wellington.Scoop The police national dive squad travelled from Wellington to Hawkes Bay this morning to join the search for a teenager who went missing yesterday while swimming at the confluence of the Tutaekuri, Clive and Ngaruroro Rivers. The 16-year-old international student disappeared after getting into difficulties while swimming near the Waitangi Bridge. Hawkes Bay police […]
Welcome back to Sunday reading. To start out, here’s a fun little quiz from the Guardian: “How well do you really know your country?” It tests your knowledge about statistics from obesity rates to wealth distribution.
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Stuff reports: School principals plans for next year have been thrown into disarray as a groundbreaking teacher training programme is ruled illegal. The scheme enables high-achieving university graduates to do an intensive, six-week course before they start work in low decile schools, training on the job for two years. Principals and parents have praised the scheme […]
Press Release – Fiji Crop and Livestock Council The Fiji Crop and Livestock Council (FCLC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the International Trade Centre (ITC) that will fund its 2016 Strategic Work Plan.MAJOR STEP FORWARD FOR FCLC DECEMBER 6, 2015 The Fiji Crop and Livestock Council (FCLC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding […]
News from NZ Police A Nelson woman who fell down stairs at her home on Friday evening has died as a result of her injuries. Debbie Marie Hill, aged 49, was found at the base of a staircase about 10.15pm on Friday. She was taken to hospital in a critical condition and died about 3.30pm […]
Press Release – Life Flight Trust A teenager suffered potentially life-threatening injuries after falling more than 100 metres down the side of a steep hill whilst walking the Deliverance Cove track near Castlepoint this morning. Life Flight responded at 11.22am in the Westpac Rescue Helicopter. The on-board paramedic assessed him as having serious injuries and […]
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PARIS (National Observer/Pacific Media Watch): ANALYSIS: In sharp contrast to the hopefulness that some environmentalists are expressing at the COP21 climate summit, iconic Canadian activist and author Naomi Klein has delivered a stinging rebuke against it—stating her doubts that the global talks will deliver the kind of radical, transformative change needed to prevent catastrophic climate change.
Pacific Ocean Commissioner Meg Taylor’s “our future” video message. Video: PIF Pacific Scoop: Report – By Vuniwaqa Bola-Bari Pacific Ocean Commissioner Dame Meg Taylor has called on world leaders meeting in Paris to protect the Pacific region and the ocean. In a video, Taylor said world leaders needed to protect the region and the ocean […]
An interesting and sensible interview with Professor Dave Frame of Victoria University’s Climate Change Research Institute in the NZ Herald: Q. On New Zealand’s new target of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 30 per cent from 2005 levels and 11 per cent from 1990 levels by 2030. Do you see this as a reasonable commitment? […]
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SUVA (The Fiji Times/Pacific Media Watch): Pacific Ocean Commissioner Dame Meg Taylor has called on world leaders meeting in Paris to protect the Pacific region and the ocean.
Microsoft gave the mobile PC tree a good shake when it introduced the Surface. Its touch-screen PC-cum-tablet design is a fresh take on mobile computing. If imitation is flattery the HP Spectre x2 is a love letter to Microsoft. The Spectre x2 has its own style and finish but the nods to Surface are constant […]
Police and ambulance are attending to a woman who was shot in the leg at a hotel in Gore St, Auckland.
Dunedin Police can confirm three males have been arrested after an aggravated robbery in North Dunedin this morning at approximately 4.00am.
Justice and Courts Minister Amy Adams has welcomed the launch of New Zealand’s fourteenth Rangatahi Court in Taupō today.
The Herald editorial: Theirs is an invidious task, never more so than this week when it had to tell us it would not fund a drug for melanoma, Keytruda, that is being hailed as a breakthrough in the treatment of this cancer. Clinicians say it is the only treatment that seems to be effective against […]
Pt England schools in Auckland to host coding events for kids Monday morning to help kick off ‘Hour of Code’ and Computer Science Education Week, 7-13 December
The man who died in Mt Albert's Renton Rd in the early hours of Thursday, December 3, was 24 year-old Nathan Matai Pukeroa of Whangarei.
Today FSL Foods have announced that it is voluntarily recalling other Fruzio products to provide extra assurance to its customers.
Wellington City Council has been successful in gaining accreditation to the Certified Emissions Management and Reduction Scheme (CEMARS), an Enviro-mark solutions emissions management programme. Enviro-Mark Solutions is a subsidiary of Landcare Research.
04 December 2015 The Commonwealth Centre of Excellence for Women in Procurement - a world first - was announced during the Malta CHOGM Business Forum in a major collaboration between the Commonwealth Businesswomen’s Network, an accredited organisation focused ...
Paris, 4 December 2015 - The Philippines Commission on Human Rights (CHR) announced that it will launch an investigation on December 10 (International Human rights Day), which could hold fossil fuel companies responsible for the impacts of climate change, ...
Tracy Watkins looks at the parties in 2015: Because the Government ends the year as it began, ploughing through turbulence, controversy and crisis to emerge battle scarred and worn, but with its bow still riding high, according to the latest polls. This truly is the Houdini government. There are signs that Prime Minister John Key’s […]
Mt Albert resident, Roy Jenner, will have his debut crime novel “Lost in Time” published at the end of this month.