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Cooks diaspora consultations in New Zealand
This week’s Cook Islands diaspora consultations in New Zealand have amounted to a shotgun approach to current affairs covering a variety of topics of national importance.
Cooks in plastics treaty negotiations
Heads of delegation for about 32 member states met in Glion, Switzerland, to share views and ideas in preparation for the fifth and final session of Intergovernmental Negotiations Committee (INC-5) to establish a legally binding treaty to end plastic pollution, which will take place in Busan, Republic of Korea this November 2024.
Airline changes flight schedule
Thursday 20: Pacific Blue flight schedules will change slightly during September to cope with increased visitor arrivals. Starting from September 1, Pacific Blue will fly into Rarotonga from Auckland on Tuesday, Friday and Saturday mornings – touching down just after midnight (12.20am). However, the airline will operate extra Sunday morning flights on September 13, 20 […]
DPM's office broken into this month
Wednesday 26: Burglary numbers have dropped last week with five being reported to police. The deputy prime minister’s office behind the Banana Court was broken into on Saturday, August 15 but was only reported last Monday. It was still being determined if anything was taken. Police were notified of a burglary at the Avatea school […]
NGO surveys maternity leave in private sector
Thursday 20: Maternity leave provisions and practices in the private sector are the focus of a new survey launched by Punanga Tauturu Inc (CI Women’s Counselling Centre) this month. The survey is part of valuable research the non-government organisation has devoted a portion of its NZAID core funding to this year. Punanga Tauturu representative Kairangi […]
High Tide granted liquor licence
Wednesday 26: It’s been a long time between drinks for High Tide Bar and Grill but they’re finally been granted a liquor licence. The liquor licence committee came to a unanimous decision last week to allow the Avarua venue to sell alcohol. Previously they have been operating as a BYO establishment. High Tide can now […]
Appeal to help name people
Thursday 20: ‘Captive Images’ is breathtaking new exhibition of images of Rarotongans and Mangaians in the 1950s to be shown for two weeks at the Beachcomber Contemporary Art gallery. The exhibition, which will preview this evening, is courtesy of the University of the South Pacific Cook Islands Campus and an inquiring American anthropologist who inevitably […]
Delegation given royal treatment in Mauke
Wednesday 26: The New Zealand high commissioner Tia Barrett and his wife, Theresa, were carried on a paata upon arrival at Mauke airport on Monday afternoon. The couple were part of minister Kete Ioane’s delegation to formally launch the long-awaited island’s water project. After all guests were greeted with ei, the ‘patu ki runga’ began, […]
Examples of parental leave:
Thursday 20: New Zealand – if you have worked for at least six to 12 months for the same employer immediately before the date of birth or date of adoption of a child, the mother can take up to 14 weeks paid maternity leave. Partners can take 21 days leave before and after the date […]
Rotary shows appreciation to Creative Centre
Tuesday 25: Rarotonga Rotary Club donated $1500 to the Creative Centre recently in appreciation for the use of their main meeting venue. Rotary further indicated to the trustees and management of the Centre its intention to continue to support them and congratulated them on recent expansion of activity. There are now 24 active daily members […]
Paid maternity leave proposed
Thursday 20: Should government pay two weeks of maternity leave to women working in the private sector? This is the question that will soon be posed to cabinet ministers who will have to decide whether a provision for this should remain in the draft Employment Relations Bill. Almost all working men and women will think […]
VAT and visitor numbers on track
Tuesday 25: The global economic crisis is starting to affect the revenues collected by government. The ministry of finance and economic management (MFEM) is now being cautious in developing revenue estimates for the current year also factoring in the world recession. The warning is that while revenues are still coming in above estimates, there is […]
Police presence at netball defended
Thursday 20: Inspector Tere Patia defends the presence of police at the World Youth Netball after a smoke signaller said they were “crawling all over” the Telecom Sports Arena. In a letter to the editor, the police operations commander for the games says a “very small” team was fully dedicated to the event and were […]
Charter not ruled out yet
Tuesday 25: Government is still negotiating for the charter of the French Polynesian vessel Tahiti Nui for transporting the northern group teams to Te Maeva Nui next month. After ruling out the charter earlier this month because of the high cost, it seems the option is being reconsidered. According to Manihiki MP Apii Piho, despite […]
94 to be honoured at USP graduation
Thursday 20: Up to 94 people will be honoured at the University of the South Pacific Cook Islands graduation ceremony tomorrow at the Are Karioi Nui. USP director Rod Dixon says that up to 60 will graduate and receive their degrees/diplomas/certificates. Up to 34 – who have already graduated since the last Cook Islands ceremony […]
Rasmussen should join us – CIP MPs
Tuesday 25: The country is at ground zero as the Democratic Party shoots itself in the foot again say self-described Atiu political tag team – MPs Norman George and Nandi Glassie. They issued a statement yesterday describing their disappointments at the Wilkie Rasmussen expulsion and ‘the downed HoMs’. They are critical of the Democratic Party […]
Fly plague in Arorangi
Monday 24: Hotels and restaurants in Arorangi expressed frustration last week at what they are calling an ‘invasion of flies’ at their premises. Rarotonga Resorts Management general manager Rohan Ellis says the increasing number of flies is believed to be due to the out of control fly situation at the Arorangi landfill site. Ellis oversees […]
Koteka voted to board
SATURDAY 22: Anna Koteka has been voted on to the national superannuation board as the contributors’ representative. The process to elect a representative came to a close last Friday. Over a two-week period from July 28 to August 7, members of the fund were given the opportunity to vote for the representative who they felt […]
UK vet and nurse pick Raro
SATURDAY 22: English veterinarian university graduate Laura Musgrove, 23, had a slew of high-tech, big-budget European clinics on her doorstep from which to get her first work experience. Instead, she and a small band of vet-care specialists regularly answer the call of a tiny Pacific Island animal centre with an international reputation – the Esther […]
9 dancers perform at Taiwan festival
Friday 14: Nine Cook Island dancers and musicians have returned from the 2009 Yilan International Lan Raining Festival which was held in Taiwan last month. For group leader Ingrid Caffery, it was her fourth trip to Taiwan, with the Yilan City Council footing the bill. Caffery says the group and a few other performing arts […]
Changes ordered for Arorangi jail
Friday 14: New secretary of justice Mark Short says the weekend jail break by two prisoners highlights the urgent need to address problems with the Arorangi prison. Short says since last November around nine escapes were made from the correction facility. “That’s too high, that’s unacceptable,” he says. Since his appointment last week as ministry […]
For safe games
Friday 14: The Safe Games campaign is not just about handing out condoms and leaflets. Volunteers (from left) Ana File, Nukutau Pokura and Dave Pokura are ready and willing to help anyone attending WYNC make the right choices to keep free of HIV/AIDS and STI. The campaign, running during the World Youth Netball Championships and […]
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