Results for Tonga

SPBD Microfinance, the leading microfinance network dedicated to empowering women microentrepreneurs across the South Pacific. SPBD Microfinance (Tonga) Ltd. proudly announces a significant milestone in its journey. The organization has disbursed a total of TOP $250 million in loans since its inception in 2009, evidence of its commitment to fostering economic development in the country.

Motekiai Taufahema (48) was found guilty of two offences after he threw a machete, which injured a man in a confrontation outside his home in Navutoka. Police found drugs utensils inside the home.

A 49-year-old driver died in Fungamisi, Vava'u, after his vehicle collided with another.

Lulutai Airlines has chartered a Saab 340 aircraft from Air Chathams, including its own crew at a fixed price, to operate 12 flights a week between Tongatapu and Vava’u.

Following this morning's magnitude 7 earthquake, Nomuka Island in Ha'apai experienced a temporary disruption to both electricity and communications. Nomuka Town Officer, 'Elenoa Moala, told to Matangi Tonga that these services were restored within half an hour after the earthquake.

The Tonga Legislative Assembly resumed its 2024-2025 session this morning, but before they got down to parliamentary business, exhausted members talked about the strong 7.0 M earthquake that shook Tonga at 1:18am and kept them awake during the night. In an emergency operation, Police had helped to move people away from coastlines in Tongatapu, Vava’u and Ha’apai.

Kisina Neiufi (33) who is already serving four and half years imprisonment for previous drug offences, received an additional 30 months for possession of 13.68 grams of methamphetamine seized last year.

Forty years ago, in 1985, the people of Rongelap Atoll in the central Pacific were forced to evacuate their radioactive home after enduring years of health impacts from the US nuclear weapons tests in the Marshall Islands. Yesterday, the community came together in Mejatto to light candles, to sing and remember the terrors of the nuclear testing in the Pacific and their displacement from their home.

A donation of disability equipment, including wheelchairs, was presented by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints to the Vaiola Hospital in Tongatapu yesterday, 26 March 2025. The equipment will help to replace the wheelchairs that have gone missing from the wards at the Hospital, where they are needed for disabled patients. It is the fourth such donation the church has made to the hospital.