[ad_1] Two individuals charged in connection with the NZ First Party donations scandal are alleged to have fraudulently deposited more than $ 740,000 into the NZ First Foundation account. The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) filed charges in September against the couple following an investigation launched by Stuff and RNZ reports …
Read More »Covid 19 coronavirus: returnee in Rotorua managed isolation refuses to use nasal swabs
[ad_1] By Rowan Quinn for RNZ A woman suffering from extreme nosebleeds may be forced to spend an extra week in controlled isolation because health officials refuse to allow her to have a Covid-19 throat swab. Karolina Jordan has been told that she should have a nasal test despite the …
Read More »Covid-19: Donald Trump Returns to the Oval Office After Tweeting a Storm
[ad_1] President Donald Trump remains out of sight for a second day recovering from Covid-19, but he has returned to work in the Oval Office and has been making his presence known on social media, tweeting broadside against Democrats, floating false figures on diseases and lobbying legislators. accept fragmented financial …
Read More »Covid-19: authorities insist on administering a nasal swab to the woman despite the high risk of bleeding
[ad_1] This story was originally published on RNZ.co.nz and republished with permission. A woman suffering from extreme nosebleeds may be forced to spend an extra week in controlled isolation because health officials refuse to allow her to have a Covid-19 throat swab. Karolina Jordan has been told that she should …
Read More »Covid 19 coronavirus: security guards parked vehicles above the entrance of the parishioners
[ad_1] Security guards resorted to parking vehicles on the other side of a driveway to prevent a family related to the controversial Covid group from an Auckland church from disobeying the isolation and leaving the home. At least one property in New Windsor was under permanent surveillance for approximately fifteen …
Read More »Supermarket workers get a $ 2 hourly raise
[ad_1] Stuff A worker at Countdown’s new ‘dark store’ in Wellington. Unionized workers at Countdown supermarkets have received a large pay raise. A worker at a Countdown supermarket says that a new raise will make a big difference for many of his colleagues. Around 7000 unionized workers from the supermarket …
Read More »Suicide, family crisis, isolation: Asians’ mental health on the decline, advocacy group says
[ad_1] From suicides to family crises to anxiety and isolation, the mental health of Asian New Zealanders is deteriorating and Covid is making it worse, says an advocacy group calling for a mental health strategy targeting the country’s diverse Asian communities. For years, the family of an elderly woman witnessed …
Read More »A Nobel Science First: More Than One Winning Woman, No Man
[ad_1] This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry is a historic first for women. Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna won the chemistry award for developing the CRISPR method of genome editing. It was the first time that a Nobel Prize in science had been awarded to more than one woman, but …
Read More »Covid 19 coronavirus: 6000 complaints filed against bosses since the first confinement
[ad_1] By RNZ More than 6,000 employer complaints have been filed with the government since the beginning of March. That’s more than 10 times more than during the same seven-month period last year. The data, published by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) to RNZ, records people who …
Read More »West Coast Farm Tracks Marked as Roads on Google Maps Raise Concern
[ad_1] Dave Moore / Stuff The so-called highway is an agricultural race used to herd cattle or drive tractors, says Andrew Stewart. This story was first published on RNZ.co.nz and is being republished with permission. A West Coast farmer was puzzled to find a farm track on his property that …
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