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PR 'Akilisi Pohiva with support from some other PRs proposed that they should terminate the Royal Judicial Commission and the Anti Corruption Commission. But the Minister of Works was surprised by the PRs opposition because the Anti Corruption Commission was established in response to suggestions and pressure from the PRs. From the House. Minute No. 7, Tuesday, June 16, 2009. Premium Content.

A six-member group of European travel agents arrived in Tonga on June 27 on and an Air Pacific agents' four-days familiarisation and educational tour of the main island Tongatapu.

The Executive Council of the Tonga Law Society wishes to refer to the recent media reports concerning Mr David Garrett SC, a New Zealand Member of Parliament, and licensed law practitioner in Tonga, making inappropriate sexual comments to a female staff member of the New Zealand Parliament.

It is disheartening to hear the more we are struggling for change, the more things remain the same in Parliament. It is also fair to say that I am grossly disgusted with the hard working members of our Parliament who lackadaisical join the House at their convenience, but rush to claim overtime pay when they are needed to do what they were elected to do in the first place. It stinks to high heaven, and it shows their greed and their love of power more than upholding the duties they campaigned for. -TamaFoa

One reads with the greatest concern the statement by a NZ ACT Member of Parliament, David Garrett (ironically, an employment lawyer for over 10 years), trying to justify lewd remarks that he made to a female worker, asserting that "I'm on a very steep learning curve, I now understand very clearly that the kind of thing that might have been okay in a law firm in Tonga is not okay in Parliament." (NZ Herald, 23/06/09). - Sitiveni Finau

The Tongan Court of Appeal 2009 Session, which begins on Monday, June 29, will hear 21 appeal cases, probably the most made in the history of a Court of Appeal Session.

The cause of death of a 32-year-old male inmate in Hu'atolitoli Prison on June 7 has yet to be confirmed, but police today ruled out any suspicion of a crime.

'Oku fakaha mai he tu'unga 'o e liliu fakapolitikale he 'aho ni, mo e te u fakahoko 'a e ngaue mahu'inga taha hotau hisitolia 'o e 20-21 Senituli 'a e anga fakatikitato, ta'efakapotopoto mo ta'efakatemokalati, pea kapau 'oku pehee pe 'a e kamata huanoa katau ka to atu ki he namo mo e moana loloto, ko 'ene fehalaaki pe 'e to e kovi ange 'a e kaha'u ia mo hono ngaahi nunu'a.

Nuku'alofa's Fire Service saved the lower deck of the burning MV Siupeli Koula ferry and its full engine of fuel, after the ferry caught on fire on Saturday night, June 20, at Tu'imatamoana Wharf.