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Head of FIU up for grabs
Wednesday 9 June 2010 | Published in Local
Head of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) Bob Williams is nearing the end of his contract and his position is up for grabs. The head of FIU reports to the solicitor-general and the minister of finance, and is responsible for advising government on key finance issues, including money laundering and combating financing of terrorism. The […]
TAU employee hits power pole
Wednesday 9 June 2010 | Published in Local
Te Aponga Uira employee Greg Andrew was charged with driving with excess breath alcohol when he appeared in court last week after he crashed a TAU truck into a TAU power pole at Avatiu recently. TAU chief executive, Apii Timoti, could not be reached for comment, but police suspect that damage to the power pole […]
Tourism head arrives to Budget cuts
Wednesday 9 June 2010 | Published in Local
Carmel Beattie, the new chief executive of Cook Islands Tourism, has arrived in Rarotonga and has spent her first day in the office responding to proposed budget cuts to tourism funding. The recommended cuts from Ministry of Finance, Wilkie Rasmussen, include not subsidising the proposed Nadi-Rarotonga flights and a much cut down version of the […]
Ingram dies in Auckland
Tuesday 8 June 2010 | Published in Local
Former Cook Islands minister and lawyer Vincent Ingram will be laid to rest today in Auckland. Ingram passed away peacefully in his sleep, surrounded by family on Sunday at Auckland’s Mercy Hospice. He held various Crown Ministerial positions in the country including Minister of Economic Development, Minister of Police and Minister of Justice. From 1984 […]
Prisoner captured
Tuesday 8 June 2010 | Published in Local
Escaped prisoner Andrew Tonorio is back in prison after six days on the run. Tonorio, 21, was caught hiding in the Aotearoa centre in Tupapa on Saturday night at about 10pm by prison wardens. Tonorio escaped from prison early Monday, May 31. Tonorio has an extensive criminal history including charges of burglary, contempt of court, […]
Fire at Aitutaki power station
Tuesday 8 June 2010 | Published in Local
There was a ‘heartbreaking’ fire at the Aitutaki power station at the weekend. Lloyd Miles, acting chief executive of CIIC, said they have recently completed a substantial renovation and upgrade of the power station. Miles said while the fire, which started late on Saturday night, was intense it was fortunately quite localised and contained to […]
Mirage Group to return in 2 weeks
Tuesday 8 June 2010 | Published in Local
Mirage Group Ltd associates, who intend to develop the Sheraton site at Vaimaanga, returned to New Zealand yesterday after spending some time on Rarotonga to tie up loose ends and talk business with landowner Pa Marie Ariki. The Mirage Group will return to Rarotonga in two weeks, at which point director Simon Herbert said he […]
Essential services 'safe' in Budget
Tuesday 8 June 2010 | Published in Local
Finance Minister Wilkie Rasmussen said that essential services will be safe, even though the 2010-11 Budget will be “tough and challenging”. Rasmussen has said that there will be no cuts to health, education, pensions or child support in the Budget, which has to go to Parliament and be voted on by July 31. The coming […]
First win
Friday 4 June 2010 | Published in Local
Team Fiji sing their national anthem with pride before heading out to meet and beat Samoa 50-45 in yesterday’s opening game of the Pacific Series. Report, back page. 10060316
Juhi under new ownership
Friday 4 June 2010 | Published in Local
Pacific Petroleum Company (PPC) last week finalised its purchase of BP Oil Southwest Pacific Ltd’s regional operations, which includes the local Juhi depot that supplies the Rarotonga International Airport with aviation fuel. The Joint Union Hydrant Installation (Juhi) depot is over 30 years old and for most of its years was managed on a rotational […]
CITC backs rugby
Friday 4 June 2010 | Published in Local
The Cook Islands Rugby Union is pleased to announce CITC as a major sponsor for the domestic rugby season. CITC’s sponsorship is reported to be worth about $20,000. CIRU chief executive officer Ben Koteka said that both the rugby union executive and all the clubs see this as a positive step towards building both the […]
CIP dismiss Sir Terepai shift
Friday 4 June 2010 | Published in Local
The Opposition Cook Islands Party (CIP) has dismissed suggestions that Sir Terepai Maoate could cross the floor with his nine supporters and join them. Now that Sir Terepai has been voted out as leader of the Democratic Party, speculation is rife about his next move, especially after some open-ended statements the former Deputy Prime Minister […]
Sir Terepai makes threat to party
Thursday 3 June 2010 | Published in Local
Sir Terepai Maoate may have lost his position as Democratic Party leader to Robert Wigmore, but in his address to yesterday’s party conference he zeroed in on new deputy leader Wilkie Rasmussen. “I don’t ever want to work with him again,” Sir Terepai said, referring to Rasmussen, He also issued a threat to the entire […]
Vaka set to sail today
Thursday 3 June 2010 | Published in Local
Four doubled hulled voyaging canoes are expected to depart out shores this afternoon after a whirlwind visit to Rarotonga, while the Cook Islands vaka Marumaru Atua will remain here. Faafaite will sail directly back home to Tahiti while Hine Moana (mixed nations), Aotearoa vaka Te Matau O Maui and Fiji vaka Uto ni Yalo will […]
Wigmore takes over as Demos vote for change
Thursday 3 June 2010 | Published in Local
Robert Wigmore is the new leader of the Democratic Party and will lead the party into the next election. If they win, he will be the Cook Islands’ new prime minister. But change did not stop there at yesterday’s much anticipated party conference. Sean Willis was elected the party’s new president, pushing out Makuiti Tongia, […]
Tonorio still on the loose
Wednesday 2 June 2010 | Published in Local
Escaped prisoner Andrew Tonorio is still at large. A Matavera resident reported having sighted him in the early hours of yesterday morning. She reported to police that two young males had been loitering on her property, and suspected that Tonorio was one of them but could not confirm the identity of the men. By the […]
Setting it in stone
Wednesday 2 June 2010 | Published in Local
A symbolic stone laying ceremony was held at Avana harbour yesterday in honour of the five voyaging vaka which arrived in the Cook Islands on Saturday. Each stone has been carried across the ocean by the vaka as a gift from their homeland to the people of the Cook Islands. The placing of stones has […]
Demo conference all go
Wednesday 2 June 2010 | Published in Local
Today’s Democratic Party conference is going ahead, despite lack of commitment from the executive led by Sir Terepai Maoate and Makiuti Tongia. Deputy Prime Minister Robert Wigmore said he was pleased that democracy was upheld by the outcome of the injunction appeal. He also urged all Democratic Party members to attend today’s conference. “I would […]
Prisoner escapes
Tuesday 1 June 2010 | Published in Local
Repeat offender Andrew Tonorio escaped from prison for the second time early yesterday. The escape yesterday morning follows a previous escape in November, which landed him back in prison soon after he fled. According to police, Tonorio was last seen near the rubbish dump just outside the Arorangi prison perimeter between 6.20-6.50am. Tonorio has black […]
Weston suggests Demos live up to their name
Tuesday 1 June 2010 | Published in Local
Chief Justice Tom Weston’s written judgement on the Democratic Party injunction application found decisively against the applicants party leader Sir Terepai Maoate, president Makiuti Tongia, and secretary general John Tangi. The applicants had filed the injunction to try and stop a Demo Party faction holding a party conference yesterday. “It would be an odd state […]
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