Can I work in the Cook Islands?

Can I work in the Cook Islands?

Persons wishing to live and work in the Cook Islands require an entry permit with permission to work. To obtain an entry permit with work rights, they must be sponsored by a person or organisation in the Cook Islands agreeing to employ them.

What language do they speak in Cook Islands?

Rarotongan
Pukapukan languageEnglish
Cook Islands/Official languages
The official languages of the Cook Islands include English and Cook Islands Māori (or “Rarotongan”). Cook Islands Maori and its dialectic variants are closely related to both Tahitian and to New Zealand Māori. The language of Pukapukan is also spoken and is closely related to the Samoan language.

How many languages are spoken in Cook Islands?

Cook Islands language is similar to that found on many of the Pacific Islands. There are a total of five living languages spoken in the Cook Islands however it may surprise you to learn that aside from Cook Islands Maori, English is the other official Cook Islands language.

What does Hua mean in Cook Island?

Hua is the abbreviated form of Upokokohua. In the literal sense, it is a grave insult. It means boiled head; for Maori, the head is the most tapu or sacred part of the body, with food at the other end of the spectrum.

Can NZ citizens live in the Cook Islands?

Cook Islands is located between French Polynesia and American Samoa. It is self-governing in ‘free association’ with New Zealand. That means that while it administers its own affairs, Cook Islanders are New Zealand citizens who are free to live and work here.

Can I live in Rarotonga?

To live and work in the Cook Islands you will require an entry permit with permission to work. To satisfy criteria to obtain a work permit you must be sponsored by a person or organisation in the Cook Islands agreeing to your employment. Details for a work permit here. Arriving at Rarotonga International Airport.

How do you say hello in Rarotonga?

“Kia Orana” = Hello (Key-ah-o-raah-nah) We start with the basics and the first thing you’ll probably hear when you land in Rarotonga. “Kia Orana” is the greeting used to say “hello” in the Cook Islands and is probably the one you’ll use most often without a doubt.

Is Fiji in the Cook Islands?

Renowned for its snorkeling, scuba diving and calm lagoons, the Cook Islands is a Polynesian nation in the South Pacific halfway between Hawaii and New Zealand. Just over 2,000km to the west of the Cook Islands lies Fiji, a Melanesian island nation made up of more than 300 islands and 540 islets in the South Pacific.

Do they speak English in the Cook Islands?

Nearly everyone in the Cook Islands speaks English, which is an official language along with Cook Islands Maori, a Polynesian language similar to Tahitian and New Zealand Maori.

How do you say hello in Cook Islands language?

Can I buy a house in Cook Islands?

The only people allowed to buy houses, aside from nationals, are those who have owned a business in the Cook Islands for the last three years. Land in the Cook Islands is customarily owned, and cannot be bought freehold. The maximum lease obtainable by a non-Cook Islander is 60 years.

What is the Cook Islands online dictionary?

This online dictionary is aimed at providing quick access for learners and speakers of the languages of the Cook Islands. The Cook Islands languages are closely related to the indigenous languages of Tuamotu, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Hawai‘i, the Marquesas, Tahiti and the Society Islands.

What languages are spoken in the Cook Islands?

The Cook Islands languages are closely related to the indigenous languages of Tuamotu, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Hawai‘i, the Marquesas, Tahiti and the Society Islands. The aim of this dictionary is to eventually have comprehensive separate dictionaries for each of the indigenous languages of the Cook Islands.

Is Pukapukan spoken in the Cook Islands?

It’s also spoken – after a fashion – on Palmerston Island where it’s mixed up with words from the Gloucestershire accent of England and where English is the only official language. More of this at the bottom of the page PUKAPUKAN is more like the Samoan language than Cook Islands Maori and is completely unintelligible to most other Cook Islanders.

How many people speak Maori in the Cook Islands?

LANGUAGE OF THE ISLANDS. A Papa’a’s Guide. COOK ISLANDS MAORI is sometimes called Rarotongan after the capital island and it’s the most widely spoken version of maori. It’s estimated that about 27,000 people worldwide speak it, although numbers are rapidly declining.