Results for Pacific Islands

Tonga and other Pacific states have signed an MOU to apply amendments to the Treaty on Fisheries between Pacific Island States and the United States. This 2024 amendments to the US Tuna Treaty provides for access arrangements to the fisheries zones of the Pacific Islands Parties over a period of five years.

Tongan bowler, Milika Nathan was named the Women’s Singles World Champion at the World Bowls Champion of Champions held in New Zealand on Saturday, 30 November 2024. Representing Tonga, she defeated the defending World Champion, Anne Nunes of the USA.

'Unaloto Va'inga from Navutoka was one of the first Tongan women to work in meat processing through the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme – now she’s paving the way for more women to sign up and succeed.

Head Boy, Sione Mahe Paea I Alaska Tokotaha was named Dux for this academic year at, the prize giving ceremony held at the THS Stadium today, 29 November 2024.

Queen Sālote College Dux for 2024 was awarded to the Head Girl, Rachel Mele Tupou Tatafu who achieved 90.9% in her overall academic performance.

Tupou College Toloa named two Duces, Filimone Jr Matakaiongo and Timote Fonokalafia, at the annual graduation and prize giving ceremony, held at Saione (FWCT) in Tongatapu today, 27 November 2024.

A captain of Tonga's inter-island domestic ferry, the MV ‘Otuanga’ofa, who was found guilty of proceeding to sea improperly by taking excess passengers on the vessel and serving knowing his Certificate of Competency had expired, was sentenced to two years imprisonment.

A Motion for a Vote of No Confidence against the Prime Minister, Hon. Siaosi Sovaleni (Hon. Hu'akavameiliku) and the Prime Minister’s response, will be tabled in the Legislative Assembly of Tonga next week on Tuesday, 3 December, 2024, the Office of the Legislative Assembly confirmed in a statement last night.

With COP29’s conclusion, the stage shifts to the Hague, where Vanuatu’s landmark International Court of Justice climate change case, will start on 2 December - with 110 UN member states and intergovernmental organisations testifying. Vanuatu's Special Envoy for Climate Change and Environment, stated yesterday that: “The commitments made in Baku — the dollar amounts pledged and the emissions reductions promised — are not enough. They were never going to be enough. And even then, based on our experience with such pledges in the past, we know they will not be fulfilled.”