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Still under wraps
Friday 2 December 2011 | Published in Local
Prime Minister Henry Puna says cabinet has received and is still considering the Public Sector Functional Review Report prepared by Asian Development Bank (ADB) consultants. Given the reports wide scope and strategic focus, cabinet wishes to give it careful consideration and expects there to be questions and meaningful discussions with the public service commissioner and […]
New shipping service stalls
Friday 2 December 2011 | Published in Local
Government is ironing out some details of an agreement with the Samoan Shipping Corporation for a cargo vessel to service northern group islands directly from Apia. The first voyage was initially supposed to be in November, but negotiations have not been completed and so the services commencement has been stalled. Government is not exactly sure […]
Brightening things up
Friday 2 December 2011 | Published in Local
Tereora College year 9 and 10 students Moeroa Ben, Kristiana Iro and Monica Tafale revamp Rarotongas bus stops and bring a bit of colour to the roadside.
$750 generated
Friday 2 December 2011 | Published in National
Aotearoa Society Rarotonga members are planning to hold an annual garage sale, following the success of last weekends inaugural fundraising event. The society offered vendors space for $20, staged a membership drive, and sold $10 plates of traditional Kiwi boil-up, soup, rewana bread, barbequed sausages and cups of tea and coffee. Members also sold hand-made […]
Busy week for prizegivings
Friday 2 December 2011 | Published in National
Rarotonga schools are busy this week preparing for end of year prizegivings and parent days. Yesterday Arorangi School had its prizegiving at 9am at Aroa Nui Hall. Today Titikaveka College and four primary schools are set to hold their own achievement ceremonies. At 9am Avatea, Nikao Maori and Avarua prizegivings begin at the schools (Avatea […]
Hooray, the NCEA exams are over!
Friday 2 December 2011 | Published in National
Secondary school students throughout the Cook Islands can breathe a sigh of relief now that their end-of-year examinations are over. The last National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) exam in the country was for level two economics and it took place at Princess Anne Hall in Nikao from 10.30am on Tuesday. All Cook Islands examination […]
Police await results from coroner
Friday 2 December 2011 | Published in National
Police are still waiting for directions from the coroner following their investigation into a ten-year-old Takuvaine girls death recently. The girl died just one day shy of her eleventh birthday at Rarotonga hospital on November 6. Police commissioner Maara Tetava has quashed suspicion that she died as a result of violence, saying there is no […]
Distracted drivers pose danger
Friday 2 December 2011 | Published in National
Distracted drivers are dangerous drivers. Thats the message coming from Cook Islands Police after a young woman was taken to hospital this week with head injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident that occurred because she was not paying proper attention to the road. The woman, aged in her late teens, ran up the rear of […]
Time for a uniform change at Tereora
Friday 2 December 2011 | Published in National
Tereora College sporters will pull on a new uniform for physical education classes next year in the first uniform change of many planned for the school. The current, white sports uniform will be dropped next year and replaced with a navy blue singlet and rugby shorts for Tereora students. The singlet will feature the schools […]
Students revamp bus stops
Friday 2 December 2011 | Published in National
Teenage painters have taken to the bus stops in Arorangi and, no, they arent graffiti addicts wanted by the law. Instead, these year 9 and 10 Tereora College students have gone out with paint buckets and brushes in hand to help revamp the village bus stops and bring a bit of colour to the roadside. […]
Buck stops with Appeal court
Friday 2 December 2011 | Published in Crime
Plans for a Cook Islands criminal court case to go all the way to the Privy Council in the United Kingdom have been thwarted by the Court of Appeal this week. Terekimiora Katoa is charged with importing cannabis an offence he denies. The case, which dates back to August 2009, was heard in the Cook […]
Tiare Week winners named
Friday 2 December 2011 | Published in National
The Ministry of Justice and the Tuarai Clinic have been named as the winners of the 2011 Tiare Week Decorated Properties Competition winners. The pair was named as the competition winners for their colourful and well thought out floral designs in line with this years theme te au akairo o toku matakeinanga or signs of […]
Court reserves decision in employment dispute case
Friday 2 December 2011 | Published in Crime
A decision in the civil case between health secretary Tupou Faireka and former director of hospital services Heather Webber-Aitu had been reserved. Presiding over the Court of Appeal in Rarotonga this week, Sir Ian Barker, David Williams and Barry Paterson heard the case on Tuesday. Webber-Aitu claims Faireka breached her employment contract by advertising her […]
Freedom short-lived
Friday 2 December 2011 | Published in Crime
The freedom of defendant Kakino Kakino has been relatively short-lived. On November 17 the Arorangi resident was granted bail subject to strict conditions, having spent more than four months remanded in jail. But Kakino is back in Arorangis prison. He denies charges of (being a male) assaulting a female, threatening to kill, and three counts […]
Cautionary advice on seabed mining
Thursday 1 December 2011 | Published in Environment
The Cook Islands and the Pacific region have been urged to take a precautionary approach to seabed mineral exploration to ensure the communitys interests and the environment are properly protected. Doctor Russell Howorth, a director of the Secretariat of the South Pacifics Applied Geoscience and Technology Division (SOPAC), has sounded a cautionary note during his […]
TAU refutes surge claim
Thursday 1 December 2011 | Published in Local
Computer system problems and failures since last weeks island-wide power cut are causing consternation. Since Thursdays island-wide power cut on Rarotonga, computer parts suppliers have had a bolt in demand for new batteries and power packs. They say it shows there was a surge in the power grid, but Te Aponga Uira says it has […]
CISNOC accounts hit by meltdown
Thursday 1 December 2011 | Published in Local
Members of the Cook Islands Sports and National Olympic Committee (CISNOC) will have to wait a little longer for an updated financial report of the organisation. In early November new CISNOC treasurer Dan OBrien promised members he would give them a breakdown of the organisations fiscal status by the end of the month. But fate […]
Uirangis ready to go
Thursday 1 December 2011 | Published in Local
Cook Islands’Miss South Pacific contestant Uirangi Bishop with supporters Miss South Pacific 2010 Joyana Meyer and Edgewater Resort and Spa general manager Chris McGeown giving her a final farewell
Big fish on Manihiki!
Thursday 1 December 2011 | Published in National
A total of 200 kilograms of fish has been caught during a competition in Manihiki. Nehemia Kaina won the major prize for the heaviest wahoo caught a 15kg beauty however the $500 prize money was not claimed because no wahoo more than 30kg were caught. Benjamin Ravengakore captured the largest tuna, of 25.8kg, and the […]
Bug lady helps out in Mauke
Thursday 1 December 2011 | Published in National
When Ministry of Agriculture entomologist Maja Poeschko visited Mauke she was taken on a whirlwind tour of local pest issues. Three days wasnt enough time as she likes to really study one square metre at a time, looking for the many life forms that most are unaware of. Maja learned that the fruit piercing moth […]
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