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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.
Author looks at merging cultures
Kiwi author John Cranna was in Rarotonga last week gathering material for a book on how Polynesian and European immigrant cultures have merged. Cranna says he has already done some research in Samoa and Fiji and is now focusing on New Zealand and the Cook Islands. He was in Rarotonga last year to conduct some […]
Mangaia mobile: let others try
The country’s second largest island, Mangaia, had a temporary mobile phone service in place for the island’s historic total solar eclipse event last Sunday 11 July 2010. In a letter to the editor yesterday on Friday 16 July 2010 a writer hoped that Telecom Cook Islands would install a permanent mobile service, saying it could […]
POPs give food for thought
The saying is we are what we eat, which took on a new meaning at a recent meeting. Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) took centre stage at a stakeholder group meeting held at the AOG Centre last Thursday. These dangerous chemicals are the focus of a new UNDP project being run by the National Environment Service. […]
Chinese ambassador visits Cooks
The Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China, Zhang Limin arrived in the country yesterday for a four day visit. Resident in Wellington, this will be the third visit by the Ambassador to the Cook Islands. This week the Ambassador will meet with members of Cabinet including the Prime Minister, Jim Marurai, and the Foreign […]
BTIB in hot water over loans
Misconduct allegation surface in audit report on business loans Board members of the Business Trade Investment Board are facing allegations of misconduct in an audit report on business support loans granted to the agency’s former minister, associate minister and shockingly, to the members themselves. Two Aitutaki businesses owned by Sir Terepai Maoate and his son, […]
Westpac launches new youth account
Kids aged from 12-18 years of age will soon be able to open their own account with as low as $10 thanks to Westpac’s new Youth Account. The launch of the account was specially timed to line up with the upcoming Careers Expo and is part of the banks agenda to introduce banking services to […]
Airport tackling burning problem
The airport incinerator burns about a tonne of rubbish every week offloaded from international aircrafts and Airport Authority Chief Executive Joe Ngamata said working with the airlines that service the country has enabled a significant reduction in emissions in the last five years. “Back in 2005 it was really bad but we managed to cut […]
Villas boost Mangaia tourism plans
As part of his plan to market Mangaia as a holiday destination, Mangaia MP Winton Pickering has opened his seven new villas to the public. The self-contained units are on the waterfront and protected by a newly-built seawall, which was erected after a storm nearly washed the villas away. For three years, local contractors and […]
Tourism meeting on
Cook Islands Tourism chief executive Carmel Beattie is holding a meeting with the industry on Wednesday evening at Crown Beach Resort. “I really want to invite all members of the industry, whether accredited or not,” Beattie said. CI News previously reported that a member of the industry had complained that it was ‘impersonal’ that Beattie […]
Kim here to help with pharmacy
Uhjin Kim is a World Health Organisation pharmacy consultant from Korea who has just started working with public health in the Cook Islands. She is here to set up a system of buying pharmacy supplies to prevent running out of medicines and dressings and improve supply to the outer islands. Kim will be working here […]
Win, loss for Irish schoolboy side
It was one apiece at the Avatiu Swamp on Thursday when the visiting Ballyclare High School rugby team from Ireland clashed with a combined Avatiu-Tupapa side. The combined Avatiu-Tupapa under 16 team was too strong for Ballyclare’s under 15 team to win the match 17-0. Ballyclare struggled with the island heat and humidity while the […]
Te Aito debut by 5 CI paddlers
The gruelling Te Aito Tahiti – the world’s toughest singles outrigger race – lived up to its reputation yesterday when Cook Islanders made their debut in the elite French Polynesian event. Howling winds, choppy surf and strong currents tested the field of 40 open women and 30 junior women on what was the first day […]
Careers Expo all go
The annual Careers Expo will this year be held at the Telecom Sports Arena in Nikao starting on Thursday. A total of 32 exhibitors have confirmed to take part in this year’s expo and they include private and government sector businesses plus visiting exhibitors from tertiary institutions from New Zealand. Around 650 students are expected […]
Tupa secures Demo candidacy for Tupapa
Nooroa Tupa has been elected the Democratic Party candidate for the country’s largest electorate, Tupapa-Maraerenga. Standing MP John Tangi has now lost his chance at being re-elected to a second term in Parliament after the run-off on Thursday resulted in an 18 vote margin win for Tupa. The final votes were 182 to Tupa, 164 […]
$50,000 theft trial warps up
The Crown vs Eiao Baniani trial wrapped up yesterday after a week before 12 jurors. Baniani was this week tried before Judge Nicholson and jury for stealing cash from Paradise Cove, an Aitutaki accommodation for which he worked as property manager. Terepai Maoate owns Paradise Cove, but his son Junior and wife Paula manage it. […]
Aitutaki MP benefits unfairly from economic stimulus loans
An audit probe has revealed that $60,000 of loan funds meant to help struggling outer island businesses during the economic downturn ended up supporting the reportedly cash-strapped businesses of Aitutaki MP and former associate Minister of Finance Terepai Maoate Jnr. The audit review on the Business Support Loan administered by the Business Trade Investment Board […]
Te Puni formally introduced to PM
New Zealand High Commissioner Linda Te Puni is now officially recognised by the Cook Islands’ Government after presenting her letter of introduction to Prime Minister Jim Marurai yesterday. Te Puni had been acting High Commissioner for three months before she was appointed to the post on June 2 by NZ foreign minister Murray McCully. The […]
Southern Cross still at sea
The Southern Cross is still at sea, four days after 11 people, including two sick children were rescued from it by police on patrol boat Te Kukupa. “If we did not send out Te Kukupa to rescue those children we would not be able to say if they would be alive or not today,” said […]
Bastille Day celebration attracts crowd
Yesterday, Le Bon Vivant hosted an all-day celebration in honour of Bastille Day – to commemorate the storming of the Bastille some 221 years ago in France. The French remember July 14, 1789 as a symbol of the birth of the French Republic and the end of monarchy. The Bastille Day celebration attracted members of […]
Trio examines island biodiversity
Three Master’s degree students from England recently returned from a five-week stint studying biodiversity in the outer islands. Two of them – Rachael Heptonstall and Hannah Stephenson – were on Atiu, staying with the Porio family in Mapumai. Kimberley Jennings, whose background is in biology, did her research on Aitutaki. All three tertiary students will […]
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