Results for Youth

Student volunteers are attacking Tongatapu's chronic roadside rubbish problem in a pick-up campaign that aims to clean up roadsides around their school area before Christmas.

'On The Spot', a talented young Tongan singing group received an award for the "Best Commonwealth Band/Artist" musical video, at Marlborough House, London on August 12, 2010, International Youth Day. Three girls, singers 'Emeline Kite, Minaira Fifita and Nisyola Fifita, and two boys, guitarist Samiu 'Ofa and cinematographer Malani Wolfgram travelled to London to receive their award.

THE Queen's Baton Relay for the 2010 Commonwealth Games was carried throughout Tongatapu on Friday, May 21 by over 100 bearers, including sportsmen and women, enthusiastic Primary School children, business people and diplomats.

There were smiles on the faces of Paumolevuka Tu'i of Talafo'ou and Mafua Kiokata of Nukunuku when they received two new wheelchairs and commodes that would make life a lot easier and mobile for them, following a tragic road accident that left the two sportsmen paralysed two years ago.

Nine young Tongans who joined the first regional Pasifika Youth Development and Community Course have received their certificates and a diploma at their graduation in Suva, Fiji on April 23.

Before heading off to the World Cup in Dubai March 5-7 the Digicel Tonga 7s team and their management, took time out of their hectic training schedules to visit the Children's Ward at Vaiola Hospital in Nuku'alofa last week

The human race has around five billion years to plan their evacuation from planet earth, says scientist Chas A. Egan, Tonga's only astrophysicist, "because five billion years from now the sun will burn itself out and life on earth will not be sustainable." By Pesi Fonua

Over 700 Youth Pilgrims from the Catholic Diocese of Tonga will get the chance of a lifetime to see Pope Benedict XVI in person during the World Youth Day on July 15-20 in Sydney, Australia.

Dressed in red today more than 500 primary school children from the Ma'ufanga Primary School on Tongatapu, showed their support for the national rugby team, the 'Ikale Tahi.