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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.
What about social development?
Returning Cook Islander Cyrus Mea-Nielson said from the floor yesterday that the economic summit seemed to largely ignore social development and how it factors into economic progress. Mea-Nielson is on a 12-month secondment to the Cook Islands Ministry of Internal Affairs as a senior manager and corporate advisor. He said he returned from New Zealand […]
Health under pressure
An investment in the nation’s health system is an investment in the future of the Cook Islands. This was the premise of a presentation put together by the Ministry of Health that screened at yesterday’s summit, which called for funding to improve the ministry’s level of service, or even to just maintain it. As Dr […]
Dole is the problem in NZ
Lawyer Iaveta Short said at yesterday’s summit that the Cook Islands has ‘a problem in New Zealand’ – its people living on the dole. He said that Cook Islanders living in New Zealand and Australia are becoming too accustomed to living on government welfare, which means that “soon we will have a population returning who […]
Vaka vision shared
An Auckland-based group of Cook Islanders has a vision to repatriate Cook Islanders, set them up with accommodation and provide them with business opportunities. “We’re your human capital,” speaker Ina Michael said on behalf of Cook Islanders living abroad. He said nearly 60,000 Cook Islanders live in New Zealand, and 60% are in Auckland. The […]
Summit outcomes on table today
Major players involved in this week’s National Economic Development Summit will today meet at Muri Beach Club to discuss outcomes from the two-day public convention. It is being termed the Government of the Cook Islands Inaugural Development Partner Dialogue, and will be opened by dialogue chairman and government minister Mark Brown at 9.30am. Brown presided […]
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 […]
Ocean Sun preparing to sail
Shipping company operator Tapi Taio hopes his new vessel Ocean Sun will make its voyage to the Cook Islands from Norway in a few months, although an exact arrival date is not known. At present the ship’s captain Nubono Tebano and engineer Tevita Vakasavi are living on the ship while they get it ready to […]
'Scrap outdated and broken scheme'
The Chamber of Commerce considers the government’s Employer’s Liability Insurance scheme outdated and broken and wants it replaced with commercial insurers. Passed in 1965, the ELI act which established the workers compensation scheme hasn’t been reviewed for over 20 years or “updated to reflect modern conditions”, says chamber president Steve Anderson. ELI is administered by […]
Meeting Mr Zumba
Tai Ngari and Puai Wichman of Fitness Revolution are pictured with the creator and guru of the Zumba craze Beto Perez. The local Fitness Revolution owners met Perez while in Auckland attending a special Master Class of Zumba. The Cook Islands’ version of Zumba was showcased at the special session and it certainly caught the […]
National football champs kicking off
The 5th National Youth Football Championship will kick off at the CIFA complex this Saturday April 16 and will run for one week with the finals on Saturday April 23. Teams from the outer islands of Aitutaki, Atiu, Mangaia, Mauke and Mitiaro will start arriving today for the one-week tournament. They will be joined by […]
'Wait for nothing'
Contrary to popular thinking, knowledge is not power, says self-made millionaire Mike Pero who grew up in one of the poorest suburbs of Christchurch. “Action of knowledge is power,” he said referring to the Framework for Economic Growth submitted at the Economic Summit by the Task Force yesterday. Pero, who is part Cook Islands Maori, […]
Copyright laws are ineffectual
The global creative industry generates US$424b annually, though developing countries the world over find tapping into its potential difficult – particularly those without stringent intellectual property controls, like the Cook Islands. At yesterday’s Economic Development Summit, Vaitoti Tupa raised the issue with the creative industry session panel comprised of Te Tika Mataiapo Dorice Reid, culture […]
Passion to protect and grow creativity
The panel that presided over the cultural and creative industry session of the National Economic Development Summit yesterday fielded a broad range of questions from people in the public and private sectors who had one thing in common: a vision to grow the Cook Islands creative industry. The wide range of questions reflects the breadth […]
'Decrease' public service
The government needs to downsize the public service to free up money to pay for some of the 250 specific actions named by the Economic Task Force as necessary to grow the economy sustainably. Eddie Drollet, an economist from the Democratic Party, says the Budget Policy Statement is full of grand ideas but it’s ‘all […]
New accreditation system underway
A new accreditation system is being considered by Tourism Cook Islands (TCI) to ensure tourism industry providers maintain acceptable standards. TCI chief executive Carmel Beattie says the new system could be in place within the next few months. She responded to questions yesterday from members of the public about whether checks were in place to […]
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