Weekend
A little chat with the big red guy
Wednesday December 28, 2016SANTA CLAUS came in late to the interview with a face like thunder and plonked his ample frame down in a way that felt like a mini earthquake.
What a wild weekend that was!
Tuesday November 29, 2016MORE than 230mm of rain poured down on Rarotonga between Friday afternoon and Saturday evening – that’s 100mm more than the average November monthly level.
Dr Brych – a dud Czech who bounced around Pacific
Monday November 14, 2016Quack who fooled an Australian premier
‘We could be sued’ – TIS warning
Monday October 24, 2016BY JUMPING the legal gun and signing a purse-seine fishing deal with the European Union before the issue was decided by the High Court, the government could have opened Cook Islands up to being sued by the financial powerhouse.
Coco and Daisy in the South Pacific
Saturday August 20, 2016Xinling Gao (Coco), is a journalist with the Shanghai Morning Post in Shanghai, China. Recently she and her friend Daisy embarked on an adventure to follow their dreams, spending a year and a half travelling to Fiji, Kiribati, Samoa, New Zealand, the Cook Islands, and Australia. In the days following their visit to Rarotonga and Aitutaki, Coco wrote a story about their trip, which she kindly gave to CI News.
How Palmerston beat Brazil to the Olympics
Saturday August 20, 2016The Games Organisation:
Bury Andrew Marsters and I had to organise the Mini Olympics.
In honour of a young life lost
Friday August 12, 2016THE WAVES cupped the stern of the vaka, splashing over her as she ploughed through the vastness that is the blue haze of Moana O Kiva.
Story behind ‘The Last Recruits’
Saturday August 06, 2016In 1915 Cook Islands men began signing up to fight in The Great War.
Children’s art in special exhibition
Saturday July 30, 2016OVER 50 guests at the National Museum on Thursday evening took the opportunity to preview a collection of special art works created by students from Rarotonga, Atiu, Mangaia and Atitutaki.