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Cook Islands passport proposal
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Top cop position advertised
7 December 2024
Police need numbers and bigger budget
9 December 2024
Niki Rattle: A call for stronger human rights protections
10 December 2024
Solid and Hazardous Waste Bill referred to Parliament committee
10 December 2024
DPM defends CIIC finance and travel policies
6 December 2024
Cook Islands has its first mosque
14 November 2024
CI Muslim opens up about her faith and journey
16 November 2024
RAC to address mosque legality
19 November 2024
I don’t expect much change: PM Brown on US Elections
6 November 2024
Fifth weekly Sydney flight to Rarotonga announced
23 October 2024
CIIC directors seek $350,000 in damages over defamatory claims
21 October 2024
Man found guilty of rape, burglary
24 September 2024
Tenants face water bill burden
8 October 2024
Concerns over Minister’s role in inmate work releases: PAC
5 October 2024
Tourism contribution set to surpass half-billion dollar mark
25 September 2024
Parliament Clerk sparks outrage over deep sea mining statement
23 September 2024
Deep sea dilemma: Cook Islanders weigh the cost of mineral riches
21 September 2024
Anxiety on the rise: Cook Islands faces mental health challenge
7 September 2024
Cook Islands deep sea mining poll sparks controversy
7 September 2024
MCI rejects ‘dark fleet’ label
3 August 2024
Rising seas, rising costs: Climate impacts on Cook Islands economy
2 September 2024
Inflation eases but concerns remain
31 August 2024
Prime Minister defends $659,000 MPs travel bill
23 August 2024
Taxpayers foot $659,000 bill for MPs travel and allowance
22 August 2024
Corruption report exposes ‘bribe and sexual favours’
17 January 2023
PM Brown eager to hand over Forum chair role to Tonga
13 August 2024
Challenging ‘rape culture’
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Australia and Cook Islands to sign MoU, strengthen maritime security partnership
Cook Islands and Australia are in the process of finalising an enhanced Pacific Maritime Security Program (PMSP) Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that will strengthen Australia’s support for Te Kukupa II operations and bolster regional security efforts.
Punanga Turuturu Itivaine set to make a positive impact
Punanga Turuturu Itivaine (PTI), the women’s counselling and support centre for survivors of gender based violence (GBV) and abuse, responded to 11 calls for assistance during the festive season.
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Health scare leads to hospital upgrade
Public service commissioner Navy Epati is leading an initiative to improve Rarotonga Hospitals theatre procedures, following a prolonged surgery recovery and subsequent health scare. He is working in collaboration with health minister Nandi Glassie, health secretary Tupou Faireka and Rarotonga-based director of hospital services Dr Tikaka Henry. Epati says New Zealand medical specialists he has […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Te Kainga pushes mental illness awareness
Te Kainga o Pa Taunga staff believe that addressing mental illness as a problem of priority importance will go a long way toward reducing both crime and physical illness in the Cook Islands. Around the world mental health is a low priority but particularly so here (in the Cook Islands), registered nurse Mereana Taikoko said. […]
10 new officers honoured, challenged
Ten more Cook Islanders have officially joined the Cook Islands Police Service. They took the officers oath yesterday at a graduation ceremony, which represented the culmination of 11 weeks of intense physical and academic training. Police commissioner Maara Tetava says this group of recruits is the best-trained in the history of Cook Islands Police. Yesterday, […]
Harbour master to be replaced
The Ports Authority is advertising the harbour masters position, as the man in the job plans to leave. Current harbour master Esau Esau has given his intention to leave the job, saying he had become home-sick for his native Tonga. Esau replaced John Fallon as the authoritys harbour master in October last year, coming off […]
Mangaia carving gifted to Pacific Forum
To mark the 40th anniversary of the Pacific Islands Forum next month, the Cook Islands government has donated a carving to the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat in Fiji. Presented by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Immigration Pacific division director Carl Hunter, the gift is a storyboard wall carving crafted by Tangi Vaipo. Hunter unveiled it […]
Disaster response fund valued
Three Cook Islanders represented the country at a disaster management conference in Auckland last week. Over 200 delegates from 22 Pacific countries and territories met at the third session of the Pacific Platform for Disaster Risk Management to discuss ways to mitigate the impact of disasters, including climate change, on regional development. Representing the Cook […]
Mystery fish is a crocodile longtom
The case of the mean-looking Avana mystery fish has been solved, with the unknown species being identified as a suitably-named crocodile longtom. Richard Story, Aitutaki-based fisheries officer at the Ministry of Marine Resources, contacted Cook Islands News yesterday with the information and said though the fish was common on the eastern coast of Rarotonga, it […]
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