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Promoting health and creativity for Children’s Week
Next week children around the globe will come together to celebrate International Children’s Week, a time dedicated to honouring the rights, well-being, and voice of children everywhere.
Pauro Arnold lands giant marlin
In an epic battle between man and beast, local fisherman Pauro Arnold on Thursday captured a giant 506kg blue marlin (1115.54 pounds) – a “grander” weighing over 1000 pounds after playing it for two ana half hours.
Layers of culture welcome visitors
Rarotonga International Airport hosted a range of celebrations for the first 2011 Australian passengers to fly in directly to the Cook Islands yesterday, welcoming them not just to the nation or island specifically, but even to Nikao at the village level. Singers, dancers and musicians lined the Rarotonga International Airport runway to greet passengers arriving […]
CI dancers immortalised in book
Cook Islands dancers feature in the first-ever photo book to commemorate a Festival of Pacific Arts. Writer and photographer Floyd Takeuchi has compiled a book of photos from the 10th Festival of Pacific Arts in American Samoa in 2008. The 186-page book, called Pasefika, features photos of Cook Islands dancers, who danced in the kickoff […]
Beefed up foreign presence planned
In an effort to improve European relations the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Immigration plans to seek cabinet approval to re-open its Brussels office and nominate a Cook Islands ambassador. These plans are listed within the ministrys output specifications for the 2011-2012 year. Government objectives this financial year include funding for the foreign affairs and […]
Funding to guard CIs top asset
People are the countrys top asset and accordingly $48.3 million is being allocated to social sector services in the next year, finance minister Mark Brown says. When tabling the 2011-2012 national budget in parliament on Friday Brown said 25 percent of the governments resources are being used to build and sustain societys core fabric the […]
Workshop examines arts
Artists and curators, both practising and aspiring, are encouraged to attend a curatorial workshop at the National Museum this month. The Ministry of Culture is hosting A Curatorial Perspective on Traditional Art Objects and Pacific Art from July 12 to 16. Pacific Arts Association president Dr Michael Gunn is the workshops designated guest tutor. The […]
Dispute must go to board
An employment dispute between health secretary Tupou Faireka and former director of hospital services Heather Webber-Aitu must be referred to the Cook Islands Public Service Board of Appeal. New Zealand judge Justice Hugh Williams has issued a judgement in the case, in which Webber-Aitu claims Tupou breached her employment contract by advertising her position, leading […]
Blue light shines on youth
A direct link between the police and community, with a focus on youth, is being formally established in the Cook Islands for the first time. Blue Light New Zealand national manager Brendon Crompton has spent the past week in Rarotonga helping set up Blue Light Cook Islands and its official constitution. Blue Light, which has […]
Pearl authority has big plans
As the Cook Islands Pearl Authority (CIPA) looks to rejuvenate our once-mighty pearl industry, it welcomes a budget increase and aid support. The new budget appropriates $502,387 to CIPA – $215,574 for personnel, $265,583 for operating costs and $21,230 to cover depreciation. The 2010/11 budget appropriated $570,641 to CIPA, but $90,000 of this was for […]
Avaiki pearls to go on sale to millions
An upmarket shopping mall in a Shanghai satellite city is preparing to set up a jewellery shop exclusively retailing Avaiki pearls from the Cook Islands. Cook Islands Pearl Authority (CIPA) chief executive officer George Ellis, Ora Moana Ltd managing director Raymond Newnham and Jackie Tuara of Moana Gems were last month invited to Wuxi, China […]
Winners and losers in this years budget
The Cook Islands Police seems to have suffered the most of all government departments in this financial years budget compared to last, with a total net appropriation of $595,509 less than it was allocated in the 2010-2011 budget. It is the single largest decrease of any ministry appropriations from the last financial years budget. Other […]
$30,000 for recruitment
Government is allocating $30,000 for recruitment costs in 2012 as contracts for incumbent heads of ministries will expire this time next year. Its allocation falls within the governance sector of this financial years budget. Also provided for under the sector are assets for the new electronic border control system at Rarotongas international airport. The government […]
Teachers become students
There has been a role reversal of sorts for Australian teachers volunteering at a Matavera school, who say they have not just been giving lessons there, but taking them as well. They say they have become the students, in a way, with their pupils dishing out some lessons on the roles family, enjoyment and culture […]
Burglary victims set trap for thief
After being robbed last Wednesday evening a visiting New Zealand couple baited their Vaimaanga accommodation unit the following night, successfully escaping a second theft. The husband and wife were last week on their fifth trip to the Cook Islands with their two children. On Wednesday night their accommodation unit was burgled and property taken including […]
Telecom celebrates 20 years with promo specials
Look out for details on birthday specials, competitions and giveaways this week as Telecom celebrates its 20th birthday. Log on to www.telecom.co.ck any day of Telecoms birthday week from July 4 to 9, to take advantage of some awesome offers. Tap in with text competitions to win a mobile phone, cordless phone packs, monthly post […]
$40m job hectic but rewarding
Not every new job comes with the responsibility of managing more than $40 million, but that is the reality for Jim Armistead, the Aid Management division manager of the Ministry of Finance and Economic Management (MFEM). Armistead says the Cook Islands will receive about $43 million in donor funds to be administered through MFEM within […]
Health and education cost most
Health and education remain the government ministries with the greatest annual operating costs $10.4 million and $10 million respectively. Despite this they receive less money than the ministries of internal affairs and finance and economic management in this financial years budget, tabled in parliament by finance minister Mark Brown on Friday. The Ministry of Healths […]
$150,000 for census
Government is allocating $150,000 for a census this year. The finance and economic management ministry expects the census on population and dwellings to start on December 1 and take one month. Within the ministrys budget is a net appropriation of $309,034 for the production and dissemination of relevant statistics. Under that ministerial output are guidelines […]
Tattoo art is Boyes legacy
Renowned tattoo artist Boye Nicholas will be laid to rest today at the Nicholas/Ngati Manavaroa burial ground in Avana. Nicholas died from injuries sustained in a serious motorbike accident early on Saturday morning. Nicholas, who was born and raised in New Zealand, is the third son of six children of former Avatiu-Ruatonga member of parliament […]
Back roll clinches kite win
For a lack of wind the second day of Manureva International Kitesurfing Competition could not proceed, but two women riders had a chance to give it their best shot in a spontaneous ten-minute heat on Thursday. Chanti van Boxtel was leading on the point-scale for much of the heat, but Fitness Revolutions Brynn Acheson pulled […]
Night market and fireworks to celebrate kitesurfing week
The Aitutaki wharf was buzzing with uncharacteristic amounts of activity on Friday night. Locals and tourists weaved in and out of long marquees housing over 20 vendors frying sausages, grilling tuna-pawpaw-and-onion kebabs and hawking handmade jewellery. It was the first night market of its kind, organised by Business Trade Investment Board and the Cook Islands […]
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