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Although Tonga's six month fishing season for sea cucumbers opened on April 1, the quota for this year's export harvest has not been set and licenses have not been issued to operators.

Dressed for the occasion, HM King George Tupou V was photographed together with the members of the Tongan Cabinet, on 1 May 2009, at Consular House in Nuku'alofa. Photos by Pesi Fonua.

The lights went on again in Ha'apai last week, after the MV Olovaha inter island ferry delivered much needed diesel to run the power generators on the islands where the weekly fuel supplies have been disrupted for months.

Tonga's Ministry of Health is not taking any chances of a swine influenza outbreak in Tonga, and has begun screening international visitors arriving at Fua'amotu International Airport.

Fiji was suspended from the 16 nation Pacific Islands Forum Saturday and told there was no place for a regime which displays "such a total disregard for basic human rights."

'I he'eku lau hifo 'a e tohi 'a Piveni Piukala mo 'ene fakatangi ki ha taki fo'ou, 'oku foki 'eku manatuu ki he ki'i talanoa na'aku fa'alau 'i he'eku kei si'i. Ko e talanoa 'oku ou manatu ki ai mei he ki'i tohi ma'ae fanau iiki na'e ui ko e ngaahi feipale 'a 'Esope (Aesop's Fables). - D.K Fale

Well, well, well.... so Labour now thinks that Maori should have the right to seek customary title to the foreshore and seabed do they? That Maori should be allowed to argue their case before the Maori Land Court, with right of appeal to the High Court?

By chance I see it reported in the media this week that Tonga Power will spend 16 million dollars replacing rotten and leaning power poles in a network upgrading programme commencing from the "city". From where I sit, we will have spent these millions only to find that we will remain vulnerable to falling branches as well as hurricane borne damage and still wedded to non-renewable imported and expensive diesel, the price of which is expected to return to stratospheric levels once the world takes the crunch out of credit. In short, not a great deal better. -Sefita Hao'uli

A three-days conference on "Security Sector Governance in the Pacific Region", was officially launched on April 28 by Tonga's Deputy Prime Minister, Dr Viliami Tangi.