Tag: Tongan nobles
Education minister Sovaleni elected as Tonga’s new prime minister
Kaniva News
Tonga’s Parliament has elected a new prime minister to replace Dr Pōhiva Tu’i’onetoa.
Siaosi Sovaleni, 51, the current Minister of Education, has won convincingly...
Tonga’s Democrats ‘dig their own grave’ in key election losses
Kaniva Tonga
Tonga's PTOA Party (Democrats) lost both their rival leaders and majority votes in some strongholds with defeats to seven independent candidates among People's...
Three new noble MPs elected in Tonga as preliminary results trickle...
RNZ Pacific
Tonga has new noble MPs and at least one returning MP among the people's representatives, according to preliminary election results.
The polls have closed...
Former Tongan PM guilty on false statement, perjury charges
By Philip Cass
Former Prime Minister Lord Tu’ivakano will be sentenced at the end of next month after being found guilty in the Supreme Court...
Tongan police charge Lord Tu’ivakanō with bribery in passport saga probe
By Kalino Latu, editor of Kaniva News
The king’s noble and former Prime Minister, Lord Tu’ivakanō has been charged with passport offences, money laundering and...