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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.
Prison shouldn't be an option
Visitor says prison no place for sufferers of mental illness Kiwi visitor Graham Roper says people with mental health conditions should not have to be put in prison as highlighted in last week’s court report and street poll. Roper says families and the community can support those with mental illnesses and help them live productively […]
Smear test plea
Less than half the women asked to come for a pap smear actually attend. The test could be life-saving and is essential for any women over 21. “Cervical cancer is the only cancer which can be detected up to 10 or 15 years before it starts,” head of obstetrics and gynaecology at Rarotonga hospital, Dr […]
CIP conducts survey
The Cook Islands Party plans to launch its party manifesto as soon as Parliament is dissolved on September 24. The party is currently conducting a survey which will help direct some of the party’s policies. Vice president Mark Brown says the party’s election candidates have been going door to door to ask constituents about what […]
Paka's Pearls burgled
On Saturday night, Paka’s Pearls was burgled and robbed of thousands of dollars worth of pearl jewellery. It’s evident that the intruder knew what he or she was doing, as the lock on the back door had been expertly picked and stolen properties carefully selected. “They only went for some of the more expensive stuff, […]
George wary of reforms
CIP MP claims reforms would destroy democratic system CIP MP Norman George says some of the suggested political reforms would destroy the country’s democratic system. George says the direct election of the Prime Minister, creating national seats and selecting cabinet from outside of parliament would be so destructive as to ruin the democratic system and […]
Marsters defends Pukapuka's Peua
Opposition leader Tom Marsters believes the track record of getting things done for Pukapuka is good enough for the island’s sitting MP Vai Peua to be given another chance by the Cook Islands Party. He says Peua, who he described as a hardworking MP, shouldn’t be ostracised by the Pukapuka CIP committee because he has […]
Best settled in court
Cook Islands Sports and National Olympic Committee (CISNOC) president Sir Geoffrey Henry has responded by email to questions about why CISNOC is still holding on to funds paid to it in per diems by countries competing in the 2009 Pacific Mini Games. “There is probably no better way to settle this than through a court […]
Blocking flight case delayed
Justice of the peace Tui Short presided over a number of cases in the high court last week: Temu Okotai, Mataio Johnson and Ruhau Tamahunu – called up in relation to an incident dating back to 2008 in which the three allegedly endangered transport by blocking an Air Raro flight from landing on Manihiki. Norman […]
Getting mobile on the net
Telecom Cook Islands has introduced its new mobile data service Koka Connect to post-paid subscribers. For the technically minded, it is known as GPRS – general packet radio service – and is a mobile data service enabling cellphone users to do email and surf the internet. The new service offers post paid mobile customers 300 […]
GPC wants candidates at forum
The newly re-formed Group for Political Change plans to call for a national consultation of current and intending MPs on political reform. In the lead up to the election, the group have vowed to finish what it started and continue to lobby for the reduction in the number of MPs. Founding members Lyndsay Francis and […]
Main aim to reduce MPs
The Group for Political Change will lobby for the reduction of the number of MPs in the lead up to the general election in November. The newly reformed group says this reform is one of the last it has yet to achieve since it began lobbying government back in 2002. Two of GPC’s founding members, […]
Temata moving on
Come the end of October, the second Pacific nation to hold a seat on the Bureau for the Convention for Biological Diversity, passes this privilege on. Tania Temata from the Cook Islands together with Cambodia represents the Asia Pacific Group on this bureau. It is a first for the Cook Islands to be represented on […]
TIS invite all to have a say
“Government could be planning a new tax and people are either unaware, haven’t got the time or are unskilled to make a submission,” That is the message from Te Ipukarea Society (TIS) programme manager Jacqui Evans who says TIS could help people to have more of a say on policies that affect the environment and […]
All sectors toughening up
Throughout the countries of the world, the economic recovery is mixed with responses by those countries moving from economic stimulus (government’s putting money into the right places in the economy to kick up some investment and economic activity) to economic austerity (government’s tightening their spending in the right areas where the country can do without […]
Commissioner at conference
Commissioner Maara Tetava. “/> Cook Islands police commissioner Maara Tetava is this week attending the 39th Pacific Islands Chiefs of Police (PICP) conference in Australia. The Brisbane conference will cover issues such as disaster response and management, maritime security and domestic violence, which are relevant to most if not all Pacific Island states. The PICP […]
Two hospitalised after smash
A 17-year-old male driver and his passenger, a 12-year-old girl, were hospitalised after a head-on collision with a truck on the main road of Ngatangiia early this week. Police say that witnesses have told them that the car driven by the 17-year-old veered into the opposite lane and the oncoming truck could not avoid it. […]
Reforms 'ill-conceived'
Cook Islands Party MP Norman George is hitting out hard against what he calls ‘ill-conceived’ political reforms. He says recent commentary about the failure of the Parliamentary system is alarming, especially when it is being blamed for the outward migration of young Cook Islanders. “The reasons given by those postulating these ideas without solid evidence […]
Sore shoulder sparks incident
According to Sir Geoffrey Henry the whole “terrorists” incident stems from an injury he has been nursing since March. “I was loading my suitcase onto the roller to put it in the hold and I pulled my shoulder. It was very painful.” He said he went through the normal procedure of putting his bag and […]
College canteen celebrates
Passing Tereora College last month you would be forgiven for thinking the teachers had taken a day off leaving students to let loose. The school’s canteen was celebrating its first birthday on July 6 with music booming during lunch break, prizes and free food sponsored by various businesses and marking down all food items to […]
Helping preserve the past
Kylie Moloney of the Canberra-based Pacific Manuscripts Bureau (Pambu) has spent the past couple of weeks at the national archives at Takuvaine, making microfilm copies of old records dating back to the 1800s so as to preserve them. Pambu is a non-profit organisation that aims to preserve the documentary heritage of the Pacific Islands. Often […]
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