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Features
Health and Beauty: Pure and Natural, a sanctuary for beauty and wellness
Pure and Natural salon and Beauty Spa, tucked away in a convenient new location in Ngatangiia, is offering a refreshing escape for customers seeking expert beauty services on the island.
Nauru Assembly of God visit Rarotonga
Thirty-five members of the Assembly of God youth ministry from Nauru are visiting Rarotonga for two weeks. The worship delegation came to celebrate the 21st birthday celebration of Tinka Marsters, a Nauruan girl who was raised by CICC Reverend Tere Marsters and his wife in the Cook Islands. Reverend Evi Agir, leader of the group […]
Affordable Telecom plans to offer more
Telecom Cook Islands (TCI) chief executive Jules Maher maintains that while TCI faces a myriad of challenges providing telecommunications services to a small population spread over a vast area, it is committed to being number one in the Pacific for cheap, fast service. Though its revenues have grown slightly since 2006, the rising costs of […]
Cast and crew prepare for Once Upon a Reef
Production director Thomas Peyroux and his team have been busy this month preparing for Once Upon a Reef, a theatrical version of the legend of Pipirima. The tragic story is a tribute to a pair of stars who were once inseparable twins that committed suicide when their parents neglected to feed them during a famine. […]
Pacific tenors to perform in Raro
Local company Motone Productions has secured funding from Creative New Zealand to bring back award winning Samoan Tongan Tenor Benjamin Fifitia Makisi, who performed last December at the Crown Beach Resort & Spa before a sold-out crowd. Ben will be performing with the Cook Islands very own tenor Bonaventure Allan Moetaua, who is a rising […]
Pacific Sisters back on stage
The Pacific Sisters have reconvened in Auckland and are preparing for a show at the Mangere Arts Centre tomorrow night (Saturday night NZ time). Tereora teacher and Pacific Sister Ani ONeill is staging a solo exhibition entitled Dancer of the Year 2011, which opens tomorrow night with a turou by Maki Karati and a song […]
Athlete returns to make music
Celtic fusion artist Steve Macdonald makes an annual trip to Rarotonga for the Round Rarotonga Road Race, but this year hes got a different agenda. Hell be competing in the Ait New Zealand International Triathlon next Saturday, but hell also be livening things up at Trader Jacks with a show tonight and two next week. […]
How to make glasses and a raurau
Todays Kids Page features two step-by-step guides for making your own raurau (plate) and mata titia (eye glasses) using kikau. The instructions were put together by regular Kids Page readers Ligiahi and Tutemariki Tairi, both 8-years-old, from the island of Atiu. Meitaki maata to Maara Tairi for sending in these two fantastic step-by-step guide and […]
Solar-powered motor fitted to Marumaru Atua
Following a quick sail to test her new solar-powered motor yesterday, Cook Islands vaka Marumaru Atua is back in Papeete and preparing to attend a farewell ceremony this weekend. Her departure from Papeete is postponed, as Tahitian vaka Faafaite does not have its own motor fully installed, and the two vaka plan to leave for […]
3500 books from Brumbies
Schools on Rarotonga and in the outer islands will benefit from a recent gift and shipment of over 3500 books fiction, non-fiction, reference resources and teacher guides among them. Rotary secretary John Hobbs received the 28 boxes of books, which recently landed on Rarotonga courtesy of Australian organisation Brumbies for Books. The group is a […]
Proposed marine park explained
By creating a marine park in its exclusive economic zone (EEZ), the Cook Islands stands to reap manifold benefits, says Sue Taei, the Pacific Islands marine programme manager at Samoa-based non-profit Conservation International. Not only would a protected area ensure the sustainability of marine resources, but it could boost tourism and even prompt international donor […]
Community garden on Atiu
The world economic recession of 2008 and 2009 badly affected the smaller outer islands of the Cooks Group. Twelve of these inhabited islands which depend mainly on import products like tinned fish, tinned meat, flour, sugar to name a few, from Rarotonga and overseas suffered the most. We are addressing this issue as it affects […]
Rehab gives $3000
The Young Sid and Pieter T show at Rehab last weekend raised $3000 for victims of the Christchurch quake. Yesterday Rehab owner Scott Arlander presented Cook Islands Red Cross (CIRC) with a cheque for $3000, which will go into the collective fund that CIRC is handing over to Red Cross in New Zealand. The beachfront […]
Juniors dazzle and thrill audience in annual comp
Nineteen beautiful and talented Cook Islands dancers wowed the national auditorium crowd on Wednesday night during the junior and intermediate dancer of the year competition. Passionate and well choreographed dances were on show for the first of the annual dancer of the year competitions. In the junior section plenty of new school moves were incorporated […]
Great music a fitting tribute
Rarotonga was buzzing this week with the energy of San Francisco music legend Edna Love and Kiwi singer Caitlin Smith. Love, backed by a group of session musicians, captivated Trader Jacks, Little Polynesian and Hidies this week with her deep, soulful voice, her performance rounded off by Smiths jazzy sound. The concerts they staged were […]
Team Awesome adventures at YWAM
School kids on holiday have been searching for hidden treasure, creating posters and crafts plus playing tons of cool games at the Youth With A Mission school holiday programme in Vaiimaanga. Based on the theme of searching for hidden treasure kids have been having an adventurous and fun experience at the programme which was only […]
Movie work inspires Cook Islander
Most moviegoers fail to notice how much work goes into designing sets. Cook Islander Robert Tetauru was never one of them he developed a fascination with set design, which paved the way for a number of jobs working on major motion pictures. Tetauru, an Arorangi native, works in construction but does visual effects for movies […]
Writer's life celebrated
The life and work of prolific Cook Islands artist Alistair Te Ariki Campbell is being celebrated in an exhibition at the Pataka Porirua Museum of Art and Culture in New Zealand. Campbell, who was born on Penrhyn, was a renowned poet, playwright, and novelist in New Zealand where he spent most of his life. He […]
Jazz artists return for tribute concert
Kiwi singer-songwriter Caitlin Smith and San Francisco soul sensation Edna Love will be performing a tribute to the late Jeannine Peyroux on Wednesday at the Little Polynesian. Both performed at the Billy TK Jnr’s Blues and Jazz Festival on Rarotonga two years ago, and recently called manager Te Tika Mataiapo Dorice Reid from San Francisco […]
Tuaman hits Raro!
The island was hit with David Tua fever yesterday as the Samoan heavyweight boxer visited Nukutere School and various businesses on the island. Nukutere College hosted the well rested boxer for breakfast at 8am yesterday as part of the school’s ongoing ‘breakfast with the stars’ programme. Tua had to swap his trademark black leather cap […]
Just paint it!
Take a moment and look on the brighter and happy side of life. That’s what local artists Kay and Ian George of The Art Studio in Arorangi hope people will do when they visit the studios first exhibition of the year titled – Just Paint It. Kay says that with so much going on in […]
CITC staff donate to Are Pa Metua
Members of the Are Pa Metua enjoyed a great feast this week thanks to staff of the CITC Building Centre. On the last Friday of every month the Building Centre staff dress up in their best pareu wear and donate $2 each to go towards a charity and this time round – the Are Pa […]