The field day run by the Wi Pere Trust at Waipaoa on Thursday drew a crowd of around 250 as they showcased themselves as finalists in the Ahuwhenua Trophy for excellence in Māori Horticulture award. The trust is one of three finalists in the...
Nurses on Gisborne Hospital’s Ward 5 will strike for one hour next Wednesday. The industrial action comes after a series of appeals for staff and patient safety have been ignored by the employer, says the New Zealand Nurses Organisation. NZNO...
The Electoral Commission will visit Wairoa on Thursday to talk about the Māori Electoral Option and jobs that will be available during this year’s election. Electoral Commission adviser, community engagement, Michelle Jaggard says Wairoa had been...
New staff members at Te Whata Ora-Tairāwhiti have been welcomed this week with a pōwhiri. The ceremony provided an opportunity to hear from the new colleagues, hear about their wide array of skills and backgrounds, and to connect with each other...
The report Outrage to Optimism by the Slash Panel is obviously written by riders who surf on the crest of a rainbow, ride unicorns at sunset and live in a land of make believe. The slash panel have waved their magical wand and New Zealand and the...
The Slash Inquiry report has a lot of good recommendations. However, it also has some unrealistic expectations. An unsupported GDC has been expected to hold back a wave of logging and planting that has largely been generated by central government...
The failure of governance by Gisborne District Council as identified in the findings of Ms Parata’s report leaves Madam Mayor with no alternative but to tender her immediate resignation, stand down the current councillor incompetents and call in...
Manu Caddie I couldn’t believe the line in the report that says Council “capitulated to central government regulations”. That’s one of the most ridiculous statements in the report (that also has some good suggestions) and I can see why the...
The Government set the scene for Budget week with a nearly $1 billion flood and cyclone recovery package, which is in effect a further down-payment on its expected $4.5bn to $9bn share of the overall cost. A large part of the funding announced on...
A High Court trial for two people accused of murdering Gisborne woman Maraea Smith, is scheduled to begin on Monday. Ms Smith, also known as Maraea Turnbull, died on her 36th birthday after being shot in Titoki Street, Elgin, at about 9.45pm on...
Recommendations released today from the ministerial inquiry into land use here have been slammed by Mayor Rehette Stoltz after it found the council was in “dereliction of duty”. “We are extremely disappointed in the findings of the panel and...
“We can substantiate all of it.” Land Use in Tairawhiti inquiry chairwoman Hekia Parata adamantly defended her panel’s report when it was released at a press conference in Gisborne yesterday. Responding to Mayor Rehette Stoltz’s concerns...
Cyclone Recovery Minister Grant Robertson has set out the next steps for property assessments in areas affected by the severe weather events earlier this year. “I am encouraged by the work the taskforce, councils and insurance companies are doing...
Storm-doomed cannabis plot found during police search of offender’s property Armed police sent to the home of a Ruatoria man after he threatened a local with a firearm discovered he was growing a huge outdoor cannabis crop likely to be worth...
The piles required to support the new Hikuwai Bailey bridge on State Highway 35 north of Gisborne will be going deeper to ensure a solid footing for construction. The Bailey bridge will replace the Hikuwai No. 1 bridge, which was damaged in Cyclone...
Federated Farmers Gisborne-based forestry spokesperson Toby Williams is urging the Government to act quickly on the recommendations made in the Ministerial Inquiry into Land Use report. “The Government needs to take the recommendations in this...
The Eastland Wood Council — Te Kaunihera Pororākau o Te Tairāwhiti (EWC) has welcomed the release of the Ministerial Inquiry into Land Use report. “This thorough report is an important step forward for our community, as we all make changes...
Predictably there has been a swift back-slash to the so-called slash report which came out yesterday afternoon. Mayor Rehette Stoltz has come out fighting, expressing “our disappointment”, “serious concerns” and that “we fundamentally...
Gavin Maclean (May 10) obviously missed my point, along with the fact the percentage of tax our wealthiest New Zealanders pay is now being compared and criticised based on their unrealised capital gains over 2021, a year of fast-rising asset prices...
Natasha Baulis Maxim Institute researcher As a foreigner newly arrived here, there’s much to delight in, but I don’t think I will ever be able to get behind “gumboot” tea. Don’t get me wrong; I think the analogy is perfect: the te...
The trepidation with which calls for an independent inquiry into land uses associated with the mobilisation of woody debris and sediment were met in some quarters has been justified by the hard-hitting report released yesterday. That included the...
Turkey’s elections are fairly free, and there is going to be one this Sunday (May 14). President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been in power for two decades, and he should really lose by a landslide. Imagine what the United States would be like if...
A desire to always be in the forest has subtly inspired Renee Raroa’s mahi. After making headlines for speaking at the United Nations, she caught up with kaupapa Māori reporter Matai O’Connor. I was blessed to grow up in a place where the hills...
Seven reserves around the region remain closed following the damage caused by Cyclone Gabrielle in February. Gisborne District Council has confirmed Doneraille Park, De Costa Park, the small reserve at the junction of Fitzherbert Street and Clifford...
Reporting their stepfather’s sexual offending against them cost four sisters their mother but even so, the girl who first spoke up says she has “absolutely no regrets” about doing so as it gave her sisters the strength to come forward too. On...
A woman says a previous sentence of home detention didn’t stop her peddling drugs, but a recent stint on remand in jail was the “big wake-up call” she needed. Standing in the dock of Gisborne District Court yesterday, Darling-Delicia Kaui, 45...
Forestry here has “lost its social licence” due to poor practices faciliated by Gisborne District Council’s “capitulation to the permissiveness of the regulatory regime”. Those are two main findings released yesterday by the Panel for the...
It’s yet another blow to our society and the commercial fabric of Tairawhiti. I write to express my sympathy, empathy, gratitude and moral support to the owners of both Gisborne Herald and Evans Meats. As a dedicated loyal customer and follower of...
When will we learn that when we create electronic equipment that needs metals such as lithium etc, there is a fine art to this creation? It seems that above ground we are running out of these metals. It is disappointing to find that Parliamentarians...
Re: “Didn’t feel heard”, GH 10 May 2023. I know what it feels like “not to be heard” because when Sir Robert’s messenger approached this Minister for veteran support in 2021 he was told: “I don’t work 24 hours a day bro, make an...
Oh, how I do love the extravagant, hyperbolic claims of some of our perennial writers to the editor! “Our economy is in ruins . . .” and “. . . thanks to our luckless attempts to save ourselves from a common cold” — the last comment...
by Clive Bibby This column will be seen by some as premature because it is written prior to the reporting of the Hekia Parata-led inquiry into land use on the East Coast. My response to that is — it needs to be! Because the alternative would most...
After a string of political polls showing a finely balanced electorate tilting back towards Labour since Chris Hipkins took over as leader and Prime Minister, National and the Act Party will take heart from the latest Taxpayers’ Union-Curia poll...
Makauri School Room 4 and 5 students have made their school a little wealthier and helped people take note of the city’s water crisis after their song won Gisborne District Council’s Wero Tiaki Wai — Embrace the Challenge conserve water...