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SPC resource mobilisation and service delivery
The Pacific Community (SPC) recently held its annual meeting in Pape’ete, where 25 member countries, including the Cook Islands, came together to discuss progress and set priorities for the future.
TAU appoints engineering professional
Barbara Elliston has been appointed as an engineering professional for Rarotonga’s power authority Te Aponga Uira (TAUU) by the Cook Islands Investment Corporation (CIIC) Board of Directors.
Fishing meet in Noumea
The Cook Islands is sending government representatives to Noumea to attend a series of meetings on fisheries and aquaculture. The meetings, from June 5 to 14, will address such topics as use of fish waste, small scale fisheries, and adapting the fisheries and aquaculture industries to deal with climate change. Secretary of Marine Resources Ben […]
Tuku and Tau earn their trades tickets
The Cook Islands Trades Training Centre last week marked a new milestone through its students from the Ministry of Infrastructure and Planning. Two MOIP workers received certificates as NZQA (New Zealand Qualifications Authority) certified graduates with a National Certificate in Infrastructure Works. Tuku Tereva and Tau Ngaau are the first people to receive the NZQA […]
Age no barrier to being computer savvy
The coconut wireless is moving online thanks to a new computer course being funded by the information and communications technology unit of the Office of the Prime Minister. A computer skills course for people ages 50 and over has seen its first batch of graduates complete the two-week course last week. The OPM is funding […]
Bus company still unhappy about saltwater
Cook’s Island Bus Passenger Transport manager Kevin Cook said he is working with the Avatiu harbour development managers to find a solution for the trucks transporting dredged material from the harbour to a Panama storage site. Cook this week told bus drivers making the anti-clockwise route to divert around a stretch of road that was […]
Puna to join Samoan celebrations
Prime Minister Henry Puna will this week represent the Cook Islands at celebrations in Samoa to mark 50 years since the country gained independence. Puna is currently in Japan, where he is co-chairing the sixth Pacific Islands Leaders Meeting. He will travel directly from Japan to Samoa with a brief stopover in Auckland, New Zealand, […]
Ears like a rabbit
With a deck half full of anthurium flowers, it takes a special one to catch Makea Joseph Vakatini Ariki’s eyes and a special one has bloomed in amongst them all. With ears like a rabbit and a face with a nose, Vakatini said this anthurium flower was definitely a special one. ”This one is unusual, […]
Windy wet weekend
Thunderstorms, heavy rain and high seas are predicted for the weekend as a low pressure system develops and moves south. An active area of cloud band with associated rain lies to the north of the southern Cooks and is expected to slowly move south then southeast in the next few days. This will bring rain, […]
Food festival aims for $40,000
In aid of raising funds for projects such as beautification of the school, Tereora College is hosting a food festival at Punanga Nui on June 22. The last school food festival was in 2008 and was a big success raising $30,817.80. Each form class of the school is required to think of what kind of […]
Okinawa beef a talking point
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda joked about Prime Minister Henry Puna’s apparent fondness for beef at a banquet on Friday evening. Pacific leaders were transported via government-chartered plane to Okinawa, the venue for today’s PALM6 meeting, on Friday (Japan time). They were whisked away in a convoy of cars to a hotel further south, and […]
Safe sex talks for voyagers
The importance of sexual health and protection is an issue worth talking about on land and on the oceans and, thanks to Cook Islands health spokespeople, the Pacific Voyagers will be doing so after visiting Rarotonga over the last week. The Cook Islands’ National HIV, STI and TB Committee used the fleet’s visit to give […]
Sing, dance, sell in 6 countries in 10 days
The tourism road show has come to its final stop in Europe, taking in 10 cities, six countries and three major tourist markets over the last 10 days. Cook Islands Tourism Corporation chief executive officer Carmel Beattie said the road show had been putting the Cook Islands in the thoughts of countless people through a […]
Japan will maintain aid to Pacific
The Japanese government says PALM is evidence of its unwavering commitment to continue providing aid to Pacific nations despite the fiscal difficulties it faces in the aftermath of last year’s earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident. Japan’s deputy secretary to cabinet Noriyuki Shikata yesterday assured a group of Pacific journalists – who are in Japan to […]
PM shares his approach in Japan
Prime Minister Henry Puna intends to push the Cook Islands’ own agenda at the high-level PALM6 meeting in Japan this weekend. ”I think I’ll be forgiven if I take the opportunity – since I’ll be sitting next to the Japanese prime minister – to promote our own national views and interests,“ Puna said with a […]
PM meets Emperor
Prime Minister Henry Puna had the rare opportunity to meet the reigning Emperor and Empress of Japan this week. At an official Imperial Palace function, Puna and wife Akaiti had the chance to mingle with the Emperor and Empress – who in Japan are never referred to by their given names, but by their official […]
Check-in affected as Oyster checks-out
Air New Zealand was affected by Oyster’s internet outage last Saturday to the extent they were forced to check-in passengers leaving Rarotonga by phoning New Zealand and getting them to do check-ins manually from their end. Internet was down across the whole of the island for an hour on Saturday afternoon, affecting all of Telecom’s […]
Miss Kafoteria enters the pageant
Joining the Miss Cook Islands pageant has been a childhood dream for 18-year-old Vivianne Tuteru who has returned home to make that dream a reality. Tuteru was signed on as contestant number five this week. The part Tonga and Cook Islands daughter of Kafo and Pae Tuteru, now based in Australia, will be sponsored and […]
Saltwater complaint gets ports action
Avatiu harbour development project managers will alter the route trucks take between the harbour and the Panama dump site after hearing complaints from the Cook’s Bus Passenger Transport company. Manager Kevin Cook yesterday said he had laid a complaint with police over the salt water being spilled on the road by trucks taking material dredged […]
Speaker backlash 'petty' says Puna
Prime Minister Henry Puna has hit back at his political opponents and detractors as playing ”petty politics“ intent on ”scoring cheap political points“ when they criticised the choice of Cook Islands Red Cross secretary general Niki Rattle as the next Speaker of Parliament. In a statement released to media yesterday, Puna said he was ”disappointment […]
New mentoring programme for women
A group of four altruistic women is hoping to give primary caregivers in the Cook Islands a chance to set up their own viable business and become economic contributors. The Emerging Pacific Women’s Leadership Program (EPWLP) Cook Islands group is to present their new project at the Cook Islands Business and Professional Women’s Association (BPWA) […]
Pawpaw exports depend on plant approval
An inspector from the New Zealand Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry is scheduled to assess Rarotonga’s heat treatment plant at the end of this month. The country’s planned pawpaw export arrangement hinges on whether or not the inspector approves of the plant and the way the Ministry of Agriculture is managing it. The plant has […]
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