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Features
Exhibition showcases Aus-Cooks connections
The Australian High Commission in Rarotonga celebrated Australia Day with a beach barbeque and the launch of the ‘Stories of Friendship’ exhibition highlighting Cook Islanders’ connections to Australia.
Balancing tourism and culture
Cook Islands Tourism’s transparent, inclusive and practical planning public consultation which explored the challenges and opportunities tourism brings in all areas of wellbeing, drew a good number of community members.
Te Reo goes online
The wealth of reo resources expands considerably with the recent launch of a searchable online Cook Islands Maori to English dictionary. The dictionary which can be found at www.cook-islands-maori-dictionary.org includes 6580 Maori entries and 11,586 English entries. Typing Cook Islands Maori dictionary into search engine Google brings up a list of resources, and the newly-launched […]
Spider food creations at Imanuela Akatemia
Main dishes Moth wings served in a warm and creamy soup. Fried Mosquito chewy and fried and mushy Grasshopper legs spicy and bitter Dessert Daddy-long legs pie sweet and fresh Drinks Bug juice sloppy and creamy Main meal Grasshopper legs sweet and sour Housefly pie baked hot and spicy. Dessert Daddy Long Legs Cake milky […]
Sonja invites readers into her kitchen
Sonjas Kitchen, the newest cookbook and sustainable living guide to come out of the Cook Islands, is a tribute to the late Tauono Raela. It tells the story of Aitutaki couple Sonja and the late Tauono of their shared vision, their success and their efforts to promote sustainability. Though Tauono passed away two years ago, […]
Amazing race a reward day
An amazing race competition is being organised for top achieving students at Imanuela Akatemia School, which will see them navigate Rarotonga to complete a list of tasks at various locations and businesses in the fastest time possible. On Tuesday December 6 a group of about 30 students, ranging in age from eight to 13 years, […]
BCI staff vote to support Creative Centre
The Creative Centre will take in a very welcome package of materials and goods to be used in its creations thanks to a donation from the Bank of the Cook Islands. Two BCI representatives stopped by the centre this week with a cheque in hand worth exactly $1331. Creative Centre manager Bob Kimiangatau said the […]
Christmas in the Park gets greener
People looking for some Christmas spirit will be able to get a double dose of jolly joy at the BCI Stadium on Wednesday, December 14. This years Christmas in the Park celebrations will be a little more green than green and red when the event takes on the theme of recycling. All the stalls, entertainment […]
Have you got the H Factor?
A new talent quest will take place in Rarotonga next year, searching for the Cook Islands best idle singers who think they have the x-factor. The six-week singing competition dubbed The H Factor is now putting out a call to the Cook Islands potential superstars. With competition set to begin in earnest in February, organisers […]
Sisters sing of islands they adore
The Gosselin sisters are preparing to release their first-ever album. Each sister has her own repertoire of musical productions, but never before have the Gosselin girls collaborated to produce an album. The reason behind this project was that we had so many friends, family and supporters of our individual CDs asking us to do an […]
Expectations of Mauke
In this week’s Kids Page, Apii Te Uki Ou students share their experiences on Mauke when they visited the island for a school trip recently. We have extracted snippets from each of the short stories for today’s Kids Page. Thanks to teacher Jo Weir for providing the stories for today’s page. I experienced 3 caves […]
New boards in stock
Stand-up paddlers the world over agree that Naish is a leading brand, and its boards are now available in Rarotonga. Paka Worthington is the Cook Islands official Naish supplier, and is sourcing boards from Hawaii. While a few local outlets are hiring out stand-up boards, he is the first to import them for commercial sale. […]
Contest for tuna label
May the best tin-painter win. The Ministry of Education is inviting the students of the Cook Islands to design the Cook Islands Golden Tuna logo, which will be plastered on tins of canned Cook Islands tuna. Recently the government made an agreement with Taiwanese fishing company Yuh Yow whereby Cook Islands albacore will be canned […]
Prize winners promote healthy habits
Feed your children a healthy breakfast every morning that was the message the Atuatika family issued when they picked up their brand-new laptop as the winners of the recent CITC/Foodland Sanitarium promotion. Entering the CITC/Foodland promotion wasnt a difficult decision for the family who religiously eats Weetbix and soy milk for breakfast. The competition required […]
Big ups and hip-hop love
King Kapisis newest music video, filmed in Rarotonga, was officially released on Thursday. The song is called Clap ya Hands and features shots of the Muri lagoon, Punanga Nui marketplace, Polynesian Tattoo hut, Pacific Resort Rarotonga, and a host of local faces. Miss South Pacific 2010-2011 Joyana Meyer dances throughout, as Pacific Resort staff drum […]
Annie Crummer wins premiere award
Singer Annie Crummer, who has Cook Islands roots, has been honoured with the premiere senior arts award at the Creative New Zealand Arts Pasifika Awards in Wellington. Chair of Creative New Zealands Pacific Arts Committee, Pele Walker, said the awards are an opportunity to celebrate the creative success of those making a difference internationally, nationally […]
Trevs Ticket catches its second wind
Twice-famous, Trevor Richards (formerly Trevor Tombleson) is living his dream all over again. The 60-something owner of Polynesian Tax Free Ltd, who moonlights as Whateva Treva on 88FM, is remembering what it feels like to be a 20-something rocker. His band Ticket took the New Zealands 1970s acid-rock scene by storm but disbanded in 1973. […]
Local Girl Guide inspired in Mexico
A Rarotongan Girl Guide made the long trip to Mexico last month to get some guidance of her own. Twenty-five-year-old Tuati Mauke joined up with Girl Guides members from across the world at an international Girl Guides get together in the central Mexican city Cuernavaca in October. In Mexico, Mauke learnt a number of advocacy […]
New caf on the southside
Coffee lovers who live on Rarotongas south side will welcome Coco Latte, a cafe and healthy eatery that opened this week in the space across from Wigmores Superstore. The newest addition to the Coco Putt enterprise owned by Tokerau Tooks Turia and partner Meegan and their New Zealand counterparts. Manager Jo Bevin oversees the cafe […]
Rentraro picks up Telecom prize pack
Rentraro.com had just one house up for rent when it was first launched in 1996 and now the Cook Islands upstart has more than 100 available for bookings to tourists. This month, website owner Pai Chambers and her company Heritage Holdings received the Telecom internet marketing award at the biennial Air New Zealand Tourism Awards […]
Beautiful new oe and vaka art
The Art Studios final exhibition of the year is a celebration of all things related to Te Moana Nui O Kiva her waves, her marine life, Tangaroa, the vaka and the oe. It is a beautiful, well-presented tribute to the eighth annual Vaka Eiva festival, and encompasses the work of dozens of local artists, both […]
Design winners
Two grade 6 students from Apii Te Uki Ou have been rewarded for their thoughts and design of a road safety awareness poster. Jack Sutherland and Tyler Davis won $50 each and $100 for the school in the World Health Organisation-funded competition, which was managed locally through the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of […]