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Completing the final concept design for a sanitation reticulation system that may be installed first at Muri could take up to two years, says Finance minister Mark Brown who is spearheading the multi-million dollar project. And Brown estimates it could take up to 10 years to complete an island-wide reticulation system and install similar systems in critical areas on Aitutaki.

Members of various faith-based organisations held a dialogue with the Ministry of Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation yesterday on ways to empower their roles to combat social problems affecting the country. The aim of the workshop was to develop trust and tolerance in providing a foundation of building relationships and mutual respect, expanding coverage of interventions through increased resources to cover excluded populations, improving cost efficiency in service provision, amplifying advocacy, facilitating knowledge exchange and creating a neutral platform for secular entities to engage the faith-based sector.

Tonga's Queen Mother, the late Queen Halaevalu Mata’aho, consort of Tupou IV, was laid to rest at the Royal Tombs, Mala'ekula in what is a very quiet capital, Nuku'alofa this afternoon. This morning at the seaside Royal Palace, the Queen Mother's casket was conveyed by the bearer party to the Royal Catafalque, and under the charge of the traditional Royal Undertaker.

Dengue fever has claimed a third life in New Caledonia. The mosquito-borne virus is rampant in the French territory with three deaths in the past month. All the dead are women who had not travelled in the three weeks prior to their deaths and had succumbed within a few days of contracting the virus.