A 44-year-old man died after falling off from the first floor of the Vaiola Hospital building on Thursday, September 30, after being admitted in the early morning of the same day.
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Tuesday 5 October 2010
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
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Tuesday 28 September 2010
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Fraud offences in excess of $5.5 million pa'anga were reported to the Tonga Police in the first six months of the year, Police Commander, Chris Kelley.
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Wednesday 15 September 2010
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A 40-year-old Fijian man was found dead at in the area of the Takaunove Cemetery at Fasi on Saturday night, August 11.
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Wednesday 1 September 2010
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Working together with the public to crack down on crimes in order to achieve safer communities, is the focus of a National Community Policing Coordination Centre, opened at the main Police Station compound in Longolongo on August 31.
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Tuesday 31 August 2010
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A complaint under the Official Secrets Act by a Chief Executive Officer of a Government Ministry that information was being unofficially released, led police to seize four computers from the Finance ministry's Budget Division office last week.
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Friday 27 August 2010
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
All four computers seized by Tonga Police from the Budget Division of Tonga's Ministry of Finance and Planning on Monday were returned to the ministry this afternoon, August 27.
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Thursday 26 August 2010
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
In a police raid on Tonga's Ministry of Finance and Planning on Monday August 23 four computers were seized from the Budget Division, on the first floor of the Tonga Development Building.
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Thursday 26 August 2010
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Two prison escapees were recaptured at 9:00 am today at Ma'ufanga after armed police squads mounted overnight road blocks on Tongatapu.
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Wednesday 25 August 2010
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A series of violent incidents erupting in the capital Nuku'alofa over the weekend saw students fighting in central Nuku'alofa while another brawl in a Vuna Road bar left a security guard hospitalised.
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Monday 23 August 2010
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Armed police are continuing the search for two escaped prisoners after shots were fired at a Prison guard outside the Hu'atolitoli Prison compound on Saturday night, August 21.
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Thursday 19 August 2010
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga's Police Commander Chris Kelley has ordered an inquiry into Tonga's prison escapes saying today that it is of serious concern to the police that over the past eight weeks 13 escapes were reported to them. Most escapees had been recaptured while two remained at large.
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Wednesday 18 August 2010
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Two prison escapees are still on the run this week, as escapes from Tonga's main prison, Hu'atolitoli at Vaini, have hit record levels with 33 escapes by 10 prisoners over the past seven months, the highest ever recorded in Tonga's prison history. By Linny Folau
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Friday 13 August 2010
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A 15-year-old girl from Ha'alaufuli drowned in Vava'u waters on August 11 after a small fishing vessel loaded with a funeral party of 39 people sank on its way from Neiafu to Ovaka Island.
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Tuesday 10 August 2010
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Two male prisoners who escaped Hu'atolitoli Prison weeks ago remain at large in Tongatapu and Police are urging the public for information in order to recapture them.
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Tuesday 10 August 2010
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Suicides in Tonga have reached to seven this year, after a 36-year-old man was found dead at Fangaloto on Friday, August 6.
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Friday 30 July 2010
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tightening control of Tonga's international and domestic borders is one of the objectives of a new Fua'amotu Community and Airport Police Centre opened at Fua'amotu International Airport on July 28.
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Thursday 29 July 2010
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Two men have been separately charged for the cultivation and possession of cannabis or marijuana plants at their homes in Lavengatonga and Vaini in Tongatapu.
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Wednesday 7 July 2010
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Two men were arrested last week and charged with the robbery and theft of an Asian business at Lapaha, where more than $1,000 cash was stolen in May this year.
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Tuesday 29 June 2010
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Two male persons have been charged with unlawful possession of firearms, namely a .38 revolver and .9mm handgun, seized near the Mala'e'aloa Cemetery on Vuna Road on Sunday, June 27.
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Tuesday 29 June 2010
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Three people have been charged in relation to an armed robbery that took place at the Cowley Bakery in Nukunuku where about $9,000 cash was stolen on Friday, June 18.
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