Dateline Pacific evening edition for 16 May 2017

Tonga shocks the region announcing it'll can its hosting of the 2019 Pacific Games; The Cook Islands police force loses twenty percent of its staff over the past six months; A rethink urged for Papua New Guinea's prison system after 17 escapees were killed last week in another mass breakout; Transparency International PNG says prison system needs rethink; Emergency supplies on their way to victims of Cyclone Donna in Vanuatu.