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$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 […]
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 […]
Queen's Baton arrives next month
Friday 23 April 2010 | Published in National
The Queen’s Baton for the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games is currently on its global relay and will arrive in Rarotonga on May 21. The baton began its global relay in England on October 29 and has visited 51 countries. The Oceania leg of the relay began in Australia this week where the last Commonwealth Games […]
Old plates just the number for US project
Friday 23 April 2010 | Published in National
The Rotary Club of Rarotonga is sending old number plates to the US to be sold for a Rotary humanitarian project in Ohio called Bob’s Bikes. Yesterday the club received a donation of six old car and motorbike plates from long-time supporter The Bank of the Cook Islands so it can help with the project […]
Redesigning nature's database
Friday 23 April 2010 | Published in National
Yesterday, naturalist Gerald McCormack and Professor Michael Fischer presented a model of the biodiversity database they are in the process of redesigning to the National Heritage Trust Board. The pair has been working with no breaks for two months to restructure the Cook Islands Biodiversity and Ethnobiology database which was published electronically in 1990. The […]
Investment bond suggested for foreigners
Friday 23 April 2010 | Published in National
A reader believes the country’s Business Trade Investment Board needs to look at situations where foreigners can set up in business here but then depart our shores leaving a trail of debt. This follows the imminent departure from Rarotonga of Bruce and Nancy McCartney, the most recent operators of the Portofino Restaurant in Maraerenga, whose […]
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 […]
What about Sydney marketing?
Friday 23 April 2010 | Published in Local
The outspoken critic of Cook Islands Tourism board chair Tata Crocombe says the most important issue right now is a lack of marketing and promotion of the new direct Sydney flight to Rarotonga. Christopher de Doby, a director and part owner of Unique Tourism Collection, which was terminated yesterday as the Cook Islands Australian marketing […]
Judgment reserved
Friday 23 April 2010 | Published in Local
Judgment has been reserved on the high profile Apex Agencies case heard before the court this week. Yesterday Justice Tom Weston reserved his judgment indicating that it will likely be issued in the second week of May. The court has been asked to determine whether government must honour the full settlement agreement it made with […]
Board sacks Aussie agents
Friday 23 April 2010 | Published in Local
The Cook Islands Tourism board yesterday sacked its Australian marketing agents because of harsh criticism of board chairman Tata Crocombe by a director of the agency. The board announced yesterday it has terminated the sales and marketing contract with Australia’s Unique Tourism Collection (UTC) following a scathing critique of chairman Tata Crocombe by an owner […]
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