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Taxpayers foot $659,000 bill for MPs travel and allowance
22 August 2024
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Sports
Excitement looms as Rarotonga football round nine action gets underway
The excitement builds at the CIFA Complex today as the grassroots teams take the field for their Round 9 fixtures.
Cook Islands falls to Tonga in World Youth Cup Qualifier
Cook Islands remains in contention for a spot in the Netball World Youth Cup 2025 despite going down to Tonga on day two of the World Youth Cup Qualifier Oceania at the National Sports Arena in Nikao last night.
Athletics ready for Pacific Mini Games
1 August: Ina Marsters (pictured) is the competition manager for the Pacific Mini Games 2009 athletics programme. She is also the president for the Athletics Cook Islands and holds a vice president position in the Cook Islands Sports & National Olympic Committee. Ina’s involvement in athletics began in 1995 when she started coaching school children […]
Beautification for the games
1 August: Ina Marsters from CISNOC took us on a journey around Rarotonga to visit sites that have been beautified in preparation for the Games. We visited the Nikao nursery that was established two years ago under the 2009 Mini Games beautification programme, which was funded by the International Olympic Committee. The joint project between […]
Show them the real deal
1 August: Kia Orana Cook Islands. Wow! What a whirlwind of events this week. There is a new games minister with the departure of Wilkie Rasmussen … the Telecom Sports Arena has officially been handed over to the Cook Islands people … the World Youth Netball Championships’ early bird tickets sales have been a hit […]