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Anxiety on the rise: Cook Islands faces mental health challenge
The incidence rate of newly diagnosed mental health cases in the Cook Islands between 2021 and 2023 is nearly five per 1000 population, but a non-governmental organisation claims there are more cases than officially reported.
New council president pledges to drive tourism development
The newly appointed president of the Cook Islands Tourism Industry Council aims to further develop the tourism sector in the Cook Islands, building upon the progress made since the Covid-19 pandemic.
Evacuation successful
Police patrol boat Te Kukupa is due to return this morning from its emergency evacuation mission to Nassau. Tetava said that the pick-up was successful and the two patients are reported to be in good health. The operation was expected to encounter Cyclone Sarah, but the commander and his crew were advised by maritime adviser […]
NZ law change extends student loans to Cooks
Interest-free student loans will be available to borrowers in the Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau and the Ross Dependency under law changes passed by New Zealand parliament last week. The loan requirement is that they have to be present in one of these countries – known as the ‘Realm of New Zealand’ – for at least […]
CI News accredited
Cook Islander Lisa Williams-Lahari is in New York this week under Cook Islands News accreditation to report on the 54th meeting of the United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women. Williams-Lahari co-founded Pacific WAVE Media Network and is in a joint project with UNIFEM Pacific and UNESCO Pacific to provide media coverage on Pacific […]
UN summit told of Cooks' gender stocktake
The United Nations on the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) was told this week that the Cook Islands is one of the six regional countries that have undertaken a stock take of gender mainstreaming capacity. Gender mainstreaming is the public policy concept of assessing the different implications for women and men of any […]
Life insurance rates to rise
The New Zealand government will be imposing a new tax on life insurance companies, effective July 1, and insurers intend to cushion the financial blow by increasing rates for policy holders. “Insurance companies are going to be taxed like they’ve never been taxed before and individual companies have to decide how to deal with that,” […]
CITC explains tsunami day problem
Dear Editor, I am sure there were a lot of disappointed customers at the CITC Supermarket on Saturday afternoon (February 27) who were wanting to buy supplies, after everything being closed in the morning due to the tsunami warning. First there was a power failure and with no working power backup system in place, the […]
Tonga advocate steps up for Pacific on key issues
Tonga’s Emeline Siale Ilolahia is eyeing new strategies to engage Pacific Commonwealth networks in achieving the vision of the Gender Plan of Action. Ilolahia is the executive director of Tonga’s Civil Society Forum and took on a new hat this year, representing Pacific civil society networks to the Commonwealth Gender Programmes Monitoring Group (CGPMG). Ilolahia, […]
Photo comp
Your eye and talent is needed to create awareness and help ensure the Pacific can continue to benefit from the wealth of its fisheries. The Secretariat of the Pacific Community has launched a photo competition in which the winner receives US$1000 and gets their photos published in a book that compiles the work of 70 […]
Raro comes out top in Google travel searches
Rarotonga came out on top in Google’s travel-related searches by New Zealand last year. The NZ Herald reported this week that recent stats on google.co.nz and Statistics NZ reveal that Queensland’s Gold Coast may be slipping in its appeal as a Kiwi holiday destination. When the world’s most-used search engine provided details of the 10 […]
PM denies 'fence sitting'
Prime minister Jim Marurai’s office has issued a statement insisting he is not ‘on the fence’ about government ending Telecom Cook Islands’ monopoly. A statement from his office yesterday said, “The prime minister made it clear (to the media) that the government policy on telecom reforms has not changed. It remains that cabinet has approved […]
Fairly 'quiet' weekend for crime and crashes
Police reported three motor vehicle crashes at the weekend. On Friday evening, police sent an ambulance to attend to a 25-year-old male who had fallen off his motorbike at Avatiu. Later that night, a 47-year-old man crashed his motorbike into another motorbike. The driver and passenger, both female, were rushed to hospital but sustained just […]
Experts don't regret tsunami warning
SYDNEY, March 2 – Officials in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific islands praised emergency authorities for their handling of the tsunami warning following the massive earthquake in Chile. But they slammed the many “stupid” members of the public who ignored the warnings for putting themselves and others at risk. Alerts about a potentially destructive […]
Peka wrestles in Hawaii
Local secondary school student Peka Fisher (pictured) has fast-tracked her way into competitive wrestling. Peka, 16, the daughter of Brent and Annie Fisher of Nikao, has been an exchange student at Kamehameha College in Hawaii for the past six months. The bubbly and creative student is well known for her outgoing personality and her enthusiasm […]
Quake shakes Carlos
In the early hours of Saturday morning, as Carlos Morales brewed coffee for anxious tourists, his thoughts were of his family back in Chile. Morales, who works at Pacific Resort, said he spent the morning pacifying hysterical guests as they waited in the hills for the tsunami to strike. “It was pretty hard to be […]
Family praise local officials
A visiting Kiwi family felt safe and well informed during Saturday’s tsunami thanks to local police officers and neighbours. Nic and Lorraine Brown and their 12-year-old son Bradley were sound asleep in their rental house on Nikao beach when they were woken up at around 3.30am by police officers. “My initial thought was that maybe […]
New home for National Council of Women
The Cook Islands National Council of Women (CINCW) held a blessing ceremony for its new headquarters in Tauae recently. Its previous home was in O’oa, Tupapa. Pictured here is the NCW string band of (from left) Vaine Wichman, Mama Beer, Mrs Pera and Francis Topa, setting a celebratory tone for the occasion. The council continues […]
Mass messages sent
Police email and mobile phone alerts were the first form of tsunami warnings received by many local residents on Rarotonga and the outer islands. Local police officer Allan Rua manages the police mobile and email alert database and says that on Saturday morning he sent the tsunami warnings to the 2000 mobile phone and email […]
Police patrol boat evacuates pregnant Pukapuka woman
The ministry of health is trying to save the life of a pregnant woman from Nassau due to give birth to her ninth child after sending a medical team on police patrol boat Te Kukupa to Pukapuka. Health minister Apii Piho says the woman is one of two patients on Nassau who needed urgent medical […]
'Overnight scientists' emerge from tsunami
Installing nationwide tsunami sirens is one of the recommendations that will be reiterated in the Emergency Management Cook Islands report following Saturday’s tsunami. EMCI officer William Tuivaga says that the installation of tsunami sirens in all districts on Rarotonga and outer islands was one of the recommendations made by the department following the tsunami in […]
WMO experts issue update on the impacts of climate change on tropical cyclones
GENEVA, February 23 – The World Meteorological Organisation’s (WMO) Expert Team on Climate Change Impacts on Tropical Cyclones (i.e. hurricanes, typhoons) concluded that, if 21st century warming occurs as projected, there will likely be an increase, on average worldwide, in the maximum wind speed of tropical cyclones of +2 to +11 % and in rainfall […]
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