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Travel spending details could be available soon

Monday 12 January 2015 | Published in Politics

More up-to-date details of MPs’ travel spending are set to be released after the PM’s decision to lift the ban on public disclosure of civil list travel figures.

Ministers playing the waiting game

Monday 12 January 2015 | Published in Politics

With no Cabinet and Parliament sittings planned, Ministers are back to business as they wait for the February by-election in Aitutaki.

Repair bill goes to ICI

Monday 12 January 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Due to my terrible driving skills I managed to drive into one of the many umu pits that, collectively joined together, we call our roads.

Albert's 'fly-in' copied Demo Party stunt

Monday 12 January 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I thank Iaveta Short for his letter to the editor of January 9.

Tuk-tuks new mode of travel for island

Monday 12 January 2015 | Published in Local

The next time you are driving around the island, don’t be alarmed if you see a rickshaw zooming past.

Logic and common sense missing from Demo Party leader's rants

Monday 12 January 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Wilkie Rasmussen’s rants in Cook Islands News continue to show how thick-skinned some of us can be to the detriment of all logic and common sense.

Demos ponder Ioane complaint

Monday 12 January 2015 | Published in Politics

The Democratic Party is considering whether to lodge a formal complaint to police against the Cook Islands Party candidate in the Vaipae-Tautu by-election, Mona Ioane, after he was found guilty of bribery by the Court of Appeal.

Contaminated soil on way out at island school

Monday 12 January 2015 | Published in Outer Islands

The removal of asbestos from the soil around Aitutaki’s Araura Primary School and College is now well underway.

Smoke signals: Strange, Mr Fox

Monday 12 January 2015 | Published in Smoke Signals

Derek Fox takes a curious angle on the massacres that took place in Paris recently.

Pre-season muster for touch rugby

Monday 12 January 2015 | Published in Touch Rugby

Todays first touch rugby matches for the 2015 season will be a pre-season muster for men and women at the Nikao field starting at 5pm.

Kata: An oldie but a goodie

Monday 12 January 2015 | Published in Kata

More to Bishop situation than meets the eye?

Monday 12 January 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, There is a perception out there, which I share, that there is more to this Teina Bishop issue than we are being told.

Wrong landowner named in mining letter

Monday 12 January 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor , I enjoy reading Smokies in your daily newspaper.

PM's sneak mission to Mangaia 'audacious'

Monday 12 January 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, How can Prime Minister Henry Puna's highest priority be political stability when he is trying everything possible to poach Demo MPs as well as George Maggie from One Cook Islands to form a new coalition government?

Demos make most of their New Year celebrations

Monday 12 January 2015 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Letter writers Observer and Disgusted must have had a very bad New Year’s celebrations.

Akaepaepaia to tatou aorangi, akaoro ia te patikara takataka`i

Monday 12 January 2015 | Published in Local

Have you made a New Year’s resolution to look after yourself and your environment?

'Celebration' also time to ask some tough questions

Monday 12 January 2015 | Published in Features

Cook Islander Thomas Tarurongo Wynne moved home in 2011 to take on his role as Tereora College’s guidance counsellor.

Will Crummer croons away the years

Monday 12 January 2015 | Published in Features

“I’m back in the race, I’m racing and I love it baby!” are the enthusiastic words Rarotonga master singer Will Crummer uses to describe a singing career that started many years ago, and continues to grow.

Major achievement for public servant

Monday 12 January 2015 | Published in Local

Secretary of Internal Affairs Bredina Drollet has graduated with an Executive Masters degree in Public Administration from Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand.

It's lettuces galore, as Kiwi couple embark on a 'hydroponic holiday'

Monday 12 January 2015 | Published in Local

If you spent long days tending to thousands of lettuce plants you could be forgiven for eventually ending up talking to the plants.