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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.
Boys Zone in Raro
Boys from all over Rarotonga attended Boy Zone yesterday. One of the many events of careers week, Boy Zone aims to help boys who are in their final year at school make informed choices as they think about their career paths. The event was held at USP and lead by Ian George, advisor to the […]
CIP name and uto symbol protected
The Cook Islands Party says it applauds the decision of the court to ban others from using the name or initials of the party in reference to other parties. The CIP issued a press release yesterday in response to Justice Colin Nicholson’s judgment released on Friday. The judgment means that Avatiu MP Albert Nicholas can […]
Flying goodbye from Chinese Ambassador
Zhang Limin, who has been the Chinese Ambassador to the Cook Islands, Niue, and New Zealand since 2008, has visited Rarotonga for the last time in an official capacity. To meet China’s strict retirement laws Limin is retiring immediately when he turns 60. Yesterday, he paid courtesy calls to several ministers, as well as dropping […]
Child assault claim
A mother also filed a complaint with police, claiming that her 10-year-old son had been assaulted at the Empire theatre on Friday night. She said that when she picked him up from the movies, she noticed swelling on the right side of her face “that clearly showed the palm of an adult hand”, Rua said. […]
Candidacy under review
The Democratic Party Murienua committee is set to decide if James Beer is still the candidate after an issue arose over his membership in the party. Committee chairman Kaota Tuariki told CI News yesterday that it was likely to announce the outcome of its review into the matter by tomorrow. Tuariki would not comment further, […]
Politicians should know better says Rasmussen
Politicians have a higher onus to steer clear of situations of financial conflict of interest says Finance Minister Wilkie Rasmussen. He believes Former Finance Minister Sir Terepai Maoate and his former Associate Minister Terepai Maoate Jnr should never have even thought about applying for $60,000 worth of business support loan funds through the Business Trade […]
Te Kura announces new policies
Te Kura O Te Au has added two new policies to its party platform. Spokesperson Jancey Trego said that the party is now publicly advocating equal representation for men and women in parliament. Chairman of the Te Kura O Te Au advisory committee Tim Tepaki proposed the policy, as he and other committee members decided […]
Students talk to women in science
Female senior students from Rarotonga and southern group islands high schools spent yesterday speaking to local women working in the science and technology industry. Female students gathered at the Pukapuka hostel for the annual Women in Science and Technology (WISAT) workshop. Around 60 young women attended the one day workshop where in groups they moved […]
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 […]
TB could still have resurgence
A study by a team from the University of Auckland and public health of the Cook Islands is looking at the health of Cook Islanders and how their international lifestyles affect their health. The main focus of the study is tuberculosis (TB) and how it is treated in New Zealand, the Cook Islands, and Tuvalu. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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, […]
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 […]
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