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Workshop prompts artist in new direction
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in Features
Saturday 18: Local artist Apii Rongo has decided to pursue a new direction in producing sculpture works after taking part in CollaboratioNZ 2009 last month. The week-long art workshop and conference was held in Whangarei, New Zealand. The biennial event invites six international artists, as well national artists and up to 25 other artists to […]
Wednesday 22: SMOKE SIGNALS - Two out of three ain't bad
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
After reading the secretary of ministry of infrastructure & planning’s comments last week, that MOIP workers need at least three consecutive fine days to complete work on the Maire Nui Drive, one smart alec reckons that if it rains one day out of three – as it has for the past few weeks — then […]
Wednesday 22: Spraying reslin has us all fooled again
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, You report that public health sees reslin spraying as a “last resort”. It is no such thing. It is instead an admission of failure to combat the dengue mosquito through the only effective method – elimination of breeding sites. Spraying alongside the road with an insecticide that must hit a mosquito to work […]
Wednesday 22: Talking church or what
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Some people are so heavenly minded, they are of no earthly good! Their contributions in ‘Church talk’ implies that everything is in order – but the front page says – nothing is working. Is there really any ‘good news’ in the midst of these ‘lullabies’ besides filling in space allocated for church talk? […]
Wednesday 22: Taking the good with the bad on holiday
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, We have just returned from our trip to beautiful Rarotonga. We have visited there 12 times. This trip we stayed on Rarotonga for six weeks from February until late March. This time I noticed that I had left very important medicine at home, and one that because of its limited usage, I feared […]
Saturday 18: TV reception blamed on old infrastructure network
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Through your paper may I ask Cook Islands Television what efforts, if any, it has made to address the dreadful reception that viewers watching CITV have been experiencing for a few months now on Rarotonga. Having been in existence for well over a decade, one would have thought that the owners/management of CITV […]
Saturday 18: HOM disappointed at road works too
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Can the secretary for ministry of infrastructure & planning, Taukea Raui, please explain to the public why tar was not used when the road works crew recently filled up the growing number of pot holes on the main roads with a finer grade of gravel? One does not need to be a road […]
Thursday 16: SMOKE SIGNAL - Worth a beating
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in Letters to the Editor
A signaller believes this quote, from Bill Bryson’s book ‘Shakespeare’ published in 2007, is especially interesting in view of the new Cook Islands tobacco laws: ”Tobacco, introduced to London the year after Shakespeare’s birth, was a luxury at first but soon gained such widespread popularity that by the end of the century there were no […]
Bulldogs upset, Eels lead league comp
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in League
Tuesday 21: The Titikaveka Bulldogs will be on a high when they are hosted by the Aitutaki Sharks tomorrow after the Doggies scored a surprise win over the Tupapa Panthers at the weekend. The Bulldogs managed to keep the Panthers at arms length during their premier encounter to win by just two points 20-18.` The […]
League jostling begins
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in League
Thursday 16: The Aitutaki Sharks premier league squad hosted the Ngatangiia Sea Eagles on the outer island yesterday while the remaining grades between the Sea Eagles and the Takuvaine Warriors will be played out on Saturday afternoon. The Sharks and Sea Eagles share third place on the points table with six points after round seven. […]
World youth under 21 netball team finalised
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in Netball
Wednesday 22: National under 21 head coach Teresa Tairi has made her final team selection to play in the World Youth Netball Championships in August. Tairi says she made her final decision based on a number of factors including the general fitness of players, on-court performance, off-court behaviour and the player’s overall contribution to the […]
Club netball restarts today
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in Netball
Friday 17: The club netball season fires back into action today with the open 1 and open 2 grade matches to be played out today. This week, point’s table leader Titikaveka (1037 points) will face old foes Avatiu in what is surely to be an action packed encounter. That’s because Avatiu on 1020 points only […]
Family home evening is good for the family unit
Wednesday 15 April 2009 | Published in Church Talk
Thursday 9: The family unit has been one of our most important teachings of the Church. It is important for not just ourselves but also our friends and neighbours. Church leaders have instructed our members to set aside a night as ‘family home evening’. This is a time for families to study the gospel together […]
Did God really die and live again?
Wednesday 15 April 2009 | Published in Church Talk
I mate tika ana ainei te Atua e kua ora akaou? Thursday 9: How could there be a resurrection if there was no death? Could there be light if there was no darkness? Could there even be death if there was no life? The Bible in Hebrews 2:9 tells us that God became man in […]
Dialogue urged
Wednesday 15 April 2009 | Published in Local
Wednesday 15: Deputy prime minister Sir Terepai Maoate says a group of Pacific leaders must be assembled soon to meet Fiji’s military ruler Commodore Frank Bainimarama. He says that group should not include New Zealand and Australia because both countries have taken the wrong approach, and Commodore Bainimarama feels cornered by bullying. – Pacnews
Assault, burglaries, thefts, accidents at Easter
Wednesday 15 April 2009 | Published in Local
Wednesday 15: Police are investigating a report of a man allegedly assaulting his children in Tikioki on Friday night. A woman had said she witnessed the man on the side of the main road “beating” his two small children which included a boy around the age of five. The woman reported to police that he […]
Two teens admit to robbery
Wednesday 15 April 2009 | Published in Local
Wednesday 15: Two teenagers pleaded guilty on Saturday to the armed robbery of Raviz Indian restaurant. The two 15-year-olds appeared in the Cook Islands High Court before Chief Justice David Williams. Their names are unable to be printed as the matter has fallen under the jurisdiction of the Children’s Court. One defendant pleaded guilty to […]
Work halts at airport
Wednesday 15 April 2009 | Published in Local
Wednesday 15: Work on the airport terminal has almost ground to a halt, with materials not making it on the last voyage of the Southern Express. Airport authority chief executive Joe Ngamata says most of the steel needed for starting on the foundation has not arrived, along with pre-cast moulds, which are needed for the […]
Dengue cases up to 170
Wednesday 15 April 2009 | Published in Local
Wednesday 15: Rarotonga has now had 170 reported cases of suspected dengue fever over the last three weeks. In a statement released by Ministry of Health on Monday, 13 people have been admitted to hospital showing symptoms of the mosquito-borne disease with results expected to be received from Australia this week confirming the presence of […]
Oasis still restaffing
Wednesday 15 April 2009 | Published in Local
Tuesday 14: CITC Food Group has received a positive response from those applying for jobs at the Oasis Energy Centre. “Several positions have been filled with several others pending final interviews/selection,” says CITC general manager Gaye Whitta. “We have received good response to our advertising from a good calibre of applicants.” Up to 15 staff […]
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