Archive - Jan 28, 2012

The American Samoa High School Athletic Association's (ASHSAA) 2011-2012 boys basketball season, just completed its third week of action, with eight competing schools, six of which have Varsity and Junior Varsity squads and two, Manumalo Baptist Academy and South Pacific Academy, having only Varsity squads.

In this past Thursday’s Varsity and Junior Varsity action, Samoana Sharks was able to down the Faga’itua Vikings in the Varsity match up, 42-30, as well as in the Junior Varsity game, 32-25.

Sen. Seui Laau, Sr., "passed away peacefully” at LBJ Medical Center at around 11:30pm Thursday, said his son Rep. Larry Sanitoa.

Seui was 69 years-old and was serving his first term in the Senate as one of the two Ituau senators at the time of his death.

Seui had served as Chief Procurement Officer and Parks and Recreation Department director in the Tauese and Togiola administrations before entering the Senate in January 2009 where he chaired the Senate Government Operations Committee.

After first being nominated last year as ASG chief procurement officer and being rejected by the Senate during last year's second session, Ivy Aiumu Taufa’asau was yesterday confirmed by the Senate 13-2. The House had confirmed Taufa’asau on Thursday.

She replaced the late CPO Tauiliili Pat Tervola who passed away in late January of last year.

Sa fa’asalalau aloa’ia e Senatoa Lualemaga Faoa i le fonotaga a le maota o le Senate i le taeao o le aso Tofi, Ianuari 26 ua ia mauaina le vala’au fa’apitoa mai le komiti o tapenapenaga a le Malo Tuto’atasi o Samoa ia malaga atu lona ala’alafaga e fa’afiafia i aso fiafia o le fa’amanatuina o le 50 tausaga talu le tu ma’oti o pulega a le malo o Samoa.

I le aso ananafi na toe usuia ai le fono a le mamalu o le Ofisa Tau Samoa, le Afioga i le fa'a-Tui o Lefiti Pese, le Failautusi o Mata’upu Tau Samoa, ma le tofa i le tau To'oto'o o Nanai Afuola, ma le tofa i le Ta'ita'i Komiti o le tausaga nei o le Tofa ia 'Aau, ma lona lagolago le Tofa ia Mui.

Sa fetalai le tofa ia Nanai Afuola, e laulau uma mai tulafono ua tasi i ai le komiti o le liki o lenei tausaga,

 (1) Tolu faiaina a le 'au ma malolo.

The family of a four-year-old girl who cannot walk on her own is extremely grateful to Prime Minister, Tuilaepa Sa’ilele Malielegaoi and several other ‘Good Samaritans.’ Grace Runa Misipati, of Ma’agao, has to be carried by her siblings.

Sometimes, she has to slide around the house because of an unidentified ailment in her right leg which causes her limb to bend on an angle. She has now been given the chance to get treatment from Shriner’s Hospital in Hawaii but her parents don’t have enough money for the extra costs.

TALITONU TOGIOLA I FUAFUAGA A LE TRI-MARINE

O 'upu e pei o le ‘talitonu’, ‘fa'agae'etia’, ‘fa'afiafiaina’ ma le ‘maoa’e’ na fa'aaoga e Kovana Togiola Tulafono e fa'amatala ai ona lagona i le tulaga lea ua tula’i mai ai le kamupani o le Samoa Tuna Processors (STP), o se lala o le kamupani tu'u'apa o le Tri-Marine ma ana galuega fa'atino i lenei taimi o le tausaga.

The Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at the American Samoa Community College, is offering its Korean Language course for the eighth consecutive year.

Instructor Mr. Lee Hyun-Hwi, who also the Chief Executive Officer of Paradise Inc., says registration for his course is free.

“Currently there are 22 students attending this course;  Samoans, Chinese and Filipinos. Learning the Korean Language is beneficial for anyone and everyone," said Mr. Lee.

JIMMY FIDOW

A drinking session which turned violent, landed a man in High Court yesterday morning. Jimmy Fidow was arraigned before Associate Justice Lyle L Richmond on allegations that he struck another man with a beer bottle and faces one count of first degree assault.

Fidow’s case was bound over from District Court after he waived his rights to a preliminary examination hearing Thursday morning.

Department of Public Safety investigations are underway into two separate accidents that occurred yesterday in Faga’alu and Malaeimi.

The Fagaalu accident backed up traffic for while and involved four government agencies because oil spilled on the main road after an aiga bus and a McConnell Dowell pickup collided.

According to DPS officers, a west bound aiga bus, full of passengers, collided with the McConnell Dowell vehicle, which was heading into town.