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Govt wont be rushed on mining

Friday 24 June 2011 | Published in Local

The Office of the Minister of Minerals and Natural Resources says it is serious about developing a deep sea mining sector within the Cook Islands without rushing the process. Ministerial advisor Paul Lynch wrote to Cook Islands News yesterday following the front page story detailing a multi-million dollar plan to explore the potential for seabed […]

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Crowd testament to Te Tikas influence

Friday 24 June 2011 | Published in Local

Hundreds of Cook Islanders flocked to Titikaveka CICC yesterday to pay their respects to the late Te Tika Mataiapo Dorice Reid, who passed away suddenly last week. The church was overflowing with people who Te Tika Mataiapo touched in some way or another people stood on the lawns outside the chapel, occupied chairs arranged underneath […]

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Te Tika Mataiapo Dorice Reid comes home

Thursday 23 June 2011 | Published in Local

Dozens turned up to the Air New Zealand cargo hangar yesterday to meet Te Tika Mataiapo Dorice Reids casket. Wrapped in a korowai, the casket arrived on NZ46 in the late afternoon to be greeted by throngs of people dressed in black and white and bearing eis for their sister and friend, the late Te […]

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ANZ mortgage agreement kept secret

Thursday 23 June 2011 | Published in Local

An agreement has been reached between the ANZ bank Cook Islands branch and a Rarotonga couple over a $95,000 loan for a house which was never built. Details about the agreement, formalised this week, cannot be disclosed publicly due to a confidentiality agreement. Tangi and Nooroa Samuel, who have come to an agreement with the […]

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$25m seabed mining offer

Thursday 23 June 2011 | Published in Local

Canadian banking group Endeavour Financial has made a fresh, $25 million offer to the Cook Islands government for an exploratory licence for manganese nodule mining. But the company appears to have been largely ignored by the government in its latest attempts to obtain a licence. Cook Islands News was told by a source close to […]

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Budget report tabled

Wednesday 22 June 2011 | Published in Local

A report by the governments Budget Support Group has been completed and officially tabled in cabinet. At present the Ministry of Finance and Economic Management is in the final stages of preparing the governments budget for the next financial year, which is to be tabled in parliament during the next sitting on July 1. The […]

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Big plans for vessel

Wednesday 22 June 2011 | Published in Local

Pacific Schooners Ltd has big plans for inter-island cargo and passenger vessel Tiare Taporo, which is on track to arrive in Rarotonga early next year. She will provide a regular inter-island cargo and passenger service. The 40m vessel can comfortably transport up to 300 tonnes of cargo. In her former life as a North Sea […]

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Ground-breaking study in CI

Wednesday 22 June 2011 | Published in Local

A Gulfstream V (GV) in the midst of a 27-day landmark climate change study arrives on Rarotonga today. The aircraft outfitted with state-of-the-art equipment and a crew of 10 scientists from Harvard University and other prestigious research institutions is part of HIPPO, a study sponsored by the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and National […]

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Te Tikas funeral tomorrow

Wednesday 22 June 2011 | Published in Local

Te Tika Mataiapo Dorice Reids body arrives on this afternoons flight from Auckland. The House of Ariki, Koutu Nui, Te Tika Mataiapo Komono/Pota Rangatira and Kautai Mataiapo will be at the airport to greet flight NZ46 around 4.15pm. Reverend Tereora Tereora of the Nikao CICC will host a prayer service at the Air NZ cargo […]

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Police once again urge vigilance

Tuesday 21 June 2011 | Published in Local

Cook Islands police are again reminding people to be vigilant in locking up and keeping an eye on personal properties to deter opportunist theft and burglaries, after another five over the weekend. Three burglaries and two thefts were reported to police at the weekend. A visiting couple returned to their Matavera accommodation to find their […]

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NCIFC in court in July

Tuesday 21 June 2011 | Published in Local

A civil court case between the Northern Cook Islands Fishing Company (NCIFC) and a Taiwanese fishing firm is scheduled to be heard for the first time before a Justice of the Peace on July 15. Acting for Taiwanese company Yuh Yow Marine Ltd and Chen Jin Tyan, local lawyer Lavenia Rokoika says she plans to […]

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Plans to stop illegal fishers

Tuesday 21 June 2011 | Published in Local

From July 1 a pocket of high seas bordered by the exclusive economic zones of the Cook Islands, French Polynesia and Kiribati will be closely monitored for illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. The patch of high seas, called the Eastern High Seas Pocket (EHSP), is a corridor to the Cook Islands exclusive economic zone (EEZ) […]

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Staring down the barrel

Tuesday 21 June 2011 | Published in Local

Dont try this at home . . . Royal New Zealand Air Force corporal Tamati Anaru inspects an unloaded Cook Islands Police issue .223 rifle at the Avarua police station yesterday. Anaru is in the Cook Islands for two weeks during a firearm amnesty, cleaning and safety-checking small arms. It takes him between 10 and […]

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