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Judge will hear jury trial
Tuesday 5 June 2012 | Published in Crime
Justice Hugh Williams is scheduled to arrive on Rarotonga June 17 to preside over a two-week-long session of the criminal and civil court. On his first day Justice Williams will hear a jury trial in relation to money laundering charges brought against Christopher and Akisi Mussell, who are represented by lawyer Tony Manarangi. The trial […]
Visitor numbers up 6% for April
Tuesday 5 June 2012 | Published in Local
Asian tourists are coming to the Cook Islands in increasing numbers, with the group spearheading an increase in visitor figures for April 2012. The number of Asians coming to Rarotonga in April is up by 40 percent compared to the same month last year, with the statistics office recording 56 inbound tourists compared to 40 […]
Police vehicle in crash
Tuesday 5 June 2012 | Published in Local
A police crash investigation team is looking into the cause of a collision on Saturday morning between a police vehicle carrying three police officers and a parked car. Police report that at 4.23am on Saturday, a mobile police patrol which included three officers crashed into an unoccupied parked vehicle on the main road at Kavera. […]
Murray's monster wedding present!
Tuesday 5 June 2012 | Published in Local
Despite weighting in at 262kg – the monster blue marlin caught aboard Akura yesterday didn’t win the Queen’s Birthday Weekend fishing competition – one especially for tuna. Not that it bothered the charter crew or their ecstatic anglers from New Zealand who were beaming after hauling in the monster. Kiwi angler Murray Broughton thought the […]
Lonely two months as an 'observer'
Tuesday 5 June 2012 | Published in National
Adrift on a Taiwanese vessel (its facilities designed for crew of Taiwanese stature) with no English-speaking companion, local Corey Fisher lived a fairly solitary life for the better part of two months. He’s glad to be back on Rarotonga, but says he would do the whole thing over again. He was selected by the Ministry […]
Low rating for CI 'procurement'
Tuesday 5 June 2012 | Published in National
A Public Expenditure and Financial Assessment (PEFA) conducted by the Ministry of Finance and Economic Management (MFEM) in conjunction with AusAID has rated the Cook Islands’ procurement system lowly. Procurement is a term that denotes the government’s purchase of goods, works and services to implement public projects or provide services like infrastructure, health and education. […]
Local Samoans celebrate independence
Tuesday 5 June 2012 | Published in National
The local Samoan community rose with the sun on Friday to celebrate 50 years of Samoa’s independence from New Zealand. Samoans and supporters convened at the home of Navy and Florence Epati in Matavera at 6.30am, ahead of a 7am flag-raising ceremony. The group re-convened after work at the Nikao golf club for a formal […]
Akirata to follow Royal's footsteps
Tuesday 5 June 2012 | Published in National
As Rarotonga based dance troupe Akirata is busy preparing for their tour to Europe in August, veteran dance troupe manager Ingrid Caffery remembers a similar tour that took place over 20 years ago. The Royal Rarotongans, a dance group of 22 members, travelled to Europe in 1991 for eight weeks to perform at many of […]
$50,000 prize won by Rotorua Atiuan Millie Kautai
Tuesday 5 June 2012 | Published in National
Rotorua based Atiu islander Millie Kautai will be packing her bags and travelling the world after being drawn the $50,000 winner of the Atiu hostel raffle. While the lucky winner wasn’t on the island to pick up her cheque, her family visiting from Kansas, Mary Kautai-Mateariki and her daughter Claire Boaza were more than happy […]
Bank expert sees scope for reform
Tuesday 5 June 2012 | Published in National
Following his initial appraisal of Cook Islands banks, founding chief executive of Kiwibank Sam Knowles says that interest rates are high not because banks are aiming to turn a profit, but because the state of the economy and the structure of the local banking system are such that local banks have to account for additional […]
'Over the moon'
Saturday 2 June 2012 | Published in National
Selina Napa says she is ”over the moon“ with how well her campaign is going. The first female to stand for election in Titikaveka has been busy asking the people of the village what they think needs to be fixed. ”It’s an eye opener to go into people’s homes and find out what issues and […]
Garden party in honour of women
Saturday 2 June 2012 | Published in National
The weather may not have been quite what one would have hoped for, but Selina Napa’s garden party was still a great success. The Democratic candidate in the Titikaveka by-election invited the ladies of her constituency for light refreshments at the Vai Villas in Vaimaanga on Thursday evening. Napa told CINews she was hosting the […]
Text vote for 'your' Miss Cook Islands
Saturday 2 June 2012 | Published in National
Let your fingers do the talking and vote for your favourite Miss Cook Islands contestants in the Miss SMS competition now open to the public. The contestant with the most votes will win the Miss SMS sash and voting will run right up until competition night on June 7. All pageant enthusiasts, friends and family […]
Port fees going up 4.5%
Saturday 2 June 2012 | Published in National
New port fees are set to come into action at the end of this week. The new fees, valid from Friday June 1, are to increase on average 4.5 per cent. Ports Authority general manager Bim Tou says the fee increase was not a revenue-gathering exercise, but is based on the annual Consumer Price Index […]
Visiting surgeons keep the tradition
Saturday 2 June 2012 | Published in National
Doctors visiting Rarotonga this week are continuing with a 20 year tradition of medical assistance from New Zealand. Dr Andrew MacDiarmid, an orthopaedic surgeon from Tauranga, has spent years providing care to patients in the Cook Islands – a task which he has now passed on to the current visiting doctors Dr Vaughan Poutawera and […]
Papa Tauira a NZ citizen
Saturday 2 June 2012 | Published in National
With his New Zealand citizenship certificate in hand – Papa Louis Tauira, originally from Tahiti, says he hopes to get across to New Zealand to visit his kids. Eighty-year-old papa Tauira received his New Zealand citizenship certificate at a special and intimate ceremony at the New Zealand High Commission residence in Ngatipa yesterday. While presenting […]
Pa enua programmes
Saturday 2 June 2012 | Published in Environment
Aitutaki vainetini are embroidering cloth bags for an art competition as part of its ‘Say YES to Reusable Bags’ campaign. Aitutaki is also keeping its annual tradition of a float parade around the island after a much smaller-scale beauty pageant contest called the Miss Ozone contest in support of the 25th anniversary of the Montreal […]
Distributing green materials
Saturday 2 June 2012 | Published in Environment
NES are distributing Waste Education Handbooks and other resources (DVDs, posters and fact books) to all schools within the Cook Islands in time for Environment Week. This will be used to supplement classroom lessons on the environment, in particular regarding waste management. The Waste Education Handbooks are great for any group, including youth and community […]
Bag and sculpture comps for conservation
Saturday 2 June 2012 | Published in Environment
The National Environment Service (NES) has organised two events on Rarotonga to celebrate Environment Week, and the NES pa enua offices have also developed their own programmes. NES encourages all Cook Islands residents to get involved and enter a sculpture of a sea creature made from recycled materials into a nationwide competition. Participants will be […]
Celebrate the environment
Saturday 2 June 2012 | Published in Environment
Nikao Maori School students, Grade Seven and Eight, share more of their creative writing with us this week. Environment Week also begins today, so for the next two weeks the Kids Page will feature word puzzles with an environmental theme, supplied by the National Environment Service. The National Environment Service also has some T-shirts to […]
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