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Tevita Lavemaau
Tevita Lavemaau is a Tongan politician and Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tonga. Lavemaau was first elected at the 2014 Tongan general election and appointed Minister of Revenue and Customs. Following the resignation of ʻAisake Eke in March 2017 he was appointed Minister of Finance. In September 2017 he and Deputy Prime Minister Siaosi Sovaleni were sacked for disloyalty for supporting King Tupou VI's decision to sack the Prime Minister, dissolve Parliament and call new elections. He was re-elected at the 2017 election, but not reappointed to Cabinet. In 2019 following the death of ʻAkilisi Pōhiva he was appointed to the cabinet of Pohiva Tuʻiʻonetoa as Minister for Finance, Minister for Revenue and Customs and Minister responsible for Statistics. He lost his seat in the 2021 Tongan general election General elections were held in Tonga on 18 November 2021 to elect 17 of the 26 seats in the Legislative Assembly. Following the election four MPs were unseated f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minister Of Finance (Tonga)
Minister of Finance is the person in charge of the Ministry of Finance of Tonga. Ministers *William Garfield Bagnall, January 1919 - July 1939 *Horace E. Nicolson, 1939 - 1949 *George Goodacre, 1950 - 1961 *Mahe 'Uli'uli Tupouniua, 1961 - 1982 * Sione Tapa (acting September 1970 to May 1971, November 1972 to January 1981) *James Cecil Cocker, 1982 - 1991 *Tutoatasi Fakafanua, 1991 - 2000 (Tutoatasi Kinikinilau Fakafanua) *Siosiua 'Utoikamanu, 2001 - 2008 (Siosiua Tuitalukua Tupou 'Utoikamanu) *'Otenifi Afu'alo Matoto, 2008 - 2010 *Sunia Manu Fili, 2010 - April 2012 *Lisiate 'Akolo, April 2012 - December 2013 *'Aisake Eke, January 2014 - March 2017 *Tevita Lavemaau, March 2017 - January 2018 *Pohiva Tu'i'onetoa, January 2018 - October 2019 *Tevita Lavemaau, October 2019 - 28 December 2021 *Tatafu Moeaki, 28 December 2021 - See also * Government of Tonga * Economy of Tonga * National Reserve Bank of Tonga External links Website of the Ministry of Finance References {{reflist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 Tongan General Election
General elections were held in Tonga on 27 November 2014. All twenty-six elected seats in the single-chamber Legislative Assembly were up for election, although the monarch, acting on the advice of his Prime Minister, retains the possibility to appoint members to Cabinet from outside Parliament, thus granting them a non-elected ''ex officio'' seat in Parliament. They were the second elections carried out under the May 2010 electoral law, which provided that a majority of Assembly members should be elected by the people, rather than the people and the nobility having equal representation."Tonga: Fale Alea (Legislative Assembly)" The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finance Ministers Of Tonga
Finance is the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets. It is related to, but not synonymous with economics, the study of production, distribution, and consumption of money, assets, goods and services (the discipline of financial economics bridges the two). Finance activities take place in financial systems at various scopes, thus the field can be roughly divided into personal, corporate, and public finance. In a financial system, assets are bought, sold, or traded as financial instruments, such as currencies, loans, bonds, shares, stocks, options, futures, etc. Assets can also be banked, invested, and insured to maximize value and minimize loss. In practice, risks are always present in any financial action and entities. A broad range of subfields within finance exist due to its wide scope. Asset, money, risk and investment management aim to maximize value and minimize volatility. Financial analysis is viability, stability, and profitability assessment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
