Weekend
Science key to grasping change
Saturday 8 December 2018 | Published in Weekend
This feature by Melina Tuiravakai, Climate Change Cook Islands Division of the Office of the Prime Minister and Kate Jean Smith, UNDP, describes how automatic weather stations are helping to fill the gaps in our understanding of climate change.
Charlotte's life: Picture perfect
Tuesday 4 December 2018 | Written by Chris Taylor | Published in Weekend
FIRST LIGHT on a glassy Rarotonga palm-fringed-lagoon is as picturesque as it gets, but it’s what lies beneath the surface of the crystal waters that draws Charlotte Piho to the depths below every time she returns home to the Cook Islands.
Space travel youngster's dream
Wednesday 21 November 2018 | Written by Chris Taylor | Published in Weekend
While most youngsters are content to just play games on their smartphones, Tai Eraio is searching deep into space above Rarotonga every day and night, tracking the International Space Station on his phone.
Mud glorious mud... it's Buggy time!
Saturday 27 October 2018 | Written by Richard Moore | Published in Weekend
There are two things you can guarantee when you take a spin out with Raro Buggy Tours – one is that you’ll get dirty, the other is you’ll have fun.
Tastes of Atiu enjoyed well beyond the island
Saturday 13 October 2018 | Published in Weekend
The exciting tastes of Atiu are spreading beyond the island, thanks to an innovative and flourishing food venture launched by a local husband and wife team.
Going on a Turtling Safari...
Saturday 6 October 2018 | Written by Richard Moore | Published in Weekend
As a small lad I remember being reduced to tears by documentary footage of baby turtles - just hatched from eggs – struggling to make it to the nearby ocean across a very wide expanse of sand.
'Talkies' and the end of the toroka teata
Saturday 29 September 2018 | Written by Jaimie Keay | Published in Weekend
Rod Rixon concludes his fascinating look at the history of cinema in the Cook Islands.
The movies come to Rarotonga
Sunday 23 September 2018 | Published in Weekend
While the exact date has become lost in the mists of time, the arrival of moving pictures on Rarotonga in the early years of last century made a huge impact on life on the island. USP director Rod Dixon wrote this fascinating feature, which outlines the history of "the movies" on Rarotonga.
The mystery of Elizabeta Pitiman
Saturday 25 August 2018 | Published in Weekend
The 2018 Oceania exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts opens in London on September 29, bringing together 250 Pacific works of arts to celebrate the 250th anniversary year of Captain Cook’s first exploration of the Pacific. Included among the exhibits is a tapa cloth from Rarotonga with an interesting story. Local researchers Rod Dixon and Mike Tavioni, wrote this feature, which provides background information on the cloth for its current owner, the University of Cambridge.
Poe tiare oki koe noku
Saturday 18 August 2018 | Published in Weekend
The words of the above popular local song, which was also one of her favourites, are a fitting tribute to Essie Apolonia Mokotupu, a woman who was loved by many and who gave much love in return.
The Cook Islands: 15 islands - and Tokoroa, New Zealand
Saturday 4 August 2018 | Published in Weekend
This week was Cook Islands Language Week in New Zealand, with centres all around the country celebrating Cook Islands Language and Culture. This feature, written by Luke Kirby, appeared in the Waikato Times earlier this week. It is reprinted with the permission of the Stuff news website.
The view from Lyn's house is breathtaking.
Saturday 21 July 2018 | Published in Weekend
Italian Tiziana Margarito has been living in the Cook Islands for three years. Based in Rarotonga where she works as a travel agent, Margarito spends her free time exploring the outer islands. Last weekend, she visited Mangaia for the first time and documented her experience in this article
A CITC trip down memory lane
Thursday 19 July 2018 | Published in Weekend
I’m picking Robin Bullen is a bit of a character. You can see it in his mercurial smile and his eyes. There’s a hint of mischief – well, fun anyway.
A lifetime of colour
Tuesday 17 July 2018 | Published in Weekend
The upcoming solo exhibition, Years of Colour by Kay George, at Bergman Gallery marks 30 years to the very day since the well-known visual artist arrived in the Cook Islands with her late husband and fellow artist, Ian George.
United Nations membership
Saturday 14 July 2018 | Published in Weekend
Howard Henry, in this two-part series on the Cook Islands’ prospects of becoming a member of the United Nations, was one of two original foundation staff members of the External Affairs Division (later to be the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) of the Cook Islands government in 1973.
Remembering the days of the fabulous Coral Route
Saturday 7 July 2018 | Published in Weekend
At their lowest, the Solent flying boats dipped so close to the waters of the Pacific Ocean that passengers could pick out brilliant coral formations, whales, and even the occasional shark from their windows.
On the campaign trail...
Monday 25 June 2018 | Published in Weekend
When Cook Islands journalist and freelancer Lisa Williams-Lahari came home as part of her freelance work with Pacific broadcaster 531 pi in Auckland, she thought it would be a matter of straightforward chasing up of the usual talking heads and elections leads.
Diving with the sharks
Saturday 9 June 2018 | Published in Weekend
Nikao local Terii Pittman has always been a bit of an adventurer, so when the opportunity arose to make her first visit to the northern group as part of a shark research team, she dived right in.
Life's a song for budding opera star
Saturday 2 June 2018 | Published in Weekend
Cook Islands opera singer Ridge Ponini recently auditioned for the prestigious Lexus Song Quest opera-singing competition in New Zealand. The Lexus Song Quest has been running for more than 60 years, and has been won in the past by such opera greats as Dame Malvina Major and Dame Kiri Te Kanawa. CINews recently caught up with 22-year-old Ridge – currently studying hard towards a Bachelor of Music degree in Classical Voice (Opera) at Otago University in Dunedin – to see how he went and to find out a bit more about this rising young singer.
Mousie Skews a woman of faith and huge courage
Saturday 26 May 2018 | Published in Weekend
Rarotonga is mourning the death of yet another icon: Mousie Skews, who died on Friday after a long battle with cancer.
