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Government Break down
The Approved Government restructuring has been announced and involves retaining a fair number of existing Ministries, consolidating a few and shuffling some ministry portfolios from the current 22 into 14 departments.
1. Prime Minister's Office will retain the Information Unit, Domestic Services, Department for the Diaspora, the Chronicle.
2. Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning will include Revenue Services, Planning, and Statistics. As I understand, the current system had Revenue Services as an independent department.
3. Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Defence merges the previous two Ministries into a single Ministry.
4. Ministry of Lands, Survey, and Natural Resources formally incorporates the Department of the Environment (although I thought it had always worked in that manner.)
5. Ministry of Justice and the Attorney General's Office
6. Ministry of Police will as current continue to include Correctional Services and Fire Services.
7. Ministry of Education, Women's Affair and Development, and Culture.
8. Ministry of Employment, Training, Youth and Sports will assume part of responsibilities previous held in other Ministries.
9. Ministry of Labour, Commerce and Industries
10. Ministry of Tranport combines the services of the Ministry of Civil Aviation and the Ministry of Marine and Ports.
11. Ministry of Tourism
12. Ministry of Works
13. Ministry of Health
14.
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Part of the above information is translated from the Tongan report so names and titles may be incorrect per government translation work.
After going over at least twice of the English and Tongan versions of the Tonga Chronicle, I have no idea what the 14th Ministry is. Or, it may be Tonga's Ministry of Secrets? and we can't tell you about it or we'd have to stuff you full of pork meat.
The remaining portfolio I can think of, is the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, the Ministry of Forestry. It seems that these two ministries will be merged back to its previous configuration and some few will hopefully lose their jobs.
An interesting outcome of this shuffle, and the new Prme Minister is that he is supposed to retain only the portfolio of the Prime Minister. Obviously this means that he is supposed to focus on those issues even if he still is the better qualified for his previous portfolio, Minister of Labour, Commerce, and Industries.
As far as I know there have not been formal representations of which Ministers have been shuffled where and we need to remember that part of the Government mechanism is the Governerships of Vava'u and Ha'apai?
[Reference: Kalonikali Tonga Tu'apulelulu 30, Ma'asi 2006]
[Reference: Talaki Pulelulu 29, Ma'asi 2006]
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