Tuesday, 27 July 2021, 12:22 pm
The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) - Te Mana Tātai
Hokohoko – is warning investors to be wary of scammers
impersonating New Zealand-based derivatives issuer Rockfort
Markets Limited.
The FMA last week issued scam
warnings about www.rockfortmarket.net,
www.rockfortcrypto.com,
and www.rockfort-markets.com.
The warnings followed several complaints to the FMA about
investors – who are mainly based overseas - being scammed.
Rockfort Markets Limited has confirmed it is not associated
with these websites.
Scammers are nimble and may
launch new websites continuing to impersonate Rockfort (and
potentially, other New Zealand firms) in further attempts to
Tuesday, 27 July 2021, 1:07 pm
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at Strategic
Culture
One way exists to stop global warming, but
the mutual feedback cycles that are now accelerating global
warming might already have achieved enough speed of
increasing temperature so as to prevent even that one way
from working, and therefore the planet might already be
doomed. Since the only way to stop global warming hasn’t
yet even been proposed (much less tried), I shall now
publicly propose it here, in accord with the adage “Better
late than never.”
The way to stop global warming (if
it still
can be stopped) is to ban purchases of
Tuesday, 27 July 2021, 3:52 pm
Labour’s short-sighted decision in 2018 to scrap
National’s highly successful Meth Action Plan – and its
outright refusal to accept that New Zealand has a gang
problem – is contributing to a surge in gang membership,
meth use and misery in New Zealand’s most deprived
communities, National’s health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti
says.
Wastewater testing shows meth use is highest in
locations with higher levels of gang membership per capita,
notably Northland, Bay of Plenty and Hawke’s
Bay.
“The rise in gang membership and drug abuse go
hand-in-hand,” says Dr Reti. “It’s an indictment of
Tuesday, 27 July 2021, 12:38 pm
Elected members will be asked to approve public
consultation and the commencement of a partial review of the
Queenstown Bay Foreshore Reserves Management Plan 2016 at
the Full Council Meeting on Thursday 29 July 2021.
The
partial review will consider potential new commercial
activities in a defined area of the St Omer Park Recreation
Reserve, and include a potential new commercial licence area
immediately west of the Brunswick Street stormwater outflow,
provided there is an associated benefit to public users of
the reserve.
Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC)
General Manager Community Services, Thunes Cloete said that
currently the Queenstown Bay Foreshore Reserves Management
The illegal fire at Mr
Glasgow s property in November 2020
Blair Glasgow,
who owns and operates an orchard in Hastings, pleaded guilty
in the Hastings District Court to burning a fire containing
prohibited materials on his Te Aute Rd property in November
last year. He was fined $11,200.
The fire breached
Regional Council burning rules. The burn pile included a
number of prohibited items including black irrigation pipe
(plastic), fencing wire, a chainsaw, corrugated iron, tin
cans and other items of coated metal.
Judge Melinda
Dickey said that Mr Glasgow should have made himself aware
of the requirements regarding outdoor fires.
“I find