Features

Pacific tenors to perform in Raro

Saturday 7 May 2011 | Published in Features

Local company Motone Productions has secured funding from Creative New Zealand to bring back award winning Samoan Tongan Tenor Benjamin Fifitia Makisi, who performed last December at the Crown Beach Resort & Spa before a sold-out crowd. Ben will be performing with the Cook Islands very own tenor Bonaventure Allan Moetaua, who is a rising […]

Free eye checks

Saturday 7 May 2011 | Published in Features

Mauke islanders have been taking advantage of free eye checkups by visiting optometrist Dr John Veale. Dr Veale is back on Rarotonga after a week of providing free eye checks and care on Mauke. People on the island took advantage of the service and those who needed prescription reading glasses were also able to purchase […]

Shes on a mission to find the perfect wave

Saturday 7 May 2011 | Published in Features

The search for the perfect wave has brought Australian-based Cook Islander and surfer Charlotte Piho home to turn her passion for surfing into her life. Piho, 26, daughter of Rakahanga man Tuhe Piho, is on a mission to find the perfect wave in 14 days, starting on May 14. The mission is called The Awakening […]

How to overcome worry

Friday 6 May 2011 | Published in Church Talk

Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your lifeBut seek first His kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Matthew 6: 25-33 NIV How many of us waste precious time worrying, when things arent going our way, about things we cant do anything about, and for […]

Pacific called to pray

Friday 6 May 2011 | Published in Church Talk

The Pacific Conference of Churches has deemed today Pacific Day of Prayer, and the women of Cook Islands Christian Church (CICC) Nikao will be hosting a service to commemorate it. Orometua Tereora Tereoras wife Kura will be delivering the message, and the women of her congregation will be helping to conduct the service, which starts […]

Pacific Sisters back on stage

Thursday 5 May 2011 | Published in Features

The Pacific Sisters have reconvened in Auckland and are preparing for a show at the Mangere Arts Centre tomorrow night (Saturday night NZ time). Tereora teacher and Pacific Sister Ani ONeill is staging a solo exhibition entitled Dancer of the Year 2011, which opens tomorrow night with a turou by Maki Karati and a song […]

Athlete returns to make music

Saturday 30 April 2011 | Published in Features

Celtic fusion artist Steve Macdonald makes an annual trip to Rarotonga for the Round Rarotonga Road Race, but this year hes got a different agenda. Hell be competing in the Ait New Zealand International Triathlon next Saturday, but hell also be livening things up at Trader Jacks with a show tonight and two next week. […]

How to make glasses and a raurau

Saturday 30 April 2011 | Published in Features

Todays Kids Page features two step-by-step guides for making your own raurau (plate) and mata titia (eye glasses) using kikau. The instructions were put together by regular Kids Page readers Ligiahi and Tutemariki Tairi, both 8-years-old, from the island of Atiu. Meitaki maata to Maara Tairi for sending in these two fantastic step-by-step guide and […]

Solar-powered motor fitted to Marumaru Atua

Saturday 30 April 2011 | Published in Features

Following a quick sail to test her new solar-powered motor yesterday, Cook Islands vaka Marumaru Atua is back in Papeete and preparing to attend a farewell ceremony this weekend. Her departure from Papeete is postponed, as Tahitian vaka Faafaite does not have its own motor fully installed, and the two vaka plan to leave for […]

3500 books from Brumbies

Saturday 30 April 2011 | Published in Features

Schools on Rarotonga and in the outer islands will benefit from a recent gift and shipment of over 3500 books fiction, non-fiction, reference resources and teacher guides among them. Rotary secretary John Hobbs received the 28 boxes of books, which recently landed on Rarotonga courtesy of Australian organisation Brumbies for Books. The group is a […]

Proposed marine park explained

Saturday 30 April 2011 | Published in Features

By creating a marine park in its exclusive economic zone (EEZ), the Cook Islands stands to reap manifold benefits, says Sue Taei, the Pacific Islands marine programme manager at Samoa-based non-profit Conservation International. Not only would a protected area ensure the sustainability of marine resources, but it could boost tourism and even prompt international donor […]

Scenes from Stations of the Cross

Friday 29 April 2011 | Published in Church Talk

Looking for the good

Friday 29 April 2011 | Published in Church Talk

While looking for a new home, a young Latter-day Saint couple talked to potential neighbours about the neighbourhood and the schools in the area. One woman they spoke to said of the school her children were attending: This is the most incredible place! The principal is a wonderful and good man, the teachers are well […]

Juniors dazzle and thrill audience in annual comp

Saturday 23 April 2011 | Published in Features

Nineteen beautiful and talented Cook Islands dancers wowed the national auditorium crowd on Wednesday night during the junior and intermediate dancer of the year competition. Passionate and well choreographed dances were on show for the first of the annual dancer of the year competitions. In the junior section plenty of new school moves were incorporated […]

Great music a fitting tribute

Saturday 23 April 2011 | Published in Features

Rarotonga was buzzing this week with the energy of San Francisco music legend Edna Love and Kiwi singer Caitlin Smith. Love, backed by a group of session musicians, captivated Trader Jacks, Little Polynesian and Hidies this week with her deep, soulful voice, her performance rounded off by Smiths jazzy sound. The concerts they staged were […]

Team Awesome adventures at YWAM

Saturday 23 April 2011 | Published in Features

School kids on holiday have been searching for hidden treasure, creating posters and crafts plus playing tons of cool games at the Youth With A Mission school holiday programme in Vaiimaanga. Based on the theme of searching for hidden treasure kids have been having an adventurous and fun experience at the programme which was only […]

Movie work inspires Cook Islander

Saturday 23 April 2011 | Published in Features

Most moviegoers fail to notice how much work goes into designing sets. Cook Islander Robert Tetauru was never one of them he developed a fascination with set design, which paved the way for a number of jobs working on major motion pictures. Tetauru, an Arorangi native, works in construction but does visual effects for movies […]

Community garden on Atiu

Saturday 23 April 2011 | Published in Features

The world economic recession of 2008 and 2009 badly affected the smaller outer islands of the Cooks Group. Twelve of these inhabited islands which depend mainly on import products like tinned fish, tinned meat, flour, sugar to name a few, from Rarotonga and overseas suffered the most. We are addressing this issue as it affects […]

Rehab gives $3000

Saturday 23 April 2011 | Published in Features

The Young Sid and Pieter T show at Rehab last weekend raised $3000 for victims of the Christchurch quake. Yesterday Rehab owner Scott Arlander presented Cook Islands Red Cross (CIRC) with a cheque for $3000, which will go into the collective fund that CIRC is handing over to Red Cross in New Zealand. The beachfront […]

A time of hope

Thursday 21 April 2011 | Published in Church Talk

We can face anything, endure anything, as long as we know or believe it will not last forever and that something better will happen. For instance, people will face a long, painful and dangerous operation if they believe it will make them well again. Prisoners can face a long sentence as long as they believe […]