Features
New reps for Vara Nui
Saturday 19 February 2011 | Published in Features
World Resorts of Distinction have been appointed the overseas representative company for Te Vara Nui Village. World Resorts specialises in sales and marketing services and strategies for niche luxury products. Servicing the Australia, New Zealand, and North America markets, World Resorts of Distinction guarantees their clients innovative and comprehensive sales and marketing services and professional […]
Building a life of purpose
Friday 18 February 2011 | Published in Church Talk
Last time I wrote this column I talked about what happens when I don’t understand the purpose of life. That life seems useless, tiresome, unfulfilling, insignificant and uncontrollable. Then we made the statement that the purpose of life is preparation for eternity. The question is, how do you do it? Four ways: 1. Get to […]
Local firm attends Sounds Aotearoa
Thursday 17 February 2011 | Published in Features
Local company Motone Productions will be attending Sounds Aotearora Music Festival this year after receiving support from festival organisers. Sounds Aotearoa is a two-day music event that has three main elements to it – a conference, an expo and artist showcases/performances. The event is designed to facilitate exposure, networking, capacity building, and business promotion ensuring […]
Warriors take on Sharks this week
Wednesday 16 February 2011 | Published in Features
The Takuvaine Warriors will head to Aitutaki to play the Sharks this weekend in what should be an evenly contested match. The Sharks had their first game of the 2011 tournament at the weekend against the Panthers and while they gave as good as they got – the Sharks were unable to finish off their […]
Sea Eagles soar
Monday 14 February 2011 | Published in Features
The Ngatangiia Sea Eagles made it two from two at the weekend when they outclassed the Arorangi Bears 16-12 to win on home ground and in front of a thrilled crowd. The win for the Sea Eagles against the Bears comes on the back of their first match of the season win against the Panthers. […]
Playwright Miria says she's lucky
Saturday 12 February 2011 | Published in Features
Cook Islander Miria George wrote her first poem when she was eight. Today she laughingly calls it ‘terrible’, but acknowledges that it was her first step toward a flourishing writing career that has taken her around the world and put her in touch with some of the most prominent playwrights in New Zealand. Miria’s father, […]
Takitumu school kids write about themselves
Saturday 12 February 2011 | Published in Features
My bio poem Dangerous Daniel Brother of hungry Samson Likes to eat banana Dislikes picking up rubbish One day would want to ride the motorbike By Daniel Ngamata My bio poem Bubbly Bernice Sister of cheeky Mikayla Likes to eat pears Dislikes walking on crutches One day would love to be the next beautiful singer […]
Sister Margaret leads prison rehab
Saturday 12 February 2011 | Published in Features
For the 30 inmates at Arorangi Prison, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Big-hearted individuals and members of the local community have been pooling resources and donating time and money to ensure that the inmates have the education and the skills they need to make a new life for themselves upon […]
Three survivors get a second chance at life
Saturday 12 February 2011 | Published in Features
Fear for the future of their young families and faith in the Lord was the fuel that kept Arorangi fishermen Johnny George, Te Ina Tapurau Junior and Augustine Heather fighting to survive while adrift at sea. Speaking in Maori, the three men this week shared some of their most terrifying moments when a short fishing […]
Let God write your love story
Friday 11 February 2011 | Published in Church Talk
Dear Editor, It filled me with sadness to read in the paper on Wednesday about how a letter writer believes that a normal part of growing up here is being a hormone driven, sex obsessed young 20 something whose life is focused on the social scene. For me, my husband and countless others we know […]
Let's lose our fortress mentality
Friday 11 February 2011 | Published in Church Talk
Have we developed a “Fortress Mentality”? This mentality has a crippling influence. When you check the meaning of “Fortress” on the internet, you will find the following definition: something impossible to get into, something that is impenetrable or acts as protection, a stronghold and fortification. The mindset is, rather than taking new grounds for Christ, […]
Haves and have nots in Aotearoa
Tuesday 8 February 2011 | Published in Features
If we ever really needed a sign that there is a huge gap between the ‘haves and have nots’ in this country it came with the recent report of the government’s tax working group. Showing themselves to be in the ‘haves’ camp, with a complete lack of understanding for the plight of low or no […]
Vaipae tere party visits Puaikura
Saturday 5 February 2011 | Published in Features
Vaka Puaikura and the village of Vaipae on Aitutaki have a strong link that continues today. The two photos featured in today’s Memory Lane column feature a tere party from Aitutaki that travelled to Rarotonga in the 1960s to strengthen their links with their brothers and sisters in the Vaka Puaikura. The group were homed […]
Put a fallen kakaia back in the tree
Saturday 5 February 2011 | Published in Features
Georgia Short knows from experience that putting a fallen kakaia, or white tern, back into the tree it came from might give it a chance to reunite with its family. Last year she found a kakaia in her driveway lying beneath a kuru tree and set it back on the branch from which it had […]
Top up electronically
Saturday 5 February 2011 | Published in Features
Telecom Cook Islands (TCI) is now offering both an electronic mobile phone top up service – or ‘e top up’ – and a Kia Orana e-calling card service. TCI introduced ‘e top up’ in December, which allows prepaid customers to electronically load any value between $5 and $100 onto their mobile phones. It is a […]
Kokanet service on Manihiki
Saturday 5 February 2011 | Published in Features
Telecom Cook Islands have installed two new cell sites in on the northern group island Manihiki. The installation of the cell sites comes after the success of installing and trialling a cell site set up in Mangaia late last year. Telecom implemented the cell site in preparation for the full solar eclipse which took place […]
'Not enough of us in arts'
Saturday 5 February 2011 | Published in Features
Cook Islanders in New Zealand need to be far more assertive if they want to succeed in the arts and media industries there, says film school graduate and performing artist Henry Ah-Foo Taripo. Taripo, who graduated on Friday with a double diploma in film making majoring in screen directing, says many creative Cook Islanders living […]
From Haiti to Raro, volunteer Connie learns to 'overcome'
Saturday 5 February 2011 | Published in Features
Global Volunteer Connie Xuereb has seen her share of heartache and desperation – the price of a job that leads her around the world, into devastated countries and poverty-level communities. Xuereb, who works for UNESCO as an educational consultant and foreign examiner, spent most of last year in Haiti, trying to make a difference in […]
Mauke chief marries in the tradition of Mauke weddings
Saturday 5 February 2011 | Published in Features
When Kiwi teacher Ange Croft moved to Mauke in 2004 her friend said that she would fall in love with an island chief. And on Friday, January 28, Ange married her chief – Gregory Vainetutai Samuela Ariki, who was widowed 30 years ago. Ange came to Mauke in 2004 as a teacher. She recalls that […]
Ask in faith and act
Friday 4 February 2011 | Published in Church Talk
Meaningful prayer requires both holy communication and consecrated work. I want to review three examples of asking in faith in meaningful prayer and discuss the lessons we can learn from each one of them. As we speak of prayer, I emphasise the word meaningful. Simply saying prayers is quite a different thing from engaging in […]
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