Chantal knows “almost” everyone on the island of Rarotonga, including the Prime Minister himself, the Honorable Mr. Mark Brown. Over the past year and a half, she's worked tirelessly to schedule, research, record and not miss a minute while recording this weekly show. Currently with 72 weekly episodes under our belt!

The Cook Islands are safe and still COVID-free. But they are also tourist-free as well, and Chantal's business is entirely focused on tourists.

If you are considering a future trip to the Cook Islands, when the boarders re-open then book yourself a one-hour pre consultation with Chantal here:

https://chantalsconcierge.com

That one-hour consultation will help you plan your holiday in the future to the Cook Islands. 

I know I'll be leveraging her services both before I go and while I am there in the future. Your holiday will be that much more enjoyable under her care. 

Cheers!
Haydn  

Kia Orana, May you live long
Aere Ra, Farewell
Kia Manuia, Good Luck and Good Health

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The Kia Orana Podcast was created as a result of lock down Covid restrictions, in 2020.

Kia Orana and welcome to this episode with Kia Orana Podcast.

Turama Pacific Travel Group is the leading Travel Management Company in the tourism industry of the Cook Islands. Locally owned and operated since 1990, Turama is a family of professionals offering both inbound and outbound tourism services.

We are privileged to chat today with Robert Skews, the company’s managing director. We are grateful Robert said Yes to be recorded.

There is so much history content in this episode of the last 31 years of our Cook Islands inbound tourism operations. Robert is a wealth of tourism knowledge. Robert pays so many acknowledgment accolades to other professionals in our tourism industry.

Listen out for his reminiscing of the ITB Berlin (travel trade show) attendance 25 times.

“Also, we need to find ways to develop the outer islands. The great thing is we don’t need to manufacture tourism in the Cook Islands!” Robert says. “Ive always felt that the Cook Islands is a ‘boutique’ - destination. 

Robert speaks about, how cancellations due to Covid-19 has affected or impacted Turama Pacific and our tourism industry in general. Robert speaks about our resilience as a country and people during this pandemic time and Rarotonga being one BIG resort!

Robert also lets us all know about the new tours that Turama have been planning and preparing for the coming future. 

*Southern Group Adventure Package, Atiu-Mauke-Mitiaro-Mangaia which also includes your Close Encounters Packages

*Trailblazers of the Northern Atolls, Pukapuka-Manihiki-Tongareva (Penrhyn)

*Private Tours - Rarotonga Tours

*Private Aitutaki Daytour or Overnight with the Citation Jet

*Aitutaki by Private-Jet

*Mitiaro Private Jet and Divine Retreat


Listen in for Robert and his beautiful closing thoughts, of “You won’t be disappointed”, when you visit us here in the Cook Islands. 

Website For Turama Pacific Travel Group: https://www.turamapacific.com

Kia Orana, May you live long
Aere Ra, Farewell
Kia Manuia, Good Luck and Good Health

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The Kia Orana Podcast was created as a result of lock down Covid restrictions, in 2020.

Kia Orana,

Which comes first, the story or the statement? When you’re trying to navigate and implement ethical influence practices into your business  or passion processes, I believe the best way to start is with a story.

Our episode today is with Cook Islander Caren Rangi, Governance practitioner, facilitator, community connector. Creating strong networks in the Pacific.

Professional Board Director for the last 16 years. 
Caren Rangi, ONZM - Officers of the New Zealand Order of Merit 2018, FCA - Fellow Chartered Accountant.

Born in suburban Christchurch during a time where there were few Cook Islanders in Canterbury, New Zealand. Caren grew up learning about her heritage and culture through storytelling and Cook Islands, hula ‘ura’ dance.

Caren, makes many statements in this episode as she narrates and interweaves them into her natural storytelling. “We’ve got to VALUE ourselves before we can get other people to VALUE us!”, she says.  Another one Caren says is, “I like being at a decision meeting table”!

Challenges: “The Buck stops with you, You carry the risks”.

Caren draws on her own extensive experience in governance roles on not-for-profit, government and private boards. She is proud of her Cook Islands Maori heritage, and brings that lens to the range of board tables that she serves at.

As at recording Caren is currently a board member of Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and Radio New Zealand, director of Pacific Cooperation Broadcasting Ltd and Pacific Inc, and Chair of Pacific Homecare Services. Including also a director of the Cook Islands Investment Corporation in Rarotonga….. “Bit of a mixed bag with a strong focus on broadcasting,” Caren says.

Thank you and Meitaki to our guest Caren Rangi, it has been a genuine pleasure and I am grateful to you sharing your knowledge and story with me today.

Thank you to our listeners for tuning in. This is a passion project for me and I appreciate you all listening into our Cook Islands stories. 

No konei ia matou, aro’a iatu kia kotou katoatoa. 

Kia Orana (May you live long)

Aere Ra (Farewell)
Kia Manuia (Good Luck and Good Health)

Your podcast host,
Chantal TD Napa

Kia Orana, May you live long
Aere Ra, Farewell
Kia Manuia, Good Luck and Good Health

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The Kia Orana Podcast was created as a result of lock down Covid restrictions, in 2020.

Kia Orana kia kotou katoatoa, no konei ia matou i te Kuki Airani

Thank you for joining me today on the Kia Orana podcast, a show targeted at highlighting the Cook Islands to audiences around the world.

Our podcast today Pira Wichman, will take us from being a Military Policeman with the New Zealand Army, a former Traffic Police Specialist with the New Zealand Traffic Safety Services, and general Policing with the New Zealand Police. Returning home to Rarotonga and becoming our former Cook Islands Police Commissioner in the early 2000’s until 2007.

Pira then returned to New Zealand, since that time he has been a Returning Officer for the New Zealand Electoral Commission in charge of the Waitakere Electorate, an Area Manager for Statistics New Zealand in charge of the 3 West Auckland offices set up for the 2011 Census and also the Emergency Manager for the Royal New Zealand Air Force based out of Whenuapai.

Pira has also been President of the Avondale RSA and also Vice President for the Auckland District Returned Services Association.

We talked together about our Cook Islands language and culture, what his family have been doing in Whangarei with the Cook Islands community.

Listen out for his involvement with Youth initiatives in the New Zealand Police and his view about young people in relation to keeping on the right track.

Our guest Mr. Pira Wichman has now returned home to settle in Rarotonga.

No konei ia matou, aro’a iatu kia kotou katoatoa.
Kia Orana (May you live long)
Aere Ra (Farewell)
Kia Manuia (Good Luck and Good Health)

Kia Orana Podcast was created as a result of lock down Covid restrictions. Our podcast website www.kiaoranapodcast.com and the eleven (11)  audio platforms we are registered on.  Enables an international reach, sharing our local stories and local content. 
Your financial support, enables our digital media company to continue recording our Cook Islands voices with our people’s best interests at heart.

Support the Kia Orana Podcast here: https://kiaoranapodcast.com/donate/

Chantal TD Napa & Haydn S Adams
Chantal Website: http://www.chantalsconcierge.com/
Haydn Website: https://nautilusdesigns.com/about/

Kia Orana, May you live long
Aere Ra, Farewell
Kia Manuia, Good Luck and Good Health

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The Kia Orana Podcast was created as a result of lock down Covid restrictions, in 2020.

Kia Orana kia kotou katoatoa, no konei ia matou i te Kuki Airani.

I am Chantal Napa, welcome back. 

Thank you for joining me today on the Kia Orana podcast, a show targeted at highlighting the Cook Islands to audiences around the world.

Our guest today is, Valentino (Valery) Wichman. New Zealand. Pacific. Human Rights. 2016. Valentino was given a Queen's Young Leaders Award. 

Homosexuality is illegal under the Crimes Act which is seen as a breach of Article 64 of the Constitution that specifically bans discrimination.

Sexual acts between men are punishable by up to seven years in prison.

The Cook Islands Te Tiare association called for Members of Parliament to be on what they called the right side of history and reform the colonial era laws.

Te Tiare's President, Valery Wichman, said lawmakers had an obligation to uphold the constitution.

"We're asking for equal human rights before the law, rights that have been in place since the birth of our Cook Islands Constitution.

"We're not asking for new rights. We're not asking for same sex marriage," said Wichman.

"We're just asking to be recognised the same as everyone else. We're asking to be accepted."

(LGBTQ is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer. In use since the 1990s, the term is an adaptation of the initialism ...)

No konei ia matou, aro’a iatu kia kotou katoatoa.
Kia Orana (May you live long)
Aere Ra (Farewell)
Kia Manuia (Good Luck and Good Health)

Kia Orana Podcast was created as a result of lock down Covid restrictions. Our podcast website www.kiaoranapodcast.com and podcast channel covers rich local content. 
Your financial support, enables our media company to continue recording and broadcasting local content with our Cook Islands people’s best interests at heart.

Support the Kia Orana Podcast here: https://kiaoranapodcast.com/donate/

Kia Orana, May you live long
Aere Ra, Farewell
Kia Manuia, Good Luck and Good Health

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The Kia Orana Podcast was created as a result of lock down Covid restrictions, in 2020.

Kia Orana kia kotou katoatoa, no konei ia matou i te Kuki Airani

Our topic and goal today is to inspire the next generation of Cook Islanders to actively engage with Marae Moana.

Marae Moana is a multiple-use marine park which extends over the entire Exclusive Economic Zone of the Cook Islands, an area of 1.9 million square kilometres. It is currently the largest commitment by a single country for integrated management and conservation from ridge to reef and from reef to ocean. Marae Moana was legally designated on 12th July 2017 by the Marae Moana Act 2017 which has the primary purpose of protecting and conserving the” ecological, biodiversity and heritage values of the Cook Islands marine environment.” Marae Moana was first announced at the formal opening of the 43rd Pacific Leaders Forum in 2012 when Prime Minister Henry Puna committed to establishing what was then known as the “Cook Islands Marine Park”. Prime Minister Puna said at the time, “With the full support of my government, traditional leaders and local communities, as well as the past contributions by the present Opposition, the Marine Park will provide the necessary framework to promote sustainable development by balancing economic growth interests such as tourism, fishing and deep-sea mining, with conserving core biodiversity and natural assets, in the ocean, reefs and islands”.

Message 1 is regarding – Climate Change

• Life in the far northern group atolls of the Cook Islands, such as Penrhyn which is 8 degrees from the equator. 

• Fossil fuel free travel/voyaging, on board Marumaru Atua our traditional sailing vaka, propelled by the wind.

• Scientific experiments conducted by Kelvin Passfield – micro plastics, and fishing.

• Message 2  is – Passing on of our traditional knowledge

• Relationship between Master Navigator and training novice voyagers.

• Dialogue between Master Navigator Peia Patai and Watch Captain Terii Pittman.

• Celestial Navigation Challenges when vaka voyaging. 

There is a sovereign relationship between us and our ocean.
Marae Moana, is not only a food basket, it is a livelihood. Its all our responsibility to love the Moana and to look after our ocean. Our Polynesian people have an innate connection to water and traditional sailing vaka voyaging.

Thank you and meitaki to our guests:
Terii Pittman, Cook Islands Voyaging Society
Peia Patai, Cook Islands Voyaging Society
Kevin Iro, Marae Moana Ambassador

Website Cook Islands Voyaging Society: https://www.cookislandsvoyaging.org/

Website Seacology: https://www.seacology.org/

Website Marae Moana : https://www.maraemoana.gov.ck/

Please enjoy this episode, Kia Orana Podcast aims to bring you our listeners a wide spectrum of story and truthtelling from the Cook Islands today.

No konei ia matou, aro’a iatu kia kotou katoatoa.
Kia Orana (May you live long)

Aere Ra (Farewell)
Kia Manuia (Good L

Kia Orana, May you live long
Aere Ra, Farewell
Kia Manuia, Good Luck and Good Health

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The Kia Orana Podcast was created as a result of lock down Covid restrictions, in 2020.

Kia Orana tatou,

Justine was born and raised in Wellington, New Zealand.

She has a Degree in International Politics and Linguistics

With genealogy links from Ngati Tangiiau and Teaia. Her grandmother was Teariki Tangiiau (Flanagan); she moved to Wellington and raised her kids there.

- Justine after  living in Germany for a year and a half, moved back to Wellington. She ran a website design company (with a focus on information and interaction design) for 10 years. In the early days of online businesses before content management systems, smart phones and apps.

- Justine moved to Rarotonga around 2011: Spent the past decade setting up businesses; raising kids; getting to know her family here; and enjoying the blessing of the island and our way of life - paradise on earth.

- Founding member of Te Vai Ora Maori: 

Te Vai Ora Maori is a community lobby group. We believe Rarotonga can have clean and safe water using physical treatment methods, and that natural based approach to infrastructure is feasible, sustainable and culturally appropriate.

Please enjoy this episode, Kia Orana Podcast aims to bring you our listeners a wide spectrum set of values from the Cook Islands today.

No konei ia matou, aro’a iatu kia kotou katoatoa.

Kia Orana (May you live long)

Aere Ra (Farewell)
Kia Manuia (Good Luck and Good Health)

In April 2020, Kia Orana Podcast was created as a result of lock down Covid restrictions. Self funded by the 2 co-hosts, we are thoroughly enjoying producing this show for you all. Our podcast website www.kiaoranapodcast.com and podcast channel is presented to you by Haydn and Chantal, who wear the hats of marketing, booking agent, journalist, researcher, copy writer, administration, accounting and ICT.  We cover rich local content, and we want to keep it that way. Support us today to help secure a sustainable future for locally owned and operated broadcasting media with Cook Islanders’ best interests at heart.

Make a contribution/donation from as little as $5 and help safeguard trustworthy, independent broadcasting.

Support the Kia Orana Podcast here: https://kiaoranapodcast.com/donate/

Meitaki Maata (thank you very much),

Chantal TD Napa & Haydn S Adams
Chantal Website: http://www.chantalsconcierge.com/
Haydn Website: https://nautilusdesigns.com/about/

Kia Orana, May you live long
Aere Ra, Farewell
Kia Manuia, Good Luck and Good Health

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The Kia Orana Podcast was created as a result of lock down Covid restrictions, in 2020.

Kia Orana kia kotou katoatoa, to all of our listeners.

It’s me Chantal Napa, welcome back. Thank you for joining our tropical conversation to connect you to our ancestral home the Cook Islands.

Our guest today is Denis Ryburn, who is the husbund of Paine Nicholas, the step father of Fishing Captain Brendon Nicholas, Dr. S.N.B Selena Nicholas Bublick, Quentin Nicholas Grundy and the grandfather of my children Athena and Desiree. 

Denis, born in 1937 in Hamilton, New Zealand to his mother Alice and his father Ernie Ryburn. 

Denis speaks about how he bought a car in New Zealand, a Ford Fairmont in 1980 and therefore automatically,  went into a national draw to win two airline tickets from New Zealand to Rarotonga as a prize! He wins the prize, and the rest is history…

Thank you to our listeners, grab a cup of coffee or tea and enjoy. 

No konei ia matou, aro’a iatu kia kotou katoatoa.

Kia Orana (May you live long)

Aere Ra (Farewell)
Kia Manuia (Good Luck and Good Health)

In April 2020, Kia Orana Podcast was created as a result of lock down Covid restrictions. Self funded by the 2 co-hosts, we are thoroughly enjoying producing this show for you. Our website www.kiaoranapodcast.com and podcast channel is presented to you by Haydn and Chantal, who wear the hats of journalist, researcher, copy writer, administration and ICT expert? We cover rich local content, and we want to keep it that way. Support us today to help secure a sustainable future for locally owned and operated broadcasting media with Cook Islanders’ best interests at heart.

Make a contribution/donation from as little as $5 and help safeguard trustworthy, independent broadcasting.

Support the Kia Orana Podcast 

https://kiaoranapodcast.com/donate/

Meitaki Maata (thank you very much),

Chantal Napa & Haydn Adams

Kia Orana, May you live long
Aere Ra, Farewell
Kia Manuia, Good Luck and Good Health

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The Kia Orana Podcast was created as a result of lock down Covid restrictions, in 2020.

Kia Orana and welcome to our podcast with the Australian High Commission in Rarotonga, Cook Islands with Dr. Christopher Watkins.

Australia has had diplomatic relations with Cook Islands since 1994, but our shared heritage is much older. Australians and Cook Islanders served side by side in both World Wars and in the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands.  We have deep ties founded in shared membership of international organisations, a large diaspora in Australia (more than 50,000 Cook Islanders call Australia home) and a shared belief in democracy and the rule of law.

Our Australian High Commissioner delivered his letter of introduction to our then Prime Minister Henry Puna on 17 March 2020, and became Australia's first resident High Commissioner to Cook Islands.

Dr Watkins is a career officer with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. He has previously served overseas at the Australian Embassy in Iraq and at the Australian High Commission in Nigeria. In Canberra, he has served as senior analyst at the Office of National Assessments and as Acting Director of the Papua New Guinea Political Section. In 2015 he was deployed to Ghana as part of Australia's response to the Ebola crisis. In 2016 he was made an AILA International Fellow of the Washington based Centre for Strategic and International Studies.

Dr Watkins holds a Doctorate in Modern History and a Masters in Historical Research from the University of Oxford, United Kingdom; and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from the University of Melbourne.

Web: https://www.dfat.gov.au/about-us/our-locations/missions/Pages/australian-high-commission-cook-islands

Kia Orana (May you live long)

Aere Ra (Farewell)
Kia Manuia (Good Luck and Good Health)

If you enjoyed this episode, follow our Podcast channel on Apple Podcasts & Spotify for more! 

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In April 2020, Kia Orana Podcast was created as a result of lock down Covid restrictions. Self funded by the 2 co-hosts, we are thoroughly enjoying producing this show for you. Our website www.kiaoranapodcast.com and podcast channel is presented to you by Haydn and Chantal, who wear the hats of journalist, researcher, copy writer, administration and ICT expert? We cover rich local content, and we want to keep it that way. Support us today to help secure a sustainable future for locally owned and operated broadcasting media with Cook Islanders’ best interests at heart.

Make a contribution/donation from as little as $5 and help safeguard trustworthy, independent broadcasting.

Support the Kia Orana Podcast 

https://kiaoranapodcast.com/donate/

Meitaki Maata (thank you very much),

Chantal Napa & Haydn Adams

Kia Orana, May you live long
Aere Ra, Farewell
Kia Manuia, Good Luck and Good Health

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The Kia Orana Podcast was created as a result of lock down Covid restrictions, in 2020.

Kia Orana tatou katoatoa, Greetings to you all

Early June 2021, our boarders were freshly opened to New Zealand. I decided to go out to dinner with my cousin, Mahiriki Tangaroa.

Together my cousin and I were very fortunate to be introduced to Ms. Peta Mathias by OTB On The Beach restauranteur Mr. Phillip Nordt. Of which I am grateful, thank you Phillip!

Peta has such an exuberant colourful zest for life, and love of food that instinctively I knew I was speaking to someone who was - ‘famous’!
So I humbly took a chance and haphazardly mumbling, asked if she would please come on my Kia Orana Podcast show?
Yay! Peta agreed, she handed me her business card and said, “We will have to do this tomorrow morning please, as we are flying out in the afternoon”. I walk back to my table, use my phone light (as we were all at OTB for dinner & the night cultural show) to look at her business card. Opened up my internet browser and I started reading the information and suddenly I’m like….. “Okay now I’m nervous - Peta Mathias - MNZM is a New Zealand food writer and television show presenter and owns a television production company that produces food and travel shows!”

Listen in while Peta talks us all through her culinary food adventure in Rarotonga June 2021. Peta was so pleased to return to Rarotonga, and mentioned that the last time she was here was 20 years ago.

I thoroughly enjoyed my chat with Peta, as I’m sure you will love listening to….Peta is returning again to Rarotonga for another culinary adventure this November 2021, so find her website and book yourself in! http://www.petamathias.com/

Oh and thank you, ‘meitaki maata’ to Pacific Resort Rarotonga for allowing Peta and I to record in one of your garden rooms. 

Meitaki, Thank you 
Chantal.

If you enjoyed this episode, follow our Podcast channel on Apple Podcasts & Spotify for more! 

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In April 2020, Kia Orana Podcast was created as a result of lock down Covid restrictions. Self funded by the 2 co-hosts, we are thoroughly enjoying producing this show for you. Our website www.kiaoranapodcast.com and podcast channel is presented to you by Haydn and Chantal, who wear the hats of journalist, researcher, copy writer, administration and ICT expert? We cover rich local content, and we want to keep it that way. Support us today to help secure a sustainable future for locally owned and operated broadcasting media with Cook Islanders’ best interests at heart.

Make a contribution/donation from as little as $5 and help safeguard trustworthy, independent broadcasting.

Support the Kia Orana Podcast 

https://kiaoranapodcast.com/donate/

Meitaki Maata (thank you very much),

Chantal Napa & Haydn Adams

Kia Orana, May you live long
Aere Ra, Farewell
Kia Manuia, Good Luck and Good Health

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The Kia Orana Podcast was created as a result of lock down Covid restrictions, in 2020.