Wednesday 15 April 2009 | Published in Features
Saturday 11: The American sailing cargo vessel Kwai (above) is due to arrive in Rarotonga in late May on its first voyage of the year to the Cooks. The Kwai is now taking orders for cargo. Scope Ltd, a new local cargo handling service, is working in association with the Kwai, also taking orders for […]
Wednesday 15 April 2009 | Published in Features
Saturday 11: The debate on whether coral should be removed from Muri lagoon for the Pacific Mini Games oe vaka event is heating up. The Cook Islands Canoeing Association is seeking a location where they can put a 500 metre by 150 metre course to meet the requirements of the code. CICA president Tina Newport […]
Wednesday 8 April 2009 | Published in Features
Saturday 4: A new business venture in Muri is serving traditional Japanese food with a Cook Islands flavour. Newly opened Island Sushi is offering a healthy option for eating out, owners Brent Holley and partner Grace Henry say. “It’s just something lighter to eat… a lot of takeaway food is quite heavy like chips and […]
Wednesday 8 April 2009 | Published in Features
Saturday 4: It makes sense that the full name behind Rarotonga’s new range of VMV organic breads should be quite a mouthful – Varoa Mata, Miti e Vai Ltd. It stands for flower, salt and water – the simple basics of any good bread. But the new product range from Reuben and Victoria Dearlove’s Matavera […]
Wednesday 8 April 2009 | Published in Features
Saturday 4: If you have been thinking about entering the Air New Zealand Cook Islands Tourism Awards, the organisers have arranged a helping hand. A workshop will be held on Monday to go through details of the entry process. The awards committee and the Business Trade and Investment Board are running the workshop to be […]
Wednesday 8 April 2009 | Published in Features
Saturday 4: Aitutakian field archaeologist Ngaakitai Pureariki worked on the set of the recently filmed BBC show The Real Swiss Family Robinson in Atiu. The Real Swiss Family Robinson follows four ‘overstretched, stressed out families’ as they say goodbye to their regular lives and sign up for a three-week crash course in the simple life […]
Wednesday 8 April 2009 | Published in Features
Saturday 4: ‘From the old coconuts rooted to the ground shall grow many tall strong trees for shelter and sustenance’……after the Hurricane 1895. In the early days just after our Rarotonga International Airport was opened, tourism was not just a new word in our vocabulary, it was the beginning of the future. Thirty plus years […]
Wednesday 8 April 2009 | Published in Features
Saturday 4: The Air New Zealand Cook Islands Tourism Awards is using the impressive services of Tourism Consultants Ltd from New Zealand to help make the inaugural event of great value to all those who enter. Not only has the company designed the judging criteria for the awards, it will also provide a ‘report card’ […]
Wednesday 8 April 2009 | Published in Features
Saturday 4: Tourism industry council president and general manager of Pacific Resort and Pacific Resort Aitutaki, Greg Stanaway, says he is a big believer in industry awards. And yes, both resorts will be entering the Air New Zealand Cook Islands Tourism Awards. “Pacific Resort will be entering both its resorts in this awards programme because […]
Wednesday 8 April 2009 | Published in Features
Saturday 4: Inaugural awards will provide more for industry The Air New Zealand Cook Islands Tourism Awards promise to be a valuable experience for all who enter the inaugural event this year. The awards entry has been extended to April 17 – so if you are ‘in tourism’ then you can still be in to […]
Wednesday 8 April 2009 | Published in Features
While Mama Lou took up lawn bowls and golf in her later years, she began life as a keen netballer and tennis player. Her son Hugh says her comic bowling style was mentioned at her funeral along with photos shown of her rather energetic and dramatic attempts to use her body to guide the bowl. […]
Wednesday 8 April 2009 | Published in Features
Saturday 4: Mama Lou’s son Hugh says her children remember their mother as a woman who, annoying at times for them, was always giving things away to people. “Her home was always open and she was always giving, giving, giving. She was always there to help others. Now I follow the same principle and help […]
Wednesday 8 April 2009 | Published in Features
Saturday 4: Eikura Louise Graham (nee Henry), best known as Mama Lou, passed away on March 22 at the age of 72 leaving the country in mourning for a woman who will be remembered for her work, grace and generosity. Mama Lou is survived by her husband Papa Puru, her children Elizabeth, 48, Peter, 47, […]
Wednesday 8 April 2009 | Published in Church Talk
Friday 3: Ka raveia te uipaanga maata a te akono’anga Cook Islands Christian Church a te ra 19 ki te 26 o Aperira, ki Rarotonga nei. Kua akatinamou te kumiti akaaere i te manako maata o te uipaanga e ko te ‘atoro atu anga ia ratou i vao ake i to te Atua koro’ (reaching […]
Wednesday 8 April 2009 | Published in Church Talk
Friday 3: Our Pacific is made up of islands with many different ethnic origins. Each cultural group has values and ways of living that are distinct but all are relatively successful efforts in a common search for the fullness of human life. FAITH calls on people to examine the good points as well as the […]
Wednesday 1 April 2009 | Published in Features
Saturday 28 March: A cD and DVD of the Cook Islands mini-music ‘Rage’ festival held in Auckland, will be launched this morning at Punanga Nui. Kathy Brown, one of six local artists featured on the cd, says they were asked at the beginning of February by Heimana Music’s Noo Vaevae Pare to come up with […]
Wednesday 1 April 2009 | Published in Features
Saturday 28 March: Shortland Street will take time out while filming here to pay a visit to some of their younger fans. Some cast members of the hit hospital series will be dropping into Avatea School next Friday as part of their public relations tour of the Cook Islands. This is the first time the […]
Wednesday 1 April 2009 | Published in Features
Saturday 28 March: More than 15 performers are expected to take the stage for the second Open Mic Night on Monday. There will be singers, musicians, performers and guaranteed entertainment. Last month’s inaugural night at the Paradise Inn was hailed a success and next week’s free event is sure to be the same, organisers say. […]
Wednesday 1 April 2009 | Published in Features
Saturday 28 March: Red Cross representatives from 11 of the 12 inhabited islands in the country have been meeting all this week in the lead-up to the Red Cross biennial general meeting. While a broad range of topics were covered throughout the week, Cook Islands Red Cross secretary-general Niki Rattle says there was a huge […]
Wednesday 1 April 2009 | Published in Features
Saturday 28 March: CI Tourism and Ports Cook Islands were in Miami, Florida, earlier this month attending the world’s biggest cruise shipping trade show. The Cook Islands team was USA representative Laura Matar, Ports Authority chairman Sam Crocombe and Michael Henry of Cruise Cook Islands. It is in Miami that all major cruise companies of […]