few years.
Close up and personal with...rubbish
Saturday 21 January 2017 | Published in Local
Infrastructure Cook Islands WATSAN Division has commended government stakeholders and non-government organisations for attending the Rarotonga landfill site visit programme last week.
Taio sees red over wharf issue
Saturday 21 January 2017 | Published in Local
The OWNER of the country’s biggest and busiest domestic shipping company says its ability to efficiently move cargo and maintain its three ships is being seriously disadvantaged by another vessel obstructing a prime berth at Avatiu Wharf.
PM's renewable energy comments fairy tale stuff
Saturday 21 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
IT WAS NICE to read our PM’s fairy tale/story about us leading the way as an observer for renewable energy conservation to IRENA.
Tax rules for some don't apply to others...
Saturday 21 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
LATE IN 2016 a Grey Power member requested information from New Zealand through the Official Information Act, to confirm the number of New Zealand pensions being paid in the Cook Islands.
Chinese president trumps Donald on the golf course
Saturday 21 January 2017 | Published in Letters to the Editor
MAY I suggest that Kata’s virtually picture-less cartoon of January 16 was substantially below par?
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