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The African, Caribbean and Pacific ACP Group with its principal development partner, the European Union, today signed the second five-yearly review of the Cotonou Agreement in a historic event in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

A meeting at the Tanoa Hotel in Nadi this week backed a call on the UN to hold a global summit on non-communicable diseases NCDs, to include them in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and to create a global fund for NCD prevention and control.

When I lamented for "God help us" I did not mean for the Chair of the House to seek divine interventions to sort out the mess of our parliament. For forgiveness from God is conditional on the ground that, "for they know not what they have done". In this sort of human affairs such as politics, the godly part is to ask for Courage of heart and mind to make a presentation to His Majesty Tupou V to Dissolve Parliament as soon as the budget vitiation is finished. - 'Inoke Fotu Hu'akau.

Two men died on board a fuel tanker, the MV Punalei, berthed at Pangai, Ha'apai yesterday, after it is believed they were overcome by poisonous fumes while cleaning empty fuel tanks.

During the night from Saturday to Sunday, 26 to 27 June 2010, a lunar eclipse will take place. Unfortunately it is only a partial eclipse, only the northern half of the moon will be plunged into darkness. - Firitia Velt.

On June 24, in Abu Dhabi, IRENA and the Kingdom of Tonga will hold an official Signing Ceremony of the IRENA Abu Dhabi Declaration on the Tonga Energy Road Map 2010-20. The ceremony is an important milestone in the successful, on-going partnership between IRENA and the Pacific Kingdom. That partnership has resulted in Tonga going from being almost 100% dependent on imported diesel for electrical generation, to having one of the most ambitious energy plans in the world.

A nine-members Standing Committee of the Tongan Legislative Assembly was formed on June 17 to investigate People's Representative 'Akilisi Pohiva for allegedly lying in parliament on June 15.

Wellington, New Zealand. Exposing Pacific Journalists to how New Zealand is involved in the Pacific and its relationship with the islands is one of the aims of a five-day Pacific Media Exchange Program being held in Wellington and Auckland for three journalists from Samoa, Cook Islands and Tonga.

George 'Alipate Tupou or 'Baron Vaea' as he became better known, was the 12th Prime Minister of Tonga, presiding over the Pacific nation from 1991 until 2000. - Article from the New Zealand Defence Force.