Articles by Utopia Support

Kata: Oceania Athletics

Wednesday 25 June 2014 | Published in Kata

Knock out round for netball comp

Wednesday 25 June 2014 | Published in Netball

It’s netball knockout time with teams taking to the courts tonight for the start of the business end of the domestic netball season.

Potential cash injection from 'Lost Tribe'

Wednesday 25 June 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, There is a substantial and automatic cash injection possible to the Cook Islands Budget.

Community benefitting from roadside contract

Wednesday 25 June 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I would like to thank my opponent in this general election for taking the time to read and scrutinise my campaign flyer and for commenting on our village achievements.

Smokies: Too bad about debate

Wednesday 25 June 2014 | Published in Smoke Signals

One SS reckons it’s a real pity that the two main parties won’t be debating live on TV.

CIP: Sustainable purse seining ok

Wednesday 25 June 2014 | Published in Politics

A Cook Islands Party-led government will continue with the nation’s purse seine fishery as long as it can be demonstrated to be sustainable, says Finance Minister Mark Brown.

Sail Rarotonga charts new course

Wednesday 25 June 2014 | Published in Local

Local sailing charter Sail Rarotonga is set to steer a new course on the high seas with their latest yacht, the Eastern Star.

Four rounds left in junior soccer

Wednesday 25 June 2014 | Published in Football

With just four rounds to go in the junior five-a-side football competition, expect competing teams to be putting in determined efforts as they jockey for top honours at the CIFA complex in Matavera today.

Solomons: Flood victims need clear plan

Tuesday 24 June 2014 | Published in Regional

The Solomon Islands Government has been urged to develop a clear, long-term plan to help people still living in evacuation centres since April’s devastating floods.

Refugee drowns on Nauru

Tuesday 24 June 2014 | Published in Regional

A refugee who had recently resettled on Nauru after being sent to the Australian immigration centre there drowned when he was caught in a rip, witnesses have said.

PNG police ban parliament protest

Tuesday 24 June 2014 | Published in Regional

Papua New Guinea’s Acting Police Commissioner has banned a protest march planned for today’s sitting of parliament, saying it could turn violent.

Kata: Telecom monopoly

Tuesday 24 June 2014 | Published in Kata

Pension tax deductions still continuing

Tuesday 24 June 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, It just keeps getting worse. It has come to my attention recently that tax is still being deducted by Internal Affairs from the local old age pension.

Tax choice is that of pensioners

Tuesday 24 June 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Mr Scott is right; I ignore some of his questions and respond to others.

What's Bishop up to?

Tuesday 24 June 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, The One Cook Islands team, which included a band, chartered a flight to hold a rally in Mauke, then flew off again the next morning.

Contractors sought for sanitation programme

Tuesday 24 June 2014 | Published in Local

Officials are seeking help from local contractors to help carry out an $18 million project designed to improve household sanitation systems in Rarotonga and Aitutaki.

In Brief: 7.2 earthquake north of New Zealand

Tuesday 24 June 2014 | Published in Regional

A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck near New Zealand’s Kermadec Islands at a depth of 30km, the US Geological Survey says.

Fiji: New party enters arena

Tuesday 24 June 2014 | Published in Regional

Another proposed party is expected to enter the political scene ahead of Fiji’s September 17 election.

Fiji: 'Military won't step in'

Tuesday 24 June 2014 | Published in Regional

The head of Fiji’s military says any government that tries to rewrite the constitution post-election would become illegal but it is not for the army to step in.

QR travel: Selective reply not good enough

Monday 23 June 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, The response in yesterday's Cook Islands News publication from the Official Secretary to the Queen's Representative relating to the travel by the Queen's Representative and his Vice-Regal Party to Samoa earlier this month failed to answer the question that I had posed in my earlier letter.