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$541.7m tourism earnings
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Cook Islands passport proposal
6 January 2025
Top cop position advertised
7 December 2024
Police need numbers and bigger budget
9 December 2024
Niki Rattle: A call for stronger human rights protections
10 December 2024
Solid and Hazardous Waste Bill referred to Parliament committee
10 December 2024
DPM defends CIIC finance and travel policies
6 December 2024
Cook Islands has its first mosque
14 November 2024
CI Muslim opens up about her faith and journey
16 November 2024
RAC to address mosque legality
19 November 2024
I don’t expect much change: PM Brown on US Elections
6 November 2024
Fifth weekly Sydney flight to Rarotonga announced
23 October 2024
CIIC directors seek $350,000 in damages over defamatory claims
21 October 2024
Man found guilty of rape, burglary
24 September 2024
Tenants face water bill burden
8 October 2024
Concerns over Minister’s role in inmate work releases: PAC
5 October 2024
Tourism contribution set to surpass half-billion dollar mark
25 September 2024
Parliament Clerk sparks outrage over deep sea mining statement
23 September 2024
Deep sea dilemma: Cook Islanders weigh the cost of mineral riches
21 September 2024
Anxiety on the rise: Cook Islands faces mental health challenge
7 September 2024
Cook Islands deep sea mining poll sparks controversy
7 September 2024
MCI rejects ‘dark fleet’ label
3 August 2024
Rising seas, rising costs: Climate impacts on Cook Islands economy
2 September 2024
Inflation eases but concerns remain
31 August 2024
Prime Minister defends $659,000 MPs travel bill
23 August 2024
Taxpayers foot $659,000 bill for MPs travel and allowance
22 August 2024
Corruption report exposes ‘bribe and sexual favours’
17 January 2023
PM Brown eager to hand over Forum chair role to Tonga
13 August 2024
Challenging ‘rape culture’
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Community responds to Government’s calls for partnership
Following the announcement of the launch of the Rarotonga Safety Shelter Programme (RSSP), communities around Rarotonga are actively engaging with the Cook Islands Investment Corporation (CIIC) to learn more about the programme.
Back-to-back cruise ship visits boost Rarotonga tourism
Within 48 hours, two cruise ships – the Zuiderdam, which visited on Saturday, and the Costa Deliziosa, which arrived yesterday – called at Rarotonga.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Toa case rests on technical arguments
Government continues its submissions in the High Court today as it fights against being forced to honour a $1.2 million eight-year profit guarantee agreement it made with fuel distributor Apex Agencies last December. The high profile case to determine whether government should have to honour the ‘second limb’ of the out of court settlement agreement […]
Attorney general opens government argument
Attorney general Wilkie Rasmussen opened government’s case at the Apex Agencies case that began in the High Court yesterday with a mention of the attorney general’s historic role as a protector of public rights. Rasmussen on behalf of government is the defendant in the case which is considering whether government must honour the second part […]
Experienced team heads to Shanghai
The team of four who will spend six months representing the country at the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, China from next month were handpicked for their knowledge and experience. The four have given up six months of their time for the opportunity of a lifetime. Project coordinator Rohan Ellis said it was hard to […]
Vainetini mamas meet to strengthen values
Strengthening Christian values and improving the quality of life for all women has been the aim of this week’s annual Cook Islands Christian Church Vainetini meeting. Female CICC parishioners from across the Cook Islands, New Zealand and Australia are taking part in the weeklong meeting. Vainetini mamas from abroad are billeted between the six local […]
Chamber selected for mentoring role
The Cook Islands Chamber of Commerce has been selected to be the agent for Business Mentors New Zealand (BMNZ) to support Cook Islands businesses. In a press release yesterday the chamber said BMNZ has been contracted to deliver this service, and a contract with NZAID, a division of Foreign Affairs, has been approved to deliver […]
Culture kids do country proud
Last week’s Rarotonga schools’ cultural festival highlighted once again that the country’s culture is alive and well. There were 13 schools which showed off their dancing and singing skills – from the young to the youth Here are yet more great photos from the festival.
Father, son get detention for violent touch assault
INVERCARGILL, April 20 – A father and son who instigated a serious assault during a social touch rugby game in Queenstown in 2008 were sentenced to home detention in the Invercargill District Court. Taumauri Arona 44, driver, of the Cook Islands, and his son Tau Aaron Arona, 20, scaffolder, appeared for sentence before Judge Kevin […]
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