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Cook Islands passport proposal
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RAC to address mosque legality
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Man found guilty of rape, burglary
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Rarotonga crime stats challenged
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.
Australian High Commission accepting applications for community grants
The Australian High Commission has announced the opening of the Australia – Cook Islands Community Grants Program.
Celebrating former Tereora teacher
Noelene Raffills of Auckland taught at Tereora for two years in the early 1970s, and swears that the experience utterly changed her life. “Rarotonga has a very special place in my heart,” she said. “I can’t believe it was only two years I was here and it impacted me so deeply.” She was back on […]
Munro castigates NZ
A leading Aotearoa Maori personality, Piripi Munro, has castigated New Zealand for failing to congratulate the Cook Islands on its 45th anniversary of self-governance. Munro was the former equerry to the late Ariki Vaine Dame Te Atairangikaahu of New Zealand who was recognised as the ariki vaine nui (queen) of all Aotearoa Maori. He said […]
$2.1m fine in bank
The $2.1 million recent illegal fishing settlement is now in the government coffers. The Ministry of Marine Resources signed over the settlement fund to the Ministry of Finance on Monday. The out of court settlement was negotiated after MMR found two vessels registered in China and one in Taiwan had been illegally fishing in Cook […]
Mauke Scouts undergo revival
Cubs do their best, think of others, and do a good turn every day. A Scout is loyal and trustworthy A Scout is considerate and tolerant A Scout is a friend to all A Scout accepts challenges with courage A Scout uses resources wisely A Scout respects the environment A Scout has self respect and […]
Dream on
Senior students at Titikaveka, Nukutere and Tereora colleges have been challenged to take part in an essay writing competition. The prize is a ticket, worth $100, to the fundraising dinner and speaking event with the former chief executive of Telecom New Zealand, Theresa Gattung on September 4. ANZ and Te Vaerua have teamed up to […]
Climate study
Has climate change affected the shoreline here in recent years? Cecile Rubow, an anthropologist from Denmark was recently on a preliminary visit to find out. “People have already told me that they have seen higher tides and smaller beaches,” Rubow said. “What I am asking is how do people experience changes?” Rubow is committed to […]
Big interest in Business Week
Over 80 people attended Rarotonga Business Week courses seeing the popularity of the free training more than double in its second year on offer. The presenting team for the courses held late last month have returned to Australia satisfied that it was successful. The presenters of the series of workshops held in partnership with the […]
Fishing call
Conservationists are calling on the New Zealand Government to support the closure of high sea fisheries in the Pacific to industrial fish netting. Two areas have already been closed because of concerns about illegal fishing and plummeting tuna stocks. Now island nations are trying to do more to stop the problem. It is called purse […]
Trauma training for hospital staff
More than 20 frontline staff at Rarotonga Hospital have been trained how to manage seriously injured patients. Dr Mary Tuke, the hospital anaesthetist, is leading on the project to make sure that every patient who is injured is treated in the same systematic way. Last week’s workshop at the hospital was on Primary Trauma Care […]
Tall ship heads for Rarotonga
The Cooks-registered tall ship the Picton Castle is again sailing around the world, and is due to dock at Avatiu on Saturday morning. As of last night, she was just south of Fakarava, a low-lying atoll in the Tuamotus in French Polynesia, headed in the direction of Rarotonga. The 179-foot ship has been circumnavigating the […]
Tighter Budget causes concern
Some public servants are concerned they may face redundancy due to a tighter annual Budget this year. Cook Islands Workers’ Association president Anthony Turua, says the body is pleased the $186.4 million annual Budget has now been approved but some key social priorities and outputs of ministries may be jeopardised because of last year’s debt […]
Audit asked to probe loan
Atiu MP and solicitor Norman George has lodged a complaint with the Audit Office over a $30,000 soft loan to local businessman Junior Areai. George is asking the Audit Office to determine whether Areai obtained the loan by fraud. Last week George questioned the loan in parliament asking if it was a reward to Areai […]
Interim group responds
In response to calls to boycott their meeting, the Ngatangiia ‘interim committee’ said Sir Terepai is trying to interfere with the right of all Democratic Party supporters in Ngatangiia to make a choice for a candidate in a proper, transparent nomination process. “This is an unprincipled and underhand way to try and interfere with proper […]
Demo committee urges boycott
The Ngatangiia Democratic Party committee is asking the community to boycott the planned run-off for candidate being held by a group calling themselves the ‘interim committee’. It is the first time the committee has issued a press statement, as strong debate continues to heat up over standing MP Sir Terepai Maoate’s candidacy. The committee chaired […]
Nikao Primary students get creative
Classroom doors flung open again this week as Cook Islands children returned to school refreshed after their two weeks holiday. At Nikao Primary School – grade two students have been writing about themselves and their friends plus mastering self portraits and drawings of their best friends. Meanwhile room 4 students have been learning all about […]
Amazing adventures CI style
British television producer Russ Malkin is giving Rarotonga a chapter in a travel book he’s in the process of writing. Malkin has been around the world and back – across the Panama Canal, through Eastern Russia, around Angkor Wat on a motorbike and into the Mayan caves. Malkin, whose name has become synonymous with ‘adventure’, […]
Sir Terepai accused of dodging
Ngatangiia MP Sir Terepai Maoate was put on the spot several times to answer questions relating to his alleged conflict of interest in the $30,000 soft loan received by his Aitutaki business during Parliament this week. On Thursday Sir Terepai was accused of evading a question when he first launched into accusing Opposition MP Norman […]
Was loan a 'reward' ?
Opposition MP Norman George has asked whether a $30,000 business support loan granted to “convicted thief” Junior Areai was a reward for being the Crown’s star witness in the corruption case brought against him. During Parliament on Thursday, George asked former finance minister and attorney general Sir Terepai Maoate if the loan granted to Areai […]
Academic papers honour Crocombe
A number of academics presented their papers in honour of the late Professor Ron Crocombe at a festschrift yesterday. Professor Peter Larmour of Australian National University talked about Crocombe’s research into the problem of corruption throughout the Pacific. “Ron was a pioneer in the study of corruption in the region, and he paid increasing attention […]
Remembering a remarkable man
Once in a while remarkable people walk into our lives and they never leave – even when they die. Those were the words of Pacific author and academic Professor Albert Wendt talking at yesterday’s festschrift for Professor Ron Crocombe. Wendt first got to know Papa Ron, as he was fondly known, and his wife Marjorie […]
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