Thirteen new excess breath alcohol charges and six excess breath case adjournments were heard at the High Court in Avarua on Thursday.

A group of 11 new staff who have recently arrived on Rarotonga, attended an initiation workshop at the ministry of education on Monday.

Carver and artist Henry Tavioni was still at Avarua Primary School when he first became enchanted with the carvings in the Cook Islands Library and Museum.

Mangaia is one of the most beautiful islands in the Pacific, but its population is declining. This is the strong message behind Fe’ena Syme-Buchanan’s photographic exhibition at the Cook Islands National Museum which opened on Friday.

Relief doctors, who have been helping at Rarotonga hospital over the Christmas period are set to leave the island this month, but are planning to return here for good once they have completed their studies.

AITUTAKI-BORN Dr Teokotai Maea has taken a permanent position as the new anaesthetist at the Rarotonga Hospital, after graduating from the University of Fiji with a Master of Medicine in Anaesthesia.

JUSTICE of the Peace Georgina Williams took some time to deliberate Pera Junior Tamanu Pera’s manslaughter charge at the High Court in Avarua on Thursday.

Paulina Pierre stands at the Punanga Nui market on Saturday mornings selling an unusual drink.

Aitutaki was the venue for this year’s Henry family reunion, which was attended by about 120 people.