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‘Experienced candidates’ apply for Cook Islands top cop role

A selection panel chaired by the Public Service Commissioner Carl Hunter is expected to be finalised to look into the recruitment of the new Police Commissioner.

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NGO exceeds target, removes 15k crown-of-thorns starfish

Cook Islands non-governmental organisation Te Kōrero O Te ‘Ōrau has surged past its target of removing 10,000 taramea (crown-of-thorns starfish), a notorious coral predator, from the deep blue of Rarotonga.

Cooks yacht in $1bn drugs bust

A Cook Islands-flagged yacht has been shipwrecked with an estimated $1 billion of illicit drugs on-board.

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King to host meeting of NZ and CI Maori

Maori King Tuheitia Potatau Te Wherowhero from Tainui, his wife Makau Ariki Atawhai, family and delegation departed our shores yesterday afternoon after a week’s visit, on his first official trip to the country.

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Aitutaki land fit for a King: 'Come back for holiday'

King Tuheitia is to be gifted land in Aitutaki from his relatives of Tai-Te-Atainui o Iva/Ngati Kamire. The gift was confirmed during the Māori monarch's first visit to the Cook Islands outer island.

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Our forgotten heroes: Soldiers to be added to Roll of Honour

A small number of Cook Islands men who returned home sick or injured from World War I will this month be named on the New Zealand Roll of Honour, after investigations into their causes of death.

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Maori King 'honours' Cooks

Maori King Tuheitia Potatau Te Wherowhero from Tainui, arrived yesterday on his first official visit since 2006 when he inherited the throne from his mother, the late Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu.

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Big hopes for Maori King on his visit

Maori King Tuheitia arrives in the Cook Islands today with hopes to develop a package of Aitutaki land gifted to his family generations ago.

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Firefighters: Let us help

Volunteer firefighters who revived a teenager in a weekend road smash are still waiting for the Health Ministry to formalise their working arrangement.

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Kaireva Beach House: 'Ultimately rude hosts'

Darin Grimes and his family felt so “cheated and deceived” after their stay at Rarotonga’s Kaireva Beach house that they created a website to warn other travellers.

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PM: Threat of global crime, migration, espionage

Australia’s commitment to opening a diplomatic mission in the Cook Islands will ease this country’s security concerns, says the prime minister.

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Guests told they're 'dirty', 'drunk', 'liars', and their child will be 'punched in face'

Four different families have now come forward to complain of big cash demands for “bogus” dirt and damage at Rarotonga’s Kaireva Beach House.

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300-metre ocean outfall on table

Government is running out of alternatives to piping Muri's treated sewage 300 metres out to sea – a solution massively unpopular with local community.

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Insulting and embarrassing end' to honeymoon, says Kiwi guest

Beach house owners say they are victims of an online harassment campaign.

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Water charges not 'money making'

Government has announced an 18-month review to decide how much Rarotonga households will pay for their water.

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'Dirtiest guests of all times': NZ guests asked to pay for clean up

A New Zealand tourist family was asked for $780 to clean up a soiled Rarotonga seaside villa. We pay a visit.

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Pressure on PM over 'genocide'

Henry Puna is being challenged to press for United Nations intervention in West Papua, where Indonesia has been accused of genocide.

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Court ruling: Back to the ballot box

Te-Hani Brown was seemingly oblivious of her father’s attempts to get her elected to Parliament by chartering a plane for her by-election rally, the court has ruled.

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Queen's Rep reappointed

Sir Tom Marsters has been reappointed for a third term as Queen’s Representative for the Cook Islands.

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Bread prices go up

The wholesale and retail prices of bread in the Cook Islands will increase from tomorrow.

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CI News Online subscription

To our CI News online subscribers: please note the new rate for the online subscription - effective as of 1st August 2019.

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Dodgy walls cause homes' collapse

A building product company alleged to owe Cook Islanders a “substantial amount” of money is facing multiple charges in an Auckland court.

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