25 Feb 2019

New NZ High Com to the Cook Islands celebrated

From , 5:04 am on 25 February 2019

The appointment of Tessa Te Mata as New Zealand's High Commissioner-designate to the Cook Islands has been welcomed by the Pacific community in Aotearoa.

She's not only the first woman of Pacific ancestry to a head mission in a Pacific post, she is also the first New Zealand High Commissioner of Cook Islands descent in the post.

She speaks here to Moera Tuilaepa-Taylor

First set of radar speed signs installed in Rarotonga

First set of radar speed signs installed in Rarotonga Photo: Supplied: Cook Islands Police Service