Prime Minister Pohiva calls for overhaul of sports funding Featured
22 September, 2016. Tonga's Prime Minister has called for an overhaul of the way the funding from the government to sporting organisations is handled.
'Akilisi Pohiva met with the new Executive Board Members of Tonga's Amateur Sports Association and National Olympic Committee last week.
He expressed his dissatisfaction with the current funding arrangements and said many sports got a lot of money for tours and other expenses but with no proper planning, training and preparation, and often with disastrous results.
Mr Pohiva said that the best way forward was for TASANOC to handle all the funding requests, set the benchmarks and criteria for allocation of government funding, and make the recommendations.
Approved funding would then be channeled through TASANOC which would be responsible for the accounting, auditing and reporting on those funds.
TASANOC President Lord Tupou said the board welcomed the new policy and would implement it with due care and diligence.
-RNZI
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Ko e fo'i move eni 'a'au Akilisi oku ou sai'ia ai hono fakama'opo'opo mai e tafa'aki koeni ke maau. Malo e Ngaue.
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PM 'AKILISI PŌHIVA SHOULD PRE-PLAN HIS OWN BUSINESS ACTIVITIES TO AVOID SCANDALS BEFORE LECTURING OTHERS...
The King of Government "scandals" is now lecturing others on business preparedness? How laughable; he should look himself in the mirror first.
He should stop planning with nepotism, quid pro quo, and robbing the government treasury in mind to pay his family members and cronies to begin with.
And quit being a King wannabe... -
'Ikai toe ha me'a hono overhaul 'e PM mo 'ene lailai. Ko e ako eni kuo havehave ka 'oku ne kei tala pe it's for the best interest of the children. Ko Ha'amoa kuo fetongi foki 'enau CEO pea 'oku teuteu ke li ki tu'a 'e he new CEO, Dr Karoline, 'a e fu'u fakaveve 'a Piveni na'e fai 'i Ha'amoa. Pea 'e pehe ha ha'u 'a e Minista fo'ou 'o si'i tata e fakaveve 'a e PM mo e minista ako.
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Talaatu mu'a kia pm ke tuku e me'a ia 'ae sipoti ki he Minisita sipoti moe kau ngaue ki he sipoti, kae 'alu mu'a ia 'o tokanga ki he Foerign Affairs moe Education he ko 'ene portfolio ia. Lolotonga e moveuveu moe fakama ki mamani 'ene ongo potungaue kuo 'alu ia 'o 'ohonoa holo he portfolio kehe. Ta koee 'oku fie minisita sipoti kae 'ikai 'ave atu moe MIA ki ai kene falute kotoa hei'ilo na'a iku ai kia Mapa. Te tau fakasesele he ngaue kau taki fakapiko ko eni.
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I think for a man who has never run anything of any significance other than to run other people down, he has a lot to say about nothing.
The sooner he stops being Prime Minister and being a total embarassment, the better for what's left of our beloved country which he is slowly but surely destroying with his petty hate for the players in the game, not because of the game itself.
Time to go home, Akilisi, your retirement check awaits you.