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Parliamentary rules clash over Cook Islands National Awards Bill
Cook Island News
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June 18, 2025
Opposition leader Tina Browne. LOSIRENE LACANIVALU / 2561620 Te Tango Raumaire o Avaiki: Cook Islands National Awards Bill 2025 is currently in Parliament and due for a second reading with a Certificate of Urgency. If passed the Act will establish...
NZ pauses funding to Cook Islands after China agreements
1News
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New Zealand has paused funding to the Cook Islands over its recent dealings with China. New Zealand raised concerns in February, after Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown travelled to China, prior to signing its Comprehensive Strategic...
Decades of climate uncertainty: Cook Islands grower speaks
Cook Island News
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June 18, 2025
After more than 30 years of farming on her Takuvaine plantation, Jean Tekura Mason says climate change has disrupted everything she understood about farming. “I’ve been a planter, gardener for over 30 years basically and what I’ve noticed over...
Hawaii Coast Guard crew wraps up enforcement mission in Cook Islands
Honolulu Star-Advertiser - Hawaii
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June 18, 2025
1/2 Swipe or click to see more AUSTIN WILEY / U.S. COAST GUARD / JUNE 7 A 26-foot over-the-horizon small boat carrying Coast Guard crew, two Cook Islands Ministry of Marine Resources fisheries officers and a translator from the U.S. Marine Corps...
New Zealand pauses Cook Islands funding over China deal stoush
The New Zealand Herald
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June 18, 2025
By Adam Pearse Deputy Political Editor·NZ Herald· 18 Jun, 2025 07:51 PM2 mins to read Subscribe to listen Access to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now Save Share Share this article Copy...
USCGC Harriet Lane Conducts Maritime Law Enforcement Operations With Cook Islands Partners
Seapower Magazine
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June 17, 2025
From Coast Guard 14th District External Affairs, June 16, 2025 RAROTONGA, Cook Islands – The U.S. Coast Guard concluded bilateral maritime law enforcement operations alongside Cook Islands law enforcement partners offshore Rarotonga Friday. The...
Strengthening crisis planning between Australia and Cook Islands
Cook Island News
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June 17, 2025
Australia’s Pacific Coordinator in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Crisis Preparedness and Management Branch, Angela Johnson (third from left), visited Rarotonga to enhance cooperation on crisis response and consular planning. She is...
Building Pacific capacities to support trade and market access
Pacific Community (SPC)
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To strengthen the skills of Pacific biosecurity, border control, exporter representatives and relevant stakeholders in using Sanitary and Phytosanitary Standards (SPS) databases and platforms, a regional capacity-building workshop is underway in...
Cook Islands engages at global platform for Disaster Risk Reduction 2025 in Geneva
Cook Island News
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June 11, 2025
Emergency Management Cook Islands Director John Strickland (far right) emphasised that “greater access to technology to support national-level efforts to strengthen resilience can help overcome some of our remoteness and connectivity challenges....
US Coast Guard Cutter Harriet Lane and Cook Islands successful joint operation
Cook Island News
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June 16, 2025
From left, Bernnan Augustine, Bermy Ariihee, Sai Sarau and Tyler Broch. US Coast Guard and Maritime Cook Islands TEITIMOANA TAIRI/25061334 Two officers from the Ministry of Marine Resources (MMR) recently collaborated with the US Coast Guard in...
45 years of ‘quiet service’
Cook Island News
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July 5, 2025
Cook Islands’ chief statistician and chief electoral officer Taggy Tangimetua was honoured with a Certificate of Recognition for her 45 years of service. MFEM/ 25070334 Honoured for 45 years of service, Taggy Tangimetua has been instrumental in...
Cook Islands creates Pacific’s first ocean protection zone for whales
Cook Island News
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June 10, 2025
Prime Minister Mark Brown with Sandrina Thondoo, director of Treaties, Multilaterals and Oceans Division at the Cook Islands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Immigration. PACIFIC ISLANDS FORUM/25060904 Cook Islands is creating the Pacific’s first...
Mama Rauti Para: A celebration of Cook Islands matriarchs and culture
Cook Island News
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June 14, 2025
Former Miss Cook Islands to Miss Universe 1983, Carmena Wong, with 69-year-old Mama Rauti Para 2025, Tuainekore Taripo Kura. GERARDUS VEERSPEEK/25061326 She’s a beauty pageant queen and the first Cook Islander to walk the Miss Universe stage, but...
Mangaia businesses raise alarm over skyrocketing freight rates
Cook Island News
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June 24, 2025
Metua Vaiimene, left, owner of Te Vai Anga Service Station, which supplies fuel and hardware on the island of Mangaia, fears the freight rise could immediately push his business into loss, due to the government-regulated pricing on fuel. TALAIA...
Cyclists gear up for BSP 100km Cycle race today
Cook Island News
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July 5, 2025
Training rides are being held on Thursdays and Saturdays from the Social Centre in Nikao, with up to 20 cyclists regularly hitting the road each week. CITAI/25051910 Cook Island Triathlon Association is gearing up for this weekend’s BSP...
‘Wearing my flag on my heart’: Cook Islander championing climate action in Samoa
Cook Island News
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June 7, 2025
Cook Islander Ewan Cameron at SPREP headquarters in Apia, Samoa. TALAIA MIKA/25060631 For Cook Islander Ewan Cameron, living and working abroad doesn’t mean losing touch with home – in fact, it’s the opposite. Based in Apia, Samoa, with his...
PM confirms 25 businesses in arrears on Covid-19 loans
Cook Island News
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June 21, 2025
Prime Minister Mark Brown in Parliament in June. 25061850. Twenty-five businesses are behind repayments of a business loan that was issued by the Cook Islands government to support them during the 2020 Covid pandemic. Prime Minister Mark Brown...
NZ urged to trim government size amid rising spending concerns - Bruce Cotterill
The New Zealand Herald
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July 4, 2025
Suddenly, and unusually, there’s been some commentary about the costs of running our Government. Ironically, many of the commentators are those same parties who stood by and watched the last Government run economic riot over the country’s...
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New Zealand’s Luxon meets China’s Xi, talks trade: ‘Complex world, open dialogue more important than ever’
Firstpost
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June 20, 2025
The prime minister of New Zealand stressed the mutual benefits of trade with China in a meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Friday, while acknowledging their disagreements on geopolitical issues. Christopher Luxon, on his first visit to...
New Zealand, China leaders affirm importance of economic ties
NHK
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The leaders of New Zealand and China have affirmed the importance of their country's economic ties. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon met with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday in Beijing. This is Luxon's first visit to China since he took...