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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.
Pa enua called to speak up on fishing
Pa Enua are being encouraged to write in and express their opposition to purse seining in Cook Islands waters during the government organised public consultations. Te Ipukarea Society programme manager Jacqui Evans says she is pleased that the Pa Enua are being included by being asked to register their thoughts on purse seining in writing […]
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 […]
Sustainable methods advocated
Bio-organics and sustainable methods of agriculture are the way forward if the Cook Islands economy is to benefit, according to some at the National Economic Development Summit. A joint session on agriculture and marine resources was held as part of the summit at the National Auditorium on Tuesday. Panellists included Ministry of Marine Resources (MMR) […]
Marine park criticism 'unfounded'
Deputy leader of the opposition Wilkie Rasmussen is throwing his full support behind the proposed marine park development. Rasmussen yesterday told the Cook Islands News criticism of the proposal was unfounded. “I want to reiterate that as a member of parliament, Penrhyn MP, and former minister of marine services, I am in full support of […]
Preserving te reo debated
Te reo was the focus of much public discussion after the Ministry of Education presentation at the National Economic Summit. A dialogue about preserving the Cook Islands Maori language continued, back and forth, for much of the plenary period yesterday afternoon. From the floor Ian Karika said he was ‘appalled’ at the scant use of […]
DPM supports safeguarding mineral revenues
Deputy Prime Minister Tom Marsters has lent support to a “safety box” approach to the treatment of revenue generated from seabed minerals, at the Commonwealth Secretariat Forum on Natural Resources. The forum was held in London last week, and the DPM was accompanied by Marine Resources secretary Ben Ponia. Industry experts at the forum view […]
USP costs way less
Attending USP Cook Islands costs one-third of the price of tuition at tertiary education institutes overseas. That was part of Tevai Matapo’s pitch at the economic summit yesterday in his capacity as the USP advisory committee chairman. He explained that USP offers a wide variety of courses, and has churned out dozens of local graduates, […]
Free seminars on time management
Time management professional Robyn Pearce will be speaking at free seminars later this week organised by Air New Zealand Cook Islands Tourism Awards 2011 council and The Bond Liquor Store – the purpose of which is to teach local tourism operators about time management before they enter the tourism awards. Pearce will speak on the […]
'Stop knocking education'
Secretary of education Sharyn Paio says it’s time for the Cook Islands to ‘stop knocking’ its education system. “It’s very precious, it’s very good – stand up for it and support it,” she told the National Auditorium at yesterday’s Summit. She said research proves Cook Islands students who study in the Cook Islands perform better […]
Young Sid and Pieter T check in
New Zealand hip-hop icons Young Sid and Pieter T are checking into Rehab tomorrow night to spit their world-famous rhymes for Rarotonga. Young Sid, born Sidney Diamond, is a Cook Islander – his grandparents are from Atiu and Mauke – but he hasn’t been to Rarotonga since he was seven. He says it’s ‘good to […]
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