Cook Islands Police data shows no increasing crime trend, but the Opposition leader and a road safety advocate argue understaffing and passive policing conceal actual crime and safety issues in Rarotonga.
The Australian High Commission has announced the opening of the Australia – Cook Islands Community Grants Program.
The children of the Pacific region must be the ultimate and primary beneficiary of whatever regional and national efforts to deliver quality education and training services. Speaking during the opening of the 8th Forum Education Ministers Meeting in Port Moresby, Deputy Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat Feleti Teo said the education ministers […]
Te Korero Maori dance troupe is hosting an island night fundraiser on Saturday, October 23 at the Golf Club. Members are selling tickets for $40 each, the price of which includes a buffet meal and a dance performance by Te Korero Maori with a live band. Andre Tapena will be performing with guest artists Uirangi […]
Women and men need to be equally represented in governance and leadership roles just as they are in population, Mangaia community leader Tuaine Tuara believes. Tuara yesterday spoke at the seventh National Women’s Conference being held at Sinai Hall in Rarotonga. As a former island secretary and member of various community groups and organisations, she […]
This year’s first new stamps have arrived on Rarotonga and were being cleared by customs yesterday. The stamps are being supplied for free to the Post Office by the new owners of the US company that has been given the rights to print and sell Cook Islands stamps – Philatelic Collectors Inc. Jules Maher, chief […]
Manihiki womens council president Mama Faiterau Makira believes young women from outer islands can learn a lot from those in Rarotonga. The northern group island community leader is taking part in this week’s seventh National Women’s Conference being held at Sinai Hall. She travelled to Rarotonga with two other Manihiki women, partly to expose them […]
Cook Islands women need to continue involving themselves in leadership roles throughout society, a delegation of community representatives was told yesterday. Women, and men, from across the Cook Islands have gathered in Rarotonga for the seventh National Women’s Conference being held at Sinai Hall this week. Cook Islands National Council of Women acting president Frances […]
Police received three excessive noise complaints at the weekend, and two people were caught driving under the influence of alcohol. A driver crashed into a hedge in Nikao, and witnesses suspect that he was also under the influence, but police say he fled the scene. Another driver hit a stray dog and fell off her […]
After months of hard work and thousands of dollars, Tupapa-Maraerenga is ready to celebrate its newly-refurbished Tupapa Nui-o-Au meeting house. Tomorrow marks the grand re-opening of the village meeting house that has been under construction since February of this year. The 100-year-old building has been refurbished and renovated – it now features new tile floors, […]
The Group for Political Change’s (GPC) next move is to publish a booklet which will detail the promises on reform made and then broken by MPs, and what the MPs said in response to the findings of the Commission of Political Review. The 1998 report ‘Reforming the Political System of the Cook Islands’ was commissioned […]
The Office of the Prime Minister has confirmed that despite rumours to the contrary, Tuesday, October 26 is still the public holiday for Gospel Day. There was talk that even though the holiday actually falls on a Tuesday, the OPM would give workers Monday off – turning the occasion into a three-day weekend instead of […]
The weather’s getting warmer, and the thrips are coming back. But if entomologist Dr Maja Poeschko’s plan to introduce a bio-control agent works, this could be the bugs last Cook Islands summer. The Cuban laurel thrip (Gynaikothrips ficicorum) took Rarotonga by storm in November of last year, swarming over brightly-coloured t-shirts, covering arms and faces […]
Looking for some authentic island crafts? The National Women’s Conference craft exhibition has tivaevae, rito hats, woven mats, bags, fans, head ei, shell ei and more on sale now at the Beachcomber Contemporary Art Gallery in Maraerenga. The exhibition is part of the 7th biennial women’s conference which began yesterday. Stunning tivaevae and other crafts […]
Thirty-seven people squeezed into the maritime training centre building yesterday to talk biosecurity. It was the start of a three-day training session, attended by importers, customs officers, a representative of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) and people in the shipping industry – all from Rarotonga, Aitutaki and New Zealand – who came together […]
Penrhyn residents are awaiting the arrival of a French rower journeying across the Pacific Ocean between Peru and Australia via Noumea. Serge Jandaud is making his way from Lima in Peru to Brisbane on a rowing boat, and is scheduled to pass by Penrhyn this week. A website established to record his progress yesterday stated […]
Women (and men) from all over the country are this week coming together to catch up, celebrate craft and discuss the future and how to confidently face the challenges it brings – it’s the 7th National Women’s Conference, and it’s being held at Sinai Hall. Yesterday marked the beginning of the conference, which was attended […]
Mauke residents will take a break from their week-long effort to help off-load cargo from the stranded Te Kou Maru II today, after the last diesel is pumped ashore and cement building blocks moved to land. The Taio Shipping cargo vessel became stuck on Mauke’s western reef last Monday evening, and community members have been […]
Police are in the midst of investigating a fraud claim and in light of that, they’d like to issue a warning to the public to “safeguard chequebooks” and avoid writing blank cheques. This week, a person was turned in for allegedly stealing money from their company. The suspect had access to the company chequebook and […]
CIANGO president Tuaine Marsters recently returned from Cancun, Mexico, where she attended the International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change (IIPFCC). She and other representatives of indigenous communities around the world met to discuss climate change and the possibility of forging a global partnership to care for the planet. The forum was timely and the […]
Sonographer Tim Alchin leaves Rarotonga Hospital with three newly trained sonographers. Alchin’s 12 month stay on Rarotonga means that the hospital now has two working sonography machines and three people who have been trained to use them. Alchin admits that sonography isn’t a profession a lot of people have heard of. But it’s an essential […]
The Cook Islands National Council of Women (NCW) is hosting its seventh national conference and craft exhibition this week at Sinai Hall. NCW groups from Rarotonga and the outer islands will meet today, tomorrow and Wednesday to discuss the roles they play in family, governance, health and the environment. The theme around which discussion will […]
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