Friday 16 October 2015 | Published in Regional
PORT VILA – Vanuatu’s Minister of Education Alfred Carlot is among at least three government MPs who have defected to the opposition benches.
Friday 16 October 2015 | Published in Regional
YAREN – A 26-year-old Somali woman who says she was raped in August may be charged with making a false complaint to police, the Nauruan government says.
Friday 16 October 2015 | Published in Regional
AUCKLAND – With an average of one New Zealander being deported from Australia every day, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull might find the reception across the Tasman a little cooler than usual when he arrives in Auckland tonight.
Friday 16 October 2015 | Published in Regional
YAREN – The Pacific Freedom Forum says banning overseas media from Nauru is another shocking denial of human rights in the region.
Friday 16 October 2015 | Published in Politics
One of Parliament’s newest MPs believes a formal code of conduct for all politicians is long overdue and she’s getting one ready to table at the next sitting.
Friday 16 October 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Last Friday’s CI News carried a full page article by an Oro Metua of the CICC laying out the church’s stand on same-sex marriage.
Friday 16 October 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I am a Cook Islands Maori, from Rarotonga, born in the 1940s and I have lived here in Aotearoa for years, for health reasons.
Friday 16 October 2015 | Published in League
Rugby league will kick start 2016 with a league 9s tournament on January 1 and 2 next year that is set to lift the standard of the game in the Cook Islands.
Thursday 15 October 2015 | Published in Regional
SAIPAN – The devastation that Typhoon Soudelor left in its wake after hitting Saipan on August 2 has not prevented Japanese couples from travelling there for their weddings, wedding photography sessions and honeymoons.
Thursday 15 October 2015 | Published in Regional
PACIFIC – New Zealand’s Institute of Atmospheric Research is forecasting an increase in the number and strength of cyclones in the south-west Pacific this cyclone season.
Thursday 15 October 2015 | Published in Regional
PORT VILA – The acting leader of the opposition in Vanuatu Ham Lini has called for the government to explain why it has deposited one million vatu into each of the opposition MPs private bank accounts.
Thursday 15 October 2015 | Published in Regional
PORT VILA – A leading constitutional law expert says there may be grounds to overturn the pardons controversially granted to 14 Vanuatu MPs found guilty of bribery.
Thursday 15 October 2015 | Published in Regional
PORT VILA – A visibly shaken president of Vanuatu has addressed the nation expressing “shame and sorrow” after his acting president used interim executive powers to issue pardons to recently-convicted MPs, including himself, on Sunday.
Thursday 15 October 2015 | Published in Regional
PORT MORESBY – Papua New Guinea’s prime minister Peter O’Neill has rejected allegations that proper process was not followed to take out a $1.3 billion loan to buy shares in the nation’s biggest company, Oil Search.
Thursday 15 October 2015 | Published in Politics
Prime Minister Henry Puna has told an international audience it would be naive to disregard any future relocation of displaced people due to natural disasters – a real possibility with the impacts of climate change in the Pacific.
Thursday 15 October 2015 | Published in Local
The Cook Islands said a final farewell to a well loved and long-serving member of the community yesterday, Papa Mapu Taia.
Thursday 15 October 2015 | Published in Local
The Ministry of Marine Resources will be offering a free “taste of sashimi” at the Punanga Nui Market Fish Hut this Friday.
Thursday 15 October 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, A very quick,short question for Liz Wright-Koteka.
Thursday 15 October 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, At a recent press conference, New Zealand Prime Minister John Key was asked if there was a chance for Winston Peters to be Prime Minister under a job-sharing agreement if New Zealand First ever held the balance of power.
Thursday 15 October 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I must apologise for an omission in the Lagoon Day article in CI News on October 14.
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