Wellington.Scoop A fatal crash closed State Highway 1 at Levin for more than three hours early this morning. The crash, at 4.05am, left one person dead and two people critically injured. A police spokesperson said the single-vehicle crash took place on The Avenue, State Highway 1. NZTA said at 6am that SH1 was closed between […]
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GENEVA (15 December 2022) – UN experts* condemned the rampant Israeli settler violence and excessive use of force by Israeli forces against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank this year that have made 2022 the deadliest in this area of the ...
15 December 2022 Mr. President, Excellencies, Distinguished delegates, Those of us who love the great Latin American writers know how the theme of revolution and magical thinking has dominated their work. Some authors have also described the shadow ...
LIMA/GENEVA (15 December 2022) – “The government of Peru must address the poisoning of water. Toxic and heavy metals discharges are undermining the health and right to safe drinking water of ten million Peruvians and risking the health of future ...
Continues to Seek New Ideas through Open Calls in 2023 and Provide Support for Their Practical Application TOKYO, Dec 16, 2022 - (JCN Newswire) - Aiming to realize an "even-better mobility society," the Toyota Mobility Foundation (TMF) has ...
News from Wellington City Council The Tip Shop has been busy turning people’s trash into someone else’s treasure this year – saving around 28 tonnes from going to the Southern Landfill. From kayaks to vintage woollen blankets to cane furniture, tool boxes, and an antique mirror, Resource Recovery Officer Ray and his team have been […]
About 4pm today, Police were called to a incident at Muriwai, where a person was in difficulty in the water. The individual was brought to shore by surf lifesavers but was unable to be revived. Our thoughts are with the whānau and friends of the ...
Wellington.Scoop Congestion built up for northbound traffic on SH1 this afternoon after a crash near the Tawa interchange. The crash was reported by NZTA at 3.10, when the left lane was closed. Half an hour later, northbound traffic was backed up to the Johnsonville on-ramp. At 3.45 the closed lane was reopened but congestion continued.
Police can confirm a person has died in an incident on Bond Street, Dunedin. At about 6am this morning, Emergency services attended a report of a body on the street. Sadly, a person was located deceased. We can reassure the community we are not currently ...
Both the Herald and Stuff have proclaimed their politicians of the year. The Herald goes for Chris Luxon and Stuff for Nicola Willis. Hard to disagree as between them, they have taken National from 25% behind Labour to a small but comfortable lead. Claire Trevett at the Herald writes: But Luxon took over as leader […]
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Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency would like to thank motorists for their patience and understanding over the past week as work to fix chipseal issues on SH1 in the Dome Valley are now complete. Jacqui Hori-Hoult, Regional Manager Maintenance and ...
“The Government’s own data show the Live Export industry has grown 55 per cent over the last two years to become a $400 million industry, so why are they killing it off?” Asks ACT’s Primary Industries spokesperson Mark Cameron. “The response ...
GENEVA (16 December 2022) -- UN experts are deeply aggrieved about a public execution and that flogging has resumed in Afghanistan and call on the de facto authorities to halt immediately all forms of torturous, cruel and degrading forms of punishments. ...
GENEVA (16 December 2022) – The UN human rights expert on gender identity urged the Scottish Government to complete its deliberations and adopt the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill, bringing the Scottish system closer into line with its international ...
This International Migrants Day, 18 December, 2022, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) calls on governments to uphold their commitments to respect migrant workers’ rights and increase their efforts to foster inclusion. “We say ...
GENEVA (16 December 2022) - States must do more to uphold the human rights of migrant workers, the UN Human Rights Office said today as it launched a new report on temporary labour migration programmes within and from the Asia-Pacific region – the largest ...
Josie Pagani writes: The Treasury has released a new report to accompany its Living Standards Framework. The framework is a salad of abstract concepts like ‘’knowledge’’, ‘’voice’’ and ‘’subjective wellbeing’’ attractively arranged in columns and bubbles with no development of logical relationships between them. Nor any use of old-fashioned analytic tools such as whole sentences. … Anyway, the […]
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News from Whitireia and WelTec Graduates from Whitireia and WelTec’s School of Construction and Trades were recently celebrated by friends and whānau at a year-end graduation event in Petone. For most of the students, paid work had already started, with significant demand from construction companies for work-ready starters. The level 3 Certificate in Construction Trade […]