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Wednesday 26 April 2006
Melbourne, Australia
The government should rethink its education and migration policy with a view to opening up and encouraging, even helping those with higher tertiary qualificatoins to migrate to places like NZ, Australia and the US. - Sione Tapani Mangisi
Wednesday 26 April 2006
Auckland, New Zealand
The call for the return of the power generation from Shoreline to government or the private sector should focus on the anticipation that Tonga will have a fairer, more transparent and just power industry. Perhaps service deliveries may improve too. Cheaper electricity is something else and I am afraid it won...’t help to mislead people now that the electricity will be cheaper only by taking it away from Shoreline. - Sailosi Finau
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Wednesday 26 April 2006
Stanford,California, USA
'Oku ou poupou lahi ta'eveiveiua kia 'Isileli 'Ilangana Kaufusi 'i he'ene tohi fekau'aki mo e mole 'a e 'apasia 'i Tonga. 'Oku mahino mai 'i he lahi e ngaahi vaalau 'i he tu'unga fakapolitikale 'o e fonua 'oku ne uesia lahi e ngaahi tapa kehekehe 'o e fonau 'o kau atu ki ai mo hatau 'ulungaanga fakatonga. - Lusia Mateialona-‘Olive
Thursday 20 April 2006

Nuku'alofa, Tonga
FROM OUR ARCHIVES: At this junction of our quest for social, economic and political reform in Tonga, the one entity that is obviously missing is a credible opposition to form some sort of Shadow Government responsible for the drafting, presenting of demands and reform proposals, and the monitoring of their progress. Editor's Comment, by Pesi Fonua.
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Thursday 20 April 2006
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Executive Members of the Tonga Small Business Association (TSBA) are not happy with your article dated 8th April, 2006 titled: ...“Tonga Chamber of Commerce stalls challenge by TSBA...”. The Executive Members of TSBA have ordered me to inform you the fact that Mr. Tu...’i Uata is not the president of TSBA. Mr. Uata and his followers are not members of TSBA. May be Mr. Tu'i Uata has his own organization, of which we highly respect, but we are sure it is not the TSBA. - Saia Moehau
Wednesday 19 April 2006
If we choose to say that Tonga belongs to the People of Tonga including the monarchy and the nobility, then why the devil is the Royal family and especially Tupouto'’a is allowed to just do as they please with the nation, assets and all, Shoreline, Tonfon, Airlines, Tongasat, Passports etc. So what do we do ? - Sione Tapani Mangisi
Wednesday 19 April 2006
Auckland, New Zealand
There is a Latin tag cui prodest? meaning “who stands to gain?” When it is not immediately apparent which political or social groups, forces or alignments advocate certain proposals, measures, etc., one should always ask: “Who stands to gain?””. - March Pulu
Tuesday 18 April 2006
Sydney, Australia
The fiasco concerning Shoreline and its operation is a dilemma created by the government themselves. From your article of the same (8 April), it is clear that both the government and Shoreline operatives have collided with their various public statements, and in turn raises many questions. Shoreline is now returning the favor, giving the government the first option to buy back the electricity business. -Jason Faletau
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Sunday 16 April 2006
Moss Beach-California, USA
Shoreline's recent announcement for sale is one of the intense climacterics of the moral, economic and political hardships and factions in the Kingdom. There is scuttlebutt that Shoreline's undisclosed multi-million dollar sales price is approximately T$60 Million and prior to Prince Lavaka's resignation as Prime Minister, Crown Prince Tupouto'a and members of the royal family were in favor of a T$100 Million loan from China to facilitate the purchase of Shoreline resulting in a royal dispute and subsequently Lavaka's resignation. = Mele Payne Lynch
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Sunday 16 April 2006
Provo, Utah,USA
Na'aku fiefia lahi he mamata atu ki he fonua 'o hoku tupu'anga. Kae me'apango na'e 'ikai lava ha 'alu holo koeuhi ko e fu'u ke lahi 'i he vaha'a 'o e ngaahi ako ma'olunga Vava'u. Ne nau fahi e ngaahi 'api ako pea iku 'o nofo falemahaki ai mo e Tokolahi. - ‘Isileli ‘Ilangana Kaufusi
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Saturday 15 April 2006
Veitongo,Tongatapu
Kuo kamata ke failaa e vaka 'o e liliu 'i Tonga he kuo kamata ke 'asi mai hono ngaahi fua. Ko e me'a 'oku ou fakatokanga'i ko e kau teke liliu pe eni 'oku nau toe fakafe'atungia'i e nga'unu 'a e vakaa. Talu hono fili 'o Dr. Feleti Sevele ke ne minista mo e tafoki hake hono kaunga fakafofonga 'o fakaanga'i 'ene ngaue. - Pola Loiti
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Saturday 15 April 2006
Sydney, Australia
When electric power generation and distribution was privatised, Tupou IV announced to the nation that Tonga would have cheaper electricity because Shoreline would be able to get cheaper fuel from the United States. In disbelief, I made some observations and asked some rhetorical questions: -Lisiate Ikaafu
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Tuesday 11 April 2006
Canberra, Australia
Ko `etau fa'unga nofo fakasosiale, fakalotu, faka'ekonomika mo fakapolitikale tuku fakaholo ne makatu'unga he NOFO `A E NGAAHI HA'A mo hono kupu tefito ko e NOFO `A KAINGA. Kou fie lafo lalo atu heni ki he ni'ihi e kakano `etau nofo fakaha'a pe fakakainga `i ono `aho na'a tokoni ke ne huluhulu mai e nganga'ehu fakapolitikale mo fakakonisitutone `oku hoko `i hotau fonua tupu'anga. - Siosiua F. P. Tofua‘ipangai
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Saturday 8 April 2006
Honolulu, Hawaii
It is time your publication and others come out of the bush and state things for how they are. The royals are plundering the country taking millions and millions of dollars while they have the people distracted looking in the wrong direction. - Diane Sandlin
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Sunday 2 April 2006
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
An Industrial Kupesi must be created, that does not destroy the local confidence with too many items in the "too hard basket", but will kindle and enhance the Tongan peoples' creativities and innovation, their lateral thinking, their "ta‘efieto" attitude and hard work to make it happen. If we continue with this approach to industrial development then we are halfway there because the driving energy and inspiration I am talking about, must come from the minds and the hearts of the Tongan people.
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Tuesday 28 March 2006
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga prides itself as the only sovereign country in the South Pacific that was never colonised, and therefore in the 21st century we should have been able to claim the title of the most politically mature, vibrant and stable country in the region. But we are far from it. So what went wrong? Editor's Comment, by Pesi Fonua
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Thursday 23 March 2006
Kolofo'ou, Tonga
'Olive Ramanlal has good reasons to be alarmed by the presence of the Secretary of the Human Rights and Democracy Movement in Tonga, Mr. 'Akilisi Pohiva with two cameramen, outside her gate. In the late 1990's and in 2000, particularly during the seizure of the Chaudhury Government in Fiji, Mr. Pohiva pointed to the unrest there and talked up the threat posed by Asian immigrants here. - Electricity Consumer
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Friday 17 March 2006
Auckland, New Zealand
Tonga has just won the 2006 Pacific Cup rugby league tournament in Auckland and this must be a delight to all Tongans. Malo ‘aupito to the administrators, the coach and officials and to the players too. The team has definitely lived up to its name Mate Ma‘a Tonga. - Sailosi Finau
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Wednesday 15 March 2006
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The books of the alumni are properly audited and approved by the AGM every year. We look forward to this year's AGM which will be held in the US and hosted by the Alumni of Salt Lake City in their hometown. - Viliami Ika
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Sunday 12 March 2006
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Editor's Comment, by Pesi Fonua. Events in Tonga over the past few weeks, have left vacuums in our midst and are reshaping the entities that had the power to influence our lives, our way of thinking, and our style of government.
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