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In this tough economic times, a country is to cut down on expenses. We are at a desperate time and it calls for desperate measures. – Mafi 'o Amerika Samoa.

A tour of the Pacific islands by US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Kurt Campbell, will include Tonga on June 27.

The completion of the $118 million pa'anga reconstruction of central Nuku'alofa funded by a loan from the EXIM Bank of China is now hanging on a knife-edge. An investigative report leaked to the public this week reveals that high level political manoeuvring to take over the operation could derail the reconstruction by undermining its legally contracted project management. The sensitive report goes to Cabinet today, June 24.

We may have lost the wisdom of the greatest visionary leader of Tonga if not of the whole Pacific Region. - Mafi 'o Amerika Samoa.

Tapuni e 'Ofisi 'i Uelingatoni kae fakafoki mai 'a e 'ofisi ki 'Aokalani ni pea me'a mai 'a 'Eiki Haikomisiona mo hono tokoni 'o me'a he 'api ko 'Atalanga mo fakahoko fatongia mei ai. Mahalo na'a sai ke tapuni 'a e 'ofisi 'i Pilitania he ko e ngaahi ngaue kotoa 'oku fakahoko ai 'oku malava pe ke fakahoko atu mei Nu'usila ni pe ko Tonga na. He 'ikai te u lave ki USA mo 'Aositelelia he 'oku 'ikai puli he 'Eiki Palemia 'a e tu'unga 'oku 'I ai 'a e ongo 'ofisi koia. - Dr Fotu K.V Fisiiahi.

The declaration of the Republic of Minerva in 1971 led to the Conference of the Neighboring Island States in 1972 at which the late King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga made a claim over the Minerva Reef. Sione Lousiale Kava.

Hundreds of Tupou College Ex-students marched through central Nuku'alofa this morning, June 21 to commemorate the 145th anniversary of the Free Wesleyan Church's All Boys Secondary School.

A manhunt continues for the two male prisoners who escaped on June 6, who are thought to be on Tongatapu, but frustrating prison wardens who are looking for leads on their whereabouts.

Samoa is the first Forum Island Country to access its indicative country allocation of US$4million under the Pacific Environment Community Fund that has been made available by the Government of Japan. I congratulate the Government of Samoa for being the first and the quickest off the mark . . . – Tuiloma Neroni Slade, Secretary General Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat.