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Great trip, but time to come home
Monday 19 September 2016 | Published in Local
TAMARUA Marsters, winner of the New Zealand High Commission’s WW100 Speech and ANZAC essay competition, says he is ready to come home after his trip to France.
Coalition move a stunt, says Chief Justice
Monday 19 September 2016 | Published in Local
CHIEF JUSTICE Thomas Crowley Weston QC yesterday called the manner in which Opposition coalition filed an application to the Cook Islands High Court earlier this week a “stunt”.
Seven safe after night rescue
Monday 19 September 2016 | Written by Richard Moore | Published in Local
THE CREW of Cook Islands Police Service patrol boat Te Kukupa has carried out a night-time search mission to find seven fishermen missing in rough seas near uninhabited Manuae late on Thursday night.
Long history of failure on 'cursed' Vaimaanga land
Friday 16 September 2016 | Published in Local
The HISTORY of the failure of projects on the Sheraton site at Vaimaanga goes back a long way.
BTIB welcomes interest in hotel site
Friday 16 September 2016 | Published in Local
The BUSINESS Trade Investment Board (BTIB) has welcomed overseas interest in developing the so-called Sheraton Hotel site at Vaimaanga which is set to be sold yet again.
Police correct dog allegations
Friday 16 September 2016 | Published in Local
THE COOK ISLANDS Police Service says a recent Facebook post claiming dog owners were having their pets taken off them if the owners didn’t register them within 24 hours, are incorrect.
Probation takes stand on reports
Friday 16 September 2016 | Published in Local
THE PROBATION office at the Ministry of Justice is no longer accepting requests for probation reports to be provided before a sentencing date is confirmed at the Cook Islands High Court.
Tourism to host regional meeting
Friday 16 September 2016 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Local
COOK ISLANDS Tourism Corporation is all geared up to host the South Pacific Tourism Organisation (SPTO) Council of Ministers of Tourism meeting for the first time next month.
New helmet law in force soon
Friday 16 September 2016 | Written by Richard Moore | Published in Local
Young adults and tourists riding motorbikes, bicycles and scooters on Rarotonga are the main targets of new transport laws passed by parliament this week.
Cook Islands leads way in police training
Thursday 15 September 2016 | Written by Richard Moore | Published in Local
SOME of the best and brightest police officers from around the Pacific were in Rarotonga recently attending a major training programme.
Cabinet gives green light to a further 5 per cent hike in tobacco tax
Thursday 15 September 2016 | Published in Local
CABINET has approved a further five per cent tax on tobacco as part of a tobacco-control programme for the Cook Islands.
Report backs ministry's purse seining initiatives
Thursday 15 September 2016 | Published in Local
THE MINISTRY of Marine Resources remains committed to a sustainably-managed purse seine fishery following the findings of the purse seining special select committee.
Helping the most vulnerable in society
Thursday 15 September 2016 | Published in Local
If THE measure of a society is how well it looks after its most vulnerable, then the people who run the Creative Centre in Tupapa, and the people who support them, must be on the side of the angels.
Luxury ship calls in for a day's visit
Thursday 15 September 2016 | Written by Richard Moore | Published in Local
The LATEST cruise ship to visit Rarotonga arrived off Avatiu yesterday carrying more than 500 passengers and crew.
Webb leaves Cooks to help Kiribati with fiscal reforms
Thursday 15 September 2016 | Published in Local
COOK ISLANDS Ministry of Finance and Economic Management’s James Webb will depart our shores to join the Kiribati Government as the Director of the National Economic and Planning Office (NEPO) this month.
Call for tenders on gabion project
Thursday 15 September 2016 | Published in Local
IN A bid to provide safety for a community, Infrastructure Cook Islands is seeking tender proposals from contractors for the Takuvaine stream rock gabion wall project.
Nation hauls in tourist dollars
Thursday 15 September 2016 | Published in Local
Record six months for visitor arrivals, says Finance minister
'Hero of faith' had a long and full life
Wednesday 14 September 2016 | Published in Local
Papa Nikau Tangaroa OBE, a Suffragan Bishop in the Apostolic Church who died on September 9, had a long and distinguished life,
Cleaning session today at port
Wednesday 14 September 2016 | Published in Local
THE COOK ISLANDS Ports Authority has organised a special clean up event to mark “Clean the World Day” tomorrow, September 15.
First step in creation of carved memorial
Wednesday 14 September 2016 | Published in Local
A PRECIOUS cargo of wood from Mangaia has been offloaded in Rarotonga.
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