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Police seek public cooperation for festive security
Cook Islands Police are launching a community policing initiative with volunteer support from each vaka in Rarotonga to enhance safety and security during the festive season.
Families navigate inflation, businesses stock up for festive season
As Christmas approaches, local families and businesses in Rarotonga are feeling the seasonal buzz. While the island’s shops are busy preparing for the influx of shoppers, families are making sure they have everything needed for the festive season.
'Books for Cooks' to send books to Atiu
The ‘Books for Cooks’ project driven by two students at St Cuthbert’s College in Auckland is currently collecting a shipment of books to send to schools on Atiu later this month. St Cuthbert’s student liaison officer Ann Saunders said that students Clare Hood and Joy Walpole have packed the books and are encouraging classmates to […]
UN finds high adult literacy in Cooks
The Cook Islands should stand proud in the region because of its adult literacy achievement, but it must keep working towards finding the remaining 5 per cent. That is the message from PPSEAWA’s (Pan-Pacific South East Asian Women’s Association) Literacy Council, Sr Margaret O’Dwyer, to mark today’s International Literacy Day. She says that while literacy […]
Earthquake appeal opens in Rarotonga
Red Cross Cook Islands is hosting a radiothon on Monday to raise funds for those affected by the recent earthquake in Christchurch. Director Niki Rattle said that the radiothon will come on the heels of a radiothon conducted by New Zealand Red Cross. She tried to reserve an earlier spot, but the radio had no […]
Tuaine Marsters on world civil society body
CIANGO president Tuaine Marsters was recently asked to represent the entire Pacific region at CIVICUS (World Alliance for Citizen Participation), a civil service organisation incorporating members from all over the world. For the four years prior to her appointment, a representative from New Zealand was speaking on behalf of the Pacific. Marsters recently returned from […]
Philatelic business sold
It’s confirmed – government has done a deal allowing a foreign company to produce Cook Islands postage stamps. An agreement was signed between the government of the Cook Islands and Philatelic Collector Inc (PCI) on August 12, 2010. The contract gives PCI the exclusive rights to design, issue, print and market postage stamps for The […]
Breathing easy
American Sheldon Ramer has lived in New Zealand for 30 years but wants to move to Rarotonga as the warm air helps him with his breathing. He has recently been in Rarotonga promoting the virtues project, and met Ainslie through the project. After having pneumonia as a child, Ramer has had breathing and bronchial chest […]
Mended achilles
Karen Ngamata volunteered to play in an inter-island basketball tournament in 2007. She joked to CI News that she thought she was still a kid and could just jump up and play any sport. But she snapped her achilles tendon while playing. “I was running and it felt like someone had hit me from behind […]
Improving our lives
Today is World Physiotherapy Day The physiotherapists on Rarotonga are using World Physiotherapy Day to promote how much physiotherapy can do to improve the lives of people recovering from illness and injuries. A physio is an expert in movement who help people of all ages to take part in physical activity, whether that is high […]
Chances for children
CI News economy columnist Vaine Wichman had unexpected help from physiotherapy when teachers at her daughter’s school picked up that the child was having problems in some areas of her development. Screening children for developmental problems between 0 and 5 years old is a ministry of health drive to identify and treat problems early. “When […]
Mangaia outreach
A physio trip to Mangaia has increased funding for disability support by $3000. Physiotherapist Rebecca Washbourn, who works for the ministry of health and Te Vaerua Community Rehabilitation Service, has just returned from a trip to Mangaia. She visited people on the island with disabilities to find out what could be done to improve their […]
Pare loves helping people improve
Pare Tangata, a full-time physiotherapist for the ministry of health, talked to CI News about her work on World Physiotherapy Day. A normal day sees Tangata coming in to the hospital and checking the system to see who has been admitted who could be helped by physiotherapy. At the same time as helping inpatients, Tangata […]
Officials eye Japan fund
Government has been going over initial plans for taking up a renewable energy project with US$4 million in funding allocated to the country from Japan. The Forum Secretariat’s director strategic partnerships and coordination Su’a Kevin Thomsen was in Rarotonga recently on a brief visit to talk with government officials and a select group of private […]
Local teen shares her passion every week
Community Service is an important chapter in the book of India Lambeth’s life. Much of the world will take time out to celebrate International Literacy Day tomorrow. But India shares her passion for literacy on a weekly basis. Every Tuesday, the teen helps younger students with reading, vocabulary, and maths at The Reading Centre in […]
Books for Cooks from NZ
Coinciding with World Literacy Day is ‘Books for Cooks’, an initiative driven by CITC pharmacist Shannon Saunders’s mother Ann and her pupils at St. Cuthbert’s College in Auckland. ‘Books for Cooks’ is a project whereby St Cuthbert’s librarians and students are making an effort to donate useful, practical books to the Cook Islands. Ann, a […]
Women to mark literacy day
PPSEAWA (Pan-Pacific South East Asian Women’s Association) is doing its part to raise awareness of International Literacy Day scheduled for tomorrow. Several activities are planned in honour of the day, which recognises that reading and writing play key roles in personal and community development. The organisation will deliver Pepe Packs to the maternity ward at […]
It's a week of special days
Reading, rehabilitation and recovery are this week’s buzzwords, as the world observes Literacy Day, Physiotherapy Day and Suicide Prevention Awareness Day. Local non-government organisations are working to generate support and awareness for the above causes. Tomorrow is World Physiotherapy Day, which honours physiotherapists and what they do to improve the health and well-being of people […]
Punanga Nui in new hands
CIIC takes over responsibility from ministry of agriculture The Punanga Nui market has changed hands. The market, which until last week was the responsibility of the ministry of agriculture, has been transferred to the Cook Islands Investment Corporation (CIIC). The handover is in line with budget committee recommendations drafted earlier this year. “We have no […]
Williams trial waits for coroner
The Paul Williams trial has been postponed until tomorrow. The coroner who examined crash victim Duncan Barrowman’s body is lined up to testify but has been assigned to study the victims of Saturday’s plane crash at Fox Glacier. The delay means that members of Duncan’s immediate family, who travelled from Auckland to Rarotonga to sit […]
Tuara set to launch ARK campaign
Murienua Independent candidate Angeline Tuara will launch her ‘ARK’ – for the villages of Aroa, Rutaki, and Kavera – campaign this week. The acronym is also a reference to the biblical story Noah’s ark about setting an example with your life. Tuara says the story resonates because the ‘ark’ and Noah’s work guaranteed the survival […]
Lost art fired back up again
A visiting artist and a local couple joined forces to revive pottery Visiting professor and artist Yoshimi Hayashi and local couple Phil and Ani Wilson recently joined together to revive a lost Rarotongan art – pottery. Hayashi met the Wilsons at the Pacific Arts Association symposium at Crown Beach last month, which brought artists and […]
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