The trial of the man accused of the murder and rape of British immigrant, Jacqueline Blackbourn, got underway at Auckland Crown Court today. The man has already pleaded guilty to a charge of arson. The Crown said in its opening statement that Jacqueline had been raped, strangled and stabbed to death before being set alight…
The NZ Herald reporting on the Christchurch earthquake inquiry have said that GNS scientists held back from making predictions about another powerful aftershock following the Boxing Day 2011 quake. “Government earthquake experts held back forecasts of a massive aftershock for Christchurch following the magnitude 4.9 Boxing Day jolt because they didn’t want to alarm the…
New Zealand’s reputation as a safe place to live has taken another knock with the news that a Whangarei supermarket (above) was held up by a man with a shotgun on Monday night. Not the sort of thing you’d expect to happen when you’re queuing up in your slippers to pay for your daily milk…
Continuing in our very popular series of Migrant Tales, first hand accounts of the immigrant experience of New Zealand taken from locations around the net. Today’s Tale is taken from the forum at Expatexposed.com. One of the few (only?) uncensored NZ immigration forums on the net. It was written by a British woman married to…
Whilst Filipino crew members are being evacuated out of New Zealand for their own safety, the Maritime Union has again asked for Maritime New Zealand to release its inspection reports for the MV Rena, saying that it should reveal whether the ship received a full inspection after being found with defects in China and Australia,…
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