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 ...  

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 ...  

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 ...  

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 ...  

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 ...  

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