Archive - Jan 2, 2012

O le ali'i e 15 tausaga mai Matu’u lea na ia gaoia se pusa pia mai totonu o se fale'oloa i Pago Pago, ua taofia nei i le to'ese i Tafuna ma le fa'amoemoe e fai tausaga fou ai, se ia aulia le aso Faraile o le vaiaso fou ona toe iloilo lea e le fa'amasinoga fa'aitumalo lana mata'upu.

FEVAEVAEA’I LE EKALESIA ASO FITU I LE SUIGA O ASO I SAMOA

O le see atu o Samoa i le itulagi i sisifo ma aso fa’atasi ai ma Niu

Sila ma Ausetalia i le vaiaso fou, ua tulai mai ai se eseesega i le

faitauga masani o aso o le vaiaso e tusa ma le kalena fou o le a

fa’aaogaina i Samoa e le Ekalesia Aso Fitu o le Toe Afio Mai, lea o le

a amata ai le faitauga o aso o le vaiaso o le 2012 i le aso Gafua ae

fa’aiu i le aso Sa.

Ua fa’ailoa mai le tama’ita’i Pisikoa mai Atlanta, Amerika o Kate Puzey, 24 ona tausaga ua ia fa’ailoa mai ua taumafai le Ofisa Autu o Pisikoa e seti le fasiotiga o ia mai le latou fa’ailoa atu o le mea o faigaluega ao i ia ma lona fa’ate’aga o se tagata faigaluega, ona ua ia matauina o lo’o fa’amalosia e ia le fanau talavou ma fa’asaua i fanau a’oga i le a’oga i Aferika i le nu’u o Benin.

[Soso’o ane loa lau faitau i le toe soso’oina o le tatou tala fa’asolo, lea na gata mai i le vaiaso na te’a nei i le taimi lea ua agai atu ai nei le tama o Iasoni i lona maota e fia vaai pe faapei le tulaga pagatia lea ua oo i ai lona malo.]

[Malo le faitau, malo fo’i le onosa’i, ae alo mai loa o le toe soso’oina lenei o la tatou tala fa’asolo, lea na gata mai i le vaiaso na te’a nei i le taimi lea ua nofonofo to'atasi ai le tamaloa o Iose i luma o le umukuka ma fa'asolosolo ona mafaufauga i le la mafutaga ma Pulusi, ao fa'atalitali le ta'avale falema'i mo le auina atu o le tino maliu o si tamaloa i le falemai.]

Samoa is not only celebrating the new year but 50 years of governance since gaining independence from New Zealand in 1962.

For decades, Samoa was subjected to British, German and New Zealand colonial rule and after years of lobbying to a reluctant United Nations the people of Samoa voted for independence.

This came after a peaceful resistance movement, The Mau, was set up in the early 1900s, enraging New Zealand administrators who rounded up leaders and sent them into exile.

Paul Solofa's travel plans, for his trial, were approved last week by the federal court in Washington D.C.

The U.S. Marshal Service will arrange for Solofa to depart the territory and arrive in Washington DC before Jan. 16, when his federal trial begins.

Solofa is charged with obstruction of justice and witness tampering stemming from his role in the school bus spare parts scheme during the time he headed the Department of Education business office several years ago.

Speaking on his weekend radio program New Years Eve, Saturday, Dec. 31, Gov Togiola Tulafono acknowledged that neighboring Samoa is now a day ahead of American Samoa and wished Samoa and its leaders a Happy New Year, as it was already the first day of 2012 in Samoa.

At the stroke of midnight Dec. 29, Samoa officially leaped ahead into the future to Dec. 31st, as it changed to the other side of international dateline, making Samoa one of first nations to welcome in the New Year 2012.

YOUTH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL ELECTS ITS FIRST OFFICERS

Gov. Togiola Tulafono congratulated Youth in Action Leadership Council members and their newly elected officers on his radio program, Saturday morning.

The YALC was launched last month under the sponsorship of the First Lady's Ta’ita’itama program.

Togiola challenged the members to "stay the course" despite the work being time consuming.

Two days after the Coast Guard suspended its search for a boater who went missing during a voyage from Kauai to Oahu, the boater — 66-year-old Ira Foreman of Seattle, Wash. — arrived at Honokohau Harbor on Hawaii island — two weeks late and nearly 100 miles off course but alive.

Foreman left Port Allen, Kauai, on the morning of Dec. 17 but failed to arrive at Keehi Lagoon as scheduled the next day. He was reported missing a week later.