Supplied Content Wellington, January 19, 2021 The Commerce Commission has issued a Stop Now letter to Shelly Cullen, promoter of Lion’s Share, which the Commission believes is likely a pyramid selling scheme. Scheme under investigation Pyramid selling schemes are prohibited under the Fair Trading Act 1986. The Commission is currently investigating the Lion’s Share scheme and Ms Cullen’s promotion of…
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17 countries exempted; effective January 25; $1000 fine from February 8, 2021 Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins (RNZ Picture by Samuel Rillstone) All travellers to New Zealand from anywhere in the world other than 17 countries in the ‘Exempt List’ will be required to undergo pre-departure testing at the place of their departure, the New Zealand government announced today.…
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(Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay) The dawn of a New Year tends to provide us all with an opportunity to reflect on our approach to life. One of the…
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Supplied Content Geneva, Switzerland, January 18, 2021 The Human Rights Council has elected Nazhat Shameem Khan, Permanent Representative of Fiji to the United Nations to serve as its President for 2021. Ambassador Khan, who has been Fiji’s envoy to the UN since 2014, was elected through a secret ballot process at which all the 47 members of the Geneva-based human…
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Australian PM Scott Morrison with Donald Trump (SBS TV Image) Through recent natural disasters, global upheavals and a pandemic, Australia’s political centre has largely held. Australians may have disagreed at times, but they have also kept faith with governmental norms, eschewing the false allure of populism beguiling voters elsewhere. Broad public confidence Our Federal and State governments enjoy broad…
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Auckland hotels are still being used as quarantine facilities (Getty Images) The global Covid-19 pandemic is intensifying, with more infectious variants of the virus, and more rapid spread, especially in countries such as the US and UK. This deterioration has meant a higher number of infected returnees arriving at New Zealand’s MIQ facilities…
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New Zealand Currency (Adobe Image) Rhetoric plays an important role in tax debate and therefore tax policy. If your side manages to gain traction in the public imagination with labels such as “death tax“ or “dementia tax,“ you have gone a long way to normalising the labels and winning support. Some truth underpins these particular labels — an estate…
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The pandemic is claiming a life every eight seconds Reuters & RNZ Wellington, January 17, 2021 The worldwide coronavirus death toll has surpassed two million, according to a Reuters tally, as nations around the world are trying to procure multiple vaccines and detect new Covid-19 variants. Accelerating fatalities It took nine months for the world to record the first one…
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At Mt Eden War Memorial Hall on January 30, 2021 Venkat Raman Auckland, January 17, 2021 Auckland Tamil Association (ATA) will conduct a daylong Pongal Festival involving its members in a variety of competitions and activities with a grand finale dinner in the evening. The Festival will be held on Saturday, January 30, 2021 at Mt Eden War Memorial Hall…
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Three-day event culminating in Seetha Kalyanam in Auckland: April 23-25, 2021 Venkat Raman Auckland, January 16, 2021 The corridors of Shri Shirdi Saibaba Sansthan (located at 12 Princes Street in Onehunga, Auckland) will reverberate piety, accruing the Divine Blessings of Lord Vishnu, as devotees recite His Name ten million times for the good of all living beings. The Marathon, arguably…
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