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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.
Nukutere runs for Christchurch
Nukutere College students worked up a sweat on the running tracks on Friday to raise funds for victims of the Christchurch earthquake. Through the week leading up to the run – students went out into the community seeking pledges by people to sponsor them for the 10km (25 times around the running track) distance around […]
Students make peace plans
PPSEAWA (Pan-Pacific and Southeast Asia Women’s Association) peace council chairwoman Johanna Simiona-Gifford gathered student and teacher peace ambassadors together from six Rarotonga schools yesterday at USP and encouraged them to draw up their own individual plans for promoting peace this year. Ambassadors from Tereora College, Nikao Maori School, Rutaki School, Arorangi School, Avatea School, St […]
Women want 'in' to politics
The Pacific islands have slipped behind Arab states to become the region with the world’s lowest proportion of women in politics. The number of women in the Cook Islands parliament ‘flat lined’ for awhile, and now is ‘tipping backwards’, says political reformist Teina Mackenzie. But for Mackenzie, the light at the end of an otherwise […]
Recipe for manure tea
Soil is a living thing that needs good food to be healthy so that in turn it can feed the plants. Producing our own organic fertilisers makes a huge difference to crops and the pocket. No need to wait for the boat to bring in expensive sacks of NPK granules as we get on with […]
Young doctors choose Cooks
Thanks to a ‘random internet search’, the Rarotonga Hospital this month has four volunteer medical students on hand to help wherever possible. Patrick Eakin, a fifth-year student at Keele University in the United Kongdom, said he and his med-school mate Sarah Dawson could choose to volunteer ‘anywhere in the world’ – after considering their options, […]
CISNOC 'insolvent' – Stoddart
The Cook Islands Sports and National Olympic Committee (CISNOC) is facing a financial deficit, although executive board members are confident the books can be balanced. About 70 people at CISNOC’s annual general meeting on Thursday night heard that the committee is insolvent and not likely to be able to fund its financial obligations in the […]
Cook Islands doctor to be a main speaker
One of the keynote speakers at next week’s Economic Summit is Cook Islander Dr Graham Hugh Matheson (above). A former dux of Tereora College, 34-year-old Matheson has a long list of impressive accomplishments in medicine, surgery, biomedical engineering and philosophy. Academic posts include lecturing at the University of Sydney and being conjoin lecturer at the […]
Small Muri businesses at risk
Task Force vaka consultations have raised some concerns over how some foreign-owned businesses have driven locally owned companies out of business. The issue was raised at the last Task Force vaka meeting on Wednesday night in Takitumu. A recommendation was made that the Business Trade and Investment Board which licenses foreign-owned businesses should review the […]
Original ideas flow in
Some original thinking has been inspired by the Economic Task Force Vaka consultations that ended in Takitumu Wednesday night. Task Force member Ian Karika gave an overview of the focal areas to grow the economy which cover tourism, agriculture, marine resources, culture and creative industries, financial services, trade and commercial industries. With ideas submitted by […]
Mike Pero a keynote speaker at summit
Keynote speaker on Tuesday morning at the first day of the Economic Summit will be Mike Pero. Pero is one of New Zealand’s most accomplished keynote business speakers. Today the Cook Islander is still the public face of the nation’s largest and most renowned Mortgage Broking firm, Mike Pero Mortgages. The franchised organisation has arranged […]
Olympic House plans under revision
Concept plans for a proposed $1.5 million complex to house the Cook Islands Sports and National Olympic Committee (CISNOC) are being revised following feedback from various stakeholders. Olympic House plans, by architect Romani Katoa, were first unveiled to sports federations and others with potential use of the facility late last year. Katoa says he has […]
No date for tutaka
Community health will be conducting a Rarotonga-wide tutaka, but will not be announcing a specific date. “The idea was for them to clean up for one whole month,” director of community health services Rangi Fariu said. “In the past we’d tell them (when) we’ll be at their place and they’d just tidy up on that […]
Fuel prices going up again
Fuel prices are continuing to rise, with a new price order for Triad Pacific Petroleum Ltd now in effect. It equates to an increase in prices of about 5 percent, Triad manager Chris Vaile says. Triad petrol can now be sold for $2.55 per litre on Rarotonga, $2.82 on southern group islands other than Aitutaki, […]
Get up and get moving
A CINews article announcing experienced Ashtanga yoga teacher Dik Bree’s arrival noted incorrect times for the classes he will be offering over the next two weeks. The beginner sessions are on Tuesdays and Thursdays – April 7, 12 and 14 – from midday until 1pm and the intermediate classes are April 8, and then April […]
Mentors returning
The Cook Islands Chamber of Commerce is offering a third round of business mentoring sessions in conjunction with Business Mentoring New Zealand (BMNZ), starting next week. Five mentors – the same five that conducted both sessions last year – will be on the island from April 11 until April 15. The chamber stopped accepting applications […]
PERC's Allsworth report to be tabled
Audit director Paul Allsworth is not in the all clear yet on allegations of inappropriately paying himself bonuses and salary increases. While police have completed an investigation and confirmed Allsworth will not to be charged with criminal wrongdoing, the contents of another investigation carried out by the Public Expenditure Review Committee (PERC) have yet to […]
Xbox comes with rules!
Six-year-old Avana Hagai was told that she had to pick up rubbish first before playing with her brand new Xbox 360 Kinect game console. The Avarua Primary School student was one of three people who won the CITC Powerade promotion. Avana and older sister Tschan (7) were all smiles when CITC Key Brands manager George […]
Harbour work starting
The $24 million Avatiu harbour project is expected to start early next month and construction will be done by New Zealand company McConnell Dowell. It will be one of the biggest construction projects undertaken on Rarotonga in recent years and will take almost two years to complete. Between 40 to 50 locals will be employed […]
Budget policy calls for 'innovation'
A constrained economy where current surpluses are small and net worth is outside of what government considers to be prudent, is what the Cook Islands Party administration says it’s inherited. The 2011-12 Budget Policy Statement states the term of the previous government was also constrained and if the country is to achieve its national vision, […]
Woman of the year award back
The Cook Islands Business and Professional Women’s Association is proudly reinstating the BPW Woman of the Year Award. The 2010-2011 awards function will be held at Muri Beach Club Resort on Friday, June 10. BPW feels it is time to return to “this very special award” recognising one special woman for the achievements they have […]
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