The Cook Islands Social Impact Fund approved 14 proposals totalling $199,825.20 from 21 applications, supporting community initiatives across Rarotonga and the Pa Enua, with a focus on sports, wellness and youth development.
Hundreds of locals, visiting families, and tourists gathered at the National Auditorium and Domes on Thursday evening for the annual Christmas in the Park event, hosted by Rotaract Rarotonga.
The Kiwi man who fell overboard Wild Goose last week after leaving Rarotonga has been identified as 41-year-old Rex Fearon from Wellington. Fearon fell from the 14-metre yacht on Wednesday of last week at a point about 150 nautical miles from Rarotonga. Conditions were reportedly calm. The vessel was skippered by Australian yachtie Jamie Mitchell, […]
Aitutakian political candidate Mona Ioane Kake is focused on making key improvements for the community, focusing on key concerns of Aitutakians: water, cyclone recovery, and education. But he also wants to change the way the land court works, and bring back growing to the people of Aitutaki. Kake was a policeman for 22 years after […]
Avatiu-Ruatonga-Palmerston candidate and leader of Party Tumu Albert ‘Peto’ Nicholas says he will continue to be an advocate for youth and sports. He now hopes to build on Avatiu’s sporting strengths with an increased focus on youth support, education and training for those keen to enter the workforce. Party Tumu believes Nicholas is now in […]
Dear Editor I refer to the advertisement by Chris Vaile in last Saturday’s paper. The template that Vaile appears to be referring to is the one agreed in 2006. This was not a guarantee and this was acknowledged by Scott Leith, the advisor for TOA during the negotiations relating to how the guarantee provided for […]
Rarotonga-based architect Romani Katoa is defending his design of the Ministry of Education’s new building at Nikao. Criticism of the $1.6 million complex has been expressed to the Cook Islands News in a letter to the editor, calling the structure “tasteless, boring, and ugly”. Katoa said his initial plans for the building had to be […]
Dear Editor, After reading Terepai Maoate’s interview, it’s obvious he’s doing the blame game. All his problems are everyone else’s fault. He blames his committee and the CIP for losing a run-off against Mann Short and doesn’t accept that more people wanted Mann than him. He said his committee was complacent, they must feel pretty […]
Police were on high alert at the weekend, staffing eight road checkpoints to keep drunk drivers off the roads. From 9pm until 1.30am, they ran checkpoints in town, in Tupapa and Nikao near the International Sevens tournament at BCI stadium. They caught an underage driver at BCI stadium on Saturday afternoon – they issued a […]
More than 80 Edgewater and Telecom staff teamed up yesterday (Sunday) to perform what they are calling the first ever Pacific ‘flashmob’. A flashmob is a group of people who come together in a public place for a very brief and sudden performance. A pillow fight in New York’s Time Square, serenades for passengers at […]
An examination of what financial records the country’s two biggest political parties have kept with the Justice Ministry in recent years reveals deficient bookkeeping by the Cook Islands Party, the first to be founded here over 40 years ago. Financial record keeping had been so inadequate by the the CIP, a registered incorporated society, it […]
A national sevens training squad was named yesterday. In preparation for the 2011 IRB Wellington Sevens Tournament to be held on February 4 and 5 – training will begin today at the BCI Stadium at 5pm with fitness trainer Keith Roberts. This training is for the first train-on squad in preparation for Wellington with other […]
Police are now accepting expressions of interest for 10 positions – both sworn and non-sworn – at police headquarters. A sworn officer must undergo a 12-week training course and pass a number of exams, but police are also looking for ‘civilians’ to work in communication and data entry. Those who want to undergo a swearing-in […]
A ‘short notice’ permanent residency ceremony late last month recognised two men who received their PR in 2008 but were unable to attend any ceremonies conducted over the past two years. Director of immigration Kave Ringi said the ceremony was organised at ‘very short notice’ to acknowledge the PR status of Bryan William McKenzie and […]
“Anyone who wants to come watch TV can come to my house,” said an excited mama Kafo Tuteru after she won a huge 42-inch flat screen television. Mama Kafo was drawn as the winner of the recent CITC Pump water and healthy living promotion for their wholesalers and now she has a brand new television […]
The call for setting up island-wide neighbourhood watch groups by Cook Islands Tourism is an excellent initiative and one which Ngatangiia urgently needs, says political hopeful Mann Short. Short is advocating the establishment of neighbourhood watch in Ngatangiia as part of an overall strategy to make the community safer. “For its size, Muri has the […]
Recent outrage in the Cook Islands community over a photo of a Cook Islands dance troupe was unfounded and based on misreporting, the Office of Ethnic Affairs in New Zealand says. The NZ Herald reported last Tuesday that the Auckland International Carnival’s website featured a photo of a ‘scantily-clad’ Cook Islands dance team which according […]
The Cook Islands Party $1000 baby bonus will help the 70 per cent of working mothers who are employed in the private sector who are not entitled by law to maternity leave, says party leader Henry Puna. He says new laws are needed to put women employed in the private sector on par with those […]
Rugby league and the Takuvaine community are rallying together to raise money to help rugby league coach Ina Konito, whose house burned to the ground late last month. Konito had been with his four children when a fire broke out in his sitting room at 3.34 am. The home was located right next to the […]
Kete Ioane, sitting MP for Vaipae-Tautu, won the 1999 election and has been in office ever since. After 11 years representing his people, CI News asked him what his greatest achievements have been. Ioane pointed to the upgrade of a water tank in Tautu and the laying of a new water pipe. “It’s better now […]
In September Amuri-Ureia MP Terepai Maoate Jnr threatened to walk out on the Demo Party, but he now says he had no intention of leaving the party. His threat came about as a result of the debacle surrounding whether or not his father, Sir Terepai Maoate, was going to be the party’s candidate for Ngatangiia. […]
Mike Tavioni, Te Kura O Te Au, RAPPA Even though they seem to be priorities – the water, roading, and everything else – we’ve had adequate funds for decades to fix those problems, so why do they still exist? It must be a result of the abilities of previous governments. I have seen some water […]
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