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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.
Mauke news-makers
Teacher Ange Croft’s year-eight English class on Mauke learned recently about newspaper production and in groups produced mock newspapers. They spent time poring through copies of CI News to study layout and content, and Croft and ex-principal June Hosking shared what they know about journalism. Journalist Florence Syme-Buchanan and her daughter Feena visited Croft’s class […]
Maeva Nui transport costs too high: budget
After a Te Maire Maeva Nui transport budget blowout of almost $500,000 last year, government has opted to provide a $25,000 allocation for outer islands to hold their own celebrations this year. The 2010-11 Budget tabled in Parliament on Thursday no longer includes the usual annual budget for outer island dance teams to travel in […]
Students get business insight
Learning the tricks of the trade are the visiting group of outer island students who are in Rarotonga for a week of work experience in their chosen fields. With a total of 31 students from Atiu, Mangaia, Mitiaro, Mauke and Aitutaki the students have been hard at work learning as much as they can before […]
Slipping into island time
A journalist who flew in on the first Sydney – Rarotonga flight earlier this month posted his thoughts on ‘island time’ on his travel blog on the Sydney Morning Herald’s website. In a blog entry entitled “Time waits for no man – except on this island”, Ben Groundwater laments the challenges of trying to buy […]
Arts and crafts at Trade Day
The two-day Trade Day market during the constitution celebration week boasts authentic Cook Islands arts, crafts and food. The popular event will be held at the vacant section opposite the Banana Court on August 5 and 6. And despite the fact the outer island cultural teams will not be joining this year’s constitution celebrations, arts […]
Kiwi diabetes nurse shares knowledge
Kiwi diabetes nurse Nisha Taylor took time out from her tropical holiday to share some advice with staff at the CITC Pharmacy yesterday. Taylor and local pharmacist Shannon Saunders have often exchanged emails where Taylor has offered advice and sent diabetes log books and equipment to Rarotonga. So, it came as a pleasant surprise when […]
Building confidence in our young
Two weeks ago I was invited to make a presentation to a meeting of Early Childhood Education (ECE) providers from Auckland and throughout the Cook Islands. The aim of the meeting was to find ways to ensure that the teaching of our Maori language remains a cornerstone of ECE teaching. The teachers from Otara talked […]
Bowling rolls along nicely
Light drizzle through the week did little to dampen the competitive spirit and hot action of Cook Islands bowlers at the Rarotonga Bowling Club in Parekura. Over 100 players are competing in the Cook Islands Lawn Bowls Championships which began with a parade and exhibition matches by junior bowlers on Saturday. The men’s and women’s […]
26% increase for pearl industry
The Pearl Authority has received a 26 per cent uplift despite a massive slump in the value of the industry last year. The increase was justified by projections that that there will be a 45 per cent increase in pearl production in 2010/11. Out of the new national Budget of $157.6 million which was tabled […]
Tourism funding up in Budget
The Cook Islands Tourism Corporation (CIT) has received a 3.2 per cent increase in the 2010/11 Budget. A rather conservative $157.6 million Budget was tabled in Parliament yesterday and is due to be debated when Parliament resumes on Monday. In 2009/10 CIT received $4,449,153. This has increased to $4,592,193 – an increase of $143,040. In […]
Budgets now public documents
The two national budgets presented in Parliament are now public documents – but they were almost held back for release to media despite becoming public information the moment they were tabled yesterday. Cook Islands News was to receive copies of the budget documents when they had been tabled, but when Parliament broke for morning tea […]
Demo faction's silent protest
Divide rears its head again in Parliament sitting The governing Democratic Party revealed it is still divided when its MPs went to Parliament for the tabling of the two budget bills yesterday. The faction led by Sir Terepai Maoate staged a silent protest against the tabling of the budgets when only cabinet ministers agreed to […]
No guarantees against Toagate repeat
Finance minister Wilkie Rasmussen focused on the Toagate scandal as a key talking point in his speech on the supplementary budget which declares over $3 million in costs associated with the failed fuel farm scheme. Yesterday he said it would not be surprising for an assurance that such a scandal would not be repeated to […]
Health given a $200,000 boost
The Ministry of Health has received an increase of 1.9 per cent, which amounts to $201,430, in the 2010/11 Budget which was tabled in Parliament yesterday. The budget for healthcare goes up from $10,818,871 in 2009 to $11,020,301. In the 2009/10 Budget, the ministry’s budget was cut by 1.9 per cent or $133,431. The nation’s […]
Changes to 2009/10 Budget
Finance Minister Wilkie Rasmussen yesterday presented a supplementary budget that takes the 2009/10 $215.5 million annual Budget to a new total of $184.6 million. Aitutaki and Penrhyn Emergency Relief and Recovery Funds to the value of $2.5 million were also been declared in the supplementary budget. After talking about the support both locally and internationally […]
PM to attend his fourth Forum
Prime Minister Jim Marurai believes the Forum Island countries can work together to overcome challenges such as fisheries management, trade links, renewable energy and climate change. He hopes to contribute to high level talks on these issues at the annual gathering of Forum leaders next week in Port Vila, Vanuatu for the 41st Pacific Islands […]
Gearing up for cyclone season Akapapa no te tuatau uriia
Red Cross prepares Penrhyn as northern group stock room The Red Cross team has sent emergency supplies to Penrhyn in preparation for the coming cyclone season. They were due to arrive this week. The team has painted a 10-foot container which will stay on the island as storage for emergency supplies including blankets, tarpaulins, kitchen […]
Students loving the experience
Cook Islands secondary school students, including senior students from Mangaia, Atiu, Mitiaro, Aitutaki and Mauke, began work experience at various businesses on Rarotonga yesterday. A group of eight chose to learn more about the police force under the instruction of Sgt Kura Taere who is keen on recruiting some of her trainees in the near […]
Girl Guides gather in Maldives
Girl Guides Cook Islands this month sent three delegates to the Maldives to attend the 10th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference – they recently returned to share their experience with Girl Guides sisters. Treasurer Tepaeru Kokaua Hagai, Mangaia youth Jannet Ruatoe and national commissioner Ngara Katuke attended the conference, which drew 95 Girl Guides from 20 member […]
On appropriations and votes of no confidence
Appropriations All Appropriation Acts be they Appropriation, Supplementary or Amendment Acts lapse at the end of the financial year to which they relate so I was somewhat surprised to read in Saturday’s CI News that four weeks after the end of the 2009/10 financial year, Government was intending to introduce a Supplementary Budget for 2009/10 […]
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