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Man found guilty of rape, burglary
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Parliament’s 12 sitting days sufficient for business: Clerk
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23 September 2024
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21 September 2024
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7 September 2024
Cook Islands deep sea mining poll sparks controversy
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MCI rejects ‘dark fleet’ label
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Inflation eases but concerns remain
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Prime Minister defends $659,000 MPs travel bill
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Taxpayers foot $659,000 bill for MPs travel and allowance
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Local women outshine global peers in business leadership
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National
Shared Cook Islands and France legacy honoured
Cook Islands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Immigration (MFAI) Secretary, Tepaeru Herrmann, met with Her Excellency Laurence Beau, Ambassador of the French Republic to the Cook Islands, at MFAI offices yesterday.
Cooks to receive $500k for Pa Enua projects
Prime Minister Mark Brown hit the ground running on Monday upon arrival at the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC, COP29 signing an agreement for pilot projects in the Pa Enua.
CITC leads private training
CITC is offering its staff the opportunity to earn a National Certificate in Retail Management (Level 3), and held its first course on Tuesday morning. The company signed a memorandum of understanding with the Department of National Human Resources Development (DNHRD) last year, which now qualifies CITC to train staff in a course that complies […]
Aitutaki hearing enters second day
A two-day election petition hearing in Aitutaki ends today. Chief Justice Tom Weston will deliver a decision – which will determine whether Cook Islands Party MP Mona Ioane Kake will retain the Vaipae-Tautu seat – when he has heard all the evidence. Demo candidate Kete Ioane is bringing a petition against Kake, Chief Electoral Officer […]
3 new advisors 'teach teachers'
The ministry of education has recruited three new advisors to help make sure students in the Cooks get the best education possible. Brendon Feibig has arrived from New Zealand with a wealth of experience in improving how pupils learn in primary schools. His last job was deputy principal of Birkenhead Primary School in Auckland and […]
Court upholds Rakahanga result
Taunga Toka will continue to represent the constituency of Rakahanga as a Democratic Party Member of Parliament. In the November general elections, Toka clinched 30 votes – two more than his CIP rival Toka Hagai. Hagai brought a petition challenging the election on the grounds that four voters were absent from Rakahanga for more than […]
Dashwood back as CIIC chairman
Monitoring unnecessary spending, wastage of funds and use of aid money will be the priority for newly appointed chairman of the Cook Islands Investment Corporation (CIIC) Julian Dashwood. Dashwood signed his warrant of appointment yesterday with minister for CIIC Mark Brown who says that Dashwood was appointed to the position because “he can come in […]
Pukapuka looks to Samoa for lifeline
The distance between Rarotonga and Pukapuka is over 1000 miles, making travel by air and sea both difficult and costly. Pukapukans living abroad face considerable challenges in the way of making the journey home – they must first buy a ticket to Rarotonga and then find a way to Pukapuka. Air Raro sends flights to […]
Renewed impetus sought for EU agreement
The Pacific region’s top trade officials, experts and ministers gather this week in Apia, Samoa, to deliberate on key issues surrounding negotiations with the European Union on a fair and comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA). Secretary of foreign affairs Jim Gosselin and trade officer Teremoana Mato are representing the Cook Islands at the Apia meetings. […]
Air Raro upgrades Bandeirante
Air Rarotonga Embraer Bandeirante E5-TAK is presently in the heavy maintenance dock at the company’s engineering base at Rarotonga Airport for a major inspection and modification of its primary wing structure. The work is undertaken when the aircraft reaches a certain number of flight hours and the modification returns the aircraft to service with many […]
Change of officers in Navy job
Chief petty officer Kelvin Marsh has been working with the crew of Te Kukupa as a technical advisor for the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) for the past three and a half years. He accompanied his wife Arlene to Auckland in 2009 when she was due to give birth to their fourth child – incidentally, […]
Rotary called to re-focus
In an effort to re-direct Rotary’s focus, club president Maureen Hilyard is trying something new – once-a-month ‘breakfast club meetings’ to discuss specific Rotary projects. The first breakfast club meets this morning at Aquarius – an exceptional circumstance, as the meetings will normally be the first Wednesday of the month. Rotary president Maureen Hilyard wrote […]
Aid adviser injured in PNG car-jacking
PORT MORESBY, Feb 1 – An Australian aid adviser in Papua New Guinea (PNG) has been seriously injured in a violent car-jacking in Port Moresby. A spokesperson for the Australian High Commission confirmed the victim, a man in his 50s, worked for Australia’s aid programme. “An Australian man had his car stolen in a car-jacking […]
Tonga urged to work together
NUKU’ALOFA, Feb 1 – Tongan parliamentarians today embarked on a week long journey to deepen their technical knowledge of the workings of the legislative assembly of Tonga, including their role as law-makers and representatives of the people. The parliamentary awareness and leadership workshop follows the historic elections of November 25 last year, in which voters […]
Composers invited to enter Te Mire Atu 2011
This year’s Te Mire Atu composer’s competition is open to all aspiring songwriters and will be held on Thursday, March 3. The competition is restricted to Cook Islanders residing in the Cook Islands and songwriters intending to enter a song in the competition must register with the Ministry of Cultural Development before February 9. This […]
Family gift to elderly, disabled
The elderly and disabled community on Rarotonga has benefited from the recent Engu-Tavai family reunion last month. This week, Engu-Tavai family representative and family reunion coordinator Willie Greig donated $700 worth of adult nappies and plastic crockery to the national disability council division of internal affairs. The Engu-Tavai family unite every three years for a […]
Disability workers grow in knowledge
Students on the disability course at the USP all had great things to say about what they’ve learned. Justina Saamu has come all the way from Mauke to learn more about her work as a disability coordinator. “Everything that has been taught is not just interesting, it will be helpful in many ways,” Saamu said. […]
OIA request denied
Jim Gosselin, Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Immigration, has issued an official response to an Official Information Act request from CI News. A request was made for a copy of comments by the Cook Islands High Commissioner to New Zealand, Mike Mitchell, on a report from the NZ parliament’s foreign affairs, defence, […]
4 accidents from drunk driving
A drunken male tourist was arrested at the weekend for breach of the peace in Tupapa and kept in police custody overnight. A Tupapa resident reported to police that a drunk man was causing trouble on the road next to the Tupapa field and harassing a motorist also parked near the Tupapa field. The man […]
McNicholl back at Reef's helm
Phillip McNicholl is stepping back into the role of executive director at Reef Shipping Limited, the company that services the Cook Islands among other Pacific nations. The outgoing company manager, Jason Ward, recently resigned ‘in order to pursue other opportunities in the freight forwarding industry’, McNicholl said in an email notice to shippers. Ward will […]
NZ aid projects reviewed
The NZaid delegation has left the island after three days of talks with government officials. The talks followed up on discussions between the Prime Minister Henry Puna, cabinet and NZ Foreign Minister Murray McCully in December. Craig Hawke, Director of the Pacific Division of NZaid, said, “In the last year New Zealand and Australian development […]
Who's tackling rising island costs?
“The cost of living has been slowly creeping up for the last two to three years, therefore increasing prices and eroding pay and earnings,” a smoke signaller writes. “What’s government going to do about it, and also the president of the Cook Islands Workers Association, who seems to talk more overseas with trade unions and […]
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