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I must say I breathed a sigh of relief when I read the King's speech at the opening of parliament. I used to feel a mounting anxiety as 2010 drew closer and closer for the political reforms, and we had only just begun to see real changes to how things are run (e.g. great access to information with the new ministry web sites). -Josephine Latu

‘Oku pehe 'e Saia Mila 'oku 'uli mo palaku 'a Nuku'alofa tupu mei he: 1 - lahi e ngaahi me'alele maumau mo popo he ngaahi 'api moe ve'ehala, 2 - Fakamaketi movetevete he ngaahi ve'ehala, 3 ...– Ifi tapaka he ngaahi fale kalapu tatau pe 'i Ha'apai mo Tonga. Me'apango malie ia Saia Mila kapau he 'ikai te ke toe 'alu kiho fonua tupu'anga na'ake hola mei ai. - ‘Alifeleti Teau‘imo‘unga

Ne u toki foki mai mei Tonga na he ngaahi 'aho si'i kuo hili ange hili ia ha'ate kau atu ki he Konifelenisi e taha 'o e ngaahi siasi 'a ia na 'e fai ki Ha'apai. 'I Nuku'alofa 'oku lahi hono veve'aki e ngaahi me'alele maumau mo popo e ngaahi 'api mo e ngaahi ve'e hala. Ko e matamata kovi mo e palaku atu 'enau 'asi. - Siosaia Kolomaka Mila

I am a Tongan now living in Australia but originally from Vava'u. After 23 years I returned to Vava'u with my wife on a cruise ship and was totally dismayed with what I saw. - Sione Tupou

Ne u lau hifo he tohi 'etita 'i ho'o peesi he uike ni, ko e ui ki ha taki fo'ou. Ko e me'a lelei e vahevahe fakakaukau, 'i hano fokotu'u mai ha ngaahi fokotu'utu'u 'oku maama mo faka'amanaki, pea fakalotolahi ki hota kaha'u.

I wish you all the best to your 61 birthday today (May 4), even if you celebrate it now at the coronation day. - Thomas Hollenbeck

By chance I see it reported in the media this week that Tonga Power will spend 16 million dollars replacing rotten and leaning power poles in a network upgrading programme commencing from the "city". From where I sit, we will have spent these millions only to find that we will remain vulnerable to falling branches as well as hurricane borne damage and still wedded to non-renewable imported and expensive diesel, the price of which is expected to return to stratospheric levels once the world takes the crunch out of credit. In short, not a great deal better. -Sefita Hao'uli

Weaning us off petroleum will take some time and the replacement technology to make that possible will still be imported and not home-grown. However what is needed now is a new and home-grown attitude and actions to lessen our dependence on imported energy immediately. - Sefita A. Hao‘uli

We know that the situation in Fiji is both complicated and sensitive because of its racial implication and the tendency of outsider to oversimplify the issues involved. But more alarmingly when a PM of a Pacific Is nation issued a tirade to demean the leader of another such as PM Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi of Samoa on Bainimarama as reported by the Samoan government's newspaper Savaii 2¼/09. - ‘Inoke Fotu Hu‘akau