Results for Business

Only eight harvesting licences have been issued so far in the 2011 sea cucumber harvesting season - an usually slow start this year, said Poasi Ngaluafe, the Head of the Research Division of the Ministry of Fisheries today, June 13.

Export market access is a very difficult game but the level of organization in Tonga's horticultural and agricultural export sector is ahead of other Pacific Islands, a regional team leader noted on June 1 at the launch of the Tongan phase of a Pacific Horticultural and Agricultural Market Access Program (PHAMA).

How Pacific Forum countries can build a way forward in the PACER Plus negotiations with Australia and New Zealand, is a demanding issue that is being discussed at the Forum Trade Ministers Meeting that opened in Neiafu, Vava'u today, May 18.

The largest turtle in Friday's rescue attempt to save it from slaughter for church conference feasts, died last night after an effort to rest it in the fisheries department tanks at Sopu over the weekend failed to revive it.

The price of electricity will go up by 13.13 seniti per kWh, from 84.86 seniti per kWh to 98 seniti per kWh through out Tonga, starting with the meter reading for May at the beginning of June.

Tonga's prices for Diesel, Kerosene, Petrol and LPG Gas will rise from mid-night on Sunday April 17, the government's Competent Authority Committee announced late on Friday, April 15.

Tonga has been confirmed as one of the 21 Council members of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) at the end of its inaugural assembly at Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, April 5.

Tonga is at high risk of debt distress and cannot afford to take on more borrowing, according to an Asian Development Bank report that was released this month.

A decision on whether the price of electricity will go up or not will not be known until April 6, said the Chief Executive Officer of Tonga Power Ltd, Peter McGill.