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Parliament’s 12 sitting days sufficient for business: Clerk
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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.
Chef attributes success to local people
New Zealand chef Robert Oliver can hardly contain his enthusiasm – his cookbook ‘Me’a Kai: The Food and the Flavours of the South Pacific’ is on the shortlist of four to win Best Cookbook in the World. But he and co-writers Tracy Berno and Shiri Ram do not claim the success as their own – […]
Fishing licence audit completed
Marine Resources confirms the completion of the long-awaited audit report into the controversial arrangement the former government entered into with Northern Cook Islands Fishing Company Ltd when it granted the company 16 commercial fishing licenses in 2008. An Audit Office investigation into the matter was requested by former Ministry of Marine Resources (MMR) secretary Ian […]
New home for PIAF
The Pacific Islands AIDS Foundation has moved to new offices and staff want to make sure that everyone knows where they are. “We are open from 8am to 5pm and anyone can drop in and get information or free condoms,” said Operations Manager Ann Raymond. The move to the new office in Atupa happened after […]
Heather to tour NZ waste facilities
Infrastructure Minister Teariki Heather will launch a new waste management initiative next week in the lead up to his NZ funded tour of waste and sanitation schemes that could be used as models for Rarotonga and Aitutaki. Heather’s delegation will visit NZ officials and tour waste facilities in Rotorua, Wairoa, Opotiki and Gisborne in the […]
Minister seeks top man for Finsec job
Government hopes to appoint a new Financial Secretary by the end of February, according to the new Minister of Finance Mark Brown. He says there have been ongoing discussions with NZ government following its offer to assist government in the appointment of a new Finsec. As part of this assistance, NZ may be prepared to […]
Community to celebrate loan repayment
A $50,000 loan taken out with the Bank of the Cook Islands three years ago to renovate the Ngatangiia/Matavera Clubhouse has been fully repaid. The community will be celebrating that achievement tonight at the facility that all in Ngatangiia and Matavera can now really call “ours”. The original building was extensively damaged during the five […]
Pacific Resort Aitutaki makes top 10
Pacific Resort Aitutaki has been chosen as one of the Top 10 Luxury Resorts in the South Pacific and Top 10 Resorts for Romance in the South Pacific by TripAdvisor in its 2011 Travelers’ Choice awards. “We are absolutely delighted and honoured to receive these prestigious awards”, says Greg Stanaway, chief executive officer for Pacific […]
Little Poly ranked 3rd by TripAdvisor
The intimacy of the Little Polynesian Resort has been recognised in the 2011 TripAdvisor Traveler’s Choice awards as one of the Top 10 Resort for Romance in the South Pacific. The awards announced this week ranked the Little Polynesian the third best resort in this category. “It is such a great honour to be named […]
Avid angler backs bonefishery
Avid fly angler Carl McNeil is eager to spread the word about Aitutaki’s bonefishery. His company, On The Fly Productions, has started work on a film called Itu’s Bones, featuring bonefishing guide Itu Davey, and expects to finish producing the documentary later this year. McNeil said he chose Davey as the subject of his film […]
Bonefishing management planned
To protect and conserve the Aitutaki and Manuae bonefish stocks, the Ministry of Marine Resources (MMR) last year drafted a set of regulations that the Queen’s Representative signed into force on October 27. The bonefish management plan goes into effect next month, and MMR plans to launch a public awareness campaign in the weeks leading […]
Tourism a new subject at Tereora
2011 will be the first year that Tereora College is running an accredited tourism course. The new tourism teacher Alan Olliver calls the course the ‘double whammy’ as it leads to two qualifications. “Students on the course will get the National Certificate in Tourism, and the course is also part of NCEA so they get […]
Ex-journalist teaches media studies
The new media studies teacher at Tereora College, Philip Jones, says that media isn’t just about what you read in the papers. “It’s such a broad subject.” he says. “We will be talking about different styles of writing for news or feature articles or advertising copy, as well as looking at radio shows and the […]
Teaching life skills
Life skills programmes run by Kevin Iro are still taking enrolments. While the Cook Islands Sports Academy programme on Rarotonga is full – the trade based Tu Manava course for youth aged 15 to 20 and the life skills course Te Rakei Toa for boys between 11 and 13 are still taking enrolments. The Te […]
Graduate wants to create a fitter, healthier Cook Islands
Nana Cuthers has returned from the Fiji School of Medicine as one of the first graduates of their Degree course in Nutrition and Dietetics. Food and health have always been a passion for Cuthers. She worked as food supervisor at Middlemore Hospital in New Zealand for 10 years. She then came home to Rarotonga and […]
Nukutere back to school first
Nukutere College students will get straight into their studies when school starts for them this Monday – while the majority of schools across the Cooks return on Wednesday. School principal Donna Nahu says that starting school on Monday rather than Wednesday mean’s that students get straight back into the routine of a full week of […]
Declining roll a concern
The declining Cook Islands population is being reflected in the national school roll which has been falling gradually since 1997 – an estimated 1104 less children will start the 2011 school year. Education secretary Sharon Paio says any decline in population is “…obviously a concern to the Ministry of Education because it places further constraints […]
Recycling 'a labour of love'
Caryn Chilwell and Brian Freeth sustain Rarotonga Recyclers as a “labour of love”, they said yesterday – and labour it is, as it can take up to 500 hours to load a container bound for New Zealand with scrap metal. The enterprise is privately funded, and Caryn and Brian keep the venture going because they […]
'The Cook Islands has not failed'
Former Minister of Finance and Economic Management Wilkie Rasmussen challenges the conclusions of the Hayes Report, which analysed the relationship between New Zealand and the Cook Islands and was delivered to the New Zealand government last December. “The Hayes Report prompts debate on fundamental questions of de-colonisation, sovereignty of the Cook Islands as a nation […]
USP Cook Islands campus targets 30 PhDs by 2015
A major focus for USP Cook Islands in 2011 will be the enrolment of more and more Cook Islanders, from all walks of life, into university education. This includes students who left school early, new school leavers, and people who have been away from studies for a very long time. So if you’re interested in […]
'Hayes report plays to New Zealand taxpayers'
Cook Islands News has asked both the government and the opposition to comment on the controversial Hayes Report to the New Zealand Parliament. Opposition MP Wilkie Rasmussen is the first politician to provide personal views on the report. As well as being MP for Penryhn, Rasmussen was Minister of Finance and Economic Management in the […]
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