Air New Zealand’s longstanding sponsorship for the Rarotonga International Triathlon “is testament to the airline’s commitment to the tourism industry”.
Members of the New Zealand Defence Force’s (NZDF) Youth Development Unit (YDU) have returned back from a rewarding deployment aimed at helping the Cook Islands Police and Prison and Probation Services support vulnerable Pasifika youth.
Visitor guide Cook Islands Sun went digital last week. The newspaper-format guide, which has been published locally for over 20 years, decided it was ‘high time’ to launch a website, as more and more travellers are planning their holidays online. “Our aim was to build a site for visitors to help them plan, make informed […]
Mangaia’s island council is showing its support for today’s international Earth Hour by closing down the island’s power plant for an hour from midday. Mangaia Island Administration secretary Helen Henry says the initiative is to support the National Environment Service efforts towards Earth Hour, which aims to encourage power conservation and recognition of climate change […]
Vaka Marumaru Atua departs for her big voyage on Tuesday, and the community has finalised the programme for her day of send-off. Tomorrow, crew will be attending a service at Ngatangiia CICC church and will then attend a kaikai at the home of Pa Marie Ariki in Vaimaanga. The departure ceremony starts at 10am on […]
Electricity is set to go up on Rarotonga a week from today. Homes can expect to pay five cents more per unit for usage of up to 60 units. The rate goes up eight cents for usage of 61 – 300 units and above 240 units. Similarly, commercial users are faced with an eight cents […]
Members of the Titikaveka Growers Association feel as though they have been “slapped in the face” by the new government, chairman Teava Iro says. Iro has received formal confirmation that the association will not be allocated a piece of heavy machinery gifted to the Cook Islands by the Chinese government, as initially intended. The equipment […]
Bruce who? – was the dismissive response by prime minister Henry Puna when asked to comment on NZ Maori Bruce Mita’s aspirations in the Cook Islands. Clearly, Puna wasn’t impressed hearing about Mita’s latest intrusion into affairs of the state and ui ariki. Other than to say he’s not about to take advice from outsiders […]
Dissolution of the country’s constitution and government, lose NZ passports, remove allegiance to the Queen, sever ties to New Zealand and Ui Ariki to become the kings and queens of the Cook Islands. These are the changes that NZ Maori sovereignty activist Bruce Ruatapu Mita is campaigning to have happen in the Cook Islands. Now […]
Last month the students and teachers of Enuamanu School on Atiu launched their health and wellbeing initiative towards healthy bodies, healthy minds equals a better education. The entire school will jog around the field for 10 minutes every fine day. Principal Nooroa Teipo and staff member Oirua Rasmussen led from the front with a determined […]
The Cook Islands Law Society has elected a new council following its annual general meeting recently. Barrister and solicitor Lloyd Miles has been re-elected as president and will serve his third annual term in the role. Newly-elected vice president Charles Little fills the vacancy left by former vice president Marie Francis, who resigned from the […]
The teachers at Araura Primary School have been engaged in professional development using ‘formative assessment practices’. A key aspect of formative assessment is the development of learning intentions and success criteria, said Gene Bartlett, principal of the school. “They are used to focus learning and teaching to allow students to self assess themselves against indicators […]
A $2.2 million project to improve water collection, storage, and supply infrastructure on cyclone-hit northern group islands is set to be implemented in the next few months. A contract for the work is out for tender and project managers hope to have it awarded soon in order for equipment to be procured and shipped to […]
In anticipation of the travelers that will flock to New Zealand this year for the Rugby World Cup 2011, Cook Islands Tourism (CIT) is reaching out to the United Kingdom market. CIT has launched a brand new microsite (part of its larger website) in cooperation with Air New Zealand, Austravel, Turquoise Holidays and Gullivers Sports […]
Director of the Cook Islands Meteorological Service Arona Ngari issued a cautionary warning about a tropical cyclone near Fiji yesterday. The Fiji met service said yesterday that tropical cyclone Bune was expected to intensify to a category three. At press time the cyclone was south of Fiji and moving very slowly in a south-easterly direction. […]
Te Aponga Uira (TAU) is the first company in the Cook Islands to consider implementing an ‘HIV policy’, which would protect HIV-positive employees. Salome Vincent of the Pacific Islands AIDS Foundation (PIAF) reports that in other Pacific Islands countries, employers have been known to sack HIV positive employees for fear that they could pass the […]
Telecom Cook Islands has shown its support by donating $4000 to Red Cross for the victims of the Christchurch earthquake appeal. On Friday March 4, Telecom staff wore black and red in support of the Christchurch appeal, and donations raised by staff were matched dollar for dollar by Telecom. The Telecom Office in Penrhyn raised […]
Exports fell behind imports in 2009, causing the balance of trade for the year to register a deficit of $285.8 million – up from $207.1 million the previous year. While exports decreased by 25.4 percent, imports increased by 36.3 percent over 2008. The provisional current account balance for 2009 shows a deficit of $28.8 million, […]
More than $36,000 has been donated by Cook Islanders to help those affected by Australia’s recent floods and earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand. A Ministry of Cultural Development fundraiser held last week to raise money for victims of the Christchurch earthquake and Australian floods has generated at least $12,000. The appeal included a radiothon during […]
Mark Lusby left a devastated Tokyo last week to come home to his Rarotonga family and says that right now, “this is the best place to be – away from it all”. Lusby is a captain for All Nippon Airways and he was in Tokyo when the 8.9 magnitude quake shook Japan. Following the disaster, […]
Cook Islander Rena Jonassen isn’t leaving Japan saying he can’t abandon his in-laws and adopted country. “I can’t turn my back on my relatives, the grandparents of my children and the country,” says Jonassen who is married to Mika, a Japanese school teacher. They live in Funabashi a district of Chiba and have two children […]
Lizzie Bishop from Kuoni Travel is the lucky winner of the Cook Islands Tourism Corporation trade competition, winning a holiday of a lifetime for two to the Cook Islands and a guaranteed commission to write a travel feature for Real Travel magazine on her island experience. She is currently in Atiu, experiencing the natural untouched […]
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