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The $300,000 that was passed by the House to pay for the allowances of students at the Teachers Training College, was spent by the Minister of Education to send the Tongan contingent to the South Pacific Games last year, some members argued that he was disobeying a decision that was passed by the House. From the House, Minute No. 15 and Minute No. 16. By Pesi Fonua

The government investment on public and private companies amounted to $110 million, and the total loss on these investments is about $51 million. From the House, Minute No. 13, Monday 21 June 2004.

The Budget statement and Budget have not been released to the press, so all the figures presented here are sourced from the minutes of the debate and cannot be verified. (Likewise, the comparative year figures cannot be clarified or verified without sight of the Budget columns.)

The Privy Council of Tonga has appointed Justice Robin M. Webster, currently a part - time Employment Tribunal Chairman, Edinburgh, as the new Chief Justice of Tonga replacing Justice Gordon Ward who has accepted a post with the Court of Appeal of Fiji.

In light of the Government’’s success in adding "the cultural traditions of the Kingdom,"as a new conditionality on the freedom of speech and expression in Tonga, one can be forgiven for jumping to the conclusion that perhaps the Government wants the media and the Tongan people in general to revert to pre-Constitution Tongan standards in which back-chatting the chiefs was punishable by a serious flogging if not death. By Lopeti Senituli.

The Convention on the Conservation and Management of Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean came into force on Saturday 19 June 2004.

Two prisoners who suffered abuse in Tonga's Hu'atolitoli Prison had escaped under duress a Judge has declared, after accepting unchallenged evidence that the two had been tortured by the Prison authorities.

The civil court case between Lali Media Group Limited seeking damages from the Government of Tonga for their banning of the Taimi ...‘o Tonga Newspaper in Tonga last year is to be settled out of court.

A celebration to mark the 70th birthday of the Founder and the Director of Tonga's ‘Atenisi Institute, ‘Ilaisa Futa-‘i-Ha‘angana Helu, included a two-day seminar was from June 15-16 attended by overseas academics, singers and writers.