Results for 16/11

Sheer determination and absolute courage displayed by two young women, Lucy Prescott and Lise Fa'aumu, who resolutely stood alone facing a screaming mob of would-be arsonists and looters, saved the Nuku'alofa premises of their employer on November 16.

Suspects charged with offences relating to their participation in the destruction of the Nuku'alofa business center on November 16 will start appearing in the Nuku'alofa Magistrate's Court on December 7.

The Tonga Supreme Court has postponed all of its trials and hearings to January 15, 2007.

It is time for the people of Tonga to retire all of the People's Representatives. Nothing they have done in Parliament even for the past 20 years would make up for the damages they have instigated to the image of Tonga. The hate campaign conducted by the leading members of the Pro-Democracy movement on the ethnic business community has come to fruition and has made Tonga, and worse its people, as a racist country in the eyes of the international community. The multiplier effect of such destruction on the economy and the people of Tonga as a whole will be immense. - Inoke Fotu Huakau

As of yesterday November 22, the Tonga Police had detained 16 more suspects in relation to the crimes committed on November 16, bringing the total number of detainees to 42.

The outrageous, shameful destruction in the island of Tongatapu reflects the spiritual dryness, lack of moral attitude, and disrespectful character of the Democrat Leaders. I am not surprised at what had happened because most Leaders of Tonga are mere church attenders and not Christian Doers. People needs Representatives who loves the Lord. -M. Vaikalafi

Surging out of a Pangai Si'i political rally held by some of the Tonga's People's Representatives, on the afternoon of November 16, their excited supporters led by marauding gangs of thieves, thugs and arsonists, ransacked the Nuku'alofa business district. Photos by Pesi Fonua, Linny Folau and Mary Lyn Fonua