Cook Islands

Aitutaki in the Cook Islands offers up the perfect place to bonefish. It's an art, and Ian Dollery takes Adventure Girl Stefanie Michaels on a day filled with adventure to catch the elusive "gray ghost."Contributor: Stefanie MichaelsPublished: Apr 04, 2012  

Takutea is an important bird area because of its globally significant population of Red Tailed Tropic Bird. 1600 birds were counted in 2008. Aitutaki qualifies as a KBA/IBA because of two bird species, six landsnails, an endemic spider and a coral reef ...  

A bonus surprise for me was the innovative food and flavour combinations of the cuisine at the Pacific Resort Aitutaki – dishes that could grace any top city restaurant. A prime Cook Islands' attraction, Aitutaki is a 45-minute flight from Rarotonga.  

Titikaveka stretches around the southeast corner of Rarotonga and is home to out-of-the-way boutique properties such as the elegant Little Polynesian Resort or self-contained villas at Royale Takitumu and Makayla Palms. Coconut palms fringe the beach on ...  

If you're looking for somewhere in the South Pacific to relax and take in some culture, a Rarotonga resort in the captivating Cook Islands is a must see. These islands are a stunning jewel in the ocean, with 15 idyllic islands surrounded by white sandy ...  

A bonus surprise for me was the innovative food and flavour combinations of the cuisine at the Pacific Resort Aitutaki. A prime Cook Islands' attraction, Aitutaki is a 45-minute flight from Rarotonga. My husband and I have travelled extensively in the ...  

Celeb Dirty Laundry’s very own “Mr. Hollywood” Shannon Rose, host of the hit Hollywood news segment “Rose Hollywood Report” talks with Yul Kwon, the winner of “Survivor: Cook Islands” talks about his experience on “Survivor: Cook Islands” and his new documentary airing on PBS titled “America Revealed” Kwon was apart of the highly controversial Survivor series in … Keep Reading  

The state funeral of former Cook Islands Prime Minister Sir Geoffrey Henry will be held today. The 71-year-old, who served as prime minister for 10 years, lost his battle with cancer on Thursday. He became leader of the Cook Islands Party (CIP) in 1979 ...  

A proud Cook Islander, the Speaker of the Cook Islands Parliament, Sir Geoffrey Henry, who earlier had led his country for more than a decade, died on Wednesday night at home surrounded by his family. He was 72. The Cook Islands News reports that last ...  

Sir Geoffrey, a law graduate from Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, was at times a controversial figure in the Cooks. The Henry name has been closely associated with political power in the Cook Islands since before independence in 1965.  

Sir Geoffrey Henry, a former prime minister of the Cook Islands, has died aged 71 after a short illness. Sir Geoffrey, an often controversial figure, is survived by his wife Louisa, five children, 10 grandchildren and four great grandchildren. He became ...  

New Zealand First leader Rt Hon Winston Peters will travel to the Cook Islands to attend the funeral of their long-serving former Prime Minister Sir Geoffrey Henry who died earlier this week, aged 71.  

Looks like it's Tuvalu time again. But, this time, in a different part of the breakaway-rich South Caucasus. After Tuvalu and Armenia established diplomatic ties last month, commentators in Azerbaijan and its ally, Turkey, started casting suspicious eyes on the tiny South Pacific state. They suspected that Tuvalu, already known for its surprise recognition of the independence of the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, might again...  

Henry, who had been undergoing cancer treatment, died yesterday.He was caretaker prime minister for six months in 1983 and served two terms as leader from 1989 to 1999.He was a cousin of the Cook ...  

Southpac is a trust company that operates in several non-U.S. jurisdictions, including the Cook Islands and Nevis. Not by coincidence, the Cook Islands and Nevis have aggressive asset protection laws that seek to attract international asset protection trusts.  

Starch smells like vomit." Juergen took up Sir Tom's challenge and, in conjunction with local landowners, set up the Atiu Coffee Factory, imported processing machinery, cleared the old plantations and began producing roasted coffee beans. Today the company ...  

A couple of kunikuni pigs appeared amid the rows of coffee bushes. "Ah," said Juergen Manske-Eimke, who runs Atiu Coffee, "there are are some of our volunteer workers." Seeing my raised eyebrows he added, "Our coffee is 100 per cent organic. We mainly use ...  

The Cook Islands (Cook Islands Māori: Kūki 'Āirani) is a self-governing parliamentary democracy in free association with New Zealand. The 15 small islands in this South Pacific Ocean country have a total land area of , but the Cook Islands ...  

The Cook Islands (Cook Islands Māori: Kūki 'Āirani) is a self-governing parliamentary democracy in free association with New Zealand. The 15 small islands in this South Pacific Ocean country have a total land area of , but the Cook Islands ...  

Although pupu are found on other islands the collection and use of them in decorative work has become a speciality ... We may also use the information you provide in aggregate form for internal business purposes, such as generating statistics ...  

Cook Islands High Commissioner John Carter has criticised his former National Party colleagues over proposed cuts to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, according to Labour. Labour Party foreign affairs spokesman Phil Goff said he had obtained a ...  

The CNMI and the Cook Islands in the South Pacific are thousands of miles apart but they have a lot in common as well as differences that they each can learn from such as further developing their tourism industry and building new ones, to ...  

Gareth Jenkins reported in the Eurasian Daily Monitor that the Turkish government had enticed to Istanbul the leaders of Tuvalu, Tonga, Nauru, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Marshall Islands, Cook Islands, Papua New Guinea, Palau, Fiji, Micronesia, and Samoa to ...  

One of the South Pacific's colourful politicians, one-time Cook Islands Premier Sir Geoffrey Henry, died last night.  

Sir Geoffrey Henry who served two terms as prime minister of the Cook Islands has died.  

Maori Party members are mourning the death of a former Prime Minister of the Cook Islands, Sir Geoffrey Henry.  

Colonel Walter Gudgeon, like most colonials of his time, was a firm believer that prosperity lay in the transfer of land from the "lazy" Maoris to industrious British ...