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Annual water safety training offers key skills for marine operators
Cook Islands Tourism (CIT) will host its upcoming Annual Water Safety Training, a programme aimed at enhancing the safety skills of water-based operators.
PM Brown confident in Pacific Islands Forum leadership despite political change in Tonga
The sudden resignation of Tonga’s former prime minister Hu’akavameiliku Siaosi Sovaleni had left a temporary gap in the leadership of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), but Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown remains confident that the situation will soon stabilise.
Pukapuka project celebrated in style
The Pukapuka cyclone shelter project is a model example of how a developed and a developing nation can work together to the benefit of both parties, according to the European Union’s Pacific charge d’affaires Adam Janssen. Janssen visited Pukapuka this week alongside Prime Minister Henry Puna and five others in a whirlwind trip to officially […]
Fiji flood appeal today
Temo Sukanaivalu of the Cook Islands Fiji Community holds up an example of the t-shirts that will go on sale this weekend to raise funds for those affected by floods in Fiji. A radiothon will start at 12pm today and run till 5 o’clock where members of the community can pledge donations to the fundraiser […]
New 'mat' rolls out
The smooth, asphalt-sealed welcoming mat to the country is beginning to be rolled out at Nikao. Motorists passing by or accessing the Rarotonga International Airport will notice a change in the road surface leading west from the airport entrance. Already widened and covered with a new surface between Nikao and Panama, the main road at […]
Harbour dredging will feed reclamation
Dredging machinery is due to set sail for Rarotonga from New Zealand next week to jointly launch the Avatiu harbour redevelopment project into its final stage and provide material for the Punanga Nui land reclamation project. The dredge will leave for the Cook Islands on Thursday, April 19, and is expected to reach Rarotonga about […]
'No decisions'
Government late yesterday confirmed that it is proposing increases in airport charges and departure tax. A curt media statement by Prime Minister Henry Puna said that no decisions have been made with regard to the airport departure fees or airline industry aeronautical charges. Described as a comment on media speculation, the statement quoted Puna as […]
New charges 'not in interest of country'
Any increase to domestic airfares in the Cook Islands caused by an increase to airport charges at Rarotonga would be a major concern for the people of the pa enua, Aitutaki tourism operator Michael Henry says. Henry said the tourism industry of the outer islands was still struggling to pull people away from Rarotonga despite […]
Toa 'excited' about its move
As he talks about his vision for Toa Petroleum, company principal Brett Porter is visibly excited. “We’re really excited about the move,” he said yesterday, as the deep rumbling of T&M Heather trucks sounded outside his office window. “There are a couple of hurdles we have to get past – the main one is the […]
Alcohol and accidents annoy police
Motor vehicle accidents and alcohol-fuelled misbehaviour kept Cook Islands Police busy over the Easter long weekend, though police are reporting it as a relatively uneventful period. Police attended the scenes of three crashes during the weekend, but no serious injuries were reported as occurring as a result. On Friday, a motorcyclist suffered minor injuries after […]
Business mentors seeking new clients
Struggling businesses in need of direction, take heart. The Pacific Business Mentors Programme continues to service Rarotonga and Aitutaki, and is sending another group of business mentors to the Cook Islands on the week of April 30. The Cook Islands Chamber of Commerce, the in-country administrator of the programme, is seeking a new intake of […]
Cooks seen as seabed minerals leader
The Cook Islands’ development of seabed mining legislation is leading the region and the world, according to Deep Sea Minerals Project managers from the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC). Half-way into a series of meetings across 15 Pacific countries and territories, team leader Akuila Tawake and legal adviser Hannah Lilly says there is a […]
Growth to accelerate and then slow
Economic growth in the Pacific region is expected to slow to six percent in 2012, decelerating further to four percent in 2013, while inflation is expected to hold at moderate levels in much of the Pacific, according to the Asian Development Outlook 2012, a report released yesterday by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Economic uncertainty […]
Marching for Maui
Tehani Ngapare Buchanan and Kayley Ngawati both had their bodies painted to make a bold statement at the march for Maui on Parliament earlier this month (Tuesday NZ). Tehani was interviewed by TV3 and the photos of her and Kayley went viral on Facebook. “She is a brave, passionate girl who has made her family […]
Culture show a big act to beat
Rarotonga school children are still swinging their hips and singing songs after the highly successful Rarotonga Schools Cultural Festival last Thursday night drawing possibly the biggest ever crowd to the national auditorium. In fact, parents are still gushing over the outstanding performances by all the schools from the wee babes to the college students. Stunning […]
Pukapuka welcomes PM despite food shortages
Despite facing worrying shortages of fuel and food, the people of Pukapuka were in celebration mode yesterday in anti- cipation of their first visit from Prime Minister Henry Puna who travelled to the island to officially open the new cyclone shelter. The $3 million Pukapuka cyclone shelter, which has been rebranded as a community centre […]
All ball and no net in Aitutaki
Aitutaki’s spikers, diggers, bumpers, dumpers and killers were in action at the Araura College sports field yesterday for the annual Cook Islands News Easter 4×4 Volleyball Tournament. Fifty-eight teams and hundreds of volleyball-diehards joined the annual tournament in the five different categories for mamas, men, women, teens and tweens. At lunch time, the competitions had […]
Milky moustaches all the go at Rutaki and Avatea
Milky moustaches and smiles were all the rage at Rutaki and Avatea Primary School yesterday with every child at both schools receiving an assortment of Anchor flavoured milk for their outstanding efforts in the recent CITC and Anchor promotion. Rutaki was declared the winner of the first Anchor competition which involved primary school children collecting […]
Health team back from Aitutaki, Pukapuka
A health team returned this week “exhausted but satisfied” after two weeks of screening and counselling residents in Aitutaki and Pukapuka. The team, led by Dr May Aung in Aitutaki and Dr Lin Aung in Pukapuka, provided special gynaecology services for women, screened blood donor recruits in Aitutaki, and tested for HIV and STIs in […]
High hopes for Mitiaro's home-stay project
Anticipation is high on Mitiaro as the formal launch of the island’s home-stay programme looms near. Most of the population relies on subsistence farming and fishing or works on a rotational basis for the government. A few people make a profit picking and plaiting maire. But tourism is a spotty and generally unprofitable business – […]
Pukapuka ready to open cyclone centre
After five years of planning and 10 months of construction, the Pukapuka cyclone shelter will officially be opened to the public today. Prime Minister Henry Puna will lead a small delegation of government and European Union officials for the opening in Pukapuka, which will take place today. Construction is all but finished at the centre, […]
A helping hand for Fiji
Thinking of their colleagues and friends being hurt by deadly flooding at Fiji, the people of Westpac Cook Islands have decided to open up a fund for those looking to help out from the Cooks. The team at Rarotonga held a mufti day on Thursday to collect a gold coin donation for their Fijian friends […]
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