Pacific Resort Hotel Group Celebrates Finalist Nominations in2025 Air New Zealand Cook Islands Tourism Awards

Pacific Resort Hotel Group is honoured to announce that all four of its properties have been named finalists in the 2025 Air New Zealand Cook Islands Tourism Awards. The nominations recognise excellence in visitor experiences, customer care,...

Cook Islands Immigration Upgrade Passenger Processing System

Press Release – UN Trade and Development The UN Trade and Development backed ASYCUDA technologies – ASYPX, is a fully integrated, border management system. Cook Islands Immigration has launched the 2nd generation (latest version) of the...

SI, Cook Islands explore tourism and cultural cooperation

The Solomon Islands and Cook Islands are exploring new areas of cooperation in tourism and culture, following a meeting between the two countries’ Ministers on the sidelines of the 54th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting in Honiara on Friday....

NZDF To Lead Multi-National Engineering Team In Cook Islands

Press Release – New Zealand Defence Force The exercise is funded each year in the Southwest Pacific by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and is delivered by the NZDF. The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) will lead a multi-national effort...

PM Brown to ensure Cook Islands voice is clear and constructive at Forum Leaders’ Meeting

Prime Minister Mark Brown welcomed at the Honiara International Airport in Solomon Islands. PACIFIC ISLANDS FORUM/25090709/25090710 This year’s theme for the 54th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting in Honiara Solomon Islands, “Iumi Tugeda: Act...

Pacific countries review impact of biosecurity capacity building programmes

Biosecurity officers from across the Pacific met in Fiji recently to review the impact of biosecurity training programmes delivered under the Safe Agricultural Trade Facilitation through Economic Integration in the Pacific (SAFE Pacific) project...

Cook Islands People’s Choice Awards finalists revealed, voting now open

Captain Tama’s Lagoon Cruizes based in Muri, Rarotonga, took home the business category award last year. COOK ISLANDS TOURISM/ 25090414 The Cook Islands Tourism Corporation has announced the finalists for the 2025 Cook Islands People’s Choice...

Cook Islands launches its own insurance company to tackle soaring global costs

Left to right, CIIC general manager corporate services Jasmine Davis, CIIC chair Fletcher Melvin and CIIC chief executive Allan Jensen. CIIC/25082803 The Cook Islands Government has established its first-ever locally owned insurance company, the...

Cook Islands to participate in inaugural EU-Pacific Business Forum

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigration Tingika Elikan. MFAI/25090219 The Cook Islands Government will be represented by the Tingika Elikana, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigration, at the inaugural EU-Pacific Business Forum, scheduled...

Scaling up climate finance in the Pacific

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) aspires to be the Pacific’s Climate Partner of Choice. Here, I wish to outlines how the Fund is committed to partnering with the Pacific to achieve greater impact in the face of the climate crisis. As leaders gather in...

Autism Cook Islands launches Te Kara Run 2025

Sponsors, friends, families and Autism Cook Islands members at the launching of Te Kara Run 2025 on Wednesday. RADIO COOK ISLANDS/25090418/25090427. Autism Cook Islands (ACI) officially launched the Air New Zealand Te Kara Run 2025 at a special...

Stacey-Ataera appointed Cook Islands’ new Seabed Minerals Commissioner

Beverly Stacey-Ataera. SBMA/25090428. Beverly Stacey-Ataera has been appointed the new Seabed Minerals Commissioner, the Public Service Commissioner Carl Hunter confirmed yesterday. Stacey-Ataera, who was acting in the role, takes over from Alex...

Cook Islands unveils national captive insurer

The Cook Islands Government and the Cook Islands Investment Corporation (CIIC) have established the Cook Islands Captive Insurance Company (CICIC), in what they said is first-of-its-kind initiative for the nation. Fully licensed by the Financial...

Cook Islands children's book on deep sea nodules is about facts, says author

In Brief A charity founded by a deep sea mining company sponsored a children's book about polymetallic nodules, the rocks that could be mined. The book's author says she had editorial control but needed the book signed off by the charity. Merio...

Cook Islands PM repeats calls for international recognition of climate

The Cook Islands Prime Minister is calling on the international finance community to recognise the debt small island states are taking on for climate adaptation and mitigation. Mark Brown said because the world’s largest emitters refuse to phase...

Cook Islands launches captive insurance company

The Cook Islands Government and the Cook Islands Investment Corporation (CIIC) have announced the establishment of the Cook Islands Captive Insurance Company (CICIC), which is a first-of-its-kind initiative for the nation. The CICIC is 100 per...

Fiji PM welcomes his Cook Islands counterpart

Fiji and the Cook Islands are in the process of finalising a new Development Cooperation Agreement to advance economic cooperation, air transportation connectivity, trade, tourism, labour mobility and address climate change. This was highlighted...

NZ pressed Cook Islands for months over China deals, documents reveal

Cook Islands Foreign Minister Tingika Elikana, left, with New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters in March 2024. Peters even asked Elikana “to share the text” of the China agreements eight months earlier in May 2024 when the pair met at a...

New Zealand pressed Cook Islands for months over China deals, OIA documents reveal

Winston Peters, left, and Mark Brown. Photo: RNZ/Pacific Islands Forum/123RF New Zealand spent at least eight months asking to see agreements made by Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown with China, which are now at the heart of differences...

Ruta Mave: Cook Islands caught between China and USA?

Ruta Tangiiau Mave. Photo: CI NEWS Prime Minister Mark Brown has China and USA all in the sea-bed together for potential mining and fishing rights. Does anyone see a conflict of interest here? Ruta Mave writes. In this case of conflicting...