We’ve heard it many times – migrants have qualifications approved to gain permanent residency and then find NZ employers won’t employ them because they won’t recognise those same qualifications. It’s madness, or perhaps xenophobic protectionism. Here’s an article by David Kemeys in The (North) Shore Times to demonstrate the problem. Mehmet Mohammed has problems. He’s…
From Expatforum.com this post was written recently by a British Canadian woman who’d returned to Canada after a spell in NZ. A good many of the problems she encountered are experienced by other migrants, she is by no means unique. (see Migrant tales from NZ) “My husband and I just left NZ 2 weeks ago…
A group of four “international tourists” have been attacked and robbed whilst swimming at Kerosene Creek, near Taupo on Monday night. Their car and a number of possessions were taken during an attack which has left them deeply shaken. Information as to the tourists’ nationality or country of origin seems to have been withheld from…
Tyra Bank’s model search show is rumored to be headed to New Zealand and may even be filming already. The episode is said to be The Runway Challenge and the contestants will be strutting their stuff with models from ’62 Models’, presumably wearing some local designer offerings (please…no more pheasant wings) New Zealand’s Next Top…
Leave aside for one moment the debate over whether the ‘world famous in NZ‘ “muso” convicted of a sex offence against a 16 year old female deserved the benefit of permanent name suppression and whether or not he should be named. A few important points seem to have been either forgotten about or have been…
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