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11 November 2022

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Prolonged drought impacting food, water across Micronesia

Extreme droughts in the Western Pacific region are expected to persist over the next three months.

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Solomon Islands PM retains seat, vote counting continues

Solomon Islands’ pro-China Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has retained his seat in the national election, according to local media reports, but it will take days to know if his party has won enough support to form the next government.

Panthers strike back

As predicted the hard and fast Ngatangiia grounds produced plenty of tries, lots of close matches and a few surprises including a new weekend winner in week 3 of the CITC Rarotonga club sevens competition. In the pool competition – Avatiu Eels took the first win in Pool A beating the Dragons 22-10. The Eels […]

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New record

Diana Tamaiva (above) set a new record as she recorded the highest mid-week score by a smashing 77. This is Tamaiva’s second season of women’s cricket, and says she became addicted to the sport after first trying it at the beginning of the year. Since then Tamaiva has gone on to be selected into the […]

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Cookie Cup to Muri

The Cookie Sadaraka cricket challenge trophy has been uplifted and taken back east after a very tight contest between two traditional rivals – Arorangi and Muri. Batting first Muri were put under pressure early through tight bowling from Tom Vea, Manu Emile and Mitch Farnell. Muri never really managed to get any partnerships going however […]

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Tupapa and Avatiu set to clash again

The Round Cup competition has fashioned out an exciting match between Tupapa and Avatiu. The first game of the second round, to be played in the Lotto Premier Men’s division, sees leader Tupapa and third place getter Avatiu, clash today at Victoria Park. Both teams have played each other, however Tupapa continues to dominate but […]

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25 teams a record for 7s

International Sevens in Heaven draws big field The annual Sevens in Heaven rugby tournament on November 4-6 is going to be bigger and better than ever in its 21 years. The 2010 Cook Islands International Sevens has drawn a record field of 25 teams – 16 men’s teams and nine women’s teams – and will […]

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Windy cycling

The Westpac cycling series was into its second race this week and a few new riders stepped up to take on the 16km circuit. Riders battled a strong headwind on the return leg of the race but still managed to turn in some impressive times. First across the line this week was Louise Wittwer very […]

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Tennis put off

The two day tennis ranking tournament set to begin yesterday was cancelled and has been rescheduled for next week Friday at 3pm and Saturday at 9am. The outcome of the tournament is to decide the rankings of the eight U12 players who will be competing against each other as well as two 14-year-olds as an […]

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Do or die time at sevens

Week three pools for the CITC Rarotonga Club Sevens sees the Eels, Dragons, and Cowboys in Pool A while the Panthers, Reds, and Bulls are in Pool B Today’s games will be played at the Ngatangiia Rugby Field starting at 2pm. Pool A will be the ‘Pool of Death’ this week with ‘potentially’ all three […]

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Sokattak looking to dominate

Today’s match will see the Under 15 girls division kick off at 4.15pm followed by the Premier Men’s division. Sitting in second place on the EAS Under -15 Girls points table, Arorangi will look to dominate and win their game to add three points to their tally – bringing them closer to leaders, Tupapa. The […]

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Meitaki maata India

Delhi put on a party to remember as the 19th Delhi Commonwealth Games came to a close on Thursday evening in India. And the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium was party central as all competing teams marched together into the stadium, epitomising what the games are all about – fun and friendship in sport. The main message […]

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Juniors sail on in Aitutaki

Sailing continues in Aitutaki and Rarotonga and the junior sailors are to the fore during this school holiday period. The juniors Opti Gold Fleet kids are in Aitutaki at the National Champs and most are doing very well so far – after day two of competition. Wind of up to 17 or 18 knots are […]

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Raro leads athletics meet

The Air Rarotonga Athletics Championships saw a limited field of athletes, with some of the events having just one competitor. However, the athletes who did turn out put their heart and soul into their events, many of them showing that they had the skills to win in many different track and field events. Mereina Herman […]

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Top 7s points scorers eye more

After two weeks of competition in the CITC Rarotonga Club Sevens the top point scorers are starting to reveal themselves, with the fleet-footed players from the Panthers, Eels and Cowboys featuring in the point scoring stakes. Conrad Piri (Panthers) currently leads the pack with 34 points – consisting of four tries and seven conversions followed […]

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Arorangi hosts Nikao

Arorangi will host Nikao at the Arorangi field in the second round of the Round Cup competition with the Under 14 Boys kicking off at 4.15pm. In the Under 14 Boys division Nikao will look to dominate in this match after winning convincingly in their first encounter. Arorangi have a tough task on their hands […]

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Welcome planned

Team Cook Islands will be welcomed home by about 100 people when members arrive at Rarotonga’s international airport on Friday night. Of the 49-strong team – in Delhi for the Commonwealth Games – 32 are booked on an Air New Zealand flight arriving at 11.30pm, as well as Cook Islands Sports and National Olympic Committee […]

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7s battle at Ngatangiia

After last week’s matches, the final Week 2 placings in the CITC Rarotonga Club Sevens 1st, Eels, 2nd, Panthers, 3rd, Reds, 4th, Dragons, 5th, Cowboys and 6th, Bulls. So this week the Week 3 pools are as follows: Pool A: Eels, Dragons, Cowboys; Pool B: Panthers, Reds, Bulls. This week’s games will be played on […]

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Taia, Glenn miss Kiwis selection

But the good news is they are available for Cook Islands Current 2010 New Zealand Kiwi’s Zeb Taia of New Castle Knights and Alex Glenn of the Brisbane Broncos narrowly missed out on this year’s Four Nations selection for the Kiwis. The two players debut for the Kiwis during the Anzac test earlier this year […]

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Athletics champs start today

The Air Rarotonga Athletics Championships start today and Ina Marsters, president of the athletics association, wants to see as many athletes as possible from all secondary schools. “The more the merrier,” Marsters said. “This is where we select for the New Zealand secondary school championships that are taking place in Hastings this year, so we […]

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CI campaign wraps up

Team Cook Islands’ Delhi Commonwealth Games campaign has wrapped up in India with bowlers Irene Tupuna and Pita Toto rolling up for the final time yesterday. The two were the last Cook Islands athletes to compete at the games. Although they battled hard and missed wins in tight tie breakers – they didn’t win enough […]

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Mr T wins contract with Roosters

The Newtown Jets player of the year in 2010, rugged front-rower Tinirau Arona, known as Mr T, has won selection in the Cook Islands national rugby league team to play NSW Country in a representative challenge match at Tamworth on Saturday. Arona has already been rewarded for his excellent 2010 season by winning a full-time […]

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