Archive - Feb 2012

SEN. LUALEMAGA TO CHAIR SENATE INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE (SIC)

Senate President Gaoteote Palaie Tofau has appointed the seven-member Senate Investigating Committee (SIC), to be chaired by Sen. Lualemaga E. Faoa, who had chaired the previous Senate investigative committee more than six years ago.

DAVID GOLK

A man accused of trespassing onto private property while intoxicated was sentenced before the District Court yesterday morning.

David Golk of Iliili entered into a plea agreement with the government, pleading guilty to charges of trespassing and drinking in public areas — both are misdemeanors.

Golk was arrested on February 19, 2012 with his bail set at $3,000. The defendant apologized to the court for his wrongdoing and promised the court that he will not break the law in the future.

Dear Editor: 

For those of us who remember the Bay before its industrial destruction began over 50 years ago, that picture of a purse seiner dumping “industrial waste” directly into the Bay epitomizes — seemingly in one small “click” — the sad history and a vivid display of the naked greed and indifference that our people have had to endure from these “exploit at will” foreign investors. (front page picture, Samoa News 02/24/12)

LBJ Medical Center appears to be moving ahead with the planned temporary reduction of working hours this weekend as part of the agreement with the government to get the $3 million the government is borrowing from the Workmen’s Compensation Account.

The U.S. Department of Interior has awarded American Samoa more than $10 million in federal funding, which was made public during the federal Interagency Group on Insular Areas (IGIA) annual meeting, and also recognized Gov. Togiola Tulafono’s contribution to the Group, as the governor is serving his last year in office.

The announcements were made public yesterday during the 2012 IGIA annual meeting in Washington D.C. where Interior Secretary Ken Salazar greeted the gathering, and spoke of his department’s efforts to empower insular communities.

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E i ai le mea malie lea ua maitauina i le Liki Kirikiti o le Sisiga Fu’a 2012, lea o lo o fa’agaasolo nei i le paka i Faga’alu, o faiga a tama ia e ta lelei i isi 'au, pei o tama o Roma o le 'au a le Mea'ese, Fala a tama o le Lega, o JR Sitau, Loia ia ma Patele Asalemo a le Mosi'ula.

O Kuresa ma Filipo o le Sinapati, Ava ma Marcus a le Pisisami, ma tama o Uale, Palemia, JR, Logi, ia ma isi tama na, aemise ai lava le 68 'ai a Roma, 60 'ai a Fala, 48 'ai a JR Sitau.

The international nonu market has taken a nose dive and it seems to be spiralling out of control.

So warns the Nonu Association of Samoa based on “evidence of an increasing worldwide recession.” In a statement issued yesterday, President Garry Vui says the market is declining.

“Nonu juice/products have a limited worldwide market as a health product at present, irrespective of what is reported in the media locally or overseas and with evidence of an increasing worldwide recession, this market is in decline.

Ua fesiligia e nisi o faipule le fa’aiuga a le kovana e pei ona ia sainia ai le lisi mo le fa’atuina o le faleaisa i luga o le uafu, ona e i ai le talitonuga o le a feteena’i lea fuafuaga ma se polokalama ua mae’a ona fa’ataoto e le Initeria, mo le toe fa’ateleina o le uafu tele i Fagatogo mo le $7 miliona.

Ua taoto atu nei se fautuaga a le Fono Faitulafono e ala i lo latou pasia o se Iugafono Maliliefaatasi a le Senate, i le alii faipule i le Konekeresi, ina ia amata faia ni sailiiliga mo mataupu uma na folasia e le Matagaluega o le Gataifale ma le Vanimonimo a le malo tele (NOAA), e uiga i le faaopoopoina o vaega o le faasao mo le gataifale i le Faga i Fagatele.

O le vaiaso na tea nei na pasia ai e le Senate la latou iugafono lenei ae o le taeao ananafi na pasia ai e le maota o sui.