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Immigration strengthens workforce resilience and service delivery
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Immigration (MFAI) completed a recruitment round in February 2025 to fill vacancies within the Immigration border team.
Lack of recognition for indigenous women and girls
The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) meets annually to address the widespread inequalities, violence and discrimination women continue to face around the world.
MMR to create aquaculture plan
The Ministry of Marine Resources is discussing the development of a national strategic plan for aquaculture with various stakeholders from southern group islands in Rarotonga this week. The first day of consultations took place at the New Hope Church yesterday, where about 40 people contributed their ideas for the sustainable management and harvesting of aquaculture. […]
Ambassador honours special ties
The French-speaking community of Rarotonga met the new French ambassador to the Cook Islands yesterday. His Excellency Francis Etienne read his letter of credentials at government house in the presence of the Queens Representative Sir Frederick Goodwin and Lady Goodwin, assistant to the minister of foreign affairs John Henry Tikaka, president of the House of […]
Educators share notes
Secretary of education Sharyn Paio says last weeks USP Council meeting at Crown Beach represented an invaluable opportunity to network with education staff from around the region. Nine ministers of education and the vice-chancellor of USP travelled to Rarotonga for the two-day conference, which takes place each year in a different Pacific country. Those connections […]
Toa petrol 77c dearer
Toa Petroleum petrol is now 77 cents more expensive in Rarotonga than that of its rival Triad Pacific Petroleum Ltd. A new price order came into effect for Toa this week, capping the price of petrol sold on Rarotonga at $3.16 per litre. The corresponding Triad price is $2.39, which was set by a price […]
Tokerau Jim to share inspiration
The Business Trade Investment Board (BTIB) has chosen Tokerau Jim to be the business mentor for the month of May. He will speak at Club Bana tomorrow at 5pm about his business experience and the BTIB chose Tokerau to be part of its After5 Biz Business Mentoring programme which seeks to put local businesspeople and […]
Service honours HIV/AIDS sufferers
The Rarotonga-based Pacific Islands Aids Foundation honoured people living with HIV/AIDS at a weekend memorial ceremony. The only way to honour the dead is to ensure that people living with HIV are respected, said Pacific Positive Programme Coordinator for the PIAF Temo Sasau during the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial service in Rarotonga. Sasau, who was […]
New equipment thrills preschoolers
Blackrock preschoolers are making the most of $19,000 of community initiatives scheme (CIS) funding, which has given them new toys, play equipment and educational resources. In the next school holidays upgrades of the preschool will take place thanks to the contestable funding which is administered by the aid management division of the Ministry of Finance […]
Vaka trip voyaging at its best
Cook Islands vaka Marumaru Atua has stopped at Toau and will be carrying on to Fakarava today. An update from the crew on Sunday assured Cook Islands Voyaging Society president Ian Karika that the crew was in good spirits and enjoying voyaging at its best. At the weekend captain Peia Patai and crew decided not […]
Tepaki pursues his claims
Property developer Tim Tepaki is taking his disputes with companies and individuals over the management of four Rarotonga hotels to the police, hoping for progress through the criminal jurisdiction of the Cook Islands High Court at Avarua. To date Tepakis attempts to solve the ongoing matter through mediation and civil court proceedings have failed. In […]
Paddlers tough out the bumps
Twenty six paddlers lined up for Saturdays 18km race from Trader Jacks to Avana and back in the second to last race on the CICA singles calendar. Reuben Dearlove and Serena Hunter kept their names on the leader board, with Dearlove first home in a time of 1.34.34 on his V1. He was followed about […]
Police probe missing fertiliser
Police are investigating the disappearance of more than $37,000 worth of fertiliser from the Ministry of Agriculture. The investigation has been prompted by an audit review that found 652 bags of fertiliser worth $37,510 are unaccounted for after being purchased and distributed by the ministry. In a response to the review which includes a recommendation […]
Bill protects workers rights
Minimum terms and conditions of employment in the private sector are being stipulated in the draft new employment relations bill. If implemented the bill will become a legal employment relations framework to ensure workers are treated fairly and protected from discrimination and any adverse situations arising from employment agreements. Under the bill all collective agreements […]
Red Cross provides good read
The Mauke branch of the Cook Islands Red Cross presented Mauke Hospital with a mobile reading shelf this week. The shelf holds a good selection of magazines, current and past, covering a wide range of topics such as human interest stories, agriculture, historical and health information. Many thanks to Marjorie Crocombe for giving the majority […]
Drug accused isolated in prison
Those in custody facing charges laid under Operation Eagle are being kept in isolation at the Arorangi prison. Initially 13 men and women were remanded in custody for one week after being arrested in relation to the drug bust, which is the largest police operation of any kind in the country. A man and woman […]
Awesome school progress
The new Omoka School building on the island of Penrhyn is almost ready for the schools 56 students to move in and start learning. The old Omoka School building was condemned after suffering structural damage during cyclones in early February 2010. Since the school building was condemned the 56 students and 4 teachers have been […]
Budgeting seminar held
The Air New Zealand Cook Islands Tourism Awards committee announces the third seminar in its 2011 series. Speaker Megan Shannon will present a seminar on cash flow management, the theme of which is understanding how cash flows through your business. Westpac and the Tourism Awards committee are sponsoring the function. The seminar will provide an […]
Pacific ties reinforced
Cook Islands ties with the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) have been strengthened with a recent visit to the country by SPC deputy director general (Suva) Fekitamoeloa Katoa Utoikamanu. Utoikamanu and Prime Minster Henry Puna, met in Rarotonga earlier this month when she spent a week in the Cook Islands from May 7. As […]
Growers attend workshop
Growers and officials from throughout the country have been briefed on developments in the use of chemicals for agricultural and horticultural practises. A two-day workshop on agrichemicals was held at the Ministry of Agriculture in Arorangi last week, which was attended by a large number of growers as well as representatives from the agriculture and […]
The search begins
The search for the Cook Islands perfect wave is on. Surfing enthusiast Charlotte Piho and her team of four adventure surfers will head to Atiu today then on to the uninhabited island of Takutea to search for the rumoured 400m surf break. The 10-day journey and mission in search of the best waves in the […]
Runaway truck on hospital hill
The brakes of this Mike Rennie Builders Ltd 12-tonne truck failed on Friday as it was being driven down hospital hill at Nikao, causing it to crash on to the Rarotonga golf course. 11051313
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