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Cousins bring cool treats

Tiki Ice Cream Café, the new ice cream shop located near the airport in Nikao, is offering a refreshing addition to the area’s food scene.

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Government partners with communities to improve safety shelters

Cook Islands Investment Corporation (CIIC) in collaboration with Emergency Management Cook Islands (EMCI), a division in the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), has announced the commencement of the Rarotonga Safety Shelter Programme (RSSP).

Delegation of businesspeople in Apia

Three Cook Islands business professionals are attending a conference in Samoa this week, having successfully been selected by the Cook Islands Chamber of Commerce. Steve Lyons of Pacific Divers Cook Islands, Tarita Hutchinson of Club Bana Bistro and Whatever! Bar and Grill, and Melina Etches of Flying Boat Takeaway will participate in a two-day workshop […]

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Exporting Cooks a pixel at a time

Technology and commerce are moving towards a head-on crash next month and the tourism industry is set to benefit. The Cook Islands Tourism Corporation is broadcasting a webinar session in September to help clue-up North American travel agents on aspects of the Cook Islands. The online seminar will focus on kids in the Cooks with […]

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Appeal to help Mataitis family

Local businessman Don Carlaw is partially covering the cost of a local familys car repairs, and is asking another member of the community to make up the difference. Carlaw knows Mataiti Mataiti through his association with Cook Islands Outward Bound, an outdoor challenge that aimed to teach young people how to survive in the outdoors […]

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8 to be sentenced tomorrow

The sentencing of eight defendants will take place by three justices of the peace in the Cook Islands High Court at Avarua tomorrow. Exham George, William Brown, Munokoa Pita, Walter Strickland, Ellis Solomona, Ammon Mitiau, Rangi Vakatini, and Tarapi Samuel are all on the sentencing list. All have previously admitted the charges they face and […]

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Jetting scientists back in Rarotonga

A groundbreaking scientific mission dubbed HIPPO by its sponsors will return to Rarotonga tomorrow evening for the second time this year. A Gulfstream V (GV) carrying a team of US scientists and a raft of state-of-the-art research equipment is expected to land on the tarmac at about 5pm tomorrow. It was last here in June […]

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Cook Islanders involved in trust mismanagement

A health trust for Pacific people in New Zealand, run by Cook Islander Jane Poa, has lost its contract after an audit raised concerns about its financial management. Conducted last year, the audit revealed that Cificap Trust was using government funding to provide healthcare services to a small group of people, including the managers of […]

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No answers till after Pacific Games

The Cook Islands Sports and National Olympic Committee (CISNOC) will address issues of concern once the Pacific Games in New Caledonia are over. CISNOC president Sir Geoffrey Henry says at present Team Cook Islands is CISNOCs one and only focus. Everything else will have to wait, he says. Our job right now is to ensure […]

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Teen charged with indecent assault of girl

Further adjournment has been granted in the case against 17-year-old Panama resident Ngatokoa Teao, who is charged with indecently assaulting a six-year-old girl. Teao appeared in the Cook Islands High Court at Avarua before Justice of the Peace Tui Short last Thursday. Defence counsel Norman George is representing Teao on a separate charge of assault. […]

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Humanitarian day

Thousands of humanitarian aid workers, who each year help millions worldwide, were honoured last week. World Humanitarian Day is celebrated internationally on August 19 in recognition of all who help others. The day recognises the sacrifices and contributions of people who risk their lives to give others help and hope, and is about inspiring the […]

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SPCA wants more local support

Progress at the Cook Islands SPCA dog pound has virtually come to a stop as the societys funding streams slow to a trickle. The SPCA (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) currently draws almost all of its funds from items sold at its Punanga Nui market stall and small change deposited into its […]

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NZ training for prison guards

Two Cook Islands prison officers have graduated from a training course at Rimutaka Prison in New Zealand. Teariki Purua and Andrew George have spent two months training in Upper Hutt, north of Wellington. They have just graduated from the course, along with a bunch of other corrections staff based in New Zealand. Graduates also include […]

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Downtown village market on monthly

The Takuvaine-Tutakimoa villages grouped together on Friday for the second in what is now a monthly market day. Stalls set up across from the Banana Court, with people local to Takuvaine or Tutakimoa selling food, crafts and goods through the day. The go local theme was still champion at the market, the stall owners selling […]

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Cooks magazine reaches 1.8m Aussies

The Cook Islands push into the Australian market continued at the weekend when a special, 24-page magazine was delivered to about 1.8 million readers in Sydney and Melbourne. The custom publication was inserted into the two big Fairfax newspapers in Australia on Saturday the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbournes The Age which have a combined […]

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Lifes good on the farm

Democratic Party Leader Robert Wigmore says life in opposition is one that suits him. The former minister for agriculture, tourism and a swath of other positions said he was not bound to his office for nearly as much time as he used to be freeing him up to work on his various farming sites and […]

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Marjorie Crocombe honoured and described as a beacon of light

Marjorie Tuainekore Crocombe is the first female Cook Islander to be awarded the degree of Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) by the University of the South Pacific. She received the award which recognises people whose published work and research constitute a distinguished and sustained achievement from pro-chancellor Fiame Naomi Mataafa at a USP graduation ceremony […]

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Education report card out in English

Cook Islands News carries the English version of the Ministry of Education report card today. This is the first time the ministry has asked external sources to evaluate its performance and publicised the results. A panel of three people representing schools, school councils and the media CINews managing editor John Woods, Arorangi School committee member […]

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Fishing association plans expansion

The Cook Islands Fishing Association is finalising its $1.1 million national development strategy for 2011 to 2014 with help from the Ministry of Marine Resources. The association is a relatively new organisation and aims to operate as a peak national body to represent the interests of all fishing clubs in the Cook Islands. MMR secretary […]

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Carter speaks to chamber of commerce

New Zealand High Commissioner to the Cook Islands John Carter will be the centre of attention at a luncheon next week, organised by the Cook Islands Chamber of Commerce. The lunch at Bamboo Jacks restaurant in Tupapa starts at midday on Thursday and will allow business professionals, as well as some general members of the […]

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Sea cable connection not viable

As Pacific countries like Palau and Tonga prepare to install undersea fibre-optic cables to enhance telecommunications services, Telecom Cook Islands (TCI) says a cable is not economically viable for the Cook Islands. TCI chief executive Jules Maher says the cable options he has explored do not make sense for the Cook Islands, which are scattered […]

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Epati leaving public service

On September 30 Navy Epati will walk away from five years as a government employee. The public service commissioner has been staying in the role almost a year longer than anticipated, on the request of the new Cook Islands Party government. Last year he signalled his desire to leave the public sector. His willingness to […]

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