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Money not main focus says Henry

Sunday 7 June 2015 | Published in Local

Fiftieth anniversary celebrations committee chairman Nick Henry says this year’s Te Maeva Nui performances should not be viewed as a revenue-generating exercise, but an opportunity for all Cook Islanders to join together and celebrate who they are.

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Winner shouts mates

Sunday 7 June 2015 | Published in Local

Shouting his mates a couple of cartons of beer was the first thought on Papa Iona Lupena’s mind when he learned he was this week’s lucky CITC Sanitarium promotion winner.


PM in dangerous territory

Sunday 7 June 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Here is a syllogism (a logical argument that applies deductive reasoning to arrive at a conclusion based on two or more propositions that are asserted or assumed to be true), of sorts.

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Age no barrier to sea adventure

Sunday 7 June 2015 | Published in Local

Ken Kingsbury has a well-earned reputation as a Rarotonga inventor and boat designer, and now he is promoting his latest invention to the older age group.

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Island brothers honour 'JC'

Sunday 7 June 2015 | Published in Local

The tragic death of All Blacks great Jerry Collins has rocked the rugby world.

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Child abuse costs the Asia Pacific region US$209 billion

Saturday 6 June 2015 | Published in Regional

PACIFIC – Unicef has for the first time put a figure to the cost of Child abuse in East Asia and the Pacific and it comes in at a 209 billion US dollars per year.


Sacking of ministers stirs up politics in Vanuatu

Saturday 6 June 2015 | Published in Regional

PORT VILA – The Vanuatu prime minister Joe Natuman says he dismissed two ministers to stabilise support for the government, which now has a majority of 28 MPs.


Deaths spark alert in Samoas

Saturday 6 June 2015 | Published in Regional

PAGO PAGO – American Samoa’s Department of Health is carrying out further testing to determine if there’s a new type of dengue fever present in the territory following confirmation that two people died from dengue last month.


Samoan All Black and wife killed in France

Saturday 6 June 2015 | Published in Regional

BEZIERS – Former All Blacks back rower Jerry Collins and his wife died Friday following a car accident in France.


Hope for better managed Pacific environment

Saturday 6 June 2015 | Published in Regional

PACIFIC – Friday, June 5, was World Environment Day and the Pacific’s key regional environment watchdog wants everyone to think of how they can have an impact.


Claims senator spied on while on Nauru

Saturday 6 June 2015 | Published in Regional

CANBERRA – Australian Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young has attacked the Prime Minister Tony Abbott for saying she was being “looked after”, not spied on, while she was on Nauru.


Chinese firms buy sensitive mining projects

Friday 5 June 2015 | Published in Regional

PORT MORESBY – A Chinese state-owned investment firm has lodged a compulsory acquisition notice for Australian-based mining company PanAust, which has assets in Papua New Guinea and Laos.


Production dives at troubled nickel mine

Friday 5 June 2015 | Published in Regional

GORO – Rioters torched vehicles, equipment and buildings at Vale’s nickel mine in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia last month, as anger boiled over about a chemical spill in a local river.


PACIFIC BRIEFS: TONGA'S BUDGET BIGGER THAN LAST YEAR

Friday 5 June 2015 | Published in Regional

TONGA – Tonga’s public servants are in for a pay rise with a more than US$2.4 million boost in the first budget of the Akilisi Pohiva government


Budget high on agenda

Friday 5 June 2015 | Published in Politics

As predicted in CI News earlier this week, the first sitting of Parliament will be held on Wednesday, June 10.


Much ado in Fiji over raising of a new flag

Friday 5 June 2015 | Published in Regional

SUVA – Fiji is deliberating on what rules should be in place on the use of the new flag, once it is adopted later this year.


Cook Islands women paint capital pink

Friday 5 June 2015 | Published in Local

The Cook Islands High Commission was awash in pink this week as Cook Islands women in Wellington gathered at a breakfast function to discuss how to create greater awareness of breast cancer in Cook Islands communities.

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Scouts, guides combine forces

Friday 5 June 2015 | Published in Local

There is a youthful feel at Sacred Heart parish in Matavera.

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Scouts learn to be prepared

Friday 5 June 2015 | Published in Local

Eight Matavera Boys Scouts, who progressed from the Cub section of the company learned the importance of being prepared during their investiture ceremony last Sunday.

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Niue a global sanctuary for bees

Friday 5 June 2015 | Published in Regional

ALOFI – Niue could become a global bee sanctuary if the plans of two businessmen succeed.


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