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Ten civil servants have graduated from a training program to develop the skills of Tonga's public servants and to improve service delivery and efficiency.

The Prime Minister Hon ‘Akilisi Pohiva is currently in New Zealand on a five-day leave for family matters that will include getting a routine medical check up.

A raid on retailers by a government team tasked with removing expired food items from shelves has cleaned out a major supermarket in Nuku'alofa yesterday, and will continue to clamp down on stores in the capital with unannounced inspections.

Tonga’s government will meet today with World Bank officials in Parliament.

A desperate move by the Tongan Government to address demands by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) for Tonga to upgrade its Aviation Safety Regulations resulted in the grounding of the MA60 aircraft and a restriction on the size of aircraft for its outer islands domestic air services.

Mo'ale Finau is the new governor of Ha'apai, the Acting Secretary to Cabinet, 'Aholotu Palu confirmed at noon today, 6 February.

Trimming expenditures of Cabinet and high ranking officials will be part of refashioning the Tongan civil service to become effective, Tonga's new Prime Minister Hon ‘Akilisi Pohiva, said in his inaugural address to civil servants this afternoon at the Queen Salote Memorial Hall.

'Akilisi Pohiva, in his first press conference as Tonga's new Prime Minister, said that realistically his new government would not be able to implement their own working programs until they introduced their national budget for the 2015-16 financial year at the end of June.

Next week the Tonga Government’s public service will close down at 4:30pm Friday, 19 December, its last working day, before the beginning of its Christmas and New Year holidays.