Features
'Just Desserts' for Joyanna
Saturday 8 January 2011 | Published in Features
About 100 dessert lovers showed their support for Miss South Pacific Joyanna Meyer at a special ‘Just Desserts’ evening on Thursday. The purpose of the evening was to give the people of the Cook Islands the opportunity to see the acts Meyer performed at the Miss South Pacific Pageant in Papua New Guinea in mid […]
New RAC chairman
Friday 7 January 2011 | Published in Church Talk
Reverend Tangimetua Tangatatutai, President of the Cook Islands Christian Church, took over as chairman of the CI Religious Advisory Council (RAC) from January 1. He will hold the office of chairman for the whole of 2011. Tangatatutai replaces Pastor Tevai (Bobby) Matapo. He was appointed president of the CICC in 1999 after the former CICC […]
Providing a path
Friday 31 December 2010 | Published in Church Talk
Originally from Tanzania in East Africa, Dr Baraka Muganda has been World Youth Director of the Seventh Day Adventist Church for 15 years. He is based in Washington, but this week he is at the SDA’s Camporee all week giving inspiring talks to the 900-plus young people. In his own words, Muganda says that he […]
Promises for a prosperous new year
Friday 31 December 2010 | Published in Church Talk
Totou no tetai mataiti manuia We are almost at the threshold of another New Year. Is it really going to be a real Happy New Year or is just another carry on over and through of the same-old, same-old, to actually nothing new at all but just a repeat of the same conduct, attitude and […]
More blood needed
Friday 31 December 2010 | Published in Features
The blood bank at Rarotonga Hospital still needs more people to give blood. “The supplies are okay at the moment but we still need more people in to donate,” said Theresa Tatuava, who runs the blood bank. Since their last appeal, Tatuava said that very few new donors have come forward. She said that the […]
New Year's what's on
Friday 31 December 2010 | Published in Features
Beach parties and fireworks are planned for this evening’s New Year’s Eve celebrations to ring in 2011. On the east side of the island – Muri beach will be lit in fluoro colours this evening as Sails Restaurant and Bar host their Fluorescent Friday New Year’s Eve beach party. Party goers can grab a table […]
Maori focus at St Joseph's Primary
Friday 31 December 2010 | Published in Features
Students at St Joseph’s Primary school worked hard during the year developing and improving their Maori reading and writing skills. Grade five students rewrote popular local legends and in three groups acted out their finished script. The yellow team dramatised the legend of Hikaroa and Otaua, team blue brought the legend of Ru to life […]
The meaning of Christmas
Friday 24 December 2010 | Published in Church Talk
At Christmas, we remember and celebrate the most important event in human history – God himself coming among us in the person of Jesus Christ. It was an event that has changed the world. This event can only be appreciated through the eyes of faith. If it were not for the perspective of faith, the […]
CHRISTMAS MESSAGES
Friday 24 December 2010 | Published in Church Talk
Sir Frederick Goodwin Queen’s Representative Kia Orana o all the people living in and visiting the Cook Islands. Te Atua Te Aroa no Tatou i teia Kiritimiti e te Mataiti Ou. As a Christian nation, I believe that we in the Cook Islands celebrate Christmas to acknowledge and appreciate the greatest gift to mankind – […]
Barbie dolls and Tonka trucks ever popular
Friday 24 December 2010 | Published in Features
To help parents and families of kids, here are some Christmas gift suggestions based on what’s hot and what’s selling right now. Transformer action figures and Barbie dolls are flying off the store shelves with Christmas only one sleep away. Proving to be a popular gift choice for little boys this season are the Transformer […]
Young poet shares his work What Are Friends
Friday 24 December 2010 | Published in Features
Move over Shakespeare there’s a new poet on the rock! Tereora College Elvin Wachter has proven himself to be quite the poet when putting pen to paper. The bubbly 15-year-old enjoys writing as a past time because of how expressive poetry allows you to be and the freedom it allows content wise. “Poetry is a […]
Fix those leakages
Friday 24 December 2010 | Published in Church Talk
Tapiri ia te au puta The above scriptures describe of our entire and total reliance upon God. Just as the eyes of the servant are riveted on his master, so our spiritual eyes are set on God and our knowledge of His countenance (look) is gained. Hence the searching and challenging question, “Who hath believed […]
Youngsters coming
Wednesday 22 December 2010 | Published in Church Talk
The Seventh-Day Adventist Church is holding a Pathfinders camp at Papaaroa next week for 900-1000 youngsters from all over the Pacific. The 10-15 year olds from New Caledonia, New Zealand, Tahiti, and the Cook Islands will all be represented. Pastor Eliu Eliu said that 200-300 Cook Islanders will be attending. The young pathfinders will be […]
Market days change
Wednesday 22 December 2010 | Published in Features
The Punanga Nui Market will not be open this Saturday or the next due to Christmas Day and New Years Day falling on those days. Instead the marketplace will be open on the Fridays before – this Friday and Friday December 31. It will be the same as regular Saturday market days with entertainment if […]
Late night Xmas shopping action
Saturday 18 December 2010 | Published in Features
Shopping was a breeze on Thursday at the newly revamped CITC main store in Avarua when the company opened till late and provided plenty of games and entertainment to keep Christmas shoppers happy. Kids were kept busy with dress up and hula hoop competitions while adults took advantage of the hourly specials at the store. […]
In pursuit of brewing perfection
Saturday 18 December 2010 | Published in Features
Rekareka Brewery directors Teariki Pennycook and Edward Nee Nee are in pursuit of perfection. Since purchasing the Avarua brewery in 2008, they and business partner Stuart Davies have been tweaking the taste of their three beers – Cooks Lager, Cooks Blonde, and Cooks Darkie. Just over a year on from opening the business doors on […]
Te reo stronger in outer islands
Saturday 18 December 2010 | Published in Features
University of Auckland academics John McCaffery’s and Judy Taligalu McFall-McCaffery’s report on the decline of Pacific languages states that Cook Islands Maori is stronger in the outer islands than in Rarotonga. They stated that the teaching of Maori up to grade three or four is consistent and works well. Ina Herrmann, CEO of School Support […]
Teachers lack Maori books
Saturday 18 December 2010 | Published in Features
Teachers had been using a series, published in New Zealand, called Tupu. The books were published to support learning the learning of Pacific languages by children of communities from Samoa, Tokelau, Tonga, Niue, and the Cook Islands. But that support for language teaching dried up when the New Zealand government announced an end to the […]
Fears for language
Saturday 18 December 2010 | Published in Features
Cook Islands Maori is not being passed on to new generations in traditional ways and runs the risk of dying out altogether. Those are the warnings of two New Zealand academics, John McCaffery and Judy Taligalu McFall-McCaffery, who published a paper on the strength of Pacific languages. In the Alternative Journal’s Special Pacific Edition, McCaffery […]
'We need to wake up'
Saturday 18 December 2010 | Published in Features
Concerned citizens speak out on preserving Maori Ina Herrmann, chief executive of School Support at the Ministry of Education, says that she has grave fears for the continuation of the Cook Islands Maori language in Rarotonga. She reports that more and more children are coming to school who are do not speak Maori as a […]
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