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Do something about intersection, chief justice
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in Crime
Saturday 18: The court has urged something be done to a “virtually invisible” stop sign that marred the holiday of a New Zealand tourist. Russel Corfield, 57, had pleaded guilty last month to careless driving causing injury. He returned from New Zealand to appear before Chief Justice David Williams in the Cook Islands High Court […]
10 years for rapist
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in Local
Friday 17: A girl under 12 has been credited for her bravery and quick thinking after enduring being raped and assaulted by a 41-year-old man. Fakiki Munokoa Araipu was yesterday convicted of rape, detaining a girl with the intent to have sexual intercourse and indecent assault. He was sentenced to serve 10 years in prison […]
Maine Kuki Airani rides away happy
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in National
Monday 20: Miss Cook Islands will now be driving around in style. Engara Gosselin accepted her blue Honda Daelim motorcycle at the Motor Centre last Friday. The $3450 bike was part the prize package she won after being crowned Maine Kuki Airani this month. Gosselin says she is happy to be the first Miss Cook […]
Conveniently placed ATM
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in National
Thursday 16: Westpac Bank will be celebrating its new ATM today by raising funds for the children’s ward at the Rarotonga Hospital. A $2 sausage sizzle will be held from 11am to 1pm outside Super Brown in Tupapa – the latest location to receive a Westpac cash machine. Westpac general manager Rob Buick says the […]
Fuel price increases in Aitutaki
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in Local
Wednesday 22: A new fuel price order has been issued for Aitutaki only – the first in almost 10 months. Retail customers on Aitutaki can expect to pay no more than $2.80 per litre for petrol (up from $2.45) and $2.70 for a litre of diesel ($2.32). The price order took effect yesterday. – MM
DPM criticised over UN meeting
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in Local
Friday 17: The deputy prime minister Sir Terepai Maoate has already come under attack over his travel to New York for the lodging of the Cook Islands’ submission for its extended continental shelf claim. And it looks like a case of sour grapes has caused the criticism being levelled at him. The country’s claim was […]
Funding for waste reduction projects
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in National
Monday 20: The National Environment Service is putting up $2500 to encourage community groups to use in waste reduction and management projects as part of its waste education campaign this year. NES is making five lots of $500 in seed funding available for ‘any good community-benefiting waste activities groups or individuals may have.’ Any youth […]
Best with words wins laptop
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in National
Thursday 16: Miss Westpac Julia Scott has quite a way with words. So much so that she was awarded a Toshiba L300 laptop yesterday for her composure and intelligent answers during her Miss Cook Islands pageant stage interview. In front of a near sell-out National Auditorium earlier this month, Scott impressed the audience and the […]
Safer insecticide being sprayed
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in Local
Wednesday 22: Public health has advised Cook Islands News it no longer uses the insecticide known as reslin to spray for mosquitoes. This week the ministry of health has carried out spraying of pyrethrum insecticide in vaka Puaikura. The ministry now uses pyrethrum after concerns about the environmental effects of Reslin were raised with it […]
Keen interest in tourism awards
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in Local
Thursday 16: More than 40 local tourism operators are expected to be entered in the inaugural 2009 Air New Zealand Cook Islands Tourism Awards when entries close tomorrow. Tourism Industry Council awards chair Steve Lyon says that in a phone survey last week of tourism based operators, about 50 companies indicated they would submit entries […]
Silent protest over Tepuka
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in National
Monday 20: While preparations for the opening of the Cook Islands Christian Church’s biennial meeting were taking place within the Nikao mission grounds, a silent protest was taking place across the road. Eight banners depicting messages relating to the dispute between Tepuka tenants and the CICC, were staked into the ground on a vacant section. […]
DPM gets new portfolio
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in Local
Wednesday 22: Cabinet has increased deputy prime minister Sir Terepai Maoate’s number of portfolios by making him the minister of minerals, natural resources and mines. He now has around 14 portfolios – almost twice that of prime minister Jim Marurai. The rather ambiguous new portfolio, according to Sir Terepai’s office relates to his responsibilities relating […]
PM attends Flag Day in Pago Pago
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in Local
Thursday 16: Prime Minister Jim Marurai is currently in Pago Pago, American Samoa, attending their Flag Day celebrations. Marurai was invited by Governor Togiola Tulafono to attend the celebrations – the first time the PM has accepted after four successive invites. American Samoa marks the raising of the United States flag on the island of […]
DPM to push formal claim in August
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in National
Saturday 18: DPM Sir Terepai Maoate is expected to head a delegation to New York in August to address the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf. It is then that Sir Terepai will make a formal presentation of the country’s extended continental shelf claim at the United Nations in August. Speaking from New […]
Games organisers wait for coral removal reports
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in Local
Wednesday 22: Pacific Mini Games CEO Mac Mokoroa says the proposal to remove coral from Muri lagoon for an oe vaka course is still on hold while environmental reports are being completed. Mokoroa told Radio New Zealand International earlier this month that around eight coral outcrops could be removed and replanted in other parts of […]
Rasmussen condemns gagging of Fiji media
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in Local
Thursday 16: Foreign affairs and immigration minister Wilkie Rasmussen says he expects Pacific Forum members to respond with one voice on developments in Fiji. “The prime minister is presently overseas, but I am in touch with his office,” says Rasmussen in a media statement. “The chairman of the Forum, the premier of Niue, Toke Talagi, […]
Maire Nui Drive road work three days from completion
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in National
Saturday 18: Secretary of the Infrastructure and Planning ministry, Taukea Raui has responded to some public criticism this week of the delayed completion of road sealing work on Maire Nui Drive. Yesterday he told CI News that to complete the work which began last month, the road works crew needs at least three consecutive days […]
Spraying begins in Puaikura
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in Local
Tuesday 21: A public health team has begun spraying Reslin around the vaka Puaikura area this week in an attempt to combat the growing number of dengue cases there. While the ministry of health has not been able to confirm the outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease because it is still waiting for lab results, the […]
Shipping situation hots up
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in Local
Thursday 16: The competition between the two rival shipping companies, Pacific Forum Line and Reef Shipping, is picking up with both releasing schedules for the next few months. Reef’s Southern Tiare voyage 080 is scheduled to leave Auckland on May 4 for Rarotonga but no approval has been granted to the ship as yet. Niue […]
CICC biennial meeting next week
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in National
Friday 17: The Cook Islands Christian Church will hold its biennial meeting, beginning on Sunday. CICC general secretary Nga Mataio says around 200 people from the 60 ekalesia in the Cooks, New Zealand and Australia, will attend the one-week meeting, with the opening service to be hosted by Nikao The re-dedication of the Ziona Tapu […]
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