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I would like to comment on the letter by 'Ana Emberson, asking for prizes for the annual prize giving of the Niua Fo'ou High School. The Niua Development Committee is happy to receive any requests for assistance from Niuafo'ou. – Viliami Liava'a.

Major donors including the U.S., Japan, France, Germany, Spain, Norway, Canada, Italy and Australia perform poorly in Publish What You Fund's pilot Aid Transparency Index, in spite of repeated pledges to improve. The five best-ranked donors are the World Bank, the Global Fund, the African Development Bank, The Netherlands' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the UK's Department for International Development. - UNDP.

Tonga's Prime Minister, Lord Tu'ivakano, and other Pacific Leaders met the US President Barack Obama, and the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in Honolulu, Hawaii, while the President was in Hawaii for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) 2011 annual meeting from November12-20.

Two brothers were sentenced to life imprisonment at the Supreme Court in Nuku'alofa on October 27, after they were found guilty by a jury for the murder of Molisoni Mu'a, who was bashed to death with an iron rod and piece of firewood, in Navutoka on December, 2010.

10-year-old boy died on Friday afternoon, November 11 after drowning at an inland lagoon known as Vai Salisali, at Sopu, according to the Tonga Police.

Open Schooling, a system of education that teaches to a broad range of learners, and has been very successful in Africa and the Caribbean, is being considered in Tonga during a three days forum this week.

A sense of déjà vu came over me when I heard of the government's decision to impose on Vava'u a one-overseas-shipping service. People understand that competition will determine the costs of services. The farcical explanation given by the Acting PM for the one-shipping service policy is not only laughable, it is downright insulting. - Tuitokaloto Fakatakatau Taufa.

A commemoration service to mark the Remembrance Sunday 2011 was held at the Cenotaph, Pangai Si'i on Sunday 13 November, when HM King George Tupou V laid a wreath at the memorial.

Marching in defiance, and singing hymns, over 200 protestors petitioned the office of the Vava'u Governor, Lord Fulivai, yesterday morning, opposing a move by government to create a monopoly shipping service between New Zealand and Vava'u.