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Scientists explore coral heat tolerance in Rarotonga
A group from the University of California is working with Cook Islands marine biologist and chairperson for the environmental NGO, Kōrero o te `Ōrau, Dr Teina Rongo, to discover how corals around Rarotonga respond to high temperatures.
Vandals target fintech startup
Cook Islands tech entrepreneur Brett Baudinet is disappointed that his recently established business, Smartie, has become a target for vandals.
Rakahanga gets $1m for renewables
Rakahanga will receive more than US$1 million to pay for the islands conversion to renewable energy. The Cook Islands government announced this week that the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat had approved its funding allocation to help the northern group island move away from its reliance on diesel generators to solar power as the source of […]
Hot air and climates changing
Climate science is fascinating. Im taking it this semester on USP Moodle. No matter how much the opposition camp challenges the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the panel has convincing figures that show that in the last 50 years the upward swing in global heating is true and urgent and predicts that by the […]
Break the stigma around asking for help
Another suicide prevention week has come and gone, but the community should continue to think about suicide, which is now as a pertinent and pressing an issue as ever. Te Kainga director Mereana Taikoko says the Cook Islands needs to change its perceptions of mental health in general in order to stem the rising tide […]
Harbour works using 0.2% of Rarotongas water
Concrete mixed for use in the $25 million harbour upgrades at Avatiu wharf is accounting for less than one percent of Rarotongas daily water use, but people in the town area will be feeling the impact more than people who live in other areas. Rarotongas water storage levels are at about 50 percent of capacity […]
Georges travel in public eye
On the heel of his comment this week that government travel is obscenely excessive, lawyer and independent member of parliament Norman George has departed the country. He is in New Zealand as a spectator of the Rugby World Cup and is expected back in Rarotonga by the end of the month. This trip is at […]
Brown says travel pays dividends
The cost to government from its Civil List for international travel pales in comparison to the value of benefits for the country as a result, finance minister Mark Brown says. In the two and a half months of this financial year, the Civil List budget of $330,000 has been reduced by $200,512. Civil List money […]
Crackdown on truancy
Rarotongas schools will team up with Cook Islands Police and government agencies to crack down on school absenteeism on the island. Members from all three groups committed to increasing their efforts in reducing truancy levels at Rarotonga during a meeting held on Thursday. Representatives from the ministries of internal affairs and education met with members […]
$200,513 on travel in 2 months
Government ministers and members of parliament have spent $200,513 from the Civil List on international travel in the last two and a half months. The $200,000 taken from governments Civil List covers only a portion of the cost for that international travel, for which donor organisations and governments have also forked out. Government has not […]
Zumba hits Edgewater
The zumba craze has been sweeping through the Cooks in the last 12 months and The Edgewater Resort & Spa has been caught up in it. Mexican Maria Teresa Stone, who is one the few Zumba Education Specialists in the world, is being hosted by The Edgewater. She ran a free aqua Zumba session in […]
Job conditions border slavery: lawyer
Some cases of Fijians being employed by Cook Islanders in Rarotonga resemble slavery, Fijian lawyer Lavenia Rokoika says. She adds to comments made by deputy opposition leader and fellow lawyer Wilkie Rasmussen, who is calling on government to review immigration and recruitment policies. Rokoika says she has had discussions recently with Fijians working in Rarotonga. […]
Rasmussen supports foreign workers
Government needs to seriously review its policy on the recruitment of foreign workers, particularly those from Fiji, deputy opposition leader Wilkie Rasmussen says. Rasmussen says there are far too many instances where disputes arise because of poor contractual terms and conditions, or inadequate immigration rules, involving Cook Islands employers and foreign workers. Many such cases […]
Watchmen have eye on strange behaviour
Fully trained and dressed to match, the Ngatangiia neighbourhood security patrol group has now completed its first week of watch on the villages streets. The nights have been incident-free for the most part since the Flying Dragons premiership players began carrying out the patrols, two at a time, this week. During their first night on […]
Concept will grow in CI: resort owner
Unit titles will become an important and viable part of the hotel accommodation industry in the Cook Islands, but the concept will not lead to a cash windfall for investors, warns one resort owner. The Rarotongan Beach Resort and Spa is one property advertising beachfront villas for sale on its website. A variety of properties […]
14 unit titles sold in six years
Just 14 unit titles have been sold since the controversial scheme was passed into Cook Islands law in 2005. The Unit Titles Act 2005 allows investors to purchase holiday units without taking ownership of the land the condominiums are built on. A building developer becomes the leaseholder of the entire property and can sell out […]
School enters digital era
Classroom lessons at Rutaki School will enter the digital era today as the school officially opens its new information technology labs. The school has accepted a delivery of 13 new desktop computers and a number of laptops to help it lead the Cook Islands into modern teaching. Rutaki School teachers have been asked to bring […]
Statistics office starts collecting data
The Cook Islands Statistics Office has started collecting its first round of data ahead of this years double-pronged census. This year the Ministry of Finance and Economic Management of which the Statistics Office is a division will be conducting its first headcount since 2006, and its first agricultural stock take since 2000. A pre-census will […]
Cabinet minister travels to the Big Apple
Cabinet minister Nandi Glassie is in the Big Apple attending a World Health Organisation and United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) conference. Glassie, the Cook Islands health and agriculture minister, departed Rarotonga for New York yesterday afternoon. He is due to return to the Cook Islands on Sunday, September 25. Glassies trip comes amidst […]
Brown discloses civil list
Finance minister Mark Brown is expected to reveal the state of governments Civil List this morning. Brown has called a media conference at the Office of the Prime Minister, to start at 10am. Eagerly awaited by local media, and the wider public, is a breakdown of what government has spent this financial year to date […]
Millions for workforce training
Millions of dollars in the pipeline to boost Cook Islands education will provide for further training of the local workforce, cabinet minister Teina Bishop says. The New Zealand and Australia governments have pledged $500 million over the next four years for education in 13 Pacific countries, including the Cook Islands. Bishop says he talked with […]
Samoa ship to carry fish
Marine resources minister Teina Bishop says a new shipping service between the northern group and Apia will progress the Cook Islands commercial fishing industry. A Samoan Shipping Corporation cargo vessel is due to start servicing the northern islands in November and is likely to do so once every six or eight weeks. It is primarily […]
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