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Herald Issue 796 09 December 2015 PB COOK ISLANDS HERALD9 December 2015 $2 (incl VAT) Goldmine model, Amelia, featured here wearing this elegant necklace and bracelet from Goldmine Cakes for all ocassions! Edgewater Cakes Enquiries call us on 25435 extn 7010 Sunset BarBQs at the Shipwreck Hut Saturday Seafood menu with Jake Numanga on the Ukulele 6pm Tuesday Sunset BBQ with Garth Young on Piano 6pm Thursday Sunset Cocktails with Rudy Aquino 5.30pm-7.30pm Reservations required 22 166 Aroa Beachside Inn, Betela Great Food, Great Entertainment Always the best selection, best price & best service at Goldmine! POWERBALL RESULTS Drawn:3/12/15 Draw num: 1020 PB TATTSLOTTO RESULTS Drawn:5/12/15 Draw num: 3587 SUPP: OZLOTTO RESULTS Drawn: 8/12/15 Draw num: 1138 Next draw: SUPP: Cook islands Herald 09 December 2015 NEWS 2 Police bungle sinks Bounty - Corruption investigation costs to skyrocket he fishing vessel at the Aitutaki. were also seized. responsibilities for assets seized centre of the Police This double blow is envisioned To this date the Orongo has by warrant. Police Commissioner Tinvestigation into to cost the government a been on shore unused and keys Maara Tetava said this is an allegations of corruption against substantial compensation have yet to be returned. The internal matter covered in the former Minister Teina Bishop has settlement for the loss of the Bounty had remained berthed at Police Procedure rules. hit the headlines once again and sunken vessel. the Aitutaki harbour also unused. The Police were in possession most likely not for the last time. On Monday 3 February Despite requests their keys were of the $30,000 Bounty for nearly This time the Police are on 2014 two New Zealand Serious never returned to Bishop after 22 months, therefore responsible the wrong side of the stick, after Fraud Officers (NZSFO) and two the Police application in relation for its care and maintenance their two year investigation Rarotonga Police Officers arrived to the Bounty charge being ague Bishop’s litigators. the Police lost their High Court unannounced in Aitutaki with refused as per Chief Justice At the end of November, application for leave to bring a warrants to search the former Weston’s High Court ruling Cyclone Tuni was battering charge against Bishop involving Marine Resources Bishop’s delivered on 10 November 2015. Samoa and headed to the the Bounty. Their loss in the High residence and businesses. Legal Counsel for Bishop will Southern Cook Islands, the Court is now likely to be a further Among the items seized where allege once the Police under threat was sufficient to prompt loss in the public arena. the engine keys to the Bounty warrant took possession of the the Ports Authority (PA) Harbour The Bounty based in Aitutaki and after NZAFO interviewed keys for both vessels it was their Master Saungaki Rasmussen took its last voyage; on Monday representing office bearers of responsibility to maintain and to issue by email to all vessel 30 November 2015 it was towed the Arenikau Fishing Association, protect those assets. The Police owners the advice to vacate the to sea and sunk in deep water off the keys for fishing vessel Orongo Act 2012 does not include Police continued next page PB Cook islands Herald 09 December 2015 NEWS 3 Avatiu and Aitutaki Harbours. sea without incident apart from could not leave the port Bounty to be removed, if the This is done said PA CEO Bim Tou the tow rope breaking twice. under its own steam due to seas were too rough it would to protect the PA’s infrastructure. Keith Christian owner of the the failure of the Police to be unsafe and too dangerous Mindful of a possible vessel Vision said he was on his take the appropriate care and to do so. evacuation order due to Legal Counsel for Bishop Cyclone Tuni Bishop had the said the family had been Bounty inspected on Friday 27 Legal Counsel for Bishop said the traumatised for over two years November and discovered it while the Police conducted was in a deteriorated condition, family had been traumatised for their investigation, the saga the batteries had not been over two years while the Police with the Bounty has only added maintained and the engine was to the burdens being carried in water, items including the conducted their investigation, by the Bishop family. With the steering wheel were missing. loss of the vessel and the loss The missing items were reported the saga with the Bounty has of potential earnings the Police to the Police. are morally and legally liable for Without the facility to lift the only added to the burdens being compensation. Bounty onto dry land there was An amount is now being no option but to tow the Bounty carried by the Bishop family. With calibrated according to a source out to deep water and sink who says the Bishop family it. A marine engineer visiting the loss of the vessel and the loss have been treated in the most Aitutaki on an unrelated reason of potential earnings the Police inhuman way. “No amount of said there wasn’t sufficient time money or compensation will or available parts to attempt are morally and legally liable for erase the embarrassment and servicing the Bounty but under harassment they have had to supervision of an Environment compensation... endure.” Officer about 3,000 litres of oil Solicited legal opinions all and sludge was removed from way back from Palmerston Island maintenance of the vessel; it put the onus on the Police to the engine compartment. and stopped for protection in could not be steered without protect seized assets. Police The engineer said it looked Aitutaki. He said he witnessed the steering wheel. Decisive Commissioner Tetava said he like rust had got the better of the sinking of the Bounty and action had to be taken while would follow up the issues raised the Bounty. That’s not surprising was on standby if needed. the weather permitted the about the Bounty. - George Pitt as no maintenance or servicing The location of the sinking at was carried out by the Police for 4.10pm was determined by the nearly two years, these kinds of Environment Office who was SWITCH ON WITH vessels are high maintenance one of the 12 people involved and the Police are accountable. in the exercise, it is estimated With a draft of six feet the the depth was more than 3000 Te Aponga Uira Bounty had to leave at the metres. Unbeknown to those 1.00pm high tide because one involved a permit approval for Are you ready? part of the channel being five sinking vessels at sea must be feet deep due to sand build up. obtained from the Secretary of The Bounty was towed by the Transport. Aitutaki Port’s barge to the open A source said the Bounty We can be thankful that Tuni was just a category 1 cyclone and ran out of puff before it could reach us recently. Now is the time to: • Secure loose roofing, eaves and boards. • Keep tree branches and loose materials clear of your home. • Install storm shutters to protect your windows. www.teaponga.com Cook islands Herald 09 December 2015 NEWS 4 All is not well By Charles Pitt are ludicrously high and out of estimates. faith in government. omething is terribly touch with local reality. If our economy was performing Society is bearing the brunt wrong with our small Over the next ten years, so well and the greatly lauded of government inaction and Seconomy. Do you get the government plans to outlay some tax reforms assisting those in inattention to the economy. feeling government is not telling $238 million on infrastructure most need, how is it some 1,000 Society is facing changes. As us the whole truth? developments. Where is the Christmas parcels are being less cash circulates in society, Government’s preoccupation cost/benefit analysis which distributed to needy households people are forced to look for with keeping its own performance justifies such expenditure? Sure this year? 1,000 parcels were cash elsewhere. Unfortunately and books in order so as to keep the nation may become more also distributed last year. some of those who are unable to the international money men resilient to climatic effects but Staffing levels in the public find extra employment or start smiling, is unfortunately at the is that all our society can look service have crept up to 1,900 a business, pack up and leave expense of the rest of society forward to? Repayment of the and this means more of the or resort to the option of petty which is stumbling and fumbling overseas loans must be balanced revenue collected from tax has to crime or illegal activities. to adjust to ever more difficult by benefits derived from a more go on their wages. As more locals Government must give priority circumstances. vibrant private sector. leave to try their luck elsewhere, to easing the pressure on society So far no significant benefit It must be remembered that they are replaced by foreign brought about by the high cost has been derived from the cost before public servants and labour on low pay meaning an of living. of new infrastructure. Where are MPs can be paid, someone in overall decrease in tax revenue. More fine tuning of the new industries, businesses? the private sector has to earn Government will soon reach government operations and Jobs? What existing businesses money which is then taxed and a point where it will become expenditure is required. There are expanding and creating those taxes then help pay public desperate for extra revenue.
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