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Teller claims local bank wrongfully fired her following theft allegations
Cook Island News
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August 19, 2025
Cook Islands High Court. 24050916 The civil trial brought forward by a 27-year-old woman who claims her former employer, Bank of the Cook Islands (BCI), wrongfully dismissed her, began yesterday. The civil trial brought forward by a 27-year-old...
Cook Islands confronts critical questions on identity as debate on deep sea mining grows
Pacific Media Network
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Cook Islands confronts critical questions on identity as debate on deep sea mining grows As the Cook Islands approaches the end of its five-year seabed minerals exploration phase and the latest partnership with the superpowers United States and...
FFA receives US$6m from US under Economic Assistance Agreement
Solomon Star
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August 18, 2025
HONIARA: The Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) on Friday received the US$60 million payment for 2024, under the Economic Assistance Agreement (EAA) associated with the Treaty on Fisheries with the Government of the United States of...
'He championed our causes on the global stage': Former Oceania aquatics vice president Romani Katoa laid to rest
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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August 20, 2025
After a short battle with pancreatic cancer, the late Romani Pakura Katoa was laid to rest today in his beloved home island of Pukapuka in the northern Cook Islands, buried next to his Mama and embraced by the ocean and the community that shaped...
BSP DEPOSIT ATMS COME ONLINE TODAY
PNG Haus Bung
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August 20, 2025
No more standing in long queues for long hours at the bank to make deposits, BSP customers can now make deposits with ease by just using an ATM. The first Deposit ATMs went live today, Wednesday 20th August 2025, at BSP’s Waigani Banking Centre in...
Cook Islands 'open to anything' for seabed mining partnerships
RNZ
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August 15, 2025
In 2023, the first ever high resolution Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) footage was obtained for the nodule fields at the bottom of the Cook Islands seafloor. A ROV is a scientific/work platform that is lowered from a boat all the way to the...
Cook Islands pushes for key actions to support Smaller Island States
Cook Island News
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August 14, 2025
Cook Islands head of delegation and Foreign Secretary Tepaeru Herrmann joined fellow members of the Pacific Islands Forum Smaller Island States (SIS) group at the SIS Officials Meeting held at the Forum Secretariat in Suva, Fiji on Friday last...
Letter: Time to clean house at Cook Islands Airport Authority
Cook Island News
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August 15, 2025
Dear Editor, As a concerned citizen, I feel compelled to speak out about the growing unease surrounding the management and governance of one of our most critical national assets – the Cook Islands Airport Authority. From the appointment of the...
‘The new Tahiti’: Cook Islands emerge as latest Aussie tourist hotspot and only a five hour flight from Sydney
PerthNow
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August 15, 2025
If your ideal holiday includes warm tropical weather, relaxation and crystal clear water, then there is a new holiday destination that Aussies are adding to their wish list. Located about halfway between Australia and Hawaii is the Cook Islands,...
United States eyes deeper ties with Cook Islands, help businesses form ties
Talanoa 'O Tonga
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August 12, 2025
The United States is looking to build stronger ties with the Cook Islands following a historic diplomatic visit this week by its Chargé d’Affaires, David Gehrenbeck, who met with Prime Minister Mark Brown during the nation’s 60th anniversary of...
Cook Islands advocate for mainstreaming of SIS priorities within Pacific regional…
Pacific News Service
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The Cook Islands joined fellow members of the Pacific Islands Forum Smaller Island States (SIS) group at the SIS Officials Meeting held at the Forum Secretariat in Suva, Fiji on 8 August. The meeting, chaired by Federated States of Micronesia...
State Dept. announces sea mining collaboration with Cook Islands
Talanei
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August 12, 2025
The State Department says the U.S. will collaborate with the Cook Islands on deep-sea mineral mining, at the same time the Trump Administration faces pushback on the issue in American Samoa. KHJ News Washington DC correspondent Matt Kaye reports…...
Cook Islands paddlers aim to make waves at IVF World Championships
Cook Island News
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August 12, 2025
Team Cook Islands departed Rarotonga last Friday, looking forward to putting their seven months of solid work to the test at the 4th International Va’a Federation World Distance Championships which is being held in Niteroi, Rio from August 13 to...
Kumul Petroleum renews sponsorship of PNG Kumuls
Papua New Guinea Post Courier
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August 20, 2025
Kumul Petroleum Holdings Limited (KPHL) has announced a three-year renewal of its sponsorship for the Papua New Guinea national men’s rugby league team, the PNG LNG Kumuls. The K3.3 million platinum sponsorship will support the Kumuls’...
Volleyball tournament raises funds for young Cook Islander’s recovery
Cook Island News
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August 13, 2025
Members of the “Give a Little Aroa” group, a staff-led initiative within the Ministry of Finance and Economic Management (MFEM), at a fundraising event in 2022. MFEM/25081223 Twenty-seven teams are set to compete in a volleyball fundraiser...
The best places to stay in the Cook Islands
Lonely Planet
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If you fly all the way to the Cook Islands, you can expect some of the most alluring accommodations in the South Pacific. You’ll feel right at home amid this island nation’s easy-going vibe, staying lagoon-side and barbecuing up a storm, or...
U.S. eyes deeper ties with Cook Islands
Samoa News
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August 13, 2025
#. US-Cook Islands meet PACIFIC NEWS BRIEFS w_header Compiled by Samoa News staff The United States is looking to build stronger ties with the Cook Islands following a historic diplomatic visit this week by its Chargé d'Affaires, David Gehrenbeck,...
Cook Islands confronts critical questions on identity as debate on deep-sea…
Pacific News Service
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Written by Losirene Lacanivalu As the Cook Islands approaches the end of its five-year seabed minerals exploration phase and the latest partnership with the superpowers United States and China, the question facing its people is no longer just...
Seabed minerals company inspires future local scientists
Cook Island News
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August 16, 2025
CIC Ocean Research staff onboard their research vessel. 25081301/25081539/25081540 The Open Day tour, held by CIC Ocean Research on Tuesday and Friday, introduced locals and visitors to the country’s developing ocean research capabilities and the...
Cook Islands deal has ‘nothing to do with military or security agenda’, says Chinese ambassador
RNZ
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August 11, 2025
By Losirene Lacanivalu, Cook Islands News People’s Republic of China (PRC) ambassador to New Zealand, Cook Islands and Niue, Wang Xiaolong, with Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown and Assistant to the Minister responsible for the Prime...