Three Trapped Female Tourists Fight off Knifeman. Repeat Offender Gets ‘Slap on Wrist with Wet Bus Ticket’

  A man has been sentenced to a three year prison sentence for a kidnapping three female tourists, all in their 20s. Late last year, repeat offender Sherb Junior Tamati (32) attracted the women to his flat in Taumarunui with promise of work, padlocked the front door, and threatened them with a knife attached to…

Another Rip-Off NZ Story

Remember how we’ve told you about rip-off prices in New Zealand, and how more and more people are finding it cheaper to buy from abroad? Never let it be said that New Zealand has a free market economy, nor that its residents aren’t bled dry by pricing policies that exploit the limited opportunities for price…

Stephen Fry’s NZ Broadband Tweets And The Entrepreneurs Organization Conference

There’s been a Mega embarrassment for New Zealand this week as Stephen Fry criticised the lack of a decent broadband service at the same time that the Entrepreneurs Organization (EO) were having their international ‘university’ conference in Queenstown. Stephen Fry made the comments in his Twitter blogs. It’s shocking that the country that brought you Avatar in glorious…