The National Reserve Bank of Tonga (NRBT) released its Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) for August 2024 following its approval by the Board of Directors. In collaboration with Government and other relevant stakeholders, the NRBT is introducing new financing instruments such as a concessional credit facility and a partial credit guarantee scheme to boost private sector financing towards stronger growth recovery in 2025, particularly fostering access to financing for underserved and climate change-vulnerable sectors.
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Wednesday 4 September 2024
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tuesday 3 September 2024
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Auckland, New Zealand
A vision aid team from the School of Optometry and Vision Science at the University of Auckland will be visiting Tonga for a week from 30 September to 4 October to provide voluntary eye-care to those who need it the most. The team will be based at the Eye Health Clinic at Vaiola Hospital.
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Tuesday 3 September 2024
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
British Barrister, Malcom Bishop KC, officially assumed office as the new Lord Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Tonga and President of the Land Court on 2 September 2024.
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Tuesday 3 September 2024
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The United Kingdom is supporting Pacific-led climate solutions with £12.9 million in new funding announced as Indo-Pacific Minister Catherine West joined Pacific
leaders for the 53rd Pacific Island Forum Leaders Meeting in Tonga, on her first overseas visit.
Monday 2 September 2024
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Pacific Islands Forum has censored Taiwan from its leader's communiqué that was announced on Friday, 30 August, to members of the media at Fa’onelua Convention Centre by Troika.
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Monday 2 September 2024
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga’s National Football team, Tu’ulalupe, will compete against the Cook Islands on Friday, 6 September, at the FIFA World Cup Qualifiers (Oceania), in Apia, Samoa.
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Saturday 31 August 2024
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
One big priority for the annual UN Climate Change Conference 2024 (COP29) is to make the climate Loss and Damage Fund operational, said HE Mukhtar Babayev, the COP29 President-Designate, who was in Tonga this week to meet Pacific Islands leaders, attending the 53rd Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting.
Friday 30 August 2024
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The first Pacific-led and member-owned climate and disaster resilience financing facility, the Pacific Resilience Facility (PRF) will be headquartered in Tonga. The PRF has got a total pledges of USD$137 million, as announced today, at Fa'onelua Center, by Troika as one of the important outcomes of the 53rd Pacific Islands Forum leaders meeting in Tonga this week.
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Friday 30 August 2024
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for the Western Pacific joined prime ministers and presidents from across the Region and United Nations Secretary General, António Guterres, at the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Leaders Meeting in Tonga this week. At the high-level meeting, Dr Saia Ma’u Piukala called on leaders of Pacific islands and other countries to make health a high priority on their agenda, in the context of the climate catastrophe that is putting the Pacific in peril.
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Friday 30 August 2024
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The European Union Commissioner for International Partnerships, Jutta Urpilainen, made a site visit to the Climate and Wash Resilience Community Project, at Popua this week.
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Friday 30 August 2024
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Meleane Falemaka, a first time Paralympian, is the only para-athlete representing Tonga at the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games. She will compete in the Women's F38 Discuss on Friday, 6 September.
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Thursday 29 August 2024
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Australia’s Minister for International Development and the Pacific, Hon. Pat Conroy MP visited the MORDI Tonga Trust facilities today, one of several site visits he has made in Tongatapu, on the side of the Pacific Islands Forum leaders meeting in Nuku'alofa. The Australian Government is investing AUD$9.5 million in a new partnership to deliver critical, climate resilient infrastructure and activities to communities across the Kingdom of Tonga.
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Thursday 29 August 2024
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Neiafu, Vava'u
Pacific Island Forum Leaders flew to Vava'u this morning on chartered flights for the Leaders Retreat Meeting of the 53rd Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting 2024, held at the Puataukanave Hotel in Neiafu. The fourth day of their gathering turned on blue skies in contrast to the torrential downpours that greeted the ministers on their first day in Tongatapu on Monday.
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Wednesday 28 August 2024
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A Consular Team from U.S. Embassy Suva will visit Nuku'alofa on a quarterly-visit basis to see visa applicants who have made appointments in advance. The launch of a Consular window pilot program followed the Embassy’s official opening in Tonga today, August 28.
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Wednesday 28 August 2024
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is undergoing major reform, that will cover the processes that countries, including Tonga and the Pacific, use to access funds and investments, GCF’s Head of Vulnerability and Communications, Stephanie Speck said today, in Nuku’alofa. One of the reforms is reducing the timeframe of dispersing funds, from 14 to four months.
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Wednesday 28 August 2024
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The first early warning and hazard-ready mobile application for Tonga was launched yesterday, 27 August, by Tonga Meteorology Service, on the side of the Pacific Islands Forum leaders meeting in Nuku'alofa. The app provides early disaster warning information and can also report events as they happen in Tonga.
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Tuesday 27 August 2024
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The communities of Kanokupolu and Ha'atafu in Hihifo, Tongatapu, welcomed the United Nations Secretary General Mr. António Guterres ahead of his departure from Tonga today. He visited two of the areas that were most affected by the events of the Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha'apai volcanic eruption and tsunami in there.
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Tuesday 27 August 2024
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A global SOS on sea level rise was issued by the UN Secretary General António Guterres today in Tonga, at the Pacific Islands Forum leaders meeting, calling all world leaders to lead a fast and fair phase-out of fossil fuels. “A worldwide catastrophe is putting this Pacific paradise in peril,” said Guterres.“Global average sea levels are rising at an unprecedented rate. The ocean is overflowing.”
Tuesday 27 August 2024
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres today, joined youth members from around the Pacific in a collaborative call for immediate climate actions and demanded equality from the world's biggest emitters of CO2. Over a hundred youth members joined this Inter-generational dialogue with the UN Secretary General, in a talanoa style, seated on mats on the floor of Tonga's Legislative Assembly Chamber, in Nuku’alofa, on 26 August.
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Monday 26 August 2024
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The decisions that world leaders face in the coming years will be determining the fate, firstly, of the Pacific Islands, but also of everyone else, the United Nations Secretary General António Guterres said today, “If we save the Pacific we save the world.” He urged Pacific states “to make your voices heard and heard loudly.” The meeting of 18 Pacific Island leaders and their representatives was officially opened by HRH Crown Prince Tupouto’a ‘Ulukalala at the Tonga High School’s new stadium.
