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Pacific
Australia and Cook Islands to sign MoU, strengthen maritime security partnership
Cook Islands and Australia are in the process of finalising an enhanced Pacific Maritime Security Program (PMSP) Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that will strengthen Australia’s support for Te Kukupa II operations and bolster regional security efforts.
Australia commits to ongoing collaboration with Cooks on transnational crime threats
Australian High Commissioner to the Cook Islands, Phoebe Smith is confident that through the Te Kukupa II maritime patrol vessel, Cook Islands with the support from Australia can tackle transnational crimes such as drug trafficking.
Threat from depression
Met services said late yesterday that the tropical depression located to the northwest of Palmerston is “still just a depression” but that it does have the potential to develop into a tropical cyclone in 12 hours. The depression is located at 16.6 south and 163.6 west, or about 260 nautical miles west-northwest of Aitutaki and […]
Four local paddlers competing
Four paddlers from Rarotonga will paddle for various crews in the two-day Takapuna Beach Cup outrigger race this weekend (February 27-28). Two race courses are on offer for paddlers including the 24km race and the longer 42km marathon which will take paddlers from Takapuna beach past Rangitoto Island, Motutapu Island and around Rakino Island back […]
NZ approves Penrhyn relief flight
A RNZAF C-130 Hercules was set to return to the Cook Islands last night to make a relief flight to Penrhyn today. The Hercules will deliver chainsaws, tarpaulins, construction material, emergency food supplies, fuel and telecommunication equipment. Government requested the relief flight on Tuesday after tropical depression 11F caused damage to homes and buildings on […]
Ella 9th in Oceania event
Accomplished Cook Islands slalom kayaker Ella Nicholas qualified ninth fastest in the final of the women’s C1 slalom event at the Oceania Canoe-Kayak Open in Sydney this week. The C1 canoe slalom is a new discipline of canoeing for Nicholas who had just four weeks of training prior to the competition. Clocking a time of […]
Call for extra food supplies
Red Cross volunteers Anne Tierney and Mata Hetland sort through the dry goods at the Red Cross food bank set up inside the Aitutaki High Court. Reports and photos, page 8. “/> Red Cross volunteers Anne Tierney and Mata Hetland sort through the dry goods at the Red Cross food bank set up inside the […]
Hot local bread back
Mama Rima Mata (right) shows off the freshly baked bread ‘fingers’ she will take home to her family in the village of Amuri. The popular Aquila Bakery on Aitutaki lost its roof during cyclone Pat on February 10 and had to stop baking while the building was repaired. Bakeries on Rarotonga stepped up and showed […]
Red Cross appeals for food supplies
Cook Islands Red Cross volunteers continue to work hard to make sure struggling families on Aitutaki have food. The Red Cross food bank is currently set up in the Aitutaki High Court in Arutanga where dry goods are sorted and packed into parcels for families. Red Cross is now concentrating on delivering food parcels to […]
Young mum recovers from Cyclone Pat
It may be months before 30-year-old Aitutakian Eteta Lockington can walk again after seriously injuring her foot during Cyclone Pat two weeks ago. She is due to be discharged from Rarotonga Hospital today after undergoing surgery on her foot on Tuesday. “I’m just glad I’m still here and it’s all thanks to the Good Lord,” […]
Welfare needs for Aitutaki being considered
Extra welfare assistance for Aitutaki households following Cyclone Pat will be included in government’s yet-to-be-announced reconstruction and recovery programme, says internal affairs secretary Bredina Drollet. Drollet spent last Thursday in Aitutaki as part of health and internal affairs minister Apii Piho’s delegation visiting the island to assess health and welfare needs. She says her ministry […]
Little Bears and Bulldogs clash
The under 13 Arorangi Bears rugby league team will open up this week’s round of rugby league matches with a match against the Bulldogs this afternoon. The under 13 grade has gone through some restructuring to give the limited number of under 13 grade teams more game time. The first up under 13 match will […]
Squadron leader to speak at schools
The Cook Islands’ own Royal New Zealand Air Force squadron leader, Kaveriri Tamariki, is visiting local schools this week to talk about the Cyclone Pat relief effort and careers in the military. Tamariki, who is based at defence headquarters in Wellington, has a long history of working on disaster response teams. He was in Samoa […]
'Playing politics'
Prime minister Jim Marurai has accused the leader of the Democratic Party Sir Terepai Maoate of using the Aitutaki cyclone disaster to ‘play politics’. Yesterday Sir Terepai, who was sacked from cabinet last year, reiterated his call for parliament to sit immediately so it can endorse plans for the recovery of Aitutaki following Cyclone Pat’s […]
Accountability promised
Dear Editor, A Smoke Signal published in Cook Islands News raises some issues that need to be clarified. The Aitutaki Cyclone Appeal Committee has stressed from the very outset that accountability for all monies that we receive is crucial. This is to give people the confidence that every effort is being made to ensure that […]
Vikings victors
The Vikings are proving to be a difficult team to put away in the open men’s touch rugby competition, trouncing the Warriors on Monday 6-2. Meanwhile the northern group Rama faced a somewhat tired Avatiu League Boys team who’ve played hard on the league field but ran out of energy for their touch rugby game. […]
Tini saga spirals
During the course of an audit investigation that began six months ago, suspended Cook Islands Investment Corporation CEO John Tini has been accused of nepotism and labelled autocratic, controlling, and deceitful. CI News confirmed with CIIC board chairman Tapi Taio last week that Tini’s suspension with full pay lasted until December – since then he […]
Red Cross serves breakfast for Aitutaki kids
More than 500 school students across Aitutaki are being provided healthy breakfasts under a new Red Cross programme to support them as they return to classes. As schools reopened this week for the first time since Cyclone Pat ravaged the island on February 9, Red Cross and community volunteers were there with a breakfast of […]
Aquarius donates beds
Yesterday Aquarius donated 12 beds to the cyclone appeal committee, which handed the bunks over to Red Cross to be distributed in Aitutaki. Six bunks, or 12 beds, six mattresses and 12 pillows were loaded on to a truck yester- day and transported to Red Cross. Louise Buckley of Aquarius said that unfortunately, six mattresses […]
Ages 3 to 6 on court
Budding mini tennis stars held their first tennis lesson on Saturday with local tennis coach Malcolm Kajer impressed by the skills on display from the little ones. For the next four weeks, Kajer will be holding tennis lessons for little ones aged between three and six at the Nikao Tennis Centre. He says skills the […]
Tamariki Sports popular with all ages
Fun, exercise and valuable sports skills are what kids learn at the ANZ Tamariki Sports programme which continues today. Last Tuesday more than 130 kids took part in the programme . Basketball, touch rugby and athletics are the three main activities for the older kids. Coordinator Ake Hosea-Winterflood has just developed a new programme for […]
First timers enjoy tri
Great performances were seen at the weekend’s Corporate Team Triathlon Challenge – especially from new and first time triathletes. While the experienced trio of Steve Whitta, Jennie George and Greg Gustafson of team Seafari Ducks cleaned up the multi-discipline event in a time of 1.22.57, there were a number of competitors who could as easily […]
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