Please, through your site, thank the staff I worked closely with at Peau Vava'u Airlines for the two and a half weeks I was in Tonga before the riots forced us to leave. I would particularly like to thank the two drivers for the company who drove us from the hotel to safety. - Paul Neame
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Tuesday 28 November 2006
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Auckland, New Zealand
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Monday 27 November 2006
Australia
I am shocked to read that the people's representatives were behind the destruction of Nuku'alofa. Tonga is on the verge of bankruptcy and they claim victory? - Eleanor Gee
Monday 27 November 2006
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
What we have seen was reminding me of the Holocaust, just as Nazis did to the Jews, 'ko e loto ‘oku kovi' A biblical country thought that everything on the media is like reading a bible, everything is 'true'. Then I wonder how come some of us take advantage of the easy brain wash people while you step aside and eat candy! - ‘Asipeli Mafi
Monday 27 November 2006
Australia
Na'e mahino mo'oni he ngaahi to'onga fakamoveuveu ne fakahoko ko e ngaue'aki eni 'e he kakai honau mafai ma'ae kakai 'o hange koia 'oku fa'a lea 'aki 'e he kau taki 'o e feinga liliu (the power of the people for the people). Me'apango pe, he ne tau ngaue'aki hotau mafai ke faka'auha ai pe kitautolu kakai e fonua. He na'e ma'u 'etau ngaue ki mu'a ka 'i he 'aho ni kuo 'ikai. Na'e mo'ui 'etau fanau ka ko e 'aho ni kuo nau mole meiate kitautolu, koe'uhi pe ko 'etau ngauehala'aki hotau mafai 'o 'ikai ke fai aki ha me'a ke tau fakalakalaka faka'ikonomika ai ka ko e fai e ngaue ia ke tau to e foki ai pe Tonga 'o tu'utamaki. - Jan
Sunday 26 November 2006
San Francisco,California, USA
For more than a decade, I have listened to the propaganda of Mr. Akilisi Pohiva, and rightly voiced my support toward his cause amongst my peers. In the months leading to the general strikes by the civil servants, and following, the message to be received from Mr. Akilisi Pohiva was of hatred and violence; always promoting and planting the seeds for a revolution and anarchy. - Lochlein Sekona
Saturday 25 November 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A.
Double-talking gives comfort to these terrorists who took the law into their own hands: violating people...s freedom, violating their right to live in peace without fear, to enjoy their human rights of 'dignity', and the democratic right to own properties. - Sione Mokofisia
Saturday 25 November 2006
Canberra, Australia
Kuo hoko ‘o tu’u he hisitolia ‘a e ’ohofi mo e taa’i fakasino ‘e he kau Taki Feinga Liukava Fakatemokalati mo ‘enau kau poupou ‘a e kau taki ‘o e Pule’anga mo e kakai ne ‘ikai ke nau tui tatau mo kinautolu, pea to e hoko ‘o lavenoa ai ‘a e totonu e taka nofo he ngaue ‘a e taka tu’u, ka e to e fakamamahi ange ‘a e si’i mole ‘a e ‘u mo’ui ‘o ‘etau fanau he vela mofia. - Siosiua Tofua‘ipangai
Saturday 25 November 2006
Hawaii
Please do not lose sight of those who orchestrated and put in motion the rapid decline of your economy. Yes, the Crown Prince and family are right in the middle of this mess, but a closer look at this situation is prudent. - Myron Wilson
Saturday 25 November 2006
London, UK
I remember reading somewhere that Akilisi Pohiva once said that the current King of Tonga is out of touch with his people. However, recently, when HM King George Tupou V completed his tour of the Tonga islands, his trip was hailed a great success due to his approachable manner by all who saw and met him. Could it be that Akilisi and his fellow People's Representatives are in fact the ones who are out of touch with the people of Tonga? - Ilanu Finau
Friday 24 November 2006
Australia
Hufanga atu he ngaahi talamalu 'o e fonua na'e tuku 'e he 'Uluaki Fa ki Langi, kae fakaa'u atu ki Tonga'eiki 'emau loto mafana & poupou lahi faufaua ki he sipinga kuo taa 'e he Tama Tu'ipelehake he tapuni 'o e Falealea 'o e 2006. Tangane! pea tuha pe mo e feitu'una! 'Oku 'i ai nai ha kete [tapu mo hou'eiki] 'o e kau fakafofonga kehe mo e hou'eiki falelalea ke fakahaa'i ki he kau Temoo 'oku fulikivanu pea 'oku papeliane 'enau founga taki. - Sisilia Tupou-Thomas
Friday 24 November 2006
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Governor of the National Reserve Bank of Tonga Joyce Mafi announced that as of today, November 23, all travellers departing the Kingdom of Tonga are allowed to take out of the country local and foreign currency notes, of not more than TOP$10,000, or its equivalent.
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Friday 24 November 2006
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Peau Vava'u Airways has suspended its domestic air service indefinitely, Tonga's Minister of Transport, Hon. Paul Karalus, told representatives from the Nuku'alofa Tourism Industry this afternoon.
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Friday 24 November 2006
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Tonga Post Office has set up a mobile service at the Queen Salote Memorial Hall outside the Restricted Area of central Nuku'alofa.
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Friday 24 November 2006
A poetic tearful lamentation at what has befallen in our beautiful island. - By Fr. Dr. Mikaele Paunga
Friday 24 November 2006
Sydney, Australlia
I would like to express my deep sorrow to hear that such events have taken place in our motherland, Tongatapu. An island and people, once upon a time, offered up to God by our King ‘Otua mo Tonga ko hoku tufi‘a. What the people haven't thought of is the precedent they have now set. They have unknowingly or if willingly, publicly opened up the land of Tonga to a world of violence and disobedience, outlaw and ruthlessness. - Amanda Kalauta
Friday 24 November 2006
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Honolulu, Hawaii
After reading of the destruction and seeing the pictures of Nuku'alofa I am shocked that a group of protesters could be allowed to run wild and do so much damage. Here is Hawaii we have a sovereignty movement that would like to restore the Kingdom. In Tonga you have a movement that wants more democracy. It appears that there are unsatisfied people on both sides of that issue. -Steve Oberg
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Friday 24 November 2006
San Francisco, USA
Could the recent tragic events in Tonga have been avoided by its Parliament? I would like to think that "common sense" could and should have warned its educated members that there were eminent dangers looming by and urgent measures were needed to thwart them. I think that it's time for the leaders of the government to stop the games; the people are now smarter and fed up. - Siosaia Fatani
Friday 24 November 2006
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Sydney, Australia
It is time for the people of Tonga to retire all of the People's Representatives. Nothing they have done in Parliament even for the past 20 years would make up for the damages they have instigated to the image of Tonga. The hate campaign conducted by the leading members of the Pro-Democracy movement on the ethnic business community has come to fruition and has made Tonga, and worse its people, as a racist country in the eyes of the international community. The multiplier effect of such destruction on the economy and the people of Tonga as a whole will be immense. - Inoke Fotu Huakau
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Thursday 23 November 2006
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga needs an estimated USD$200 million to reconstruct and redevelop its capital Nuku'alofa, HM King George Tupou V said this morning in a speech from the Throne to close the 2006 session of the Tonga Legislative Assembly.
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Thursday 23 November 2006
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Noble Tu'ipelehake today refused to attend the closure of the Tonga Legislative Assembly, and sat outside in protest against the People's Representatives who, he said, "have used terrorism as a political tool."
