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The Cook Islands remembers
Tuesday 27 April 2010 | Published in National
Fallen warriors, who fought against the spread of evil, were remembered during Sunday’s Anzac Day commemorations. The day’s Anzac services marked the 95th year the commemorations have been held to remember the day that the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps first landed at Gallipoli. The dawn parade drew a staunch group of Returned Services […]
Calling all happy campers
Tuesday 27 April 2010 | Published in National
Get your bags packed kids. Today’s the last day to register for the Youth with a Mission (YWAM) summer camp. The ‘Last days of summer’ camp is running for three days from tomorrow to Friday. The campers will be staying in the YWAM dormitory in Vaimaanga and the activities will keep the campers on their […]
Slush trial wrapping up
Tuesday 27 April 2010 | Published in National
Crown law presented its closing submissions in the Operation Slush trial before Judge Colin Nicholson yesterday. Prosecutor Mike Ruffin walked Nicholson through the relevant points covered during the year-long trial in an attempt to prove the credibility of key witness Junior Areai. At this point, lawyer Norman George is the single defendant in a case […]
$200,000 prison renovations finished
Monday 26 April 2010 | Published in Local
Government officials, justice staff and honoured guests celebrated the renovation of the Arorangi prison at a ceremony on Friday. After ten inmates escaped from custody last year, government and Cook Islands Investment Corporation decided to re-vamp the facility and allocated $200,000 to the project. It was the first time since 1953 that the prison had […]
Wigmore confirms as candidate
Monday 26 April 2010 | Published in Local
Deputy prime minister and Titikaveka MP Robert Wigmore (above) is hoping to be re-elected for a second consecutive term in parliament – as a Demo Party MP – at this year’s election. Despite the Democratic Party split and the question of whether Wigmore is still a member of the party, given prime minister Jim Marurai’s […]
Forum countries push for fishing limits on sharks and swordfish
Monday 26 April 2010 | Published in National
Sharks are not often thought of as fish under serious threat from commercial fishing because we know most of them more commonly as predators that both fascinate and frighten. For some species of shark, especially in the heavily fished Pacific waters, their survival is at stake because of fishing. Proposals for conservation measures to ensure […]
Aitutaki opts for local design
Monday 26 April 2010 | Published in National
Government plans to have 65 new homes built in Aitutaki by November for the people who lost their homes in Cyclone Pat in February. Two weeks ago government approached the families who will receive the houses to ask them to choose what home option they preferred. They are reported to have unanimously opted for the […]
Educators get educated
Monday 26 April 2010 | Published in National
Twenty-six teachers and principals are making the most of the school holidays and began their Masters of Education studies at USP last week. Thirteen of the students in the masters programme are based in the outer islands, but still made it to a morning tea last Wednesday to chat about the course which is expected […]
CI Tourism teams up with dating website for new show
Monday 26 April 2010 | Published in National
Cook Islands Tourism has teamed up with Fairfax-owned dating website RSVP and Pacific Blue airline to create a reality dating show likely to be filmed here later this year. Called Rules of Attraction, its creators have dubbed it the ‘ultimate dating adventure’. Australians had to register online for the chance to take part in the […]
Sun on the horizon
Saturday 24 April 2010 | Published in Local
The Cook Islands can expect some sunshine after the weekend. The country has been experiencing above average rainfall over the past few days due to the South Pacific Convergence Zone passing over the islands. The convergence zone is a reverse-oriented monsoon trough which is a band of low-level convergence made up of clouds and rain. […]
Tourist trap
Saturday 24 April 2010 | Published in Local
Four young men appeared in court yesterday after executing a plan to steal a tourist’s handbag off her shoulder. On Wednesday night, they stopped to talk to a group of women on the side of the road, and in the process grabbed a handbag from one of them. Esaki Fimone pleaded guilty to having stolen […]
Toagate a soap opera at the expense of taxpayers
Saturday 24 April 2010 | Published in Local
The gloomy fiasco of Toagate is becoming a soap opera at the expense of every tax payer in the country, says Cook Islands Workers’ Association (CIWA) president Anthony Turua. “The whole judiciary and constitutional system of our country is becoming a cricket match of 20/20 to the extent that every civilian of our country is […]
Anzac fishing action
Saturday 24 April 2010 | Published in National
By the time you pick up the paper and have breakfast this morning – local fishermen would have already been out on the water for a good few hours as they try to hook the big one to win today’s Anzac Day fishing competition. The annual Anzac Day fishing competition opened at 6am this morning […]
Me'a Kai cookbook launch next week
Saturday 24 April 2010 | Published in National
Cook Islands cuisine features in a stunning new cookbook ‘Me’a Kai: The Food and the Flavours of the South Pacific’ due for release on April 30. Two years ago, New Zealand-born chef Robert Oliver, after a career in the United States restaurant industry, went back to Fiji, where he grew up, to rediscover the art […]
Last of the Cook Islanders
Saturday 24 April 2010 | Published in National
Ru Henry passed away January 5, 2010 at St Joan’s rest home, Waipuna, NZ after a long illness. This followed the death on Anzac Day 2009 of his older brother Eric Akokoa Waenuirangi Henry – Reg. No. 67417 – 7th Reinforcements – D Company. These two brothers were from Aitutaki and were the last of […]
Broadbent remembered
Saturday 24 April 2010 | Published in National
Members of the Returned Services Association in Nikao have this week been reminiscing about the good times they’ve had with friend and association past president Peter Broadbent. Broadbent died on April 14 in Germany after a long battle with cancer. His wife Tungane is on her way to Germany to prepare his return to Rarotonga. […]
Mitiaro nurse discharged
Saturday 24 April 2010 | Published in National
Judge Tom Weston discharged Mitiaro woman Ngamata Bryson from a manslaughter charge in the High Court yesterday. Bryson, a 58-year-old nurse on Mitiaro, was charged in November with manslaughter by negligence after a 15-month-old girl died in her care. She had mistakenly diluted a vaccine with a neuromuscular blocking agent rather than water and administered […]
Trial flight promo cut
Saturday 24 April 2010 | Published in National
Despite delays and budget cuts to marketing, the tourism board believes the direct Sydney-Rarotonga trial flights to begin in July can still be successful. The four-month Air New Zealand trial flights have been underwritten by government in a risk share agreement – it stands to lose up to $2.4 million if the flights don’t work […]
Toa claims deal was 'contractual'
Friday 23 April 2010 | Published in National
Government and Apex Agencies must now wait until early next month for a judgment on whether government must honour the eight-year $1.2 million annual profit guarantee it gave the company last year in an out of court settlement agreement. The High Court hearing before Justice Tom Weston took a day and a half to conclude […]
Fox to speak at dawn service
Friday 23 April 2010 | Published in Local
This year’s Anzac Day dawn service guest speaker will be Derek Fox. Fox is a veteran New Zealand broadcaster, commentator, publisher, journalist and a Maori Party candidate in several elections. His father, Dudu Fox, served in the 28th Maori Battalion. Fox was the mayor of Wairoa from 1995 to 2001 and is of Ngati Kahungunu […]
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