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This letter is an expression of my thoughts and feeling about the death of a fellow Tongan, a hero and our pride in the New Zealand Police Force, whose beautiful life was cruelly snuffed out of this world. – Naomi Fakauka.

I write with regret at receiving the news of fallen hero and family member, Kali Fungavaka. Now, Tonga, so-called Friendly Islands, needs to deal with the reality that they are harbouring bigger problems than it imagined. We are not only
 facing an economic crisis in the Kingdom but a crisis of greater proportion. - Justice Fonua, Papatoetoe, New Zealand.

My house was robbed last year in November with goods worth over $20,000 stolen. Three months later (this year), a further break-in occurred. With utter frustration and annoyance, I arrived at the Police station angrily demanding a response. - 'Amelia 'Ofakineiafu.

Ko e lau koia 'oku kei fakafelekeu holo ko e Pule 'a e Kakai, mou kataki kau Politiki 'o fakatatafe atu 'a e usu koia he na'e 'ikai ke mou fakakau ha 'elemeniti pehe (kakai) he founga pule na'a mo u fa'u. Ko e founga siokita na'a mou fokotu'u na'e fakataumu'a ke mou to ki Fale Alea 'o mou taki pea fa'iteliha ki ha toe liliu 'oku mou fiema'u ki hono falalele 'o e ngaue 'a e fonua. Ko e "kakai" ko e me'avainga pe ia ki ho'omou fiema'u. Pea fakatatafe atu mo e pehe ko e fili ha Nopele ke Palemia 'oku 'ikai ko e fili ia 'a e kakai, he ko e founga pule na'amou fa'u na'a mou faka'ataa ke fakakau 'a e kau Nopele ki he lakanga Palemia 'o e fonua. Ko e ha 'oku toe me'apaheke holo ai. – 'Inoke Fotu Hu'akau.

'Oku 'oatu 'a e fokotu'u ni ka 'oku makafokafo homau loto 'i he 'ofa, 'apasia mo e loto tauhivaha'a mo'oni ki he 'Eiki Palemia mo e . . . ka kuo kouna kimautolu ke mau fakahoko homau fatongia ni, koe'uhi ko 'Ene 'Afio ko hotau Tu'i, mo e lelei fakalukufua 'a e Kakai 'o Tonga. – Kau Fakafofonga 'e toko hongofulu 'o e Kakai.

Just when Tongans around the world are comfortable with Prime Minister Tu'ivakano's new democratically elected government, the opposition dropped this bomb in Parliament House with the filing of a no confidence vote, on the first democratically elected Prime Minister in the history of Tonga. - MT Tuaileva,

Late Island's coastline is rugged for landing by large boats, but a dinghy could find a suitable landing place on the northern shorelines. I was stranded on Late Island for a week with two Vava'u strangers as guides when I was 18 years old. - Sione Ake-mei-hakau Mokofisi.

The Tonga government's current sense of urgency to introduce a Freedom of Information Policy and to activate an Anti-Corruption Commission, is a sign that it has come to terms with the need to take its reform program to another level, and to have a more transparent, and corruption-free administration. After a year-long search for a more democratic system, the new government is still trying to find its feet as the Constitutional and Political Reform continues to unfold itself.

'Oku 'oatu heni 'a 'eku kole ki he Falealea 'o Tonga ke mou kataki mu'a 'o toe fakakaukau'i ange 'a e fokotu'u 'a e Minisita Ako ke kamata ha silapa fo'ou ke ako'i 'aki 'a e lea faka-Tonga pea mo e lea faka-Pilitania ki ngaahi ako kotoa 'o e 'otu Tonga. - Siosaia Fatani