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Spouses join Cook Islands family
Wednesday 11 July 2012 | Published in Local
Foreign affairs minister Tom Marsters with Rebecca Brown and Lisa Williams – and their families – after yesterday’s permanent residency ceremony. Nine spouses and five medical professionals were awarded PR at the ceremony. and 9. 12071036 Related article(s):
5 doctors rewarded for services
Wednesday 11 July 2012 | Published in Local
Five medical professionals were yesterday awarded honorary permanent residency in recognition of their service to the people of the Cook Islands. They are Dr Andrew MacDiarmid, Dr Robert Eason, Dr John Veale, Dr Michael Webber and Dr Paul Rosser. They join a small, exclusive group of about 30 people who have received honorary residency over […]
Marumaru Atua vaka crew crushed
Tuesday 10 July 2012 | Published in Local
The Cook Islands crew aboard vaka Marumaru Atua feels let down by government’s failure to send a Cook Islands delegation to Honiara’s Festival of Pacific Arts. In his regular blog update, voyager Alex Olah described on behalf of his crew the pain and sadness he felt when no one Cook Islands team turned up to […]
Pito mai Pukapuka
Monday 9 July 2012 | Published in Local
Tetio Kaisara Pa ki Tonga Ariki from the island of Pukapuka with a pito or rock from the northern group island with the islands motu and lagoon etched onto it. The Pukapuka chief joined his fellow chiefs for the inaugural Ra o te Ui Ariki held on Friday where chiefs presented a rock in remembrance […]
Burglary photo gives police clues
Monday 9 July 2012 | Published in Local
Police have been analysing a photo of a man carrying out a burglary at a Titikaveka resort last week, but have not yet arrested anyone over the incident. The photo, gained from a security camera at the resort, was published in CINews on Friday June 29. Inspector Tere Patia of the Cook Islands Police says […]
Rarotonga near full capacity
Monday 9 July 2012 | Published in Local
The Cook Islands tourism season is beginning its peak, and the tourism corporation says numbers are very high already. The tourist peak season in the Cooks is July to September, coinciding with the Southern Hemisphere’s winter. July last year saw tourist numbers at an all-time high for any month, with 13,619 visitors to the Cooks. […]
Burglaries up 50 percent this month
Monday 9 July 2012 | Published in Local
Burglaries in Rarotonga seem to be on the rise, with statistics showing home break-ins are up almost fifty percent since last month. There were 37 homes broken into around the island in June and 25 broken into in May. According to police, 37 is the second highest figure ever. In March this year 38 homes […]
No support for artists?
Saturday 7 July 2012 | Published in Local
As an artist who has exhibited internationally and attended the Festival of Pacific Arts many times, Ani O’Neill feels very strongly about the lack of representation of the Cook Islands at the current festival. ”Where is our support of our own people at the biggest Pacific arts festival?“ she asks. O’Neill, an art teacher who […]
Akararangianga o te Ui Ariki
Saturday 7 July 2012 | Published in Local
The mana of the traditional Ui Ariki of the Cook Islands was honoured at yesterday’s inaugural Ra o te Ui Ariki at Atupare Marae in Kavera. Over 1000 people gathered at the Ui Ariki compound for the special occasion which centred on showing respect to the traditional leaders of the Cook Islands. Each ariki received […]
New shipping company licensed
Saturday 7 July 2012 | Published in Local
Newly-incorporated local company Tai Moana Ltd has obtained government’s second shipping licence. Deputy Prime Minister Tom Marsters, whose portfolio includes shipping, yesterday formally granted Tai Moana a licence to operate Southern Reef on the Cook Islands circuit – from New Zealand via Papeete to Rarotonga, and vice versa. ”Government now looks forward, along with all […]
By-election protest
Thursday 5 July 2012 | Published in Local
Cook Islands Party candidate Teariki Matenga has filed a petition protesting the win of his sister and political rival Selina Napa. Napa was named member of parliament for Titikaveka after a by-election, which landed her with 297 votes to Matenga’s 283. Independent candidate Teava Iro polled 104 votes. At 4pm on Tuesday, Matenga filed a […]
Prison for girl aged seventeen
Thursday 5 July 2012 | Published in Local
A teenage girl has been sent to prison for committing five burglaries. Seventeen-year-old Witamahame Metuakore was sentenced by three justices of the peace – John Kenning, John Whitta and Georgina Keenan-Williams – in the High Court yesterday. Two of the burglaries committed were on the same house in Arorangi on June 27 and 29, which […]
Demos call for commerce commission
Thursday 5 July 2012 | Published in Local
The opposition believes the best way to regulate the price of imports is not to hand out another shipping licence but to re-instate the dormant commerce commission. Opposition leader Wilkie Rasmussen says his party wants to be proactive about making the Cook Islands an easier place to do business, ”rather than sitting and tapping our […]
'Stupid' not to attend arts festival
Thursday 5 July 2012 | Published in Local
The Cook Islands Arts Council is exceedingly disappointed that no Cook Islands contingent is representing the country at Honiara’s Festival of Pacific Arts. Chairman Mike Tavioni says it is ”stupid“ that the Cook Islands failed to send a delegation, and believes there was ”no bloody excuse“ for it. The Ministry of Cultural Development has said […]
$5m for climate change projects
Tuesday 3 July 2012 | Published in Local
Five million dollars has been invested into a programme to help the Pa Enua build resilience to climate change and reduce disaster risk. The programme, which will be rolled out over five years, is called Strengthening the Resilience of our Islands and our Communities to Climate Change (SRIC-CC), or akamatutu’anga i te iti tangata no […]
Blood donors are superheroes!
Tuesday 3 July 2012 | Published in Local
In support of Red Cross and their blood donor campaign – Tereora College students dressed in red last week. The national college went one step further by creating this photo of a drop of blood – giving blood means giving life. World Blood Donor Day was this year celebrated globally on June 14 with events […]
Arts festival 'cut'
Tuesday 3 July 2012 | Published in Local
The Cook Islands Voyaging Society is attending the Festival of Pacific Arts in the Solomon Islands, but due to budgetary constraints the Ministry of Cultural Development will not be sending any other delegation to Honiara. Secretary for culture Sonny Williams confirmed this week that the vaka voyagers will be the only contingent representing the Cook […]
Police deny 999 fault
Tuesday 3 July 2012 | Published in Local
Police are denying there is anything wrong with the 999 emergency line, despite members of the public having to go to the aid of two stranded kayakers last week after emergency calls failed. Whitesands Beach Villas owner Don Beer said on Sunday June 24 a guest came and told him two American kayakers were having […]
Kite champ
Monday 2 July 2012 | Published in Local
Manureva Cook Islands 2012 winner Olly Brunton with his prizes and trophy after taking out the one-day kitesurfing competition on Maina Iti island in Aitutaki last Wednesday. The prizegiving of the second annual Manureva competition was held on Friday night in front of a large crowd of Aitutaki islanders who made it out to Arutanga […]
Howard humbled
Monday 2 July 2012 | Published in Local
New secretary of the Ministry of Transport Ned Howard won’t be changing his golfing habits as a result of his new job. Howard was formally announced as the new secretary at a civil function at Prime Minister Henry Puna’s office last Wednesday and was humbled by the appointment. Formerly the director for marine for 13 […]
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