Features
Last chance to win a car
Saturday 2 April 2011 | Published in Features
Today and Monday will be the last chance for shoppers to enter the CITC supermarket ‘win a car’ promotion. The promotion has been running since January with great response from the public. To enter the draw to win the brand new gold Hyundai Getz – customers simply have to buy one product from the four […]
Whale songs add to science
Saturday 2 April 2011 | Published in Features
Local whale expert Nan Hauser has been studying whale songs – the noises male humpbacks emit as they hang upside-down, motionless – for over a decade. The songs are the focus of a paper she and some colleagues recently published in the scientific journal ‘Current Biology’, a paper which encompasses 11 years of research and […]
Power bills going up
Saturday 2 April 2011 | Published in Features
Te Aponga Uira is estimating most Rarotonga households will see their monthly power bills increase by $15 to $20 excluding VAT. Most homes use around around 200-300 electricity units. Acting TAU chief executive Elma Spooner-Marurai says larger homes using more than 500 units a month can see an increase of around $30 to $50 in […]
CITC gets proactive
Saturday 2 April 2011 | Published in Features
The country’s largest company CITC has taken the proactive step of giving staff the opportunity to learn how to better manage their budgets and make some savings. Manager Gaye Whitta says the company is also looking at ways to encourage staff to save power costs at home as well as at work. She explains CITC […]
Start gardening and grow food
Saturday 2 April 2011 | Published in Features
The predicted cost of living increase could start a new trend – home gardens. Starting a home garden will help supplement the food budget. Agriculture will need to assist families with this by providing seedlings for vegetables and fruit trees and advice. Low maintenance crops should be a priority such as rukau viti, rukau taro, […]
Recovering from resentment
Friday 1 April 2011 | Published in Church Talk
It’s a fact of life that people hurt each other. Either intentionally or unintentionally we hurt each other. You’re going to hurt people, they’re going to hurt you. How you handle that hurt will, to a large degree, determine your happiness in life. If you don’t respond correctly to hurt, it turns into resentment. If […]
'Enter the Land' all local
Friday 1 April 2011 | Published in Features
After weeks of hard work, fundraising and prayer, Celebration on the Rock church is releasing its first CD. The album, which is currently being produced and printed in New Zealand, features ten English tracks written and performed by Celebration’s worship team – local musicians Kevin Iro, Tony Fe’ao, Charles Carlson, Bilsy Gukisuva, Abby Brass, Melody […]
Ea'a te au angaanga a teia au tangata?
Saturday 26 March 2011 | Published in Features
Taote – Ka tauturu te taote i te tangata maki Orometua – Ka tauturu te orometua i te pure tapu Puapii – Ka karanga te puapii ki te tamariki kia rave angaanga Ariki – Ka noo te Ariki ki runga i te nooanga Na Pae Tuteru Taote – Ka oake te taote i te vairakau […]
The big fishing debate
Saturday 26 March 2011 | Published in Features
The Regional Perspective 1. The SPC Report – the 2006 National Fisheries Assessment, consistent with various other regional scientific reports, does in fact allude to overfishing of certain key fish stocks, more particularly bigeye tuna, in the WCPO (Western and Central Pacific Ocean) region. The information referred to in that particular SPC report was part […]
Lee has high hopes for kitesurfing competition
Saturday 26 March 2011 | Published in Features
Kitesurf instructor Mike Lee has high hopes for June’s international kitesurfing competition: he reckons the wind will blow and the event will put Aitutaki on the map as a kiter’s paradise. Lee returned last week to Aitutaki after spending three months in New Zealand, catching up with family and actively promoting the upcoming competition – […]
Koka celebrates birthday on lagoon
Saturday 26 March 2011 | Published in Features
Rarotonga’s newest lagoon cruise operator Koka Lagoon Cruises celebrates its one-year anniversary this week. Over the past year, the business has worked to establish itself as a reputable tour operator and to give the tourists that come aboard a set of invaluable holiday memories to take away with them. Koka is a family-run business, small […]
Writers chill out in Cooks
Saturday 26 March 2011 | Published in Features
An animated group of North American writers gathered at Cafe Jireh on Thursday afternoon, and over lunch gushed about their sojourn to the caves of Atiu and the Aitutaki lagoon, from which they returned earlier that morning. Five writers and one Cook Islands Tourism North America representative toured the Cook Islands this week – their […]
Pasifika Festival review by BTIB
Saturday 26 March 2011 | Published in Features
The Business Trade and Investment Board (BTIB) is surveying Cook Islands stall vendors involved in this year’s annual Pasifika Festival at Western Springs in Auckland. BTIB trade and marketing manager Danny Williams says the 11 vendors who travelled from the Cook Islands to participate in the festival should have made between $7000 and $15,000 each. […]
Wendy films for the fun of it
Saturday 26 March 2011 | Published in Features
Former Cook Islands News co-owner Wendy Evans laid down her camera when she left the media profession, but that didn’t keep her from documenting island life altogether. She bought a video camera, enrolled in a USP videography course and started splicing and editing short films of Rarotonga footage she compiled in her free time. “I […]
Tune out friends, not just TVs
Saturday 26 March 2011 | Published in Features
Turning off the television is not enough. Indirect exposure to media, such as having friends who watch a lot of television, may be more damaging to a teen’s body image, say researchers using Fiji as a case study. Wary parents will have to do more than unplug the television if they want to avoid the […]
More television affects island culture
Saturday 26 March 2011 | Published in Features
Cook Islands culture will suffer with the introduction of a second television station, warns an expert on the effects of screen media. Dr Aric Sigman, a British psychologist and author, says more choice of channels means people will watch more TV, leading to further declines in language usage and a loss of traditional culture. “It’s […]
Why TV is bad for our health
Saturday 26 March 2011 | Published in Features
Ten-year-old Tama lives right next to the lagoon, but spends most afternoons in his room with the curtains pulled. When it’s really hot he goes swimming with his Tikioki friends, but they’re soon back inside watching television or DVDs. Both his parents work, his mum has two jobs, and the TV is his main source […]
Shame on you government
Saturday 26 March 2011 | Published in Features
Last Saturday I spent the afternoon enjoying one of life’s great pleasures, watching one of my mokopuna playing rugby. I was in the company of my son-in-law and a younger grandson. We were sitting on the bank at a sports ground in east Auckland; it was a great day – a bit breezy – but […]
Musical comes to Raro
Saturday 26 March 2011 | Published in Features
Cook Islands culture through song, music, dance and drums will take centre stage in May when the musical production ‘Once, Upon a Reef’ comes to life. The musical production, which is based on the legend of neglected twins Pipirima, is still receiving rave reviews from those who saw the production which premiered at the TelstraClear […]
In times such as these
Friday 25 March 2011 | Published in Church Talk
In the aftermath of the Christchurch earthquake and the tsunami in Japan, people everywhere are once again reminded of the vulnerability of life. What is here now, can be wiped out in a matter of seconds. I was in Auckland recently, and in the same motel we had stayed in, were families who had moved […]
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