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Henry Srebrnik: Cook Islands find themselves in political storm
Telegraph-Journal
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August 27, 2025
Breadcrumb Trail Links TJ Comment Columnist Archipelago of 15 islands between New Zealand and Hawaii has been self-governing in free association with New Zealand since 1965 Published Aug 27, 2025 • Last updated 1 hour ago • 4 minute read One Foot...
Pacific Nations Split on Deep-Sea Mining as US Pushes to Curb China’s Critical Minerals Dominance
The Epoch Times
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August 27, 2025
A photo taken on June 12, 2025, on Rarotonga in the Cook Islands, shows polymetallic nodules, bulbous lumps of rock that are rich in battery metals such as cobalt and nickel which carpet huge tracts of Pacific Ocean seabed. WILLIAM WEST/AFP via...
Cook Islands hosts successful 47th Pacific Maritime Transport Alliance conference
Cook Island News
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August 26, 2025
Cook Islands Ports Authority (the Ports) has wrapped up a successful 47th Pacific Maritime Transport Alliance (PMTA) Conference, held in Rarotonga from 18–19 August 2025. PORTS/25082505 The Cook Islands Ports Authority (the Ports) has wrapped up a...
SHIPPING TIMES | Uto ni Yalo sails to Honiara for Pacific Islands Forum meet
The Fiji Times
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August 27, 2025
The Uto ni Yalo voyaging canoe, with a regional crew from Oceania, has left Suva for the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting (PIFLM) in Honiara, Solomon Islands. Upon reaching Temotu, the crew will accompany the Taumako TePuke canoe to Honiara,...
Plant and soil health training in the Cook Islands strengthens climate-resilient farming
Pacific Community (SPC)
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The Pacific Community’s (SPC) Land Resources Division partnered with the Cook Islands Ministry of Agriculture recently to build national capacity in plant and soil health through a week of hands-on training in Rarotonga. SPC specialists Dr Rohit...
The solution to high shipping costs is not radical or untested – it is called a freight subsidy
Jersey Evening Post
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August 26, 2025
By Carl Parslow WE have all seen the headline: Style Group, one of Jersey’s oldest and most established construction firms, collapsed on 15 August 2025 with immediate effect. The group, which includes AC Mauger and other subsidiaries, joins a...
Cook Islands considers extending deep sea mining exploration licences
RNZ
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August 24, 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...
'Load of rubbish': Construction boss to pay $21k to apprentice he bullied
Newstalk ZB
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August 24, 2025
A construction boss with a history of transgressions as an employer and thousands of dollars owed to previous aggrieved workers is in hot water again. John Gemmell, the sole director of Warrior NZ Limited, has been hauled before the Employment...
Cook Islands disappointed over stalled global talks to combat plastic pollution
Cook Island News
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August 20, 2025
National Environment Service (NES) director Halatoa Fua in Geneva Switzerland. SPREP/25081914. Cook Islands has expressed deep disappointment that consensus to develop a landmark treaty to end plastic pollution could not be reached. The Cook...
Warrior NZ construction boss John Gemmell hauled before the Employment Relations Authority again
The New Zealand Herald
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August 24, 2025
According to the recent determination, Gemmell offered Prasad a job as a mechanic repairing his vehicles in early 2021. When that work dried up, Gemmell suggested Prasad start working for his company as an apprentice builder. Prasad liked Gemmell...
Ninth Pacific Water and Wastewater Ministers Meeting concludes
Solomon Star
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August 27, 2025
The Ninth Pacific Water and Wastewater Ministers (PWWM) Meeting concluded on Tuesday in Honiara, with Ministers from 14 Pacific Island countries and territories committing to urgent action to strengthen water and sanitation across the region. The...
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 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...
Cook Islands paddlers ready to compete
Cook Island News
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August 16, 2025
Cook Islands paddlers stood out in their beautiful TAV uniforms at the opening of the 4th IVF World Distance Championships in Rio, Brazil this week. CICA/ 25081536 Cook Islands paddlers experienced an explosion of colour, culture and fireworks as...
Pacific Water Ministers Meeting Concludes with Strong Regional Commitments
Tavuli News
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August 27, 2025
Wednesday 27 August 2025, Honiara – The Ninth Pacific Water and Wastewater Ministers (PWWM) Meeting concluded yesterday in Honiara, with ministers from 14 Pacific Island countries and territories committing to urgent action to strengthen water and...
OPINION: Deep-sea mining ‘would be catastrophic’
Australian Geographic
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August 21, 2025
Home Topics Opinion & Analysis OPINION: Deep-sea mining ‘would be catastrophic’ By Professor Jessica Meeuwig and Professor Callum Roberts • 21 August 2025 Billions of polymetallic nodules – mineral-rich rock concretions – lie strewn across the...
Shipping operator prepares to fight for ‘fair compensation’
Cook Island News
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August 18, 2025
Taio family with Captain Amosa after a successful day loading passengers and cargo to return them to the north islands. SUPPLIED/25081409 One of the only two local shipping operators that has been servicing the Pa Enua is urging the Cook Islands...
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...
Deep-sea mining: Gold rush or disaster?
Australian Geographic
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August 21, 2025
Home Topics Opinion & Analysis Deep-sea mining: Gold rush or disaster? By Professor Jessica Meeuwig and Professor Callum Roberts • 21 August 2025 Billions of polymetallic nodules – mineral-rich rock concretions – lie strewn across the deep-sea...
RENEWING TIES TO MAKE AN IMPRINT IN THE REGION
First India
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Keeping in line with the age-old tradition, India and Fiji firmed up an action plan to boost defence ties and agreed to jointly work for a peaceful and inclusive Indo-Pacific as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Fijian counterpart Sitiveni...