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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.
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).
Northern dancers on water
The fun of stand up paddleboarding will spread to the northern group islands after teenagers from northern group Te Maeva Nui teams had their first experience on paddleboards at the weekend. Judging by the huge grins and non-stop laughter the worlds fastest growing sport was a hit with the teenagers. The teenagers from the northern […]
Over 100 tackle fitness challenge
More than 100 people are taking part in the latest Fitness Revolution body and mind challenge. Most of them were at the Te Atukura Grounds in Avarua for the first group challenge of the fitness and weight loss programme last Wednesday. The contenders tackled the Fitness Revolution circuit at the grounds, competing for healthy spot […]
Omoka High School opens doors
Omoka High School has opened its doors to the students of Penrhyn. The new school, fully funded by the New Zealand Aid Programme, includes three classrooms, one computer lab with air conditioning and an office. The new school was officially opened by the landowners who kindly donated their land to the Ministry of Education. Among […]
Snow White among passing whales
Whale expert Nan Hauser says its been an exciting month on the water. Thanks to a tip from local fisherman Pupuke Robati, she sighted her first giant octopus on July 30. Initially she pegged it as a giant squid, but for confirmation she emailed photos to Dr Steve OShea, director of the Earth & Oceanic […]
Youth Day and young people celebrated
A week of youth-orientated activities culminated last Friday in a luncheon at the Creative Centre, to coincide with International Youth Day. Every year August 12 marks a celebration of youth and acknowledgement of the issues faced by young people worldwide. In the Cook Islands members of various government ministries, organisations and community groups have gathered […]
Call to all tourism awards entrants
Any business that entered the 2011 Air New Zealand Cook Islands Tourism Awards should have received an email from a team of assessors in New Zealand confirming receipt of its application. Those which have not received acknowledgement of receipt should email ross@tourismco.co.nz as soon as possible. The deadline to submit entries has passed, and the […]
Trades Training Centre up to standard
The Arorangi Trades Training Centre (TTC) is administering courses that are up to New Zealand standards, according to a team of three assessors. Wintech tutor Pete Shields was on Rarotonga last week to assess the progress of a drainlaying course at the TTC. Fourteen Cook Islanders are about two-thirds of the way through the two-year […]
Te Maeva Nui photo scrapbook
To help remember the thrill of the week-long festival students have poured over, cut out and made wall hangings of the photos from the festival printed daily in Cook Islands News. Today we share some of the excitement kids had at Te Maeva Nui written by Room 4 students. Te Maeva Nui Te Maeva Nui […]
An oasis blending beauty and profit
It is almost impossible to believe that Maire Nui Gardens was once three lone trees on a flat seven-acre paddock. Macquarie, who has lived in the Cook Islands all her life, could see the lands potential however and embarked on what has been a 14-year journey. Fronting the main road through Titikaveka, the expanse of […]
Stirring message in San Francisco
San Francisco, one of the biggest cities on the California coast, had its eye on the Cook Islands this week. Wednesday was deemed Cook Islands Day in celebration of the arrival of vaka Marumaru Atua, which left Rarotonga in March and has since travelled over 15,000 miles to the American mainland. Prime Minister Henry Puna […]
HTTC students off to Aitutaki
TOURISM Minister Teina Bishop will make good on his promise to send the award-winning Hospitality and Tourism Training Centre students on a trip to Aitutaki. Bishop reaffirmed his pledge while attending a congratulatory ceremony organised by the centre yesterday. He said the students, who brought home silver and bronze medals from the prestigious Nestle Toque […]
Rakahanga rewarded
There must be some sore thumbs in the Rakahanga camp this week thanks to the mammoth text-messaging marathons of the week before. But hopefully the people of Rakahanga feel like it is worth it, having now received a $500 cheque from Telecom Cook Islands for coming first in its Te Maeva Nui peoples choice awards. […]
More money to be made at trade days
The Trade Day markets held during Te Maeva Nui were an enormous success for stall vendors but the outer islands are still not taking full advantage of the opportunity, says Business Trade Investment Board chief executive officer Terry Rangi. Although the event grew again this year, the message from BTIB is that there was plenty […]
North to be CIs green leader
The northern group of islands will lead the rest of the Cook Islands as the country moves towards becoming 100 percent reliant on renewable energy sources, says Prime Minister Henry Puna. The government will soon begin installing solar technology in the northern islands to meet its goal of becoming completely reliant on sustainable energy for […]
Report card out
The Ministry of Education today makes public the results of its first report card. The report card is published in Maori in todays CINews, and will be published next Saturday in English. Borne of a desire to be transparent and accountable, the ministry asked the community represented by a panel of five people from schools […]
Water works about to begin
Details are being finalised for a $2.2 million project to improve water collection, storage, and supply infrastructure on cyclone-hit northern group islands while island council members and mayors are gathered in Rarotonga for Te Maeva Nui. A meeting at the University of the South Pacific campus in Avarua yesterday provided a chance for project coordinators, […]
The Great Wheelbarrow Robbery
The burglary of the Bank of the Cook Islands branch in Aitutaki on Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning brings to mind the Great Wheelbarrow Robbery of the old A B Donald store in Aitutaki many years back, a smoke signaller writes. Some boys broke into the shop at night, somehow managed to get the […]
Blanket treatment for chlamydia
The Ministry of Health will role out a nationwide mass treatment programme next week to help reverse the rampant spread of chlamydia within the Cook Islands. Members of the ministry will visit workplaces, schools, community clinics and community clubs with the free treatment from Monday, the first day of the ministrys weeklong drive. Anybody aged […]
Emma Koteka-Wikis back from the US to de-stress
Four years ago Emm Koteka-Wiki introduced Rarotonga to the Zumba fitness craze. Shes back on the island for the second time since then, and she says shes pleased to see that so many people have caught the Zumba fever. Its taken off big time, she said. Ive seen more people doing Zumba which is really […]
Mining commission abandons job search
A less-than-expected budget appropriation means the Deep Sea Mining Commission has had to abandon some of its plans for the upcoming year, but organisers say the government is still on track to remain faithful to its previously announced timeframes. The commission has dropped plans to find a deep sea mining commissioner for the Cook Islands […]
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