Features
Pacific must address gender equality to combat HIV
Wednesday 19 August 2009 | Published in Features
Saturday 15: As indigenous peoples around the world contemplate how to strengthen efforts to tackle HIV in their communities, an HIV advocate in the Pacific believes that more emphasis should be put on addressing the gender dimension of the disease. Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) prevention officer Jovesa Saladoka says if efforts to curb […]
A space for silence in our daily lives
Wednesday 12 August 2009 | Published in Church Talk
Friday 7: A modern parable A severe drought fell on the land and nothing grew. Day after day the sun scorched the earth, plants withered, rivers dried up and people died. Only a few healthy people remained and they were desperate. Then they heard about the Rainman who could make rain fall; maybe he could […]
ENTERTAINMENT - New CD for Andre
Wednesday 12 August 2009 | Published in Features
Saturday 8: Entertainer Andre Tapena releases his fifth CD since returning to Rarotonga this morning, Saturday at the Punanga Nui market. ‘Where’s the road to Pape’ete?’ is Tapena’s new album and it is based on the experience of a Cook Islander who asked this question to a Tahitian resident while in Pape’ete. The main title […]
KIDS PAGE - National pride
Wednesday 12 August 2009 | Published in Features
Saturday 8: The students of Avarua Primary School were a highlight at this week’s Constitution Day celebrations. Their cultural dance group proved that it was a day of festivities and remembrance for all generations. This week’s Kid’s Page features the students’ cultural pride on show at the National Auditorium on Tuesday.
Gilbert rep on a mission
Wednesday 12 August 2009 | Published in Features
Saturday 8: Saturday 8: Gilbert brand manager Hellen Manufor will be looking to the Pacific for future sponsorships deals. Gilbert is the sponsor of the netball balls that will be used during the World Youth Netball Championships and is the favoured brand of sports balls for many champion teams. Just as Turtles is the sponsor […]
Imanuela eyes smile for the Irish
Wednesday 12 August 2009 | Published in Features
Saturday 8: Saturday 8: Imanuela Akatemia turned it on as hosts for the Northern Ireland under 21 netball team yesterday. And with Paul Lynch as MC and his father Paddy wearing his lucky green shoes, one couldn’t have asked for a more Irish setting for the school’s guests. The 60-plus students welcomed them into the […]
Get back to the 70s
Wednesday 12 August 2009 | Published in Features
Saturday 8: Saturday 8: Get the seventies dance fever! Te Uki Ou School invites everyone to share their fever at tonight’s ‘Island 70s Style’ fundraiser. Organiser Melinda Morris-Ponga (pictured) says the evening will be a lot of fun with great decorations, excellent company and an awesome supper. The social event is to raise money for […]
Tents pitched
Wednesday 12 August 2009 | Published in Features
Saturday 8: Tamarumaru Tent Hire is pitching its products to customers on Rarotonga. David Akanoa says the idea to set up a tent hire business was his son’s idea – who lives in Hawaii. Akanoa says they will be hiring out tent-like structures for functions and events, rather than the marquees which require poles to […]
Original volunteers return to friendly isles
Wednesday 12 August 2009 | Published in Features
Saturday 8: It’s been 11 years since American global volunteers Dr Patrick and Charlotte Scanlan visited Rarotonga last, and the one thing that hasn’t changed is the friendliness of the people. Pat and Charlotte were part of the first global volunteers group to come to Rarotonga in 1998 and today they are part of group […]
Jubilee idea
Wednesday 12 August 2009 | Published in Church Talk
Friday 7: Religious advisory council president pastor Tutai Pere described the Cook Islands’ 44 years of self governance journey as being similar to the 40 years the Jews spent wandering the desert in search of the promised land. “Forty years is a very significant number in the Bible,” said Pere. “Not only did the Jews […]
OIA: Cooks show the way
Wednesday 5 August 2009 | Published in Features
1 August: Cook Islands was strongly represented at the Pacific Media Summit in Vanuatu this week. Eight delegates attended the Pacific Islands News Association event and were involved in several pre-summit workshops and forum discussions. Managing editor Cook Islands News, John Woods was invited to speak during a freedom of information workshop ran by the […]
Gospel Day celebrated with cake
Wednesday 5 August 2009 | Published in Church Talk
Friday 31: The arrival of Christianity to Rarotonga 186 years ago, was celebrated with song and dance at the Are Karioi Nui on Monday. In his sermon, Nikao Cook Islands Christian Church’s Rev Tereora Tereora likened the embracing of the gospel in the Cooks, to that of Laban welcoming his nephew Jacob, as told in […]
Michael is not Jesus
Wednesday 5 August 2009 | Published in Church Talk
Friday 31: The Bible names Michael as “one of the chief princes” in Daniel 10:13. As he is one among a group of equals, he cannot be Jesus, because Jesus is unique. He is one of a kind. Many Cook Islanders know John 3:16 and understand that “only begotten” in this verse, — ‘monogenes’ in […]
Distorted vision – being fixed on God
Wednesday 5 August 2009 | Published in Church Talk
Friday 31: Spiritual vision is our capacity to see clearly what God wants us to do and to see the word from his point of view. But this spiritual insight can be easily clouded. Self-serving desires interests and goals block that vision. Serving God is the best way to restore it. A good eye is […]
KIDS PAGE - The importance of freindliness
Wednesday 5 August 2009 | Published in Features
1 August: Mangaia School and Apii Rutaki are again the stars of Kids’ Page this week. The preschoolers have been busy drawing and the Year 4 students talk about the importance of friendliness. Meanwhile Apii Rutaki hosted a flag raising ceremony for their adopted countries Wallis & Futuna and the USA for the World Youth […]
ENTERTAINMENT - Entries flood in for Pacific Break
Wednesday 5 August 2009 | Published in Features
1 August: MELBOURNE – Record numbers of entries continue to arrive for Pacific Break 2009, Radio Australia’s search for the best unsigned musical talent of the Pacific. Pacific Break, is now in its second year and is again offering the winner a once in a life-time opportunity, to showcase their musical talents plus play live […]
Reflections on Cook Islands history
Wednesday 5 August 2009 | Published in Features
1 August: The Cook Islands became a self-governing nation on August 4 1965. This page reflects on this very special day in the history of the nation. Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II who, to this day remains the official head of state – sent “warmest greetings” to her people on Constitution Day, 1965. She said […]
Dana wins Pacific journalism award
Wednesday 5 August 2009 | Published in Features
1 August: Cook Islands News reporter Dana Kinita was the pride of Pacific media when she was named PINA Young Print Journalist of the Year at the 2009 Pacific Media Summit gala awards dinner in Vanuatu last week. Dana, our crime and justice reporter, had returned to Rarotonga from the summit a day earlier, after […]
Fiji presence questioned at summit
Wednesday 5 August 2009 | Published in Features
1 August: A Cook Islands delegate demanded to know why the Fiji regime were invited to an event which openly promotes media freedom. Two officers of the Fiji ministry of information attended the week-long Pacific Media Summit in Vanuatu this week. In a last minute change, editor of Pacnews Makereta Komai was replaced with lance […]
Rebuilding your life the way God wants you to
Wednesday 29 April 2009 | Published in Church Talk
Friday 24: Last weekend I was reading an interesting book on the failure of economies. While this might have been its focus, what riveted my attention were the references to human suffering associated with these events. But my greater interest was aroused by the allusion to the notable increases in people taking their own lives […]