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Event postponed
Tuesday 14 December 2010 | Published in Local
Yesterday’s planned Rotaract Christmas in the Park at the BCI Stadium had to be postponed because of the wet weather. The popular community event was to have started at 4.30pm but organisers decided to move the event to Wednesday due to rain. Wednesday’s event will follow the same format as planned for yesterday, including fun […]
McCully to meet govt
Tuesday 14 December 2010 | Published in Local
NZ Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully is due to arrive in Rarotonga for a four day visit from Thursday. McCully is to hold talks with the new CIP government on a wide range of bilateral and regional issues. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigration, Tom Marsters, announced McCully’s visit yesterday. “The […]
Idol win still sinking in
Tuesday 14 December 2010 | Published in Local
Emile Rima is reeling. It’s been just three months since he worked up the courage to sing in front of a crowd for the first time, and now he’s Raro’s newest Idol. On Saturday night, a panel of judges handpicked the ever-smiling, charismatic 19-year-old to be Rarotonga’s next rising star. Emile and runner-up Marama Terekia […]
Public service size concerns
Tuesday 14 December 2010 | Published in Local
New Zealand MPs have raised concern about the size of the public service in the Cook Islands, but Public Service Commissioner Navy Epati doesn’t believe the concern is warranted because there hasn’t been a significant rise in the number of public servants since the 1996 reform. Yesterday, Radio NZ International reported that a report by […]
Sweet treat
Monday 13 December 2010 | Published in Local
Dress up in your most creative Christmas Candyland outfit for tonight’s Rotaract Christmas in the Park at the BCI Stadium. The event starts at 4.30pm and it should be a fun outing for the family. Fun activities and games, plus face painting will keep the kids occupied before Santa Claus makes his entrance between 5.30pm […]
Proud principal says goodbye
Monday 13 December 2010 | Published in Local
It was a bitter sweet day for Te Uki Ou school’s principal Jason Miro Ataera as he sat amongst the audience at last week’s school prize giving ceremony. After three years of teaching at Te Uki Ou primary school, Ataera and his family are moving back to Wellington. Ataera is hopeful he will return in […]
School moves
Monday 13 December 2010 | Published in Local
There are 20 teachers starting afresh in February and two new advisors at the Ministry of Education. These include six teachers coming from schools all over New Zealand to take posts at Araura primary school in Aitutaki, as well as Titikaveka and Tereora colleges. Two experienced teachers from NZ are also joining the Ministry of […]
Police stop top official
Monday 13 December 2010 | Published in Local
A government head of ministry was stopped by police at the weekend and forbidden to drive after police found him under the influence of alcohol. Police said the senior government official was driving a government vehicle along the main road in Arorangi when police stopped the driver and forbade him to drive for 24 hours […]
Slush costs awarded
Saturday 11 December 2010 | Published in Local
The High Court has awarded a total of $231,431 in costs to the defendants acquitted on corruption charges this year in the controversial case dubbed the ‘Slush Trial’. The costs judgement of Justice Colin Nicholson issued on Thursday orders government to pay costs towards the legal fees and other expenses of lawyer and MP Norman […]
Holidays ahead
Saturday 11 December 2010 | Published in Local
Get ready for some long weekends over the festive season thanks to the public holidays being observed on Monday and Tuesday of the week after the weekends that Christmas and New Year’s Day fall on. Because Christmas Day is on a Saturday this year, Monday December 27 will be observed as a public holiday. Another […]
Cook Islands Party celebration
Friday 10 December 2010 | Published in Local
The Cook Islands Party will celebrate coming into power as the new government with a Christmas function next Friday. The wrap up party will be held at T&M Heather – the business premises of new infrastructure minister Teariki Heather. The function has been organised by the party executive. CIP president Rau Nga says the event […]
Penrhyn gets water help
Friday 10 December 2010 | Published in Local
A desalination plant will be delivered to Penrhyn this month as the island faces an extended dry spell. MP Wilkie Rasmussen will head to the island this month aboard Police patrol boat Te Kukupa with the desalination plant secured in recent talks with Emergency Management Cook Islands. The plant will be able to convert sea […]
Petition strike out rejected
Friday 10 December 2010 | Published in Local
Chief Justice Tom Weston rejected an application to strike out the amended Rakahanga electoral petition yesterday. Lawyer Tina Browne of Browne Harvey & Associates acting on behalf of the first respondent, Democratic MP Taunga Toka, filed the application late Wednesday claiming the case should be thrown out because the amended petition had not been filed […]
McCully tipped to visit
Thursday 9 December 2010 | Published in Local
NZ Foreign Minister Murray McCully is reportedly planning to visit the Cook Islands to meet with members of the new government next week. It’s understood McCully will arrive next Thursday and will meet with new Prime Minister Henry Puna and other officials, but details of the visit have yet to be released. Ministry of Foreign […]
More votes disputed
Thursday 9 December 2010 | Published in Local
The amended electoral petition for Rakahanga now claims five voters were not qualified to vote and their ballot papers should be removed from the final count. The petitioner is CIP candidate Toka Hagai who lost the election against Democratic Party candidate Taunga Toka by just two votes. The petition filed on December 2 challenged the […]
Tikaka gets hospital job
Thursday 9 December 2010 | Published in Local
Dr Henry Tikaka is the new Director of Hospital Services. He was one of three people interviewed for the post, during the recent selection process, from a field of six applicants – four doctors and two non-doctors. One overseas candidate pulled out during the interview process, leaving just two local candidates in the running. The […]
Tame Iti visits Raro
Tuesday 7 December 2010 | Published in Local
Spotted cruising the streets of Rarotonga yesterday was well known New Zealand Tuhoe Maori activist Tame Iti (pictured). It is Iti’s first visit to Rarotonga with his fellow Tuhoe practitioner colleagues, who provide social services for their people including providing help for people combatting drug and alcohol addictions. Iti says that he jumped at the […]
Environment a priority: Puna
Tuesday 7 December 2010 | Published in Local
Prime Minister Henry Puna has reassured the public that the new government would take protection of the environment seriously. He was responding to Te Ipukarea Society plans to lobby government to place a 15-year moratorium on any further tourist accommodation development on Rarotonga and place urgent focus on infrastructure development. “There is and there should […]
Heather full of pride
Tuesday 7 December 2010 | Published in Local
Cabinet minister Teariki Heather described his swearing-in ceremony as a proud day for his family. He paid special tribute to his parents William and Niotangi who watched on proudly as Queen’s Representative Sir Frederick Goodwin presented Heather with his warrant of appointment as the last minister in Prime Minister Henry Puna’s new cabinet. Heather, the […]
Censor helps police
Monday 6 December 2010 | Published in Local
Chief Censor Alfred Morris has helped the police locate the evidence that he passed over to them in at least two cases of DVD piracy. Morris will be meeting with police today to discuss the cases he presented to them. If prosecutions do go ahead, it will be the first time that DVD pirates will […]
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