A public reading room in Nuku'alofa was officially opened by the Deputy Prime Minister, Hon Samiu Vaipulu, yesterday afternoon, November 13.
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Monday 6 August 2012
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Fourteen line Ministries under a restructured government came into being in July, with the Prime Minister currently acting as the Minister for Police and for Defence.
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Monday 16 July 2012
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Three new Chief Executive Officers recruited by the Public Service Commission have started in their positions, on July 2.
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Monday 9 July 2012
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga remains without a designated Minister of Police, and a Minister of Agriculture, following the resignation of three Cabinet Ministers on June 25 and the reshuffling of portfolios under new line ministries.
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Monday 21 May 2012
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The government budget of $317 million for the 2012-13 financial year should be ready to be presented to the parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance and Public Accounts, early this week, before it goes to Cabinet on Friday, May 25, the Minister of Finance Hon. Lisiate 'Akolo said at a press conference on Friday, May 18.
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Sunday 20 May 2012
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The recent reshuffling of Ministerial portfolios, another attempt by the Prime Minister, Lord Tu'ivakano to create a more cohesive governing body, has instead splintered his new Cabinet, even before it is officially put into place.
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Friday 11 May 2012
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Grant O'Fee of the New Zealand Police will take up his post as Tonga's new Police Commissioner on July 2, according to the Minister of Police Hon Sunia Fili.
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Tuesday 1 May 2012
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Four Cabinet Ministers took up their new Ministerial portfolios today, May 1.
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Saturday 21 April 2012
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Government this afternoon announced the reassignment of four of its Cabinet Ministers effective on 1 May.
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Thursday 19 April 2012
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Government is understood to have reshuffled six of its Cabinet Ministers this month but they have not taken up their new portfolios.
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Thursday 19 April 2012
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Charles Cato of New Zealand is to join the Supreme Court of Tonga as its third judge, after his appointment was confirmed by the King in Council on April 4.
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Thursday 12 April 2012
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Four of seven Chief Executive Officer positions for a new structure of Government have been decided by the Public Service Commission.
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Wednesday 11 April 2012
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
With just over two months before a new structure of the Tonga Government is implemented on 1 July, 2012, it is now proposed there will be 14 line Ministries, which will include a new Ministry of Revenue.
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Tuesday 10 April 2012
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The Chief Secretary and the Secretary to Cabinet, Busby Kautoke has been suspended from his post by the Public Service Commission PSC, according to the Acting Chief Secretary and Chief Secretary to Cabinet Alfred Soakai.
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Sunday 19 February 2012
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Tonga's defunct Anti Corruption Commission will be revived soon, according to Tonga's Minister of Justice and Public Enterprises, Hon. Clive Edwards.
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Saturday 18 February 2012
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A government that does not allow its people to decide for themselves the credibility of information that is in the public arena, is a government that is scared of its people, Tonga's Deputy Prime Minister Hon. Samiu Vaipulu told a workshop to consider a Freedom of Information Policy for Tonga on February 13.
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Tuesday 7 February 2012
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Six new CEO positions are expected to be finalized by the end of February. The Chairperson of the Public Service Commission, Mishka Tu'ifua told Matangi Tonga Online on February 7, that a new government structure as directed by Cabinet is to be implemented by July 1, 2012.
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Thursday 19 January 2012
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga's retiring civil servants can access up to 50% of their retirement fund entitlements in the form of a loan from today 19 January, following a decision made by the Retirement Fund Board earlier this week.
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Monday 16 January 2012
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Tongan Cabinet went on a retreat to the island of Pangaimotu on Friday January 13, led by the Prime Minister, Lord Tu'ivakano.
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Tuesday 27 December 2011
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
There will be no reduction in the size of Tonga's civil service in the 2012-13 budget, according to Tonga's Prime Minister Lord Tu'ivakano, whose new government, this year supported with a foreign aid-funded budget lifeline, hopes to advance Tonga's political and economic development, somehow, during its remaining three years term in office. By Pesi Fonua.
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