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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.
Vehicles now dangerous goods
Cars and vehicles being shipped to the Cook Islands from New Zealand (and vice versa) have been labelled dangerous goods by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO). The IMO is now reinforcing amendments to its Dangerous Goods Code, which stipulate that cars and vehicles being shipped in the Pacific are dangerous goods and subject to a […]
Good friend of hospital passes away
Long-time visitor to Rarotonga Charlotte Mueller will be remembered for her love of the Cook Islands and contributions to the newborn baby gift programme following her death in Auckland this week. Mueller, who has been visiting Rarotonga from her hometown Berlin for more than 30 years, passed away in hospital after suffering a stroke on […]
Gospel days will still be observed
The Cook Islands Christian Church (CICC) wishes to clarify that while individual island gospel days have ceased to be public holidays, they have not been eliminated altogether. There is still some confusion surrounding the change to this years public holiday calendar, which no longer includes island gospel days. Instead the calendar incorporates Ra O Te […]
Injured youth improves after surgery
A Rakahanga youth who lost feeling in his legs in injuries sustained in a six-metre fall from a tree is showing encouraging signs of improvement after undergoing surgery in New Zealand. Secretary of health Tupou Faireka yesterday said the 16-year-old was able to stand only days after receiving surgery at a New Zealand hospital. The […]
Farewell to Australian officer
Cook Islands police will hold a parade tomorrow to farewell maritime surveillance adviser Chris Cooper (above), who has come to the end of a two-year posting in the Cook Islands. Cooper has spent the last two years working with the police forces maritime surveillance division as part of a relationship between the Cook Islands Police […]
Vaka ready to sail again
Cook Islands vaka Marumaru Atua is preparing for the second leg of her Pacific voyage. Last year, she carried 16 of the Cook Islands sailors on a five-month journey throughout Oceania and down the coast of California. Since September she has been tied up at a San Diego dock, awaiting the next chapter of the […]
Muri people await survey results
Muri anxiously awaits the results of a survey conducted on Monday, the aim of which was to determine whether residents of homes neighbouring Scotts Farm are experiencing ill health as a result of their proximity to the poultry farm. Officers from the Ministry of Health and the National Environment Service canvassed homes within 150 metres […]
Mobile phone numbers up to 8000
Telecom Cook Islands has panned a report predicting it will have 4400 customers on its mobile phone network by 2015, saying it currently has double that figure using its services. International market research company Research and Markets released a report yesterday which predicted the Cook Islands would have approximately 4400 mobile subscriber connections in 2015. […]
NCEA results out now
The first lot of NCEA results for 2011 are now available on the internet. National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) level two results can be viewed online through the New Zealand Qualification Authority (NZQA) website www.nzqa.govt.nz To access results an individual must have a National Student Number (NSN). Those who do not know their NSN, […]
Pacific Resort Aitutaki sponsors bins
Proceeds from Pacific Resort Aitutakis first annual community fundraising drive have been donated to the Aitutaki Conservation Trusts Sponsor A Bin campaign. The staff of Pacific Resort Aitutaki donated money raised toward the purchase of bins, and the Pacific Resort Hotel Group comprising Pacific Resort Rarotonga, Te Manava Villas and Pacific Resort Aitutaki sponsored the […]
Surplus still at tender
The Ministry of Infrastructure and Planning (MOIP) is still yet to accept a tender for surplus cyclone recovery material on Aitutaki. Tender submissions closed on December 2 last year. Rarotonga-based project manager Joe Akaruru says a tender is being considered by an appointed tender committee. The tender is still with the tender committee and we […]
Worlds worst population growth
The Cook Islands is expected to take ownership of an unwanted title this year and become the country with the worlds worst population growth. Currently, the Northern Mariana Islands is recorded as having the worst population growth rate in the world, according to statistics gathered in the United States. It sits at the bottom of […]
Mama still independent at 100!
Surrounded by four generations of family, Aitutakis Mama Caroline Daniel celebrated her 100th birthday this week. The communitys eldest resident and possibly the oldest living person in the Cook Islands turned 100 on January 9. Mama Caroline was born in Mangaia on January 9, 1912, to parents Vaine Tutai and John Cameron a Scotsman. She […]
Air New Zealand wins airline industry Oscars
Air New Zealand has won Air Transport Worlds prestigious Airline of the Year award for the second time in three years. This is the first time in the nearly 40-year history of the awards that an airline has won the Airline of the Year twice in three years. Air New Zealand has won more Air […]
Tapi Taio answers Mauke concerns
Some progress has been made towards resolving issues surrounding the decrepit MV Te Kou Maru II stuck on Maukes beach. The boat, belonging to Rarotonga businessman Tapi Taio, stranded on the western section of Maukes reef in October 2010. Since then it has been pushed across the lagoon and on to the islands shore damaging […]
Cabinets first meeting of the new year
Cabinet ministers will meet tomorrow for the first time this year. But they will do so without Prime Minister Henry Puna, who has travelled to Abu Dhabi via New Zealand for a couple of business meetings. Puna and finance minister Mark Brown departed Rarotonga for New Zealand on Saturday and met with the Japanese ambassador […]
Observers will cover 5% of fishing
Despite claiming foreign fishers will be strictly monitored while operating in Cook Islands waters, the Ministry of Marine Resources (MMR) is likely to obtain just five percent observer coverage on long line fleets. MMR is currently recruiting applicants to partake in observer training for positions onboard long line vessels. The training coincides with the ministrys […]
Virgin cancels a few flights
Flight cancellations to Virgin Australias Auckland-Rarotonga link this week will not affect the level of long-term services connecting the Cook Islands, an airline representative has said. A Virgin Australia flight to and from Auckland this week was cancelled for operation reasons with three others in February also cancelled. The airline, which operated under the name […]
Water system upgrade for southern Aitutaki
Aitutaki Hospitals water supplies will be strengthened early this year through planned upgrades to the Vaimaru water facilities. The Ministry of Infrastructure and Planning is currently searching for a project manager on its Aitutaki project which will improve the pumping and storage facilities at Vaimaru water supply site. The facilities supply water to areas in […]
Mama Daniel celebrates 100th birthday!
Amuri resident Mama Caroline Daniel (above) is now one of a few Cook Islanders to have celebrated their 100th birthday. She partied with a few hundred friends and family members at Amuri Hall in Aitutaki yesterday afternoon, having been carried in on a paata. Mama Daniel is the oldest living person on Aitutaki, and possibly […]
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