Are the Cook Islands or the British Virgin Islands the legitimate heirs to that legacy?
Aitutaki boasts a beautiful lagoon, a must-see on any visit to the Cook Islands.
The Adversary Complaint filed in the case indicates that the Cook Islands Trust Company was the other trustee.
The BAP did not give comity to the Cook Islands, or its laws.
This has already successfully taken place in the Cook Islands and The Seychelles.
The Cook Islands has approved a shark sanctuary in its waters, making for the largest such sanctuary in the world.
Chinese soft loans to Tonga, Vanuatu, the Cook Islands and, more controversially, to the military regime in Fiji, have raised American eyebrows.
But it is now borderline malpractice for asset protection planners to continue the using the Cook Islands, and maybe not even so borderline.
More respectable offshore centres, such as the Channel Islands, resent being lumped together with laxer places such as Nauru and the Cook Islands.
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Instead, the BAP simply looked at the subsequent transfers by Wife to the Cook Islands Trust as a bright red flag that something was seriously amiss.
Smith and his attorney-protectors control the Cook Islands Trust and the transferred assets, which are used as instructed by Smith to fund his personal expenses and legal fees.
Further, that failure to pay is due in great part to his own decision to place the majority of his assets into a trust in the Cook Islands.
Teariki Heather, Minister of Cultural Development of the Cook Islands.
Even though the Trust was domiciled in the Cook Islands, the Court applied Illinois law to penetrate the Cook Islands Trust as to a Illinois settlor and Illinois property.
The presentation of the Cook Islands expert highlighted the interactive on-line databases of biological diversity and Maori languages which could also contribute to the ICH safeguarding and inventory-making efforts.
As with the Marshall Islands' declaration, the Cook Islands' effort was with the help of the Pew Environment Group, which advocates island nations' involvement because of the vast scope of their territorial waters.
Courts, including the 10th Circuit as we see here, are now looking at trusts formed in the Cook Islands and concluding offhand that the Debtor (or, in this case, his Wife) had an intent to stiff creditors.
Whatever slight nuances of Cook Islands law that some believe makes it a better trust jurisdiction than any of the other offshore debtor havens, the bad reputation of the Cook Islands now outweighs those perceived advantages by at least tenfold.
An engineer's Ebay, HelloBrain has signed up 17, 000 freelancers in 11 months, 10, 000 of them from outside the U.S. They live in 126 countries--engineers in India and Germany, code-crunchers in the Cook Islands, programmers from the old Soviet defense complex.
An engineer's Ebay, HelloBrain has signed up 17, 000 freelancers in 11 months, 10, 000 of them from outside the U.S. They hail from 126 countries--engineers in India and Germany, code-crunchers in the Cook Islands, programmers from the old Soviet defense complex.
Otherwise those relying on it in the US Virgin Islands are going to have a hard time working out what those islands on the horizon are (the British Virgin Islands are not on the list) and New Zealand will be a bit surprised to note the non-existence of the Cook Islands.
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The Meeting was attended by representatives of the Pacific state parties to the 2003 ICH Convention as well as Cook Islands experts including representative of the House of Ariki (traditional chiefs), officers at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Environment, Ministry of education, representative of the Cook Islands Voyaging Society and other civil society organisations.
There are two others in the Caribbean (St Kitts-Nevis and St Vincent) and four in the Pacific (Niue, Nauru and the Cook and Marshall Islands), as well as Panama and Liechtenstein.
It also contains a case study about the first e-waste day in Cook Islands, and describes activities for the news room to carry out in order to increase the understanding of the issue and to explore different story ideas.
More than five hundred children and teachers participated in the Festivals hosted by Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Greece, Grenade, Jordan, Thailand and Zimbabwe.
During the late 1700s, explorers from afar, such as James Cook and George Dixon, visited the islands.
Gourmet-cooking empty nesters found themselves gushing over kitchen islands topped with gleaming granite and decorated with state-of-the art cook tops and vegetable sinks.
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However, many islanders want the government to fulfil a promise they say was made by Robin Cook, while foreign secretary, that they would be allowed to return to outlying islands in the Chagos group.
Last week's move by French Polynesia overtook the Marshall Islands' area, outlined in late 2011, as the world's largest - and the Cook Island's claim adds 40% more area to that title.
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