Weekend
Unexpected snail species in long-lost collection
Tuesday 9 June 2020 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Features, Weekend
More than 5000 shell found in office of deceased expert, including surprise finds from Cooks.
Prime Foods' recipe for success
Saturday 6 June 2020 | Written by Katrina Lintonbon | Published in Weekend
Prime Foods turned 10 in April, but Covid-19 forced the celebrations to be put on hold. This week Prime Foods pulled out all the stops to ensure that staff, suppliers and customers were part of the festivities.
Who polices the Police?
Saturday 6 June 2020 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Features, Weekend
When Police charged John Makuru over a crash that he says wasn’t his fault, he saw red. Now the former NZ Police officer is setting up a private investigation business to second-guess their prosecutions.
Sculptor uses only the best Mangaia rock
Thursday 4 June 2020 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Weekend
The first Mangaia artwork Allan Tuara crafted was a pedestal adze, for his daughter Jackie Tuara for her 21st birthday and graduation in 1990.
'Everything I've done has been for our people'
Saturday 30 May 2020 | Written by Katrina Lintonbon | Published in Weekend
The stories flow from Tapi Taio as he reminisces about the life he has lived. Telling them, it’s hard to do him justice. He talks with Katrina Tanirau about triumph, adversity, and always having faith.
Debate: Who is a Cook Islander?
Saturday 30 May 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Weekend
Government is consulting on new immigration law changes that widen the definition of a Cook Islander – and that has set the ngiāo among the rupe.
Not just a passing FAD for fishers
Saturday 30 May 2020 | Written by Supplied | Published in Weekend
The fish aggregation devices deployed by the Ministry of Marine Resources fave become increasingly valuable as the fish have been pushed farther out into areas boats need more fuel to reach. Today, the FADs are revered by fishers. Each has its own Maori name.
Grief in Covid: Giving dad his dying wish
Saturday 23 May 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Weekend
Nooroa Mata tried to return home to Atiu before the border closed.
Banking on a Shaw thing: The financier and her daughter
Saturday 23 May 2020 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Weekend
New Zealander Bernadette Shaw has been carjacked in Papua New Guinea and ducked drunken fights in Darwin, yet it’s in her latest role leading a Cook Islands bank through the Covid crisis that this risk-averse financier is exploring her wildest frontier.
'Our guardian angels'
Monday 18 May 2020 | Written by Rashneel Kumar | Published in Weekend
For Viani Tixier, a low point in her family’s long repatriation process was sleeping on the floor of the airport with her baby son and cancer-stricken mother-in-law. They could only improve from there.
Moana of the reef: 'The water to me is like food'
Saturday 9 May 2020 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Weekend
Once, Charlotte Piho was a Sydney high-flier with an apartment in Bondi and regular TV appearances. But when the borders began shutting down, she chose to stay in Rarotonga. With her dad and two part-time staff, she’s trying to reinvent her diving tours for the local families she loves.
School away from school
Saturday 9 May 2020 | Written by Katrina Lintonbon | Published in Weekend
Parents have become teachers and children have had to adapt to a new learning environment at home in another country, far from their classrooms in Cook Islands.
Life begins the day you start a garden – Chinese proverb
Saturday 9 May 2020 | Written by Losirene Lacanivalu | Published in Weekend
There is a real excitement as Cook Islands communities dig and refresh their fruit and vege gardens – but also the hope that we may once more sell them to visitors and overseas.
Chestnut mum says: Buy it, eat it, love it
Thursday 7 May 2020 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Weekend
Ritia Tangimetua’s late mother loved chestnuts; now she has passed on that passion to her own children.
Mama Tere a 'woman of substance' at 60
Thursday 7 May 2020 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Weekend
Growing up, Tere Joseph’s children watched with awe as their formidable mum raised them, worked a senior management job, and helped run a church in their own home.
My mother Tashi Tutai: 'E vaine aruaru'
Thursday 7 May 2020 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Weekend
Rima Browne tells how her mother Tashi Tutai shared different traits with each of her five ‘children of God’.
The man who wants to reinvent tourism
Tuesday 5 May 2020 | Written by Jonathan Milne | Published in Weekend
Resort owner Tata Crocombe is a polarising business leader – but if he’s right, he may have reimagined the future of tourism in a new era of Covid.
Stepping into the shoes of the 'extraordinary' Tessa Temata
Saturday 2 May 2020 | Written by Katrina Lintonbon | Published in Weekend
Her diplomatic career has taken her to Mexico City and New York, but five months after stepping in as New Zealand’s acting High Commissioner to Cook Islands, Rachel Bennett and her family have fallen in love with the people, the food and the way of life in Rarotonga.
Pa'ua to the people, no more
Saturday 2 May 2020 | Written by Legacy Author | Published in Weekend
Cook Islanders will no longer be permitted to send pa'ua to family and friends overseas, after new evidence revealing just how depleted the populations are. Rachel Reeves reports.
Cook Islanders serving abroad in the pandemic
Wednesday 29 April 2020 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Weekend
Cook Islanders around the world have been essential workers as the countries they live in go into lockdown. Melina Etches tells the story of her sister Ngaoa Etches in Western Australia, Moira Guinea-Beal in Queensland and Katherine Henry in Oregon, USA.
