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Prices for petrol, diesel and kerosene in Tonga will increase starting on Friday, 16 October.

Tonga’s future is not on land but in its marine area on the continental shelf, and “we want to help Tonga tap into the Blue Economy,” said Deodat Maharaj, the Commonwealth Deputy Secretary-General, during his one-day stop over in Tonga on 15 September. By Pesi Fonua

Energy efficient lights and air conditioning units were today received by the Tonga government to help reduce the consumption of electricity.

Prices for petrol, diesel and kerosene in Tonga will decrease for September to October.

Member states of a Commonwealth Virtual Currencies Working Group, including Tonga, reached a consensus to consider adapting or enacting new legislation to regulate virtual currencies, in London last week.

Tongan fruit pickers are taking part in two leadership and training programs launched on Monday, 24 August in Nuku'alofa.

Recycled clothing, a popular informal business in the Pacific Islands, has become a highly-organised industry across the region and now in Tonga, with the opening of a new business venture by the 'Uta'atu family, called Value City (Tonga) Ltd. on Saturday.

The Tonga Government does not have an investigation project to find out if Tonga civil servants are considered unpaid, the Minister of Finance and National Planning, Dr ‘Aisake Eke said. “There is no investigation, but a review of the salary structure,” he said in a statement on August 7.

A proposal for government to finance the 2019 Pacific Games with Consumption Tax, instead of a levy on profit from foreign currency exchange transactions was presented by Bernie Poort from the ANZ Bank and Dan Henson from the Bank of the South Pacific to the Minister of Finance, Hon. ‘Aisake Eke during a Tonga Chamber of Commerce special meeting on Friday, 31 July.