National
Firefighters: Let us help
Tuesday 20 August 2019 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in National
Volunteer firefighters who revived a teenager in a weekend road smash are still waiting for the Health Ministry to formalise their working arrangement.
St Joseph's moves ahead with new IT
Monday 19 August 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Education
Patient students of St Joseph’s primary school who waited patiently for the blessing of their information technology equipment, impressed invited guests, including Minister Rose Brown who acknowledged their good behaviour in her speech.
Don't judge 'P' addicts
Monday 19 August 2019 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Crime
Methamphetamine or “P” addicts are not coming forward, because they are being judged, says New Zealand’s P Pull movement.
Atiu by-election process to begin
Monday 19 August 2019 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Politics
The Electoral Office has less than three months to call a by-election for the vacant Atiu seat.
Lucky escape from house fire
Monday 19 August 2019 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Crime
A woman escaped serious injury in a house fire on the backroad in Vaimaanga on Friday evening.
Kids page: Manihiki's pearls of wisdom
Saturday 17 August 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Education
This week Cook Islands News reached out to Apii Ruamanu in Manihiki, the students are happy to share their aspirations with us.
Pacific Islands Forum- The end of the world
Saturday 17 August 2019 | Written by Anneka Brown | Published in Environment
On Funafuti, the prison inmates prepare the Prime Minister’s breakfast in his big house with its own satellite dish, while down the road people sleep outside with barely a cent to their names. Anneka Brown goes to the end of the road in the sinking island at the end of the earth.
Mentally ill man in cells with no trial
Saturday 17 August 2019 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Crime
A man charged with attacking a woman in church will have to wait for final medical assessments before he can be released from custody.
TIS: Ten-year break on seabed mining to help science
Saturday 17 August 2019 | Published in Environment
Pacific civil society organisations have asked Pacific Islands Forum leaders for a 10-year moratorium on seabed mining from 2021 to 2030, to give time for more scientific data to be generated to better inform the governance and conservation of our Ocean.
Cooks hold special place in navy commander's heart
Saturday 17 August 2019 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Local
Officers and crew of the Royal NZ Navy patrol vessel HMNZS Otago are in town this weekend for a break, after a long stint out on fisheries patrol in the high seas.
Cable to damage marine habitat
Saturday 17 August 2019 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Technology
The new undersea cable comes at the cost of a small area of marine habitat, a new Environment Services report reveals.
Monster wave smashes buildings
Saturday 17 August 2019 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Environment
Residents evacuate themselves from several inundated homes along Rutaki coastline, report Losirene Lacanivalu and Rashneel Kumar.
Cooks doctor: 'If MPs can fly business class, why can't they pay for doctors?'
Saturday 17 August 2019 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Health
A Cook Islands doctor working in New Zealand says she would like to move back here but needs government to start offering medical practitioners decent salaries.
Injured author inspires hope in students
Friday 16 August 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Education
Recovering from a work accident in which his arm was crushed 33 years ago, when he was 25, Alistair McIntyre spiralled downwards coping with his physical injury, and suffered from mental illness.
Second chance for sleeping driver
Friday 16 August 2019 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Crime
A woman has been discharged without conviction after falling asleep and running her ute into a tree.
'Man in charge drank water from sewage outfall'
Friday 16 August 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Health
Residents are mixed in their responses to a proposed 300-metre outfall pipe to flush treated sewage from Muri out into the ocean off Turangi.
Whopper of a wahoo
Friday 16 August 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Local
With the biggest annual Gary Parlour Wahoo fishing competition on next weekend, this 48.4kg whopper has come in early.
Repeat offender finally admits charges
Friday 16 August 2019 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Crime
Having been bailed and remanded in custody a number of times this year, repeat offender Paulo Teio has finally admitted to his charges.
Emergency med-evac flight from Mangaia highlights doctor crisis
Friday 16 August 2019 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Outer Islands
A seriously ill woman and two other patients were flown from Mangaia to Rarotonga in a charter flight on Wednesday.
Kaireva Beach House: 'Ultimately rude hosts'
Friday 16 August 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in National
Darin Grimes and his family felt so “cheated and deceived” after their stay at Rarotonga’s Kaireva Beach house that they created a website to warn other travellers.
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