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National
Social Impact Fund awards $199,825 to 14 community projects
The Cook Islands Social Impact Fund approved 14 proposals totalling $199,825.20 from 21 applications, supporting community initiatives across Rarotonga and the Pa Enua, with a focus on sports, wellness and youth development.
Christmas in the Park brings festive cheer to Rarotonga
Hundreds of locals, visiting families, and tourists gathered at the National Auditorium and Domes on Thursday evening for the annual Christmas in the Park event, hosted by Rotaract Rarotonga.
Pacific media women making history
Pacific women in news journalism, advocacy and media studies are making history in Brisbane, this week. In the first meeting of its kind, more than 20 women from 12 Pacific nations, including Cook Islands News journalist Rachel Reeves, are meeting in a ‘Media Freedom@Work’ event aimed at building safety, excellence and leadership networks for Pacific […]
The Cook Islands remembers
Fallen warriors, who fought against the spread of evil, were remembered during Sunday’s Anzac Day commemorations. The day’s Anzac services marked the 95th year the commemorations have been held to remember the day that the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps first landed at Gallipoli. The dawn parade drew a staunch group of Returned Services […]
Calling all happy campers
Get your bags packed kids. Today’s the last day to register for the Youth with a Mission (YWAM) summer camp. The ‘Last days of summer’ camp is running for three days from tomorrow to Friday. The campers will be staying in the YWAM dormitory in Vaimaanga and the activities will keep the campers on their […]
Slush trial wrapping up
Crown law presented its closing submissions in the Operation Slush trial before Judge Colin Nicholson yesterday. Prosecutor Mike Ruffin walked Nicholson through the relevant points covered during the year-long trial in an attempt to prove the credibility of key witness Junior Areai. At this point, lawyer Norman George is the single defendant in a case […]
Forum countries push for fishing limits on sharks and swordfish
Sharks are not often thought of as fish under serious threat from commercial fishing because we know most of them more commonly as predators that both fascinate and frighten. For some species of shark, especially in the heavily fished Pacific waters, their survival is at stake because of fishing. Proposals for conservation measures to ensure […]
Aitutaki opts for local design
Government plans to have 65 new homes built in Aitutaki by November for the people who lost their homes in Cyclone Pat in February. Two weeks ago government approached the families who will receive the houses to ask them to choose what home option they preferred. They are reported to have unanimously opted for the […]
Educators get educated
Twenty-six teachers and principals are making the most of the school holidays and began their Masters of Education studies at USP last week. Thirteen of the students in the masters programme are based in the outer islands, but still made it to a morning tea last Wednesday to chat about the course which is expected […]
CI Tourism teams up with dating website for new show
Cook Islands Tourism has teamed up with Fairfax-owned dating website RSVP and Pacific Blue airline to create a reality dating show likely to be filmed here later this year. Called Rules of Attraction, its creators have dubbed it the ‘ultimate dating adventure’. Australians had to register online for the chance to take part in the […]
Anzac fishing action
By the time you pick up the paper and have breakfast this morning – local fishermen would have already been out on the water for a good few hours as they try to hook the big one to win today’s Anzac Day fishing competition. The annual Anzac Day fishing competition opened at 6am this morning […]
Me'a Kai cookbook launch next week
Cook Islands cuisine features in a stunning new cookbook ‘Me’a Kai: The Food and the Flavours of the South Pacific’ due for release on April 30. Two years ago, New Zealand-born chef Robert Oliver, after a career in the United States restaurant industry, went back to Fiji, where he grew up, to rediscover the art […]
Last of the Cook Islanders
Ru Henry passed away January 5, 2010 at St Joan’s rest home, Waipuna, NZ after a long illness. This followed the death on Anzac Day 2009 of his older brother Eric Akokoa Waenuirangi Henry – Reg. No. 67417 – 7th Reinforcements – D Company. These two brothers were from Aitutaki and were the last of […]
Broadbent remembered
Members of the Returned Services Association in Nikao have this week been reminiscing about the good times they’ve had with friend and association past president Peter Broadbent. Broadbent died on April 14 in Germany after a long battle with cancer. His wife Tungane is on her way to Germany to prepare his return to Rarotonga. […]
Mitiaro nurse discharged
Judge Tom Weston discharged Mitiaro woman Ngamata Bryson from a manslaughter charge in the High Court yesterday. Bryson, a 58-year-old nurse on Mitiaro, was charged in November with manslaughter by negligence after a 15-month-old girl died in her care. She had mistakenly diluted a vaccine with a neuromuscular blocking agent rather than water and administered […]
Trial flight promo cut
Despite delays and budget cuts to marketing, the tourism board believes the direct Sydney-Rarotonga trial flights to begin in July can still be successful. The four-month Air New Zealand trial flights have been underwritten by government in a risk share agreement – it stands to lose up to $2.4 million if the flights don’t work […]
Queen's Baton arrives next month
The Queen’s Baton for the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games is currently on its global relay and will arrive in Rarotonga on May 21. The baton began its global relay in England on October 29 and has visited 51 countries. The Oceania leg of the relay began in Australia this week where the last Commonwealth Games […]
Old plates just the number for US project
The Rotary Club of Rarotonga is sending old number plates to the US to be sold for a Rotary humanitarian project in Ohio called Bob’s Bikes. Yesterday the club received a donation of six old car and motorbike plates from long-time supporter The Bank of the Cook Islands so it can help with the project […]
Redesigning nature's database
Yesterday, naturalist Gerald McCormack and Professor Michael Fischer presented a model of the biodiversity database they are in the process of redesigning to the National Heritage Trust Board. The pair has been working with no breaks for two months to restructure the Cook Islands Biodiversity and Ethnobiology database which was published electronically in 1990. The […]
Investment bond suggested for foreigners
A reader believes the country’s Business Trade Investment Board needs to look at situations where foreigners can set up in business here but then depart our shores leaving a trail of debt. This follows the imminent departure from Rarotonga of Bruce and Nancy McCartney, the most recent operators of the Portofino Restaurant in Maraerenga, whose […]
Toa claims deal was 'contractual'
Government and Apex Agencies must now wait until early next month for a judgment on whether government must honour the eight-year $1.2 million annual profit guarantee it gave the company last year in an out of court settlement agreement. The High Court hearing before Justice Tom Weston took a day and a half to conclude […]
Martial artists go well in NZ
Rarotonga tae kwon do students are doing a grand job of representing the country in New Zealand, where the two local clubs have been undergoing grading and presentations. The martial arts students went through their grading for belts on April 21 at the Papakura Normal Primary School hall. They are now preparing for a mini […]
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