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Taxpayers foot $659,000 bill for MPs travel and allowance
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Articles by Utopia Support
Hopes pinned on a rain-free Santa Parade
Thursday 15 December 2016 | Published in Local
ORGANISERS of today’s annual Santa Parade are hoping the weather will cooperate so that this year’s one will become another in a long line of successful events.
Foreign landowners challenge Suva over review process
Thursday 15 December 2016 | Published in Regional
FIJI – A group of foreign landowners fighting land development laws in Fiji says Fiji only brought in a review process after it raised its voice over the issue.
Election fee hike will see few women candidates
Thursday 15 December 2016 | Published in Regional
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – A hike in fees for election candidates means fewer women will be able to contest next year’s Papua New Guinea polls, according to the opposition leader.
Opposition joins in spat between Ryan and FRU
Thursday 15 December 2016 | Published in Regional
FIJI – The opposition Sodelpa Party President Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, has called on the Fiji Rugby Union to be fair and to sort out the contracts for the Fiji Sevens team.
Shortwave service demise has 'no logic'
Thursday 15 December 2016 | Published in Regional
PACIFIC – Australian and Pacific island governments are being urged to pressure the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to reconsider its intention to do away with shortwave transmission in the region.
Girl, 11, killed in Solomons earthquake
Thursday 15 December 2016 | Published in Regional
SOLOMON ISLANDS – An 11-year old girl is the first confirmed fatality from the massive earthquakes which hit Solomon Islands last week.
Tourist dies on Great Barrier Reef
Thursday 15 December 2016 | Published in Regional
AUSTRALIA – An elderly Japanese woman has died while snorkelling at the Great Barrier Reef, in the fourth tourist death at the Australian attraction in a month.
Father and son rescued at sea
Thursday 15 December 2016 | Published in Regional
TONGA – A Tongan man and his son who went missing while on a fishing trip three days ago have been rescued after being located drifting by a Royal New Zealand Airforce Orion.
Fiji prepares for heavy rain
Thursday 15 December 2016 | Published in Regional
FIJI – Fiji authorities say there remains a possibility of a Tropical Cyclone forming at the end of this week in Fiji waters, advising the public to re-consider plans for travel and events this weekend.
Guns and elections don't mix
Thursday 15 December 2016 | Published in Regional
PNG plans pre-poll illegal firearms amnesty
A BROKEN RECORD
Wednesday 14 December 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
In THE FOUR months that I’ve been driving a motorbike here I’ve had four flat tyres and my partner’s had two.
Ignoring democratic rule is dangerous
Wednesday 14 December 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
IN A society where autocracy rules, the government has a dictator as its head of state, who rules with an iron fist, with absolutely no regard for, nor any accountability whatsoever, to their people; think of Hitler, Mussolini, Hussein, Gaddafi, Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong Un and Stalin.
Creative Chair Day – a few favourites
Wednesday 14 December 2016 | Published in Local
RECENTLY visitors and locals were treated to a display of transformed chairs as artists (pretty much everyone at Mauke School) found ways to take an ugly old plastic chair and turn it into an extension of themselves.
Hospital Comforts donate pillows
Wednesday 14 December 2016 | Published in Local
THE HOSPITAL Comforts members have presented 70 waterproof pillows to Rarotonga Hospital.
Listen for weather warnings
Wednesday 14 December 2016 | Published in Weather
COOK ISLANDS Meteorological Services is urging the public to listen out for and heed any weather warnings as we move deeper into the cyclone season.
Growing exotic fruit beginning to take off
Wednesday 14 December 2016 | Published in Local
THE WORK by the Cook Islands Chamber of Commerce and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (UNFAO) to encourage increased production of high value exotic fruit in these islands has, and there’s no pun intended – begun to bear fruit.
Families of victims are still waiting for answers
Wednesday 14 December 2016 | Published in Local
CLOSE family of the three people who died during the country’s worst shooting tragedy are still waiting to hear exactly what happened to their relatives eight weeks after the tragedy.
Parker thanks Samoa for bout backing
Wednesday 14 December 2016 | Published in Regional
NEW ZEALAND – Joseph Parker was well supported by leaders of Samoa at the Vector Arena in Auckland on Saturday night when he created history by becoming the first New Zealand-born heavyweight champion, taking the World Boxing Organisation championship – one of four official world heavyweight titles – in a split points decision, 115-113, 115-113 and 114-114.
Tropical disturbance prompts flood warnings in Fiji
Wednesday 14 December 2016 | Published in Regional
FIJI – People living in flood prone areas have been warned to prepare for the worst after a low pressure system near Fiji developed into a tropical disturbance.
Guam welcomes US reparations bill
Wednesday 14 December 2016 | Published in Regional
GUAM – The US Senate has passed a bill which includes war reparations for those who suffered during Japan’s occupation of Guam.
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