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Cook Islands and Australia strengthen ties
Senior officials from the Cook Islands and Australia gathered in Canberra late last month to advance shared priorities in the second annual Senior Officials Roundtable (SORT) with discussions focusing on strengthening cooperation under the 2022 ‘Oa Tumanava Partnership Agreement.
Cook Islands diaspora embrace digital innovation to preserve Te Reo Māori
Two passionate Cook Islanders living in New Zealand have embarked on an ambitious project aimed at protecting and revitalising the Cook Islands language for future generations.
Rally call to sustain development
While remaining separate entities, Cook Islands government ministries and departments will work closer than ever to achieve sustainable economic development, the national task force hopes. Task force chairman John Tierney addressed a public session on “linkages” during a national economic development summit this week, when he spoke of the importance being placed on collaboration between […]
Take a health check
The Ministry of Health is issuing all Cook Islanders a call to action. The ministry’s presentation at the National Economic Development Summit this week drew attention to the recent finding that 77% of Cook Islanders are at risk of contracting non-communicable diseases like diabetes, heart disease, stroke, cancer and lung disease. People who have high […]
Budget reduced by $13.2 m
The Cook Islands Party Government tabled its first supplementary budget yesterday in Parliament which seeks total appropriation of $144,446,88. This is a reduction of $13.2 million from the 2010-11 budget of $157,689,887.The reduction is mostly due to the reprogramming of a Food and Agriculture Organisation grant of $5 million and an ADB $9.5 million loan […]
Individual tanks the answer
This week’s national economic development summit has generated discussion about the feasibility of each Rarotonga property owner being self-sufficient by installing water tanks. During an infrastructure session of the summit on Wednesday, Temu Okotai suggested the solution to Rarotonga’s water woes was for each property to include a water tank. Okotai cited a budgeted amount […]
Final summit talks with funders
Taking advantage of the opportunity to liaise with those who came to Rarotonga this week for the National Economic Development Summit, the government hosted a round-table discussion with its development partners at Muri Beach Club yesterday. Finance Minister Mark Brown, the majority of the Economic Task Force and a host of other government officials met […]
Appropriation bill to be tabled today
Parliament will sit at 10am today for the second time this year. Leading the two bills to be presented today is the Appropriation Amendment or supplementary budget. Clerk of Parliament Nga Valoa also expects the Insurance Amendment bill to be tabled. Four papers are being presented by the Audit Office. These include the second and […]
Govt may get aid redirected
The government and its donor partners were expected to reach an agreement for aid funds to be redirected into the country’s general budget, following roundtable discussions yesterday. Speaking before the end of discussions, Finance Minister Mark Brown said feedback from donors had been very positive. Having an aid funding template which would apply to all […]
Swiss Ambassador presents credentials
An intimate ceremony was held at Government House yesterday when Swiss ambassador Marion Krupski presented her credentials to Queen’s Representative Sir Frederick Goodwin. Ambassador Krupski is head of mission at the Swiss Embassy in Wellington and is concurrently accredited to New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga, Tuvalu and Samoa. The Cook Islands and Switzerland Governments announced the […]
We're not wealthy
The perception that the Cook Islands is a wealthy country relative to other Pacific countries is ‘nonsense’, finance minister Mark Brown told representatives of donor organisations and aid agencies yesterday. Brown said the region is apt to compare the Cook Islands – in terms of wealth and gross domestic product (GDP) – to towns in […]
Big potential for financial services
Interest rates within the Cook Islands need to be brought in line with those internationally so locals can compete with foreign investors for business, the national economic development summit heard yesterday. A session on finance included a video presentation by Cook Islands Financial Services Development Authority (FSDA) chief executive Jenner Davis, and was presided over […]
Enabling enterprise examined
A panel featuring some prominent Rarotonga businesspeople – Business Trade Investment Board (BTIB) chief executive Terry Rangi, Chamber of Commerce president Steve Anderson and deputy chair Teresa Manarangi-Trott and Air Rarotonga managing director Ewan Smith – directed the final session of Tuesday’s National Economic Development Summit. The session opened with a task force video presentation […]
PM pledges action
Prime Minister Henry Puna says the National Economic Development Summit will not prove to be fruitless and a list of immediate action is already being implemented by the government. In his closing remarks at the end of yesterday’s sessions, Puna said the government was committed to making sure recommendations from the summit were considered and […]
New Bishop named
Father Paul Donoghue is the new Cook Islands Catholic Bishop elect. Father Donoghue of the Marist Provincial of Oceania has been appointed as the new bishop and the date and place of his consecration has yet to be decided. According to Father Damien, the consecration of the new bishop will take place three months after […]
Pest control needs attention
Border control is an issue that needs to be addressed for the benefit of the local agriculture and aquaculture industries, those at a session of the national economic development summit agreed on Tuesday. Maire export agent Dave Thompson raised the issue of pest control and its effect on exported product during a public panel discussion […]
Kids invited to 'camp'
The Youth With a Mission (YWAM) headquarters in Vaimaanga is offering kids with no plans for the school holidays to come along for a ‘Truth Seekers’ camp from April 18 to 21. Youth leaders are coming from New Zealand to help out at camp, the theme of which will be ‘the search for the hidden […]
Sustainable methods advocated
Bio-organics and sustainable methods of agriculture are the way forward if the Cook Islands economy is to benefit, according to some at the National Economic Development Summit. A joint session on agriculture and marine resources was held as part of the summit at the National Auditorium on Tuesday. Panellists included Ministry of Marine Resources (MMR) […]
Marine park criticism 'unfounded'
Deputy leader of the opposition Wilkie Rasmussen is throwing his full support behind the proposed marine park development. Rasmussen yesterday told the Cook Islands News criticism of the proposal was unfounded. “I want to reiterate that as a member of parliament, Penrhyn MP, and former minister of marine services, I am in full support of […]
Preserving te reo debated
Te reo was the focus of much public discussion after the Ministry of Education presentation at the National Economic Summit. A dialogue about preserving the Cook Islands Maori language continued, back and forth, for much of the plenary period yesterday afternoon. From the floor Ian Karika said he was ‘appalled’ at the scant use of […]
DPM supports safeguarding mineral revenues
Deputy Prime Minister Tom Marsters has lent support to a “safety box” approach to the treatment of revenue generated from seabed minerals, at the Commonwealth Secretariat Forum on Natural Resources. The forum was held in London last week, and the DPM was accompanied by Marine Resources secretary Ben Ponia. Industry experts at the forum view […]
USP costs way less
Attending USP Cook Islands costs one-third of the price of tuition at tertiary education institutes overseas. That was part of Tevai Matapo’s pitch at the economic summit yesterday in his capacity as the USP advisory committee chairman. He explained that USP offers a wide variety of courses, and has churned out dozens of local graduates, […]
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