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Schools in climate change competition
Tuesday 7 December 2010 | Published in Environment
St Joseph’s school pupils won first place and $300 in a performance competition organised by the Cook Islands Red Cross and Ministry of Education to raise awareness about climate change. About 120 Rarotongan primary school pupils were involved in the competition, the results of which were announced on Friday. Second place and $200 went to […]
Cook Islands youth at climate change meeting
Tuesday 7 December 2010 | Published in Environment
Cook Islander Luana Bosanquet-Heays is one of three Pacific youth at the United Nations COP16 Climate Change Negotiations in Cancun, Mexico, to represent the voice of the Pacific people from November 26 to December 10. As part of the Project Survival Pacific delegation, Bosanquet-Heays will be calling for world leaders and politicians at the meeting […]
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 […]
'P' warning for schools
Tuesday 7 December 2010 | Published in National
Superintendent Ross Ardern of NZ Police told school children yesterday that 10 years ago, the New Zealand public was ‘warned’ to do something about an imminent methamphetamine problem. “But we did absolutely nothing,” he said, and added that today people all across the country are abusing methamphetamine, known colloquially as ‘ice’ or ‘P’. Ardern told […]
Faster broadband looms
Tuesday 7 December 2010 | Published in National
Telecom Cook Islands (TCI) says O3b Networks is going ahead with its new low orbiting satellite launch in 2013 which will mean seriously faster broadband internet for their customers. TCI has a deal with O3b Networks which announced on Monday that it has raised the US$1.2 billion needed to fund the construction, commissioning and launch […]
Youth making a difference
Tuesday 7 December 2010 | Published in National
Pacific Youth Council Treasurer, Jacque Koroi was honoured as the runner up National Volunteer of the Year at the UN International Volunteer Day awards held in Suva on Monday. “Jacque is one that does not say no when it comes to volunteering for any youth activity or programme be it a workshop, clean up campaign, […]
Pa Ariki home to welcome son back
Tuesday 7 December 2010 | Published in National
Pa Ariki farewelled her son, Sam Napa Jnr, nine months ago in Auckland as one of the crew on vaka Marumaru Atua, which was built in New Zealand. She has not seen her son since then and did not want to miss welcoming him back, this time from Tahiti. After reaching Rarotonga from New Zealand […]
Stolen signs found in hedge
Tuesday 7 December 2010 | Published in National
Sam Crocombe of Raro Safari Tours can’t understand why anyone would go to the trouble to steal a sign. On Thursday night his Safari Tours sign was stolen from the front of his business across from the Punanga Nui marketplace. Later, relatives rang him to tell him that his sign was sitting in an Upper […]
Rakahanga petition questions 3 votes
Tuesday 7 December 2010 | Published in National
CIP candidate Toka Hagai is challenging the election of the Democratic Party’s Taunga Toka as MP of Rakahanga. In the electoral petition filed in the High Court last week by lawyer Paul Lynch, Hagai alleges three voters were not qualified to vote. It is alleged that three of the voters left Rakahanga for Rarotonga and […]
Petition planning underway
Tuesday 7 December 2010 | Published in National
Second meeting today for parties involved in electoral petitions Chief Justice Tom Weston will hold a second meeting with the parties involved in the four electoral petitions at the Ministry of Justice today. The CIP has filed one electoral petition for Rakahanga, the Democratic Party has filed two petitions – one for Mangaia’s Tamarua seat […]
Ingram book donation
Tuesday 7 December 2010 | Published in National
The Cook Islands Library and Museum Society has received its largest single donation of books ever this month from the estate of the late Vincent Ingram. Today the society is honouring the former cabinet minister and lawyer with a special ceremony to acknowledge the gift of 58 cartons of books. Reading was one of the […]
CIT aims to promote sustainable growth
Tuesday 7 December 2010 | Published in National
At the moment Cook Islands Tourism (CIT) does not play a part in policing the way tourist operators develop – but chief executive, Carmel Beattie, says that they aim to make their accreditation scheme more robust and meaningful after talks about how it will work with government. This comes in light of calls by Te […]
Te Kukupa gets makeover
Monday 6 December 2010 | Published in National
Christmas came early this year for police patrol boat Te Kukupa – she’s got a new paint job, a stronger hull, a newfound capacity to travel at full-speed and five new crew recruits. The vessel has just returned from a month-and-a-half-long biennial slipping in American Samoa. Her captain Tepaki Baxter said that she was strengthened […]
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 […]
Raro lizard a winner
Monday 6 December 2010 | Published in Local
The photo that swept the recent New Zealand Geographic 2010 Photographer of the Year competition was snapped on Rarotonga. Photographer Dillon Anderson was here on holiday when he spotted a moko on a banana leaf in the bush – he took a photo, which turned out better than a photo he’d spent six hours setting […]
Petitions heard next year
Monday 6 December 2010 | Published in Local
The four electoral petitions filed in the High Court are likely to be heard early next year. Chief Justice Tom Weston called a meeting of the parties involved in petitions at the Ministry of Justice on Friday to plan out how they will handle three of them. Weston invited local media to the meeting with […]
Environmental award for Vaka Eiva
Monday 6 December 2010 | Published in National
The Vaka Eiva organising committee has been presented with an Environmental Award from Te Ipukarea Society Inc (TIS) for making this year’s Vaka Eiva a green event. “We know they’ve always tried to make the Vaka Eiva an environmentally friendly event but the effort they made this year was exceptional,” says TIS programme manager Jacqui […]
Last noni meeting for year
Monday 6 December 2010 | Published in National
Cook Islands noni growers and exporters will have their last meeting of 2010 on Tuesday at the Cook Islands Noni Marketing factory in Titikaveka to discuss plans for 2011. Teava Iro, a director of Cook Islands Noni Marketing, said about 30 people were expected to attend the meeting from 9.30am. It will be a chance […]
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