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Features
Collaborative efforts to a rat-free, thriving ecosystem on Takutea
In a monumental stride in conservation for the Cook Islands, Takutea Island is on its path to becoming rat-free.
New mammography machine offers improved breast cancer detection
The arrival of the new mammography machine in the Cook Islands marks a significant advancement in women’s health, enabling earlier detection of breast cancer and potentially saving lives.
Security with design
Titikaveka welder Craig Miller is offering a solution to security-conscious residents who do not want their windows to look “like prison bars”. The self-employed welder, and qualified heavy industry machine fitter and welder, has experience designing and sculpting wrought iron in New Zealand and the Cook Islands. He says those who want security bars put […]
Me'a Kai up for world award
‘Me’a Kai: The Food and the Flavours of the South Pacific’ – a cookbook featuring Cook Islands cuisine – is one of four finalists shortlisted to win ‘Best Book of the Year’ at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in Paris this year. New Zealand-born chef Robert Oliver, together with Tracy Berno and Shiri Ram, released […]
Major ocean vaka voyage draws near
Local sailors and sailors-to-be will be running, swimming and fundraising in coming weeks, in anticipation of an upcoming 15-month voyage aboard vaka Marumaru Atua. Just 12 weeks away, the voyage will leave from Tahiti and cover thousands of nautical miles. Though the itinerary is still somewhat tentative – as it depends on instructions from Dieter […]
'Just Desserts' for Joyanna
About 100 dessert lovers showed their support for Miss South Pacific Joyanna Meyer at a special ‘Just Desserts’ evening on Thursday. The purpose of the evening was to give the people of the Cook Islands the opportunity to see the acts Meyer performed at the Miss South Pacific Pageant in Papua New Guinea in mid […]
Banana-based specialty wines made in Muri
For over 15 years, Dr George Koteka has been using local ingredients to make his own wine. Now, thanks to his enterprising son, it’s on the market and available for connoisseurs to sniff and sip. Koteka’s son Framhein and his wife Elizabeth have obtained a liquor licence and are selling the local wine out of […]
New beer in Raro
Problems getting a supplier for Liquorland turned out to be a winner for beer drinkers on Rarotonga. The new liquor store in Arorangi had trouble finding a brewery to supply them with beer when they started up the shop. After a hunt on the internet and a couple of emails, business owners Terepai and Meme […]
Waffle Shack on the move
If you feel like a crisp Belgium waffle topped with fresh fruit and ice cream – then head to the Waffle Shack. The mobile eatery is normally found parked up at the Avarua harbour serving its now famous Belgium waffles. Between Wednesday and Friday the portable waffle cart is based at the Avarua harbour from […]
Suwarrow's caretakers keen and ready to return
Suwarrow caretakers Apii Marsters and James Mataa returned in November from a six-month stint on the isolated northern group atoll. Both are keen to return to the island for another six month stint in April or May. Suwarrow is the largest national park of the Cook Islands. The island lies roughly 800 kilometres northwest of […]
More blood needed
The blood bank at Rarotonga Hospital still needs more people to give blood. “The supplies are okay at the moment but we still need more people in to donate,” said Theresa Tatuava, who runs the blood bank. Since their last appeal, Tatuava said that very few new donors have come forward. She said that the […]
New Year's what's on
Beach parties and fireworks are planned for this evening’s New Year’s Eve celebrations to ring in 2011. On the east side of the island – Muri beach will be lit in fluoro colours this evening as Sails Restaurant and Bar host their Fluorescent Friday New Year’s Eve beach party. Party goers can grab a table […]
Maori focus at St Joseph's Primary
Students at St Joseph’s Primary school worked hard during the year developing and improving their Maori reading and writing skills. Grade five students rewrote popular local legends and in three groups acted out their finished script. The yellow team dramatised the legend of Hikaroa and Otaua, team blue brought the legend of Ru to life […]
Barbie dolls and Tonka trucks ever popular
To help parents and families of kids, here are some Christmas gift suggestions based on what’s hot and what’s selling right now. Transformer action figures and Barbie dolls are flying off the store shelves with Christmas only one sleep away. Proving to be a popular gift choice for little boys this season are the Transformer […]
Young poet shares his work What Are Friends
Move over Shakespeare there’s a new poet on the rock! Tereora College Elvin Wachter has proven himself to be quite the poet when putting pen to paper. The bubbly 15-year-old enjoys writing as a past time because of how expressive poetry allows you to be and the freedom it allows content wise. “Poetry is a […]
Market days change
The Punanga Nui Market will not be open this Saturday or the next due to Christmas Day and New Years Day falling on those days. Instead the marketplace will be open on the Fridays before – this Friday and Friday December 31. It will be the same as regular Saturday market days with entertainment if […]
From near death to new CD
A few months ago, Papa Taura Mani was bedridden in Auckland Hospital, unable to move, talk or hear. Doctors were fairly certain he wouldn’t survive, but fast forward some weeks and countless prayers, and he’s back home on Rarotonga and ready to release his third CD. Taura, 66, caught pneumonia in June, which soon developed […]
Late night Xmas shopping action
Shopping was a breeze on Thursday at the newly revamped CITC main store in Avarua when the company opened till late and provided plenty of games and entertainment to keep Christmas shoppers happy. Kids were kept busy with dress up and hula hoop competitions while adults took advantage of the hourly specials at the store. […]
In pursuit of brewing perfection
Rekareka Brewery directors Teariki Pennycook and Edward Nee Nee are in pursuit of perfection. Since purchasing the Avarua brewery in 2008, they and business partner Stuart Davies have been tweaking the taste of their three beers – Cooks Lager, Cooks Blonde, and Cooks Darkie. Just over a year on from opening the business doors on […]
Te reo stronger in outer islands
University of Auckland academics John McCaffery’s and Judy Taligalu McFall-McCaffery’s report on the decline of Pacific languages states that Cook Islands Maori is stronger in the outer islands than in Rarotonga. They stated that the teaching of Maori up to grade three or four is consistent and works well. Ina Herrmann, CEO of School Support […]
Teachers lack Maori books
Teachers had been using a series, published in New Zealand, called Tupu. The books were published to support learning the learning of Pacific languages by children of communities from Samoa, Tokelau, Tonga, Niue, and the Cook Islands. But that support for language teaching dried up when the New Zealand government announced an end to the […]
Fears for language
Cook Islands Maori is not being passed on to new generations in traditional ways and runs the risk of dying out altogether. Those are the warnings of two New Zealand academics, John McCaffery and Judy Taligalu McFall-McCaffery, who published a paper on the strength of Pacific languages. In the Alternative Journal’s Special Pacific Edition, McCaffery […]
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