Senior Officials of the Polynesian Leaders Group (PLG) met in French Polynesia last week to advance discussions on formalising governance arrangements through the development of a PLG Charter.
Council members of the Pacific Aviation Safety Office (PASO) from 16 Pacific States gathered in the Cook Islands for the first time for the fourth PASO Council Meeting on November 4-6.
Cook Islands sailors Helema Williams, Taua Elisa, Aquila Tatira and Teau McKenzie have posted impressive results after the Sail Auckland Regatta in New Zealand. The sailors now look forward to the next leg of the Olympic qualifier series to be held in Germany at the end of April. Racing in shifty conditions over the regatta […]
The rugby league masters season got off to a good start with about 40 players turning up for their first game at the Swamp last Friday. The middleman Simi ‘Harrigan’ Teiotu took control of the game right from the start with a couple of players requiring time out to cool off while one player in […]
After dropping their first game of the Turtles Domestic League III against Te-Au-O-Tonga in emphatic style last Friday – the Ngatangiia-Matavera cricket team will need to win at least one of their matches tonight to stay in contention for a finals spot. Wins in both of their games will put them right back at the […]
Exciting times are ahead for women cricketers in the Cook Islands with the first ever national women’s cricket team to be selected to represent the country at the East Asia-Pacific tournament in Vanuatu in May. The first national women’s cricket squad is expected to include players from right across the Cook Islands with interest already […]
The first badminton meeting to set up a committee for the code will be held this Friday at 12 noon at the CISNOC office in Taputapuatea. Two nights of badminton games staged at the Princess Anne Hall at Tereora College drew in up to 60 players each night who not only showed great skills on […]
Cook Islander Francis Smith has headed back to New Zealand to rejoin the Crusaders’ developmental squad in Canterbury. Smith will again play with the Crusaders Knights – the team affiliated with the Super Rugby side – backing up his efforts last year on the pitch while trying to move up to the senior squad. The […]
Cook Islands sailors are bouncing back from disappointing performances at the New Zealand Laser Nationals in Wellington earlier in the year with some fantastic racing at the Sail Auckland regatta. National sailors Taua Elisa, Helema Williams and Aquila Tatira raced in the laser nationals in Wellington however substandard boats and gear saw the sailors retire […]
A lack of urgency by lead organisations of the Papua New Guinea Pacific Games Association (PGA), the PNG Sports Federation and Olympic Committee and the PNG Sports Foundation, could see PNG missing out on hosting the Pacific Games in 2015. PNG now faces the ignominy of having its hosting rights stripped from it two-and-a-half years […]
Exciting and closely fought volleyball matches featured in round two of the Turtles Business House volleyball tournament last week. Newcomers to the tournament, Southpac, played a terrific game against team Playing Up going point for point with their more experienced opponents. Despite their best efforts – Southpac couldn’t contain Playing Up who went on to […]
For a country lacking in resources and high performance programmes – the Cook Islands sevens team’s win against cash rich USA and Japan is seen as a massive achievement. The Cooks ended up as runner ups in the shield finals of the tournament missing out on the trophy to Scotland who snuck in with a […]
Due to the successful re-introduction of badminton on Friday night, another night of fun badminton has been organised for tonight at the Princess Anne Hall at Tereora College starting at 6pm. More than 60 people turned out to the Princess Anne Hall over the course of Friday night to give badminton a go. Judging by […]
The Cook Islands sevens team struggled to find form at the Hertz Sevens in Wellington, losing two of their three matches on day one at tournament. After their 27-12 loss to England in their first match – the Cooks were slaughtered by South Africa 43-0 in their second match on day one. Their third and […]
Cook Islands Rugby League will start the season with the League Masters today, kicking off this afternoon 4.30pm at the Avatiu Swamp. While international rules classify masters players as 35 and over, the Cook Islands league masters rules limit masters players to 40 years and over. The reason is that many players under 40 are […]
Despite fielding talented young debutants at the Hertz Sevens in Wellington – the inexperienced Cook Islands sevens squad was stormed by England 27-12 in the Cooks first pool play match at the World Series tournament. Within the first minute of the match, England asserted their dominance to dot down for the first try of the […]
Tonight the Princess Anne Hall at Tereora College will stage the Cook Islands’ first badminton event in over 10 years with a ‘come and try’ evening from 5pm. The general public is invited to give the sport a go and find out how much fun can be had with badminton. Brothers Hugh and Robert Graham […]
The Cook Islands will run out at the Westpac Stadium in Wellington today in the knowledge that this is their one and only chance to shine in the HSBC Sevens World Series. The Cook Islands secured their place at this year’s Hertz Sevens at the fourth edition of the Oceania Sevens in October last year, […]
Local triathletes will have to go it alone without the regular volunteers and officials for the next couple of weeks as the usual officials for weekly duathlon and triathlon events are in New Zealand competing at the Oceania Masters Athletics Champs. This means that regular athletes will have to organise among themselves who will set […]
Nine Cook Islands masters athletes are on their way to New Zealand to bag medals at the Oceania Masters Athletics Championships in Tauranga. The group is one of the smallest groups to represent the country but they are still expected to do well in their chosen track and field events. Athlete David Lobb says that […]
This article and photo are reprinted courtesy of the Bairnsdale Advertiser in Victoria, Australia. The article has not been edited, except for the headline, which said ‘Famed Cook Islands boxer passes on knowledge’. He may be small in stature and as friendly as can be, but Cook Islands boxing legend Piri Puruto can pack a […]
Cook Islands slalom canoeist Ella Nicholas has qualified for the London 2012 Olympics and has had a great start to her Olympic build up finishing third at the New Zealand opens last weekend. Held on the white water course at Mangahao near Palmerston North, New Zealand, this International Canoe Federation ranking race featured some of […]
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