Results for Tonga

Tonga is finding it difficult to manage illegal dumping of rubbish, including plastic bags, in Nuku'alofa, as it celebrated World Environment Day on 5 June with the worldwide theme "Beat Plastic Pollution". Filimone Lapao’o, the Tonga goverment's Senior Environmentalist, said after Cyclone Gita, the amount of rubbish at Sopu increased so much that his department cannot manage it properly. By Eleanor Gee.

Two men received imprisonment sentences on May 29 at the Supreme Court, after pleading guilty to possession of cannabis that included seeds found to have been germinating, possibly for cultivation.

Tonga’s champion rugby league club, the Mu’a Saints, travelled to Samoa last week where they defeated the Apia Barracudas to win the inaugural “Polynesian Club Championship” on 2 June.

Toutai Kefu has named the 'Ikale Tahi team to play Georgia in the opening round of the 2018 Pacific Nations Cup this Saturday 9 June in Suva, Fiji.

Falanisi Taufa (16) was named as the victim of a car crash on Sunday June 3 at Fungamisi, Vava’u.

A cyclone recovery program to assist in rebuilding homes is training Tongans how to safely use a portable sawmill to utilise timber felled by Severe Tropical Cyclone Gita in February.

A 16-year-old boy died on Sunday afternoon, June 3 after his vehicle crashed into a power pole at Fungamisi, Vava'u.

A man (37) from Fangaloto died on Friday night June 1 after the car he was driving was involved in a collision at a Vaha'akolo Road roundabout. A police officer (51) is charged with reckless driving causing death.

A new modern domestic wharf and terminal named Taufa’ahau Tupou IV Wharf was commissioned by King Tupou VI this morning, Friday, June 1. Funded with over $60 million pa’anga by the Government of Japan - its biggest grant aid to Tonga to date - the new wharf is expected to significantly boost domestic cargo volumes and passenger traffic.