Friday, 16 July 2021, 1:48 pm
Kiwibank has dropped its two-year fixed home loan
rate to 2.49 percent, an offer that is significantly lower
than others in market.
Kiwibank Chief Executive Steve
Jurkovich said in this rising rate environment the bank was
providing certainty to its customers.
Kiwibank’s
variable rate is also changing from 3.4 to 3.75 percent
which still leaves it well below all major
competitors.
At the time of the flexible rate reset in
June 2020 Jurkovich said the move would result in interest
savings of $20 million for more than 35,000 thousand
Kiwibank home loan and business banking customers. This move
was not matched by its much larger competitors.
Friday, 16 July 2021, 3:16 pm
Nurses, midwives and healthcare assistants will
be considering an offer to settle their Multi Employer
Collective Agreement (MECA) which also means there will be
no strike on 29 July.
District Health Boards
Spokesperson Dale Oliff says the DHBs’ fourth offer is a
package of measures addressing the issues raised by the NZNO
and follows a meeting with the mediator in
Wellington.
“We’re pleased we have landed on what
could be a basis for settling these negotiations.
“DHBs
recognise the essential role of nurses, midwives and
healthcare assistants in caring for New Zealanders and our
focus is on finding a way to address their concerns as well
Profligate, vain and utterly pleased with himself,
British billionaire Sir Richard Branson could boast about
his latest adventure of megalomania. Unlike others of the
stinking rich set, he is incapable of keeping quiet. He
pretends to be the people’s tycoon. His wealthy
adventurism is as much for himself as it is for us. “The
pitch,” wrote
the late Jenny Diski of this type, “is to demand to be
seen as ordinary, just like you and me, only richer and more
glamorous, of course, because it does the populace a power
of good to see heightened images of what they might have
Friday, 16 July 2021, 2:04 pm
A Tauranga father is celebrating after his lucky numbers
saw him become the country’s newest Lotto millionaire by
winning Lotto First Division this week.
The man, who
wishes to remain anonymous, has been buying Lotto tickets
for several years with special numbers chosen by his
family.
“A few years ago I sat down with the family
and we picked a few numbers each for my Lotto ticket –
there were birthdates and anniversaries, as well as
everyone’s lucky numbers. And I’ve played the same lucky
numbers ever since – we had a few wins here and there, but
Friday, 16 July 2021, 12:57 pm
The deferral of the new accreditation of employers’
system to 2022 means the Government has wasted thousands of
dollars by sending immigration staff throughout New Zealand
this year to explain a system it is not ready to
implement.
Ms June Ranson, chair of the New Zealand
Association for Migration and Investment (NZAMI), says the
deferral shows a lack of planning.
“We in the
immigration industry could not see from the outset how the
new accreditation system could have been implemented by
November 1, based on Immigration NZ’s lack of staff, the
upgrading of its IT system and the Government’s previous