It has been confirmed that four males have been charged with the stabbing murder of 64 year old Polish man Roman Skorek in a Rotorua’s Kuirau Park last month. Two are un-named youths aged 14 and 15, the others are Simon Meka Herewini, 20, and Rawiri James Samuel, 21. Co-incidentally, Simon Meka Herewini bears the same family name as someone who was caught up in…
(Update: Read the report on the TVNZ website) A new Wellington Council report has just highlighted the serious implications of a major earthquake in Wellington, the capital city and seat of government for New Zealand. Stuff covered the report and alongside it ran a poll asking people to vote on how well they thought the…
Win your passage out of New Zealand . We’ve been tweeting (link) about a NZ radio station’s plans to hold an on-air divorce competition on Valentine’s Day and it set us thinking. What if a radio station were to offer a fully expenses paid repatriation, or onward migration to another country of choice, for one…
This cartoon in today’s NZ Herald says it all The Herald has run a series of articles about the effects of poverty. If you’re thinking about emigrating from a first world country please try to read a few. Here’s the links to some of them. Dr says he sees effects of poverty on kids every…
A sad symptom of the crime ridden society we live in today was made manifest by the daylight mugging of an elderly woman in the sleepy suburb of Browns Bay. Browns Bay, a residential area very popular with European and Asian immigrants, has suffered its fair share of bank armed hold-ups (e.g. Westpac) but this…
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