English News and Press Release on Tonga about Education, Recovery and Reconstruction, Tropical Cyclone and more; published on 04 Jun 2021 by Govt. Tonga
GPS Nuku’alofa celebrated opening of 12 renovated classrooms
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10th February, 2021 Students of Nuku’alofa Government Primary School celebrated the opening of three renovated classroom buildings funded by the Pacific Resilience Program (PREP), a project managed under the Ministry of MEIDECC (Meteorology, Energy, Information, Disaster Management, Environment, Climate Change and Communications).
The buildings have 12 classrooms which will provide over 350 students with a more comfortable learning environment.
Mrs Natalia Lātū said, “Investing in quality education through climate resilient classrooms is important, not only from a safety perspective but also from an economic and long term financial perspective.”
She noted that GPS Nuku’alofa is one of the five schools renovated under the PREP where the “substructure was sufficiently robust, to allow the existing buildings to be retrofitted and structurally strengthened”.
AirCalin Airbus at Noumea Airport
Photo: RNZ Walter Zweifel
Heavy gales forecast for Tonga overnight
Schools have closed down today in Tonga due to damaging gales forecast for the kingdom as a likely cyclone looms.
Forecast maps for Tropical Depression 09F were released by the Fua amotu Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre this afternoon.
The Tropical Depression is forecast to enter Tongan waters tonight as a Category 1 Tropical Cyclone.
Earlier this morning there was a forecast of heavy gales to Tongatapu and Eua late this afternoon and overnight.
Schools closed today in Southern Tonga and classes at all government schools in Tongatapu and Eua have been cancelled for today.