Cook Islands Police data shows no increasing crime trend, but the Opposition leader and a road safety advocate argue understaffing and passive policing conceal actual crime and safety issues in Rarotonga.
The Australian High Commission has announced the opening of the Australia – Cook Islands Community Grants Program.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The speed limit through Muri has been dropped to 30km/h from today. Prime Minister Henry Puna, who is also minister for police, announced a reduced speed zone to take effect immediately covering the main road between Avana Bridge in Ngatangiia and Parengaru Bridge in Titikaveka. Puna said the 30km/h speed zone restriction complemented a wider […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
Rutaki School students Eleysa Tepor-Kareroa, 6, Painu Tamarua, 8, Mereina Tamarua, 6, Meile Tuariki, 4, and Teupoko Tuariki, 5, testing out Rutaki Schools new IT lab. Story on p7. 11091513
The outer island of Mangaia is ready to host over 500 athletes and officials for the Manea Games which will run from October 3 to 13. The host island is expected to have around 130 athletes while competing islands Aitutaki, Atiu, Mauke and Mitiaro will have between 40 and 100 athletes taking part. Aitutaki will […]
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