Features
UNESCO head talks of free media
Monday 3 May 2010 | Published in Features
World Press Freedom Day 2010 opened yesterday with a series of speeches delivered by media supporters. Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, spoke about the value of a free media, and stressed the idea that the free circulation of information forms the foundation of a healthy society. Freedom of expression and freedom of information are “indispensable […]
Pacific makes its voice heard
Monday 3 May 2010 | Published in Features
The South Pacific added its two cents yesterday at the World Press Freedom Day conference in Brisbane. A panel made up of media workers from the Pacific featured Cook Islander Lisa Williams-Lahari who said she wears a number of hats, among them freelance journalist, women’s rights activist, wife and mum. Williams-Lahari compared media freedom to […]
It's still a fragile freedom
Monday 3 May 2010 | Published in Features
Freedom of expression is a civil liberty we mostly take for granted in this country. We see and hear that freedom working itself out in everyday life – letters to the editor, talkback radio, the ongoing Sunday flight protests in Aitutaki – and we consider it normal. But by comparison with our Pacific neighbours, some […]
Jokes good for kids
Saturday 1 May 2010 | Published in Features
Telling jokes is good for kids. It increases their confidence, helps them to remember a story in order and relate it to others, and stimulates their thinking. Who would have thought something that all kids enjoy could be so useful! So, here are a few: 1. Knock Knock Who’s There? Wood Wood Who? Wood you […]
Discovering their country
Saturday 1 May 2010 | Published in Features
June Hosking discovers the thrill that can be found when people take the time to explore their own backyard. During the last school holidays a number of groups from Atiu visited other islands – and had a blast. Don’t leave home until you’ve seen your country. That’s just what three groups from Atiu decided to […]
Cricket kids have a ball in holidays
Saturday 1 May 2010 | Published in Features
Junior cricketers showed off their batting and bowling skills yesterday to Cook Islands Cricket school holiday programme sponsors Nick Henry of 88FM and Nauma Atiau of Avarua Bakery. 88FM and Avarua Bakery have supported the cricket initiative over the past two weeks of the school holiday, which drew close to 30 kids for each session. […]
Peka enjoying her taste of news
Saturday 1 May 2010 | Published in Features
Cadet reporter Peka Fisher has begun laying a solid foundation for a career in journalism after a smooth two weeks with Cook Islands News. The form six Tereora College student is mature beyond her 16 years and this can certainly be attributed to her recent eight-month stint at Kamehameha School in Hawaii as an exchange […]
Women journalists want to move forward
Friday 30 April 2010 | Published in Features
BRISBANE, April 30 Women journalists attending the Pacific WAVE Media Network in Brisbane this week, including a number from the Cook Islands, have confirmed they want to move forward on a draft strategic plan developed over the last year. They say they want to work on their governance and working documents helping them to lead, […]
Living the word
Friday 30 April 2010 | Published in Church Talk
Three theology students were discussing the relative merits of different translations of the Bible. One argued for the New Revised Standard Version: “It’s closer”, he said, “to the original Hebrew and Greek. Another preferred the New Jerusalem Bible: the layout made it very readable and he found the notes superb. The third student said that […]
Catholics welcome new priest
Friday 30 April 2010 | Published in Church Talk
Last Thursday night Father Freddy Kaina was ordained in a moving service. He was inducted into the priesthood in front of his proud parents Kaina Kaina and Marii Kaina, family members from overseas and a huge congregation of Catholic parishioners from across the Cook Islands. The Manihiki community paid special homage to their son by […]
Lecture series explodes freedom of expression
Thursday 29 April 2010 | Published in Features
Ahead of World Press Freedom Day to be held at the University of Queensland this weekend, the UQ School of Journalism and Communication will hold a free World Press Freedom Day lecture series commencing Thursday, April 29, at the UQ St Lucia campus. The first lecture in the series is entitled: A phone is just […]
Press freedom celebrated
Thursday 29 April 2010 | Published in Features
BRISBANE, April 28 – More than 300 media professionals will gather in Australia this weekend to celebrate freedom of the press and to acknowledge what they and their colleagues undergo to uphold it. World Press Freedom Day (WPFD) falls on Monday, May 3. This year, the University of Queensland in Brisbane is hosting the Asia-Pacific […]
Online colouring book fun and educational
Saturday 24 April 2010 | Published in Features
Finding it hard to entertain the kids these school holidays? Matavera grandfather of seven, Neil Dearlove, has just discovered an online colouring site that his grandkids absolutely love. Not only is the online colouring book lots of fun, it also helps children develop important skills such as colour concepts, hand-eye coordination and of course how […]
New petrol station proposed at Nikao
Saturday 24 April 2010 | Published in Features
Nikao might be getting a new petrol station. Builders have been busy developing the property across the road from Nikao Maori School and Avatea School in recent weeks. Removal of hedges on two sides of the site, opposite Tangee’s Store, has revealed an impressive new building. Former Toa Petroleum general manager Bruce Manuela has a […]
Primefoods up and running
Saturday 24 April 2010 | Published in Features
Primefoods, the new grocery business in the old Meatco building, threw open its doors last Friday and is open for business. The butchery is up and running, and managing director Dan Forsyth and his employees are taking pointers from a visiting NZ-based butcher who Forsyth says has won awards for making sausages. Primefoods stocks a […]
Anzac programme and breakfast
Saturday 24 April 2010 | Published in Features
As Anzac Day falls on a Sunday, the Returned Services Association club in Nikao will not be selling alcohol to those wanting something to warm the soul after the dawn parade. RSA president Henry Wichman confirmed that the club was not granted a special liquor licence to operate on Sunday. However, Wichman says that this […]
Aitutaki boy Eric Henry slips off quietly to war
Saturday 24 April 2010 | Published in Features
Eric Henry left his home on the beautiful atoll Aitutaki in the Cook Islands about 1935-36, not knowing that he would not be back again for a decade. He and his brother Ru were heading off to Aotearoa to go to secondary school at Te Aute College in Hawke’s Bay. It was a tortuous journey […]
Ruatonga man marches to remember his father
Saturday 24 April 2010 | Published in Features
Among the men and women that will fall-in and march in Sunday’s Anzac Day parade will be Ruatonga resident Geoff Bergin wearing his father’s war medals. Bergin is encouraging families who have the war medals of their ancestors to honour them by wearing the medals and joining the 5.30am dawn parade and 10am civil service […]
Father Freddy ordained
Saturday 24 April 2010 | Published in Church Talk
After a moving ordination on Thursday night, Father Freddy Kaina was to conduct his first public mass this morning at St Joseph’s Catholic Cathedral at 11am. Father Kaina was inducted into the priesthood in front of his proud parents Kaina Kaina and Marii Kaina, family members from overseas and a huge congregation of Catholic parishioners […]
Freddy joins priesthood
Friday 23 April 2010 | Published in Church Talk
Thirty-eight-year-old Manihiki man Freddy Kaina will from today on be known as Father Kaina. Kaina was ordained into the Cook Islands Catholic Diocese last night at St Joseph’s Catholic Cathedral in Avarua in front of a large crowd of proud family members and parishioners. Kaina was born in Manihiki in 1972 before he moved with […]
« Previous 1 … 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 … 212 Next »