# George Angene > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/George_Angene > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/George_Angene.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Angene > Source revision: 1349554439 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Cook Islands politician (born 1961)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2023}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=February 2017}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | honorific_suffix = | image = George Angene 2019.jpg | caption = Angene in 2019 | office = | prime_minister = | term_start = | term_end = | predecessor = | successor = | office2 = | term_start2 = | term_end2 = | prime_minister2 = | predecessor2 = | successor2 = | office3 = Minister of Cultural Development and House of Ariki | prime_minister3 = [Henry Puna](/source/Henry_Puna)
[Mark Brown](/source/Mark_Brown_(Cook_Islands)) | term_start3 = 10 July 2018 | term_end3 = | predecessor3 = [Teariki Heather](/source/Teariki_Heather) | successor3 = | office4 = Minister of Corrections | prime_minister4 = [Henry Puna](/source/Henry_Puna)
[Mark Brown](/source/Mark_Brown_(Cook_Islands)) | term_start4 = 10 July 2018 | term_end4 = | predecessor4 = ''None'' (Portfolio created) | successor4 = | constituency_MP5 = [Tupapa–Maraerenga](/source/Tupapa%E2%80%93Maraerenga) | parliament5 = Cook Islands | term_start5 = 17 November 2010 | term_end5 = | predecessor5 = [John Tangi](/source/John_Tangi) | successor5 = | majority5 = | constituency_MP6 = | parliament6 = | term_start6 = | term_end6 = | predecessor6 = | successor6 = | birth_date = 8 March 1961 | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | party = [One Cook Islands Movement](/source/One_Cook_Islands_Movement)
[Cook Islands Party](/source/Cook_Islands_Party) | alma_mater = | website = }} '''George Maggie Angene''' (born 8 March 1961){{cite web |url=https://parliament.gov.ck/team/hon-george-angene/ |title=Hon. George ANGENE |publisher=Cook Islands Parliament |access-date=14 August 2022 |archive-date=14 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220814030316/https://parliament.gov.ck/team/hon-george-angene/ |url-status=dead }} is a [Cook Islands](/source/Cook_Islands) politician and [Cabinet Minister](/source/Cabinet_of_the_Cook_Islands). He is a former member of the [Cook Islands Party](/source/Cook_Islands_Party), and is now a member of the [One Cook Islands Movement](/source/One_Cook_Islands_Movement). Angene was born in Tupapa Rarotonga and attended a local primary school, but received no secondary education.{{cite web |url=http://www.cookislandsnews.com/national/politics/item/69395-election-candidates-explain-their-aims |title=Election candidates explain their aims |publisher=Cook Islands News |date=22 May 2018 |access-date=27 June 2020}} He is a former criminal who has served time in prison and describes himself as "one of the biggest criminals on Rarotonga".{{cite web |url=http://www.cinews.co.ck/2010/April/Wed14/local.htm#1004090104 |title=Bad boy bolts in |publisher=Cook Islands News |date=9 April 2010 |access-date=19 November 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100420215132/http://www.cinews.co.ck/2010/April/Wed14/local.htm |archive-date=20 April 2010}} He became infamous in Rarotonga when he in 1992 set fire to the building block encompassing Ministry of Justice, Cook Islands Post Office and Telecom which were all badly damaged.{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-340762702/view?sectionId=nla.obj-344869634 |title=FIRE Rarotonga recovers after blaze |work=Pacific Islands Monthly |volume=62 |issue=6 |date=1 June 1992 |page=16|access-date=24 July 2021 |via=National Library of Australia}} Angene was sentenced to 13 years' jail for arson but was paroled and released in 1999. He learned new skills in prison and converted to Christianity. He was selected as [Cook Islands Party](/source/Cook_Islands_Party) candidate for [Tupapa–Maraerenga](/source/Tupapa%E2%80%93Maraerenga) in a public runoff, and subsequently won the seat in the [2010 election](/source/2010_Cook_Islands_general_election). In May 2014 Angene was expelled from the CIP after publicly refusing to back the party's position on superannuation.{{cite web |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/pacific/243368/cook-islands-mp-sacked-for-not-supporting-taxing-pensioners |title=Cook Islands MP sacked for not supporting taxing pensioners |publisher=[RNZ](/source/RNZ) |date=5 May 2014 |access-date=27 June 2020}} He stood instead for the [One Cook Islands Movement](/source/One_Cook_Islands_Movement) and was re-elected in the [2014 election](/source/2014_Cook_Islands_general_election). He was re-elected again at the [2018 election](/source/2018_Cook_Islands_general_election).{{cite web |url=http://www.justice.gov.ck/index.php/2-uncategorised/74-elections-14th-june-2018 |title=Preliminary Results from Votes Counted 14-06-2018 |publisher=Cook Islands Ministry of Justice |date=14 June 2018 |access-date=18 June 2018}} Following the election he was appointed to Cabinet as Minister of Corrective Services, Culture, Business Trade and Investment Board and the House of Ariki{{cite web |url=http://www.cookislandsnews.com/item/70000-brown-dpm-in-new-cabinet/70000-brown-dpm-in-new-cabinet |title=Brown DPM in new cabinet |publisher=Cook Islands News |date=10 July 2018 |access-date=19 October 2018}} and rejoined the [Cook Islands Party](/source/Cook_Islands_Party). In the reshuffle following the appointment of [Mark Brown](/source/Mark_Brown_(Cook_Islands)) as Prime Minister he surrendered the Business Trade and Investment Board portfolio to [Patrick Arioka](/source/Patrick_Arioka), and became Minister of the Punanga Nui Market instead. He retained his other portfolios.{{cite web |url=http://www.cookislandsnews.com/national/politics/item/78813-pm-takes-on-17-portfolios |title=PM takes on 17 portfolios |publisher=Cook Islands News |author=Emmanuel Samoglou and Rashneel Kumar |date=8 October 2020 |access-date=9 October 2020}} A further reshuffle in June 2021 saw him retain his core portfolios, and gain responsibility for the Head of State.{{cite web |url=https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/national/economy/pm-announces-cabinet-reshuffle/ |title=PM announces Cabinet reshuffle |author=Rashneel Kumar |publisher=Cook Islands News |date=3 June 2021 |access-date=5 June 2021}} In April 2021 an audit report found that Angene had acted improperly in arranging day-release for a convicted child-murderer to work in a tourism business.{{cite web |url=https://www.cookislandsnews.com/internal/national/crime/opposition-demands-action-on-cabinet-mp-after-release-of-audit-report/ |title=Opposition demands action on cabinet MP after release of audit report |publisher=Cook Islands News |date=12 April 2021 |access-date=13 April 2021}} In June 2021 he called for planned elections in 2022 to be delayed if the COVID-19 crisis continued in order to save money.{{cite web |url=https://www.cookislandsnews.com/national/politics/minister-proposes-delaying-2022-elections/ |title=Minister proposes delaying 2022 elections |author=Caleb Fotheringham |publisher=Cook Islands News |date=25 June 2021 |access-date=26 June 2021}} He ran as a [Cook Islands Party](/source/Cook_Islands_Party) candidate in the [2022 election](/source/2022_Cook_Islands_general_election) and was re-elected.{{cite web |url=https://www.cookislandsnews.com/national/politics/action-mans-last-hurrah-in-politics/ |title='Action man's' last hurrah in politics |author= Caleb Fotheringham |publisher=Cook Islands News |date=3 August 2022 |access-date=4 August 2022}} He stated that this would be his last term. ==References== {{reflist}} {{commons category}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Angene, George}} Category:Living people Category:1961 births Category:People from Rarotonga Category:Members of the Parliament of the Cook Islands Category:Cook Islands Party politicians Category:One Cook Islands Movement politicians Category:Cook Island prisoners and detainees Category:Prisoners and detainees of the Cook Islands Category:People convicted of arson Category:Cook Island criminals Category:Government ministers of the Cook Islands Category:Culture ministers of the Cook Islands --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [George Angene](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Angene) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Angene?action=history)). 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