The accommodation construction work ongoing for participants of the 53rd Pacific Island Leaders Meeting. Photo: Facebook / PM Press
The Pacific Islands Forum leaders' summit is just days away from opening in Nuku'alofa in Tonga, and frantic efforts are still needed to ensure visitors are housed.
Don Wiseman spoke with RNZ Pacific's Tonga correspondent, Kalafi Moala, about this and other matters to do with the summit.
But he began by talking about this week's dramatic revelations of 17 people arrested over ten days on charges of importing to sell millions of pa'anga of methamphetamine.
