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Locals snubbed for top legal job
Tuesday 12 January 2016 | Published in Local
A local lawyer and former politician is criticising the government for snubbing Cook Island Maori applicants for country’s top legal job.
Puna on a 'power trip' to the UAE
Tuesday 12 January 2016 | Published in Local
Prime Minister Henry Puna has begun his working year by flying to the United Arab Emirates to talk solar power with world leaders.
Racist law should be removed
Tuesday 12 January 2016 | Published in Regional
WELLINGTON – The New Zealand government is to look into whether parts of a historic law described as “New Zealand’s most racist” should be struck off the books, Regulatory Reform Minister Steven Joyce says. The Maori Community Development Act, passed in 1962 and currently under review by Te Puni Kokiri, allows Maori wardens to order bars to stop serving “drunk and quarrelsome” Maori – and also makes it illegal to serve alcohol at a gathering of Maori without a permit. Wellington lawyer Graeme Edgeler, who specialises in electoral law, wrote a blog post encouraging MPs to repeal what he described as “New Zealand’s most racist law”. Joyce said the offending parts of the law were “exactly the sort of stuff” he was targeting as part of the Statutes Repeal Bill unveiled last October, which would see more than 10 per cent of New Zealand’s laws taken off the books to clear out unused legislation and make the law more accessible to Kiwis. “From what I saw, it sounded like something that seriously needs to be removed from the statute books.” Joyce said he was sure the government would take a look at the issue, although its potential inclusion in the repeal bill would depend on whether that would delay the legislation. Consultation on a draft of the repeal bill was completed in December, with “dramatic changes” unlikely. - Stuff
Tuna boats stuck in port
Tuesday 12 January 2016 | Published in Regional
SAN DIEGO – The United States’ State Department has been forced to intervene after San Diego tuna boats were locked out of the Pacific for failing to honour a payment deal.
Kiribati visit planned
Tuesday 12 January 2016 | Published in Regional
WELLINGTON – A team of MPs from New Zealand’s opposition Labour Party will visit Tuvalu and Kiribati next month to see first-hand how the countries are dealing with the effects of climate change.
Kiribati's Fiji land buy questioned
Tuesday 12 January 2016 | Published in Regional
pacific viewpoint By James Ellsmoor and Zachary Rosen The Republic of Kiribati – comprised of 32 atolls that are on average just a few metres above the ocean – may almost entirely disappear in the coming decades as sea levels rise due to climate change.
Vanuatu escapes cyclone damage
Tuesday 12 January 2016 | Published in Regional
PORT VILA – Vanuatu has escaped virtually unscathed after Tropical Cyclone Ula took a more southerly track and picked up speed as it head away from the archipelago’s southern islands.
Fiji media told not to promote discord
Tuesday 12 January 2016 | Published in Regional
SUVA – Fiji’s Media Industry Development Authority says the media organisations should not publish or broadcast material in a form likely to promote discord, but are free to report matters of national interest.
Four swept to death by rogue waves
Tuesday 12 January 2016 | Published in Regional
KIRITIMATI – Four people have reportedly been killed on Kiribati’s Christmas Island, in the Central Pacific, the result of wild seas kicked up by Cyclone Ula, one of the longest-running tropical storms ever.
Search on for All Blacks first-five
Monday 11 January 2016 | Published in Rugby Union
Vacancy: All Blacks first five-eighth. Contenders – Aaron Cruden, Beauden Barrett, Lima Sopoaga. Probably in that order, too. In five months the picture will be much clearer. For now, that poser looms large over this year’s Super Rugby season.
Cook Islanders unwanted as solicitor general?
Monday 11 January 2016 | Published in Opinion
There was a fierce global debate some years ago at Universities, in particular in Commonwealth countries and the United States. It was whether to practise “preferential treatment” for people with different ethnic backgrounds from say “pakeha” in New Zealand.
Dazed and confused
Monday 11 January 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I am confused.
Use-by date expired, or at political crossroads?
Monday 11 January 2016 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, This is an answer to the opinion piece by Mata Atua McNair, published in CI News on January 8.
Helmet law a 'no-brainer' advocate says
Monday 11 January 2016 | Published in Local
A young activist is tackling Rarotonga’s road safety issue head-on – calling for motorbike helmets to be compulsory for each and every Cook Island driver.
Policy could be finalised next month
Monday 11 January 2016 | Published in Local
Stakeholders are set to finally agree on the Marae Moana policy next month, more than three years after Prime Minister Henry Puna made the ambitious marine park declaration.
Algae not harmful says tourism head
Monday 11 January 2016 | Published in Environment
Despite the growing masses of sludgy green algae blanketing large areas of Muri lagoon, Cook Islands Tourism is adamant visitors can swim there without any risk to health.
We could be world leaders in conservation
Monday 11 January 2016 | Published in Politics
With less than two percent of the world’s ocean under marine protection, should the Cook Islands eventually legislate the intended marine managed area, it will place this country amongst world leaders in marine conservation.
Puna's claims at UN 'misleading'
Monday 11 January 2016 | Published in Local
Just 11 days into the New Year, two opposition MPs have come out swinging at Prime Minister Henry Puna over comments he made at the United Nations climate change conference in Paris last month.
No reply to grieving family
Monday 11 January 2016 | Published in Regional
SUVA – The family of a man in Fiji who died in an accident in Suva in October last year are still pleading with the authorities for an update on their request to waive immunity for South African diplomat Theodorus Mostert.
Hawai'i's last sugar plantation to close
Monday 11 January 2016 | Published in Regional
HONOLULU – Hawaii’s last sugar plantation will wind down by the end of this year, its owner has announced.
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