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Parliament’s 12 sitting days sufficient for business: Clerk
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Taxpayers foot $659,000 bill for MPs travel and allowance
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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.
Shipping report
The Cook Islands can rely on regular cargo shipping services to continue in the post-holiday period. Pacific Forum Line diverts its vessel Forum Pacific to Suva this month, but has arranged for a substitute vessel to do its rounds. Forum Pacific arrives at Avatiu from Vava’u, Tonga, on January 23 or 24. She generally takes […]
Teachers advance themselves
USP Cook Islands is starting the new year with a full course load. In addition to administering two postgraduate courses, the university’s local branch is offering four undergraduate courses this summer. In an effort to improve the country’s standard of education, over 30 local teachers – from schools on Rarotonga and the outer islands – […]
Imports to grow by 19%
Imports in 2009-10 cost $349.9 million – a 42 per cent increase on the previous year. Exports for the same period were valued at $5.8 million – a 21 per cent decrease on the previous year. Fuel accounts for 35 per cent of imports. The next largest category is machinery, transport and equipment, which makes […]
Pearl production drops
Exports of pearls in the last financial year dropped by 10 per cent. The Half Year Economic and Fiscal Update states there is an urgent need to concentrate efforts into the marketing of the Avaiki Brand for premium Cook Islands pearls which would enable pearl farmers to deal directly with wholesalers overseas. The report says, […]
PM agrees with island council critic
Prime Minister Henry Puna said that he supports Aitutaki Mayor Tai ‘Tango’ Herman over his recent complaints about how island councils are run. Last week Herman said that the outer islands councils had been severely neglected by government. “The system needs overhauling,” Herman said. “The council system was put in place a long, long time […]
First sitting of parliament affected
Parliament is legally required to sit before February 17 – within three months of the general election. But a date for the sitting of Parliament has not yet been set as four petitions over the outcome of elections have not yet gone to court. All four petitions will be heard between January 31 and February […]
Taking the Cooks to the Outback
Cameron Adams has been teaching Aboriginal people all about the Cook Islands. Adams, whose father is from Mauke, has been teaching for the last 18 months in a remote Aboriginal community, 500km east of Darwin in Australia’s hot and dusty Northern Territory. After training to be a primary school teacher in Perth, Adams applied for […]
'Tiare Taporo' sails soon
Ketch-rigged vessel will usher in a new era of trading schooners The new inter-island cargo and passenger vessel – to be named Tiare Taporo – is on schedule to be sailing in the Cook Islands within three months. Pacific Schooners Ltd has concluded a purchase and refit agreement with Dawson Moreland Ship Riggers to purchase […]
Firearm imports banned
Cook Islands police have put a ban on the importation of firearms to allow them to review their system of firearm control, registration, licensing and storage. Police records show that there are more than 2000 firearms in the Cook Islands. “This number is too high for a small country such as ours,” says police commissioner […]
Burglaries, thefts, crashes at weekend
A Matavera resident returned home from a three-week holiday in New Zealand to find his home burgled with over $4000 worth of property stolen. Items stolen include two Samsung television sets, a Playstation console and accessories, two Hercules and Numak brand DJ mixers worth $1000 each, three Sea Gate and Sun Bright brand computer hard […]
'A dream come true'
A Christchurch father was in tears as he walked his terminally ill teenage daughter down the aisle on Saturday. Cook Islander Tangi Rongo said the wedding had made his 19-year-old daughter’s “dreams come true”. Maire Taomia was diagnosed with gastric cancer in October and, as a dying wish, asked her father to give his blessing […]
CIIC clears up spending on minister's office
The Cook Islands Investment Corporation has refuted claims that $120,000 is being spent to renovate new Finance Minister Mark Brown’s office. The old OMIA office building adjacent to the Office of the Prime Minister was apparently already undergoing extensive renovations before the minister asked to use it for his office. CIIC acting chief executive Anne […]
Report calls for NZ standards in health, education, law and order
The Inquiry into New Zealand’s Relationships with South Pacific countries delivered far-reaching recommendations to the New Zealand government. The first recommendation is to improve key services on the islands by bringing health, education and law and order up to the same standards as New Zealand. The report found that the size of the public service […]
'Decolonisation has failed'
A report into the relationship between the Cook Islands and New Zealand has given a damning assessment of what they call ‘the decolonisation experiment’. The report entitled Inquiry into New Zealand’s Relationships with South Pacific countries was delivered to the New Zealand House of Representatives in December. It states, “There needs to be an acknowledgement […]
Milk for a year
It’s a super prize! These were the words of Dennis Ryburn, one of five winners of the recent CITC Fonterra milk promotion. Ryburn along with Tavai Atuatika and Jashnil Sharma were among the five winners that collected their year’s supply of UHT milk as part of a promotion by Fonterra and CITC supermarket this week. […]
Hot bread baking
Home baked bread will become the norm in the Short and Nand households after the two families walked away with their own bread makers this week. Twelve-year-old Georgia Short didn’t know her mum had put her name on the entry form for the CITC Weston Milling promotion. But the youngster was definitely thrilled to collect […]
PM opens up on priorities
Henry Puna answers questions on key issues and concerns Prime Minister Henry Puna met with Cook Islands News yesterday to discuss his cabinet’s top priorities for the coming year – and map out some of the actions they are planning. After many months of infighting and disputes from the previous Democratic Party government, Puna says […]
4000 tonnes of fish exported
The Ministry of Marine Resources estimates that 4000 tonnes of fish was caught in the northern fisheries in 2010. Total fish exports were valued at $3.1 million in 2009-10, and made up more than half (54 per cent) of all Cook Islands exports that financial year. The northern fishing fleet has 34 vessels and lands […]
Some sister act!
Twins Rima and Kura Moeka’a live and learn loving their culture It takes being away from home to really appreciate your culture. This is according to twins Rima and Kura Moeka’a who are back home on holiday over this festive season. The 19-year-olds have just completed their first year of university studies in New Zealand […]
French president to attend Pacific Games
NOUMA, January 7 – French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s office has earlier this week announced a Presidential visit to New Caledonia in late July 2011 for the official opening of the Pacific Games, this year hosted in the French Pacific territory. The visit would be the first to the Pacific for the French head of state, […]
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