Re: Government considering different funding models to build new hospitals, Dec 9 RNZ story. This is what I’ve been saying. It looks like our new Government wishes to privatise our public services in partnership and co-governance structures and...
When considering the Gaza war, aside from the grief and inhumanity of it all, it is interesting to hear the commentary on Al Jazeera from the political experts and previous UN attachés, as they pontificate on blame and offer solutions as to how the...
The new Kainga Ora homes planned for Ruatorea look good — especially having roof eaves, which are important for comfortable living. The computer-generated picture shows the roof spouting downpipes going down into the ground; hopefully this will...
Police have charged two men following multiple commercial burglaries in the city last month. Officers executed search warrants on Tuesday at two residential addresses which resulted in the recovery of some of the stolen items, including property...
The number of people employed in the region’s forestry contracting industry has halved in size in just two and a half years, a new report reveals. The situation was laid out at the end of November, in a report from Tairāwhiti CARE, the Regional...
A woman who posted sexually explicit pictures of her partner’s ex-girlfriend to several online sites has received an electronically-monitored sentence after failing to show much remorse. Last week in Gisborne District Court, Judge Turitea Bolstad...
I would like to thank the jury, the judge and the court for removing a paedophile from our community that everyone should be protected from.” Those were the words from a young woman as her 82-year-old step-grandfather was jailed this week for...
It is amazing how many potatoes can be grown in a 2-litre bucket.” That was the standard comment at the weigh-in for the Alzheimers Gisborne Tairāwhiti Spud in a Bucket competition at Bunnings Warehouse on Saturday. The Tipene whānau had the...
After a three-month break, space company Rocket Lab has confirmed a launch is good to go from Māhia, tomorrow. It will be the company’s first launch since a failed mission in September. The failure led to the company suspending launch operations...
Lytton High School student Jeremy Auckram is this year’s recipient of the Tourism Operators of Tairāwhiti Gisborne Scholarship. The scholarship will go towards funding Jeremy’s studies at the New Zealand School of Tourism in Auckland. He hopes...
Air Ruatoria’s Mahanga Maru came to the rescue on Monday afternoon to help two key ingredients of a bridal party get to a wedding in Auckland after their flight from Gisborne was cancelled. The bridegroom and his best man made it to Auckland in...
A Coastguard crew from Napier rescued three people from a disabled 12-metre pleasure craft off Mahia Peninsula late on Tuesday night. Police and the Coastguard were called at about 10pm on Tuesday to assist the people on board the Gitan II. In the...
Lightning from Tuesday night’s severe thunderstorm struck a house with a family inside and narrowly missed a car with people in it. Firefighters were called to the house in Riverside Road — near the Waimata Cheese factory— that was hit by...
An investigation into the death of a Gisborne dog at the hands of council staff has detailed the sad state the animal was returned to its owners in. On September 22, family pet Sarge was euthanised by Gisborne District Council staff after being...
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Evolution Theatre’s newest recruits, the Rising Stars, will showcase their talent this weekend when they take to the stage to perform two special Christmas plays. Rising Stars is the acting programme for youth which helps keen young actors to...
Hugh Grant learned some years ago that if a filmmaker doesn’t make something from the heart, it shows. The films that work best, and are most loved, he’s found, are the ones that the directors really meant. It applied to his romantic comedies...
DOME CINEMA Calypte Torren Martyn and Aiyana Powell had a combined sailing experience of a few days when they borrowed a 35-foot yacht, Calypte, and left east Thailand early in 2022, bound for eastern Indonesia. They learned to sail as they went...
A fast-moving cold front collided with hot air over the East Coast on Tuesday night, resulting in one of the most spectacular lightning storms seen in recent years. The whole sky and landscape was lit up by huge flashes of sheet and forked...
‘Hort Day Gisborne’ went off a treat yesterday morning when a wide variety of the district’s horticulturists took part in The Evergreen Foundation’s cyclone recovery support event. More than 60 local growers and others, about 120 people in...
Cruise ship Silver Muse’s visit to Gisborne on Monday made it six from six for the cruise ship season so far. The moderate-sized ship went to anchor in the bay at around 9.15am. “Tendering started straight away and we would have had 350...
MOTORSPORT The smell of burning rubber wouldn’t appeal to some but 15-year-old Gisborne teen Corbyn Wilson wants to make it an international career. Twelve months to the day the Gisborne Boys’ High School student went to his first Drift Academy...
The small Gisborne contingent at the Whangamata Classic surf lifesaving carnival acquitted themselves extremely well at the weekend with wins in the ironman, ski, board and beach events. One of the major highlights was the performance of Dawson...
Zac Corban is a big fan of Poverty Bay cricket. Corban has great memories of playing — and now coaching — the Hamilton team at the Emerging Rangatahi Northern Districts under-19 tournament being held at Harry Barker Reserve this week. Poverty...
Act leader David Seymour has welcomed King Tuheitia calling a national hui in January to discuss his Treaty Principles Bill and the Government’s Māori policy agenda. He has also revised the wording of the three principles to be proposed in his...
Caitlin Thompson At his funeral on Monday, Norman Maclean was described by Phillip Andrew as “a beautiful soul”. Many words could be used to describe Norm, but those three summed him up perfectly. His soul was wholesome, warm, and welcoming. As...
You are complaining about the state of our inner city?? Years ago when Meng Foon was Mayor, he commented that if you want to have the District Council wash the streets in the CBD, the rates would go up. Years ago, further back, shop owners had their...
My congratulations to the gardeners who created the displays in tubs on corners at various sites in Gladstone Road. I think the main street looks quite festive with the plywood decorated Christmas trees and one shop having an inflatable Santa at...
The Government has made the rebuilding of the railway through to Wairoa and to Gisborne a “low priority”, indicating it has little idea about the needs of rail customers, regional development and how to fight climate change. It has told these...
More than 70 percent of insurance claims for cyclone-damaged homes here have been resolved, latest data from the Insurance Council of New Zealand shows. A total of 991 homes were subject to a residential dwelling claim here at an estimated damage...
Everyone was going to die soon anyway so he could do what he wanted. That’s what a man said when he invaded a woman’s home and sexually attacked her the night before the Covid-19 lockdown started in 2020. The woman’s grandchild was asleep in...
The new National-led Government has scrapped the need for mandatory speed management plans that would have lowered state highway speeds on both SH2 and SH35. Changes made this week remove mandatory requirements for road controlling authorities to...
The Nest Collective is once again running their Giving Trees campaign to help support whānau with babies and tamariki during the Christmas period and into the New Year. The Nest Collective Gisborne, which was launched in 2021, provides baby packs...
Today marks Gisborne resident Lucy Berry’s 104th birthday. Born in 1919 in Rotorua, she went school at Wairoa, before working for Sir Andrew and Lady Russell in the central North Island as a housemaid. She was first married in 1940 aged 20. She...