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Hundreds of women from throughout the Pacific gathered in Nuku‘alofa this week to attend the South Pacific Seminar of the Methodist and Uniting Church Women's Federation.

The Fiji interim Minister of Education, Filipe Bole, has declared a strike by nearly 400 staff of the regional University of the South Pacific "illegal".

An argumentative People's Representative 'Etuate Lavulavu was ordered out of the House to cool off, after he refused to sit down during debate on a shipping bill, on Monday September 8. From the House, by Pesi Fonua.

A new low-carb beer was introduced to the top end of the Tongan beer drinking market with a launching at the Janfull International Dateline Hotel on Thursday night, September 11.

A paternity suit brought against the Tongan noble Hon. Havea Tuiha'ateiho by his uncle took an unexpected twist yesterday, as the plaintiff told the court he could not recall bringing a claim against the noble.

‘Opeti Fekau pleaded guilty to a total of five charges, including an armed robbery outside the Westpac Bank of Tonga commercial branch on May 26, when he appeared before Chief Justice Anthony Ford in the Nuku'alofa Supreme Court on Thursday, September 3.

The process of privatising government enterprises in Tonga made two steps forward and one step backward in July. The government sold its remaining 75 per cent shareholding in the Leiola Group Ltd., Tonga's sole Duty Free enterprise, to the Pacific Retail Ltd. for $6.06 million pa'anga; and its 40 per cent shares in the Westpac Bank of Tonga to Westpac for $25 million pa'anga. Then government bought back the national power generation unit from Shoreline Power for $US17.7 million and handed it over to its own company Tonga Power Ltd.

Re: Elected members upset that new tax rate hits MP's pockets. "The Prime Minister used the Cabinet Ministers' parliamentary salaries as an example. He said that a minister's Basic Salary was $32,000. The first $7,400 was tax-free, therefore the remaining $24,600 was taxed 10 per cent. He said that even if the allowances of $5,400 were added on it was only going to be the remaining figures above $30,000 that would be taxed 20 per cent." Unfortunately this is not the correct explanation of the new taxation. - Frank Schaper

The Government of Australia will provide funds totaling T$1,606,234.00, for nineteen (19) projects in Tongatapu, seventeen (17) in Ha'apai and four (4) in Vava'u as outlined in the Attachment.