Ministry of Internal Affairs has started a community outreach programme to educate Cook Islands residents about its activities. Acting secretary of Internal Affairs Paul Allsworth and Welfare Services director Ngatuaine Maui yesterday spoke on Radio Cook Islands in what is expected to become a monthly radio talkback session.

Cook Islands government is set to invest $3 million over the next two years to procure and implement a centralised database system for ministries and agencies across government.

Issues including climate change and ocean conservation have been the major topics of discussion during the 48th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting which ends in Samoa today.

The much-anticipated dance concert based on the theme “Turanga Vaevae” (standing ground) will be held tonight at the National Auditorium.

Rarotonga artist Mike Tavioni has gifted his stone sculpture Taura Atua to the Cook Islands branch of the University of the Pacific.

Finance minister Mark Brown took part in the Pacific ACP (African, Caribbean and Pacific) Leaders Meeting which was held on Monday in Apia, Samoa.

Three Cook Islands weightlifters will compete at the 2017 Commonwealth and Oceania Championships this week.

Prime minister Henry Puna took part in the Small Island States (SIS) Leaders Meeting on Sunday as the outgoing chairman.

A book detailing all the plants found wild in the Cook Islands was launched last week at the University of the South Pacific Rarotonga campus.

The Cook Islands took part in the 23rd Session of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) which was held in Kingston, Jamaica last month.