Can anyone explain why the director of finance at MoE would be attending an early childhood education meeting in Fiji focussing on strengthening the provision of pre- and in-service professional development for early childhood educators recently?
At last. It is with the greatest of love and respect that we wish to congratulate President Donald J. Trump elect on his timely return.
“LET THERE be peace on earth and let it begin with me” are the words to a song often heard in Faith communities around the world.
MONDAY’S boycott of parliament by the opposition has an awful strained logic about it, if only in the mind of a Democratic Party theorist.
HERE’S A tip that will magically change your life for the better. It will lift your spirits and bring joy to everyone around you.
DRIVING along dusty roads, through a development project that we are told has been going on for three years, I struggled to see many workers working on the road as we scuttled past in our taxi.
This article, written for CI News by the head counsellor of Punanga Tauturu Inc, Nga Teinangaro, should be required reading for anyone suffering from depression or worry and other issues.
This is the final episode in Rarotonga lawyer Norman George’s account of a murder case, in which he represented the defendant.
THE SACRED texts of many faiths tell us that prayer is conversation with God. This implies that it goes both ways.
This week’s column by Rarotonga lawyer Norman George takes up the story of how he successfully defended the accused in a high profile murder case on Mangaia in December, 2004.
THERE WAS such appreciative feedback about last week’s column on “The Green Eyed Monster” of jealousy, that I decided to write about its ugly step sister, envy, which is being jealous of what other people have.
THIS WEEK’S column is about a murder trial in which I acted for the accused.
HAVE YOU ever heard of “the green eyed monster”?
THIS IS a very special week here in the Cook Islands. Te Maeva Nui (meaning in English, The Big Celebration) is a time to honor the Constitution created 51 years ago preserving the rights and freedoms of the people of these islands.
THIS SERIES will cover major criminal trials that I have conducted as a defence counsel before a judge and jury in the High Court of the Cook Islands over the years....
TO BE consistent, the next MP that the Cook Islands Police Service should prosecute is Moana Ioane.
THE OTHER day, a local islander said to me about the American presidential election, “I thought it was a joke. Now it’s serious.”
WE ARE polite, kindly, refined, affable, polished and courteous, yet capable of unleashing ruthless cruelty and savagery beyond measure!
RIGHT NOW, I am in extreme anguish over the guilty finding the jury returned for my dear friend Teina Bishop.
Can you imagine becoming a millionaire by teaching people how to fold their underwear in a new way?
Guest columnist Thomas Wynne takes a look at a conference on suicide prevention, held in Japan in May this year, and the contribution made by Cook Islander Eliza Puna, who gave a presentation on her Phd on Suicide Prevention amongst Cook Islands Youth in New Zealand; Eliza Puna. The conference was attended by a number of service providers in the Pacific.
Occasional columnist Mata-Atua McNair casts her eye over the current political situation in the Cook Islands and tries to make sense of some strange and bewildering events.