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Taxpayers foot $659,000 bill for MPs travel and allowance
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Corruption report exposes ‘bribe and sexual favours’
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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.
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 […]
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 […]
Setting up a brand takes time
Pearl wholesaler Raymond Newnham says establishing a brand like Avaiki takes time. He spoke in response to concerns raised by retailers at yesterdays pearl industry forum that the Avaiki branding strategy has not attracted as many buyers as anticipated. At the 2008 pearl forum, the industry agreed to launch the Avaiki brand, and decided that […]
Avaiki still finding its way
Three years after the Cook Islands Pearl Authority (CIPA) agreed to establish the Avaiki pearl brand, farmers and retailers are still at odds over whether it has benefitted the industry as a whole. Yesterday the industry convened for the first time since its 2008 forum at the AOG Hall in Takuvaine. Mike Hodge of New […]
Future looking bright for pearls
The Cook Islands Pearl Authority (CIPA) hopes to double the production capacity of Manihiki farmers by 2013. The New Zealand Aid Programme has pledged $3 million to the pearl industry between now and 2013, which CIPA hopes will be the impetus for a revitalisation of the once-mighty industry. CIPA chief executive George Ellis spoke about […]
Outer islands will benefit from sea mining
The pa enua will benefit from the introduction of deep sea mining, says the office of the Ministry of Minerals and Natural Resources. Paul Lynch, a legal adviser to the ministry, on Wednesday said that more jobs and greater wealth would come to the whole of the country outer islands included when large-scale seabed mining […]
Bounty hunter wanted in Atiu
The Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust is looking for a person with a steady hand and a 12-gauge shotgun to continue its myna bird eradication programme on Atiu. Regular shooter Jason Tuara is away, sailing on Marumaru Atua down the California coast. Tuaras last visit to Atiu to shoot mynas was in May. He shot […]
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 […]
No submissions on hospital EIA
Despite public concerns about the installation of a new septic system at the Rarotonga hospital in Arorangi, no submissions have been made to the National Environment Service (NES) on an environment impact assessment (EIA) report. The report is now to be considered for approval by the Rarotonga Environment Service. Work on site, which began in […]
Passengers to fill Lady Naomi
The MV Lady Naomi will return to the Cook Islands northern group with the same number of passengers it delivered to Rarotonga in the week before the Te Maeva Nui cultural celebrations, according to authorities. The vessel will leave Rarotonga on Tuesday, taking about 220 people back to the north. Some of the passengers making […]
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