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Jobs support targets Pacific youth

Monday 26 September 2016 | Published in Regional

NEW ZEALAND – A successful support programme for young Pacific youth is lifting incomes and living standards for New Zealand’s Pasifika population.


Humidity can't slow them much...

Friday 23 September 2016 | Published in League

It was another exciting battle between the Turtles and Young guns in the weekly Cook Islands Masters Rugby League competition.

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Napa eyes league resurrection

Friday 23 September 2016 | Published in League

BANISHED from Origin contention for 12 months for breaking curfew while in the Maroons' Emerging Origin camp in February, Roosters firebrand Dylan Napa insists he has learned from his mistakes following his selection in the Prime Minister's XIII.


Growers need direction

Friday 23 September 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor

I believe Kiriau Turepu needs to get a job in the private sector and then he may learn how to create an agricultural empire that will be the envy of the Pacific Islands.


It's all in the name

Friday 23 September 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor

I HAVE had people ask me who in the Cook Islands Law Society (CILS) had written the anonymous article in the story headlined “Section 106A of the Property Law Act finally vindicates local landowners” published in CI News on September 20.


More on the Property Law Act

Friday 23 September 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor

THE COOK ISLANDS Land Law Society is grateful to the anonymous local lawyer who responded to our recent article in respect of Section 106A of the Property Law Act and in respect of the Court of Appeal decision in "Greenroom", that finally gave the poorly written 106A the teeth our Parliament intended almost 20 years ago.


Have you heard the Good News?

Friday 23 September 2016 | Published in Church Talk

IN THE US, websites from The New York Times to The Washington Post to Forbes have been reacting to a new emoji-studded Bible translation, the latest effort to make the Holy Book appeal to young readers.


Island visit challenges evangelists

Friday 23 September 2016 | Published in Church Talk

STUDENTS from the Seventh Day Adventist Avondale College of Higher Education in Auckland, New Zealand visited the Cook Islands during their mid-year break recently.

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Story of Isaac holds vital lessons

Friday 23 September 2016 | Published in Church Talk

GENESIS 27: 1 – 4 reads: “Now it came to pass, when Issac was old and his eyes were so dim that he could not see, that he called Esau his older son and said to him, “My son”. And he answered him, “Here I am”.

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New legislation aimed at uncovering historic abuse

Friday 23 September 2016 | Published in Regional

GUAM – A bill that would enable victims of historical sexual abuse in Guam to file civil action is a step closer to becoming law.


Southern Cross plots course for new cable

Friday 23 September 2016 | Published in Regional

Computer gamers and businesses could benefit most from a new internet cable that Southern Cross Cable plans to lay between New Zealand, Australia and the United States.


How to lay a 9000km cable across the pacific

Friday 23 September 2016 | Published in Regional

Earlier this year, a giant cable was laid between Japan and the United States to deliver 60 terabits per second (Tbps) of bandwidth under the Pacific.


Fijians eating much less fresh fish

Friday 23 September 2016 | Published in Regional

FIJI – New research in Fiji shows people badly hit by Cyclone Winston are eating a lot less fresh fish.


Children live in fear of cyclones

Friday 23 September 2016 | Published in Regional

FIJI – Thousands of children in Fiji who survived the horrors of Cyclone Winston are still severely traumatised seven months on.


Singsings aren't what they use to be

Friday 23 September 2016 | Published in Regional

PAPUA NEW GUINEA – A lot has changed over the past 60 years right around the world – and perhaps nowhere more dramatically than in Papua New Guinea’s rugged highlands.


Hail in Samoa was no hoax

Friday 23 September 2016 | Published in Regional

SAMOA – Samoa has been hit by a hail storm so rare that it was believed to be a hoax by many of the nation’s inhabitants.


Tough nuts set to battle

Thursday 22 September 2016 | Published in Football

HOSTS PUAIKURA will be looking to heat things up against Takuvaine when they welcome them to Raemaru Park tomorrow.


How do you miss a giant banana?

Thursday 22 September 2016 | Published in Smoke Signals

“THE OTHER MORNING I was scootering to work and going around the roundabout near the port,” a smoke signaller says.


Confusion over double identity

Thursday 22 September 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor

WE RECENTLY had someone posing as an ambassador in the headlines.


View on land law too narrow

Thursday 22 September 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor

WE, NO doubt like many other sensible Cook Islanders, finished the article penned by “The Cook Islands Land Law Society” on section 106A of the Property Law Act 1952 with a sense of despair. For a society that concerns itself with the law, the society takes a shockingly narrow view of the issues.


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