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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.
Pukapuka looks to Samoa for lifeline
The distance between Rarotonga and Pukapuka is over 1000 miles, making travel by air and sea both difficult and costly. Pukapukans living abroad face considerable challenges in the way of making the journey home – they must first buy a ticket to Rarotonga and then find a way to Pukapuka. Air Raro sends flights to […]
Renewed impetus sought for EU agreement
The Pacific region’s top trade officials, experts and ministers gather this week in Apia, Samoa, to deliberate on key issues surrounding negotiations with the European Union on a fair and comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA). Secretary of foreign affairs Jim Gosselin and trade officer Teremoana Mato are representing the Cook Islands at the Apia meetings. […]
Air Raro upgrades Bandeirante
Air Rarotonga Embraer Bandeirante E5-TAK is presently in the heavy maintenance dock at the company’s engineering base at Rarotonga Airport for a major inspection and modification of its primary wing structure. The work is undertaken when the aircraft reaches a certain number of flight hours and the modification returns the aircraft to service with many […]
Change of officers in Navy job
Chief petty officer Kelvin Marsh has been working with the crew of Te Kukupa as a technical advisor for the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) for the past three and a half years. He accompanied his wife Arlene to Auckland in 2009 when she was due to give birth to their fourth child – incidentally, […]
Rotary called to re-focus
In an effort to re-direct Rotary’s focus, club president Maureen Hilyard is trying something new – once-a-month ‘breakfast club meetings’ to discuss specific Rotary projects. The first breakfast club meets this morning at Aquarius – an exceptional circumstance, as the meetings will normally be the first Wednesday of the month. Rotary president Maureen Hilyard wrote […]
Aid adviser injured in PNG car-jacking
PORT MORESBY, Feb 1 – An Australian aid adviser in Papua New Guinea (PNG) has been seriously injured in a violent car-jacking in Port Moresby. A spokesperson for the Australian High Commission confirmed the victim, a man in his 50s, worked for Australia’s aid programme. “An Australian man had his car stolen in a car-jacking […]
Tonga urged to work together
NUKU’ALOFA, Feb 1 – Tongan parliamentarians today embarked on a week long journey to deepen their technical knowledge of the workings of the legislative assembly of Tonga, including their role as law-makers and representatives of the people. The parliamentary awareness and leadership workshop follows the historic elections of November 25 last year, in which voters […]
OIA request denied
Jim Gosselin, Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Immigration, has issued an official response to an Official Information Act request from CI News. A request was made for a copy of comments by the Cook Islands High Commissioner to New Zealand, Mike Mitchell, on a report from the NZ parliament’s foreign affairs, defence, […]
4 accidents from drunk driving
A drunken male tourist was arrested at the weekend for breach of the peace in Tupapa and kept in police custody overnight. A Tupapa resident reported to police that a drunk man was causing trouble on the road next to the Tupapa field and harassing a motorist also parked near the Tupapa field. The man […]
Family gift to elderly, disabled
The elderly and disabled community on Rarotonga has benefited from the recent Engu-Tavai family reunion last month. This week, Engu-Tavai family representative and family reunion coordinator Willie Greig donated $700 worth of adult nappies and plastic crockery to the national disability council division of internal affairs. The Engu-Tavai family unite every three years for a […]
Disability workers grow in knowledge
Students on the disability course at the USP all had great things to say about what they’ve learned. Justina Saamu has come all the way from Mauke to learn more about her work as a disability coordinator. “Everything that has been taught is not just interesting, it will be helpful in many ways,” Saamu said. […]
Learn and remember your school's rules
Rarotonga students have spent the first week of school brushing up on their school rules and good manners. All schools on Rarotonga have their own unique set of rules for behaviour in the classroom, playground and even rules for off the school grounds. Rules include – raising your hands to get the teachers attention, no […]
Scholars and graduates honoured
The national auditorium was abuzz with activity yesterday as the community recognised 146 Cook Islanders who graduated from the Cook Islands Hospitality and Tourism Training Centre, Cook Islands Trades Training Centre, Cook Islands Sports Academy, USP and other universities overseas. A number of students also received scholarships to continue their study. Director of the Department […]
Stalagmite may reveal 4000 years of weather
After visiting Mangaia earlier this month, two university professors from Australia believe they might have located a record of local weather patterns dating back 4000 years. Professor of Geoscience Jonathan Nott of James Cook University and University of New South Wales tsunami scientist James Goff spent five days in Mangaia, working alongside Maara Vaiimene of […]
'Project falls short'
The original document for Te One Kura Ou has been questioned by assistant minister of agriculture Kiriau Turepu. He says the project needs to be looked at carefully before action is taken. “It fell short of delivering to the people,” Kiriau says. “The document included Mauke, Mitiaro, Mangaia and Atiu, but my question is: why […]
Minister Glassie welcomed home
The people of Enuamanu welcomed home their member of parliament and new minister of agriculture and health Nandi Glassie on Thursday. Atiu islanders including representatives from the Religious Advisory Council and Aronga Mana were at the airport to greet the minister on his arrival before a traditional turou welcome. At the Centre Store in Teenui, […]
McNicholl back at Reef's helm
Phillip McNicholl is stepping back into the role of executive director at Reef Shipping Limited, the company that services the Cook Islands among other Pacific nations. The outgoing company manager, Jason Ward, recently resigned ‘in order to pursue other opportunities in the freight forwarding industry’, McNicholl said in an email notice to shippers. Ward will […]
NZ aid projects reviewed
The NZaid delegation has left the island after three days of talks with government officials. The talks followed up on discussions between the Prime Minister Henry Puna, cabinet and NZ Foreign Minister Murray McCully in December. Craig Hawke, Director of the Pacific Division of NZaid, said, “In the last year New Zealand and Australian development […]
Who's tackling rising island costs?
“The cost of living has been slowly creeping up for the last two to three years, therefore increasing prices and eroding pay and earnings,” a smoke signaller writes. “What’s government going to do about it, and also the president of the Cook Islands Workers Association, who seems to talk more overseas with trade unions and […]
'Best in the world'
Head of Los Angeles-based company Companies Incorporated Kevin Wessell has issued a statement that the Cook Islands has the “best offshore asset protection trusts available today”. “The offshore asset protection trust provides the strongest legal protection available. It has been our experience that the Cook Islands provides the best offshore asset protection trusts available the […]
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