More Top Stories
Charlie-Puna admits to café visit, loses prison privileges
10 September 2024
Browne calls for investigation into prison work release programme
11 September 2024
Anxiety on the rise: Cook Islands faces mental health challenge
7 September 2024
Cook Islands deep sea mining poll sparks controversy
7 September 2024
11 months jail for man caught smuggling 1.176kg of cannabis
13 August 2024
Helmet safety concerns raised amid enforcement challenges
2 September 2024
MCI rejects ‘dark fleet’ label
3 August 2024
STI cases on the rise
2 September 2024
Accused rapist admits to 47 charges, suppression lifted
31 August 2024
Rising seas, rising costs: Climate impacts on Cook Islands economy
2 September 2024
Inflation eases but concerns remain
31 August 2024
Prime Minister defends $659,000 MPs travel bill
23 August 2024
Taxpayers foot $659,000 bill for MPs travel and allowance
22 August 2024
Corruption report exposes ‘bribe and sexual favours’
17 January 2023
PM Brown eager to hand over Forum chair role to Tonga
13 August 2024
ICI explains road works delay in front of old Sheraton site
10 August 2024
Diaspora dismayed over lack of Te Maeva Nui livestream
8 August 2024
Everyone is a winner, says Culture
7 August 2024
Local women outshine global peers in business leadership
8 August 2024
Housing crisis hits tourism industry
27 July 2024
MCI rejects ‘dark fleet’ label
3 August 2024
Tapaitau appeal dismissed
17 July 2024
Challenging ‘rape culture’
8 July 2024
TB cases detected
1 June 2024
National
Police testify in rape, burglary trial
Police officers who responded to the burglary and rape crime scenes of February 21 last year testified in a jury trial at the High Court in Rarotonga yesterday.
New tariffs cause a splash: Free water allocation for residents, businesses face higher costs
Residential users will receive 50,000 litres of water per month free under the final water tariff structure announced by To Tatou Vai and commencing October 1, 2024.
Melbourne Cup Bash at Aqua
There are still a few last minute tickets on offer to Monday’s Melbourne Cup day bash at Aqua Cafe Bar. The main race of the day will be at 6pm, but all the day’s races will be shown on the three big screens from 2pm onwards. There will be a sweepstake for each race. The […]
We must all take ownership of crime
Police chief urges people to tell police about crime Police Commissioner Maara Tetava says people who are aware of criminal activities and don’t tell police is “totally unacceptable” as everyone “should do their bit” to help reduce crime. “Most of our work relies on information from members of the public, and when that link is […]
Navy ship Otago heading here
Rarotonga should expect the HMNZS Otago to arrive on November 12. The Protector-class off-shore patrol vessel of the Royal New Zealand Navy is leaving Auckland this week and is scheduled to arrive in Apia on Tuesday, and in Rarotonga a week later. The HMNZS Otago was commissioned three years ago, in 2007. She was built […]
Man critical after crash
A road accident reported to police at 9 o’clock on Thursday night has left a tourist in a critical condition and in need of medical evacuation. Rupana Keno was going anti-clockwise when he lost control of his rental motorcycle on the curve at Black Rock. His wife Curley was riding pillion. In a statement to […]
Take a break, take stock – Tavioni
Any country that depends on tourism exclusively is making a mistake says Te Kura O Te Au candidate for Avatiu, Mike Tavioni. He says its time to take stock of the assets the country has outside of tourism. “I want our people to try and take time out and try and see where we are, […]
Titikaveka baker: Demo govt selling our future
Titikaveka resident and Turoa Bakery owner Atua Atuatika says he was shocked to find out government has agreed to divert the main road around the derelict hotel site at Vaimaanga. He says the Democratic Party should change its slogan ‘our future now’ to ‘selling our future now’. “Are we selling our future now? I believe […]
Owner suspects someone poisoned her dogs
Matavera resident Harriet Williams reckons someone poisoned her dogs. Williams’s two dogs died suddenly and without explanation late last week – she found them, bloated and lifeless, after she hadn’t seen them for a few days. A nearby neighbour has also reported his dog missing. Williams visited veterinarians at Esther Honey at the weekend, who […]
Mama chases down dangerous driver
A 70-year-old Matavera woman reported a dangerous driver on Wednesday evening after she chased him down to obtain his plate number. She was driving in Turangi, when an oncoming driver made a sudden inland turn – the woman was able to control her bike and prevent a crash but was shaken up and police say […]
Road flooding targeted in Tupapa
The Ministry of Infrastructure and Planning has started a maintenance road works programme which will see 34 underground sink pits upgraded or installed at various sites around Rarotonga to prevent flooding and road surface deterioration. Work began at Tupapa this week, involving the maintenance and upgrading of two existing sink pits as well as the […]
Advice for growers
More than 30 Cook Islands agriculture and horticulture industry workers and business owners attended a forum on the latest equipment and products available yesterday. The informal gathering was held at the Papaaroa Adventist School hall in Titikaveka from 10am. Pacific Growers Supplies warehouse manager Graham Andrews, of Auckland, said he organised the forum to take […]
'Let's research depopulation'
Ruaau Independent candidate Ngamau Wichman-Tou believes depopulation must be properly researched for government to be able to provide incentives for people to stay or return to the Cooks. “We haven’t actually properly researched why people are leaving. Everyone’s assuming people leave because of this, this and that. But logic tells us when an economy is […]
Create green industries – Matenga
Titikaveka Independent candidate Teariki Matenga says his main concern has and will always be about the environment which ties into tourism and economic growth. “My concern has always been about our environment and I am not going to change from that. Currently we all know that our economy strongly relies on tourism. This industry brings […]
Te reo Maori differences noted
Rarotonga is proving to be a valuable source of education for students, staff, and whanau of the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology’s Te Puna Wanaka faculty. A group of 25 from Christchurch, including kaumatua, one of whom is Aitutakian, is in the Cook Islands this week learning about te reo Maori, culture and history, as […]
New digital system in parliament
Cook Islands parliament sittings will now be recorded digitally as modern technology replaces the cassette tape recording system currently in use. Perth resident Mark D’Arcy of Australian company ForTheRecord (FTR) is in Rarotonga this week installing the company’s digital hardware and software at the Cook Islands parliament building. The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) Western Australia […]
Stonefish loitering near Trader Jacks
With warmer waters come a number of unpleasant visitors – first it was the blue bottles, now it’s again the stonefish. Stonefish sightings and stings typically occur at sandy beaches like Nikao and Ngatangiia, says director of inshore fisheries and aquaculture Kori Raumea, but recently stonefish have been loitering about the Avarua harbour. Two paddlers […]
'Ruaau can solve own issues'
Independent candidate says answers lie within community Independent candidate for Ruaau, Ngamau Wichman-Tou, says her campaign is based on valuing our people and building the economy. She is passionate about making the right changes at village, national and international level. Wichman-Tou returned to Rarotonga three years ago with her husband Tony and her four boys […]
CIP vows to remove discrimination
The Cook Islands Party says it will remove discrimination against women contained in the country’s laws and procedures to promote a level playing field for men and women, especially in the workplace. CIP director of women’s development, Rosie Blake, says she is pleased the party is buying into the concept of gender development for the […]
Police response 'not good enough'
Putoto Powell of Arorangi is upset with what she called ‘totally unsatisfactory treatment’ from police following a motor vehicle crash in which she was involved last month. Powell said that a female motorbike driver, a 54-year-old Avatiu woman, collided with the passenger side of her car as she was turning into her driveway. The woman […]
Arnold gives foreign investment warning
Independent candidate for Tupapa-Maraerenga and local lawyer Tim Arnold says foreign investment should be controlled in a similar way to land ownership. Arnold responded to the Business Trade Investment Board (BTIB) invitation to the public meetings on foreign investment by resending a letter to the agency which he wrote in 2005 predicting a bleak future […]
Iro wants Titikaveka to set its own direction
Independent candidate for Titikaveka, Teava Iro, will take his ‘design your own destiny’ message to voters tonight when he officially launches his campaign. He says he would rather people ask what they can do for themselves than what he will do for them as an MP. “Some people have asked me what I will do […]
« Previous 1 … 675 676 677 678 679 680 681 682 683 … 773 Next »