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Blooming for mums this Mother’s Day
The hardworking and dedicated team at Island Craft Ltd are powering through one of their busiest times of year.
Setting sail for the future
Vaka Marumaru Atua voyage to the Festival of Pacific Arts in Hawaii aims to revive traditional navigation techniques and celebrate cultural heritage, with a young crew mentored by experienced navigators.
Lagoon Day runs with Careers Expo this year
Rarotonga and southern group island students will have the opportunity to explore their future career options through the annual Careers Expo scheduled for July 19. The one-day expo brings together employers and businesses in the public and private sectors as well as overseas tertiary local trades training providers under the one roof to give students […]
Gifts and goodwill overwhelm Red Cross
Already the new Cook Islands Red Cross headquarters building is filling up with evidence of its close relationships with sister organisations both within the Cook Islands and abroad. Following a ceremony marking the opening of the headquarters building on Thursday was a presentation of gifts, the most notable being the $1000 cheque presented by Swiss […]
Nukutere beach day designed for bonding
Bonding for a smooth year of learning was the aim of the Nukutere College beach picnic in Nikao recently organised by the school prefects. Fun relays, beach volleyball and sandy Zumba were all part of the fun at the outing. Each class at the college dressed to their own theme with year eight students declared […]
60 Plus party time
Members of the 60 Plus ground gathered for a luncheon at Coco Putt on Wednesday where they showed their support for Mereana Taikoko and her Te Kainga Mental Health and Wellbeing Centre in Panama. At the gathering Taikoko shared some of the work Te Kainga does and she also spoke at length about the high […]
Govt backs Are Pa Metua
The Cook Islands government remains committed to senior citizen support centre Are Pa Metua and is maintaining its contribution to the service, says Ministry of Internal Affairs secretary Bredina Drollet. The ministry continues to give $15,000 annually to the service to help it maintain its work for the senior citizens of Rarotonga. Drollet said internal […]
Neighbourhood watch patrols can't do it all
Lack of community support and funding across Puaikura vaka for its neighbourhood watch programme may be part of the problem for a recent rise in burglary within the area. They are continuing running their normal programme of patrolling three nights a week, and are seeking increased involvement and funding from the community. This will be […]
Dictionaries dished out at Tereora
Tereora College year 9 students will no doubt be poring over their new pictorial dictionaries donated to the national college by the Rotary Bay of Islands Club in New Zealand. Visiting Rotarian Frank Leadley visited the national college on Friday to deliver the dictionaries to appreciative students. Rotary Cook Islands and Bay of Islands have […]
Mangaia generator goes to Atiu
Pa enua minister Teariki Heather and fellow Cabinet ministers Teina Bishop and Nandi Glassie have been credited with saving Atiu from its energy crisis. On Wednesday Heather, Glassie and Bishop arrived in Mangaia, together with Atiu mayor Taoro Brown and Mangaia public utilities manager Anthony Whyte, to ask the mayor and secretary to approve an […]
Quake hero relishes a good night's sleep
A good night’s sleep is one of the things Christchurch hero Hunter Coleman is enjoying most. The GIS mapping engineer is visiting the Cook Islands as part of the Heroes initiative which is bringing 82 people from quake stricken Christchurch to enjoy the local hospitality and summer on an all expenses paid trip provided by […]
Weekly travel diary for cabinet ministers
All cabinet ministers will be in Rarotonga this coming week except for Teariki Heather. Heather was intending to leave for New Zealand on a private trip for four weeks last week but was detained by work in Rarotonga. He is now planning on leaving this weekend and will be back in Rarotonga by March 12.
Stakeholders air views on Telecom
Telecommunications Minister Mark Brown has his ear to the ground, and for that the telecommunications industry is grateful. Brown called an informal meeting of the industry on Tuesday afternoon to discuss Telecom Cook Islands’ plans for the coming year and to address any hang-ups stakeholders might have about the present telecommunications situation in the Cook […]
The pirates are back!
They lay low following a 2010 sting – but they’re back, much to the chagrin of Empire Theatre and Rarotonga’s law-abiding video shops. The pirates have already managed to sneak the much-anticipated action-adventure film Battleship into the Cook Islands, and Empire Theatre manager Harry Napa is scratching his head and wondering how. Empire Theatre was […]
People of Atiu leading the way
New Zealand High Commissioner John Carter returned from an overnight visit to the island of Atiu this week inspired and impressed by the island’s pro-active approach to developing its tourism and agriculture industries. Carter was part of a delegation that visited the island to be part of the blessing ceremony for the newly renovated tourism […]
350 join Red Cross to celebrate new HQ
More than 350 people are expected to attend the grand opening of the Cook Islands Red Cross headquarters in Kiikii this morning. Secretary-general Nikki Rattle says that while 300 invitations were distributed to people in the Cook Islands and around the Pacific region, she is expecting over 350 to turn up. Yesterday Rattle reported that […]
Inspired
Experts in the community are visiting Tereora College to inspire and motivate students. On Monday morning, one class of Tereora College’s accounting students was lucky enough to have Vaine Nooana-Arioka, managing director of BCI (Bank of the Cook Islands), as a guest speaker. Arioka is pictured with the students she met. The visit was organised […]
Pa Ariki's Mata Enua market on tonight
Pa Marie Ariki’s Mata Enua palace is heralding the arrival of March with a night market. Following on from a successful inaugural effort, coordinator Sam Napa is hopeful there will be a healthy turnout at tonight’s market. “The idea is to get people to come and have a feed and then go to the composers’ […]
20 Honda Waves out the door
Twenty new stylish Honda Wave 110cc fuel injected motorbikes rolled out of the Motor Centre shop floor on Tuesday with delighted new owners grinning ear to ear. Honda has been the world’s top selling bike for the last 40 years and Rarotonga’s top selling bike for 30 years. As well as its stylish exterior, the […]
Sound of Music and dictionaries at Nukutere
Nukutere students were treated to a resounding rendition of Sound of Music song “Climb Every Mountain” by visiting Rotarian Frank Leadley yesterday morning. Leadley, from Rotary Bay of Islands in New Zealand, is in the Cook Islands to gift beautiful illustrated dictionaries to Year 9 students across the nation. He encouraged students to strive hard […]
Grassroots support
Community groups are encouraged to apply for an India Grant Fund through the development coordination division of the Ministry of Finance and Economic Management (MFEM). Between 2006 and 2008 the Indian government provided grant funds of US$100,000 for each Pacific Island country. In 2009 the fund increased to US$125,000 annually. Targeted at socio-economic development projects, […]
Marketplace to expand
The rule is that history repeats itself, and the case of the Punanga Nui market is no exception. The market was originally built on reclaimed land, dredged from the seabed during the construction of the international seaport at Avatiu in 1975. Funded by New Zealand and Australia government aid, the project was completed in about […]
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