All things natural are free but aren’t cheap – Te au mea natura ravarai mea oronga ua ia mai tereira, e akatarauanga ngao ra te tiki, writes Bishop Tutai Pere of the Apostolic Church.
Over half a century later, families and spiritual and traditional leaders gathered to unveil a plaque in memory and honour of the late Reverend Mataā Va’a of the London Missionary Society (LMS) Cook Islands Christian Church (CICC) and his wife Talailalo Isaia.
Earlier this month, a Cook Islander was dubbed the winner of The Apprentice New Zealand, a reality television series in which contestants battled it out to win an employment contract with multimillionaire Terry Serepisos. Thomas Ben, 35, won the coveted one-year employment contract at property development company Century City, of which Serepisos is chief executive […]
Year 7 and 8 students from Apii Te Uki Ou launched their website about the history of the school last week. They interviewed members of the community about the origins of the school, which served as an introduction to the research process. The introduction to the research process coincides with the school’s current building project […]
Member development and more funding for local projects are currently key initiatives for the Rotaract Club of Rarotonga. The club has been fundraising this month with the goals of contributing more funding to local projects, helping develop members and for other club activities. With the help of Rotary, members of Rotaract have been selling sausage […]
Te Vaerua Community Rehabilitation Service is on the verge of opening its Arorangi office inside a re-modelled residential building. The service is free and aims to rehabilitate those with health issues and disabilities. Te Vaerua was registered as a non-charitable organisation in 2007, and in the absence of a functional office building, has been sending […]
Wine club members and eager guests had a chance to enjoy an exquisite evening of dinner, drinks and conversation last Friday at Sails Restaurant in Muri. Chef Tim Tierney of Deli Foods whipped up a mouth-watering five-course menu, and paired each dish with an apposite wine from the Deli Foods cellar, to make for a […]
Cultural inheritance is a birthright and the 29 dancers who took to the dancer of the year stage on Thursday night showed nothing but respect and pride for their Cook Islands culture. In opening the night’s show, minister Apii Piho commended all the competitors for taking on the challenge. He said that although there would […]
Twenty nine Cook Islands dancers will take to the stage tonight for the 2010 Dancer of the Year competition in all divisions juniors, intermediate and seniors. The competition will start at 6pm with the 10 junior and six intermediate dancers to showcase their slow and fast beat performances. The prize giving for the junior and […]
The golden oldies dancer of the year competition was a real thrill for both spectators and dancers on Friday night. Dancers were grouped into two sections rauti para (ripe rauti leaf) for mama and papa dancers over 60-years and the rauti pi (green rauti leaf) for ‘younger’ dancers. While the mama dancers were graceful in […]
Well known Aitutaki and national dance champion Uirangi Bishop (pictured) will be among the high calibre dancers taking up next week’s dancer of the year challenge. The junior, intermediate and senior dancer of the year competition has been combined this year and this will be held on Thursday, May 27 at the national auditorium. Will […]
Can your household work out how much water it uses? Surveys overseas say an average household uses 250 – 450 litres of water per day, per person. Search online for a water usage calculator or use this as a guide to work out your usage. Bathroom 1. How many showers per day are had in […]
Twenty-one-year old Tom DeVoe from Wales reads minds, and he can bend a spoon using not physical force but the power of his thoughts. He dropped into CI News, handed me a book and told me to open it to a random page, pick a word and say the word in my mind. I chose […]
As we walked down the beach the rain began. Horns sounded and voices raised in song. The first marae. The kaumatua’s posture and korero were full of challenge. “Are you ready to enter the valley? Are you prepared?” he shouted. Each canoe filled a carved calabash with sea water as an offering for the other […]
With the departure from Rarotonga of ANZ Bank’s Darrin Walsh, the Papaa Male Dancer of the year title is up for grabs. Walsh has been a dominant force in that category of the competition, grabbing the title in recent years. Now that he has moved overseas there is a chance for someone to step up […]
BCA Artist in Residence Rick Welland will preview a new exhibition tonight at the Beachcomber Contemporary Art Gallery, Taputapuatea, at 6pm. Fourteen new canvases and a ‘remastered’ series of prints will be on show. This is the first time in this artist’s career that such a large body of his work has been collected and […]
Group aims to strengthen tradition by encouraging Maori medicines use Te Rito o te Vairakau Maori is a small organisation that visits the outer islands in a bid to encourage the use of traditional Maori health practices. The first outer island workshop was held in Mauke in the first week of May, with a keen […]
The Art Studio in Arorangi is hosting a photographic group show for artists in Rarotonga with the preview evening opening tonight. Not only will the exhibition grant the opportunity for artists and photographers to showcase their work to the general public, but more importantly it provides acknowledgement and encourages the advancement of photography here in […]
Exploring different types of conversation as a means to identify ‘sense of space’ has inspired local artist Krick Barraud’s latest instalment titled ‘Contemporary Conversation’. Barraud is the final local Master of Art and Design student to be assessed and she has once again used the coral limestone home in Avana as the canvas for her […]
The people of the Cook Islands were reminded this week just how lucky they were to have such a strong and free judicial system – and told that they all have a responsibility to keep it that way. At a special court sitting on Thursday, speaker after speaker reminded those gathered, and the population in […]
The Esther Honey Foundation animal clinic is pleading to the public to slow down on our roads. Vets at the clinic have been working round the clock to help save an alarming number of family dogs that have been run over on the roads. “The rate at which they are now coming in is astounding,” […]
Winners of the Te Akatauira Recyclable Jewellery competition will be announced on Tuesday after students display their funky creations. The first place winners in all three categories will walk away with $400, half of which will go to the school and the other half is for the student to pocket. Thirty-three anxious students will be […]
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