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Monday 13 November 2023 11:07pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Joe Lynch, a firefighter from Paradise Valley, Arizona, with his daughter Aiyana Lynch, visited Tonga to donate equipment to the Tonga Fire and Emergency Services, in Tongatapu.
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Monday 13 November 2023 10:54pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The funeral service for a leading Tongan farmer and exporter Pousima Alexander Tamaha Afeaki (61), who died last week, in Wellington, New Zealand, will be held on Friday, 17 November, at the Catholic Church in Tofoa, Tongatapu, his family confirmed. Premium content -
Sunday 12 November 2023 3:06pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A large scale Tonga Police and Fire investigation is underway today, Sunday 12 November, following a major fire in the Nuku'alofa CBD in the early hours of this morning that may, possibly, be linked to a robbery. Premium content -
Friday 10 November 2023 11:01pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A team of NRL talent agents from a New Zealand sports management agency, is currently in Tongatapu, meeting and attending training with students from different secondary schools. During their short visit, two students from Tupou College Toloa were offered Rugby League scholarships to study and play in New Zealand. Among the five-member talent scouts is Tonga’s only accredited NRL player agent, Amon Ta’akimoeaka. Premium content -
Friday 10 November 2023 10:49pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The cruise ship, Pacific Explorer, docked at Vuna Wharf in Nuku’alofa this morning, with over 2,500 passengers. Premium content -
Friday 10 November 2023 10:45pm
Rarotonga, Cook Islands : The Prime Minister Hon. Hu’akavameiliku met with the Secretary General of the Commonwealth Secretariat, Rt Honourable Patricia Baroness Scotland on Monday 6 November, in Rarotonga. He acknowledged the Commonwealth’s continued and proactive support to Tonga. He also met and held discussions with other Pacific leaders and partners. Premium content -
Friday 10 November 2023 10:26pm
Rarotonga, Cook Islands : Ahead of the signing of the Samoa Agreement in Apia next week Tonga's Prime Minister Hon. Hu’akavameiliku met with the Secretary General of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) HE Mr. Georges Rebelo Chikoti, in Rarotonga, Cook Islands. The Samoa Agreement to be signed by the European Union and its Member States, and the 79 Member States of OACPS, on 15 November 2023 in Samoa, is the first comprehensive partnership agreement between the OACPS and EU to be signed in the Pacific. Premium content -
Thursday 9 November 2023 8:59pm
Wellington, New Zealand : The latest deployment of the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) P-8A Poseidon to a multinational fisheries operation has identified 74 fishing vessels in a vast search area in the EEZs of 14 Pacific Islands countries, including Tonga. Premium content -
Thursday 9 November 2023 8:36pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The quality of Tonga's water supplies will come into focus next week, when stakeholders come together for a workshop to look at water supply and sanitation management. The Water Safety Planning process will result in a Quality Risk Assessment for the Nuku’alofa Water Supply System. At a second workshop, the Ministry of Health and ADB, will present findings from a recent pilot study on Village Water Supply systems in Tongatapu. Premium content -
Thursday 9 November 2023 7:45pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Eleven athletes will join the Tonga Athletics Team to attend the Pacific Games 2023 in Solomon Islands later this month. The five men and six women athletes come from Tonga, Australia, New Zealand and Fiji. The Pacific Games also serves as an Olympic qualifier for Paris in 2024. Premium content -
Thursday 9 November 2023 7:20pm
London, UK : The United Kingdom Minister of State for Indo-Pacific, Rt. Hon.Anne-Marie Trevelyan will pay a high-level visit to Tonga, on 14 November, being her first official visit since the UK High Commission in Tonga re-opened in 2020. Premium content -
Thursday 9 November 2023 6:06pm
: BSP Financial Group Ltd., announced this week, a change to their leadership team in Tonga, following the appointment of Marcellina Wolfgramm Haapai to the position of Head of Customer Experience, Brand & Marketing, based in Papua New Guinea, where she will be accountable for driving initiatives to achieve world class customer service standards for the Group. -
Wednesday 8 November 2023 10:29pm
Rarotonga, Cook Islands : The impacts of sea level rise and climate events on development were a common concern for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) attending the 52nd Pacific Leaders Meeting in the Cook Islands this week. Attending the Forum is HE Mr Dennis Francis, the new President of the UN General Assembly, who held a bilateral meeting with Tonga's Prime Minister on important issues for Small Island Developing States (SIDS). Premium content -
Wednesday 8 November 2023 10:04am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Grant agreements worth an additional USD30 million, for the Nuku'alofa Port Project, were signed by Tonga's Minister for Finance, Hon Tiofilusi Tiueti and Asian Development Bank Director General for the Pacific, Leah Gutierrez, in a virtual meeting on 2 November. The additional financing from the ADB and Australia will address cost overruns under the AUD126 million total project, Premium content -
Tuesday 7 November 2023 6:26pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Liuaki Fainu (23) who was sentenced to two-years six-months imprisonment, for dangerous driving causing grievous bodily harm to a police officer in Vava’u had his sentence fully suspended on conditions. The officer who suffered a broken leg, in December 2022, awaits bone reconstruction experts from Australia next month who will operate to re-connect his fractured femur. Premium content -
Tuesday 7 November 2023 5:31pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The 15-member Tonga Table Tennis Federation (TTTF) National Team for the 2023 Pacific Games consists of five officials and 11 athletes, including three para-athletes. Premium content -
Tuesday 7 November 2023 3:55pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A group of agricultural researchers led by Professor Dorin Gupta from the University of Melbourne, have established a research site at Haveluloto, Tonga, called the “Mother Site”, to develop their Sustainable Agricultural Intensification Project (SAI), focusing on improving traditional farming practices. Premium content -
Tuesday 7 November 2023 3:39pm
Honiara, Solomon Islands : A new website launched by the Pacific Island Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) yesterday, 6 November, 2023, will help stakeholders and the public to actively engage with FFA initiatives, “fostering a greater understanding of the challenges and successes in the Pacific region,” said FFA Director General, Dr Manu Tupou-Roosen. Premium content -
Monday 6 November 2023 10:55pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga’s economy is performing strongly but faces growing headwinds, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) stated in its country report for Tonga published on 3 November. Although tourism-related services are recovering, tourism receipts as a share of GDP are anticipated to remain below pre-pandemic levels until FY2026 due to slow reconstruction of damaged facilities. Worker migration is causing severe labour shortages. -
Sunday 5 November 2023 8:25am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga's delegation, led by the Prime Minister Hon. Hu'akavameiliku, arrived in the Cook Islands on 3 November for the 52nd Pacific Islands Forum meeting to be held from 6-10 November. The 2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent and climate change is high on the agenda. The Forum Secretary General Henry Puna said that the Pacific priorities and messages would be taken to the annual COP negotiations in UAE at the end of November.
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