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16 November 2024
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19 November 2024
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23 October 2024
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21 October 2024
Man found guilty of rape, burglary
24 September 2024
Tenants face water bill burden
8 October 2024
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5 October 2024
Tourism contribution set to surpass half-billion dollar mark
25 September 2024
Parliament Clerk sparks outrage over deep sea mining statement
23 September 2024
Deep sea dilemma: Cook Islanders weigh the cost of mineral riches
21 September 2024
Anxiety on the rise: Cook Islands faces mental health challenge
7 September 2024
Cook Islands deep sea mining poll sparks controversy
7 September 2024
MCI rejects ‘dark fleet’ label
3 August 2024
Rising seas, rising costs: Climate impacts on Cook Islands economy
2 September 2024
Inflation eases but concerns remain
31 August 2024
Prime Minister defends $659,000 MPs travel bill
23 August 2024
Taxpayers foot $659,000 bill for MPs travel and allowance
22 August 2024
Corruption report exposes ‘bribe and sexual favours’
17 January 2023
PM Brown eager to hand over Forum chair role to Tonga
13 August 2024
Challenging ‘rape culture’
8 July 2024
Articles by Utopia Support
Hot new venue for Rarotonga
Monday 10 October 2016 | Published in Hot on the Rock
AFTER MONTHS of construction, renovation, and waiting on a liquor licence, the old Whatever! Bar has been transformed into a lively and bright bar and restaurant; On The Rocks.
Shark cull talk 'worrying,' says Lyon
Monday 10 October 2016 | Published in Local
CHAMBER of Commerce president Stephen Lyon says talk last week of a shark cull around the northern island of Penrhyn is “worrying.”
Dubious history goes back a long way
Monday 10 October 2016 | Published in Local
The LUEN Thai fishing company’s dubious history did not start with the Teina Bishop corruption case.
Questions over DPM's China trip
Monday 10 October 2016 | Published in Politics
Fishing company executive was involved in Bishop loan
ABC Correspondent in PNG
Monday 10 October 2016 | Published in Regional
I’m the only foreign journalist based in Papua New Guinea and I admire the sacrifices local journalists make for their jobs.
Ancient practices celebrate culture
Monday 10 October 2016 | Published in Regional
PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Some of Papua New Guinea’s most isolated villagers are being encouraged to celebrate their culture to balance the negative impacts of resource extraction and development.
'Bad things under the coconut trees'
Monday 10 October 2016 | Published in Regional
SAMOA – Samoa’s Prime Minister, Tuilaepa Sa’ilele Malielegaoi, blames what he calls uneducated parents for the growing number of children hawking goods in Apia at night.
'No worries' over escaped prisoners
Monday 10 October 2016 | Published in Regional
SAMOA – Members of the public in Samoa should not panic about escaped prisoners on the run. So says Prime Minister, Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi.
Tongan gays push for law change
Monday 10 October 2016 | Published in Regional
TONGA – For the first time, Tonga’s homosexual and transgender community will call on government leaders to revise legislation in order to protect LGBTI people in the deeply conservative Christian country.
Nauru indicted by UN committee
Monday 10 October 2016 | Published in Regional
NAURU – The United Nations has delivered a blistering indictment of Nauru and Australia’s failure to help children in detention-like conditions, especially those driven to attempt suicide and self-harm. It slammed the Nauru’s “limited capacity” to investigate allegations of sexual assault of children and its failure to follow up complaints while also severely criticising the harsh living conditions inside Australian’s regional processing centres. The Age newspaper reports among the UN’s concerns were a lack of clean drinking water, poor sanitation, the absence of a dedicated paediatrician and the reported use of illegal corporal punishment against children at the camps. The UN’s Committee on the Rights of the Child also found that Nauru has made no progress towards honouring a promise made last year to establish a human rights watchdog. The report identified “inhuman and degrading treatment, including physical, psychological and sexual abuse, against asylum seeking and refugee children”. The UN concluded that mental ill-health, including “feelings of hopeless and often suicidal ideation”, was exacerbated by prolonged uncertainty and poor living conditions inside the hot, humid camps. There were 410 people in detention on Nauru at the end of August, according to the Department of Immigration and Border Protection. The CRC issued its report based on hearings in Geneva, meetings with civil society groups, Nauru’s own submissions and a review of previously published literature. The committee urged Nauru and by extension, Australia to immediately remove asylum-seeking children and their families from the RPCs, and find “permanent, sustainable resettlement options” for recognised refugees, including reasonable access to employment. It also called on Nauru to ensure that staff working at the RPCs were adequately trained in the identification of vulnerable children and those at risk of self-harm, and to develop a system to ensure incidents of self-har
New Zealand child poverty of concern to UN
Monday 10 October 2016 | Published in Regional
NEW ZEALAND– The UN has said in a damning report that it is deeply concerned about New Zealand’s persistently high rates of child poverty.
Fiji's Ratu Joni laid to rest
Monday 10 October 2016 | Published in Regional
FIJI – Fiji’s former vice president, the Roko Tui Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi, has been buried on his home island of Bau.
Church stands by convicted rapist pastor
Monday 10 October 2016 | Published in Regional
FIJI – A 75 year old leader and pastor of a breakaway church group in Fiji has been sentenced to 14 years 2 months imprisonment.
Therapeutic use of steroids claimed
Monday 10 October 2016 | Published in Regional
NEW ZEALAND– Former All Blacks Dan Carter and Joe Rokocoko both had therapeutic exemptions to use the steroids detected in their urine, according to their agents.
Access to healing water improved
Monday 10 October 2016 | Published in Regional
FIJI – Access to a water source in a Tailevu village in Fiji that has been deemed miraculous has been upgraded by authorities.
Detention of refugee kids slammed
Monday 10 October 2016 | Published in Regional
UN report decries treatment of children on Nauru
Tourism should target more affluent visitors
Friday 7 October 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals
“I HAVE READ about tourists riding around three and even four to a bike,” a smoke signaller says.
Huge rise in cost of healthy vegetables
Friday 7 October 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
ONCE AGAIN we’ve been inflicted with the annual three-month levy on imported vegetables.
Cruelty goes further than animals
Friday 7 October 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
AFTER reading the story about the starving pig in Wednesday’s CI News, I feel broken hearted as to the way some humans treat animals here on Rarotonga. I’m disgusted and join Bastien Welch with feeling very sick to believe someone can treat a living thing with such brutality.
Aitutaki referees keen to upskill
Friday 7 October 2016 | Published in Football
A GROUP of new and existing referees on Aitutaki have been brought together this week to take part in a FIFA refereeing course at the Aitutaki Football Association technical centre in Vaipae.
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