Treasurer “postpones indefinitely” 5% excise tax change
Tue, 01/24/2017 - 3:45pm
In a brief statement yesterday afternoon, Acting ASG Treasurer Ueligitone P.
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January 2017
Report says territory’s population lives paycheck to paycheck
Tue, 01/24/2017 - 3:40pm
![[SN file photo]](http://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/EOB_1web_1.jpg?itok=aMA1-J7Z "[SN file photo]")
The Department of Commerce statistics division has issued the final report on the Household Income and Expenditures Survey (HIES) that was conducted in April 2015.
Tonga 'overwhelmed' with Chinese assistance
Tue, 01/24/2017 - 3:37pm
![Tonga's Prime Minister 'Akilisi Pohiva [Photo: Alex Perrottet / RNZ]](http://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/eight_col__tongaPM.jpeg?itok=tXA4CSpE "Tonga's Prime Minister 'Akilisi Pohiva [Photo: Alex Perrottet / RNZ]")
Tonga's leadership has lauded the country's relationship with China following a visit by a Chinese National People's Congress delegation to Nuku'alofa.
Live, love, cherish each moment
Tue, 01/24/2017 - 3:26pm
![Happier Times: Leeann and her late husband, Iosefa Elia, who died on Saturday, January 114, 2017, when he was electrocuted, while working on a construction project for his employer, Manu’a’s Store. He was the first of the three men who died from the tragic accident. [Courtesy Photo]](http://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Late%20Iosefa.jpg?itok=gXr7sfEs "Happier Times: Leeann and her late husband, Iosefa Elia, who died on Saturday, January 114, 2017, when he was electrocuted, while working on a construction project for his employer, Manu’a’s Store. He was the first of the three men who died from the tragic accident. [Courtesy Photo]")
“Live, love, cherish each and every moment you have with the ones you love, for you may never know what tomorrow brings and it may be their or your last days,” was the pl
Postal Service employee charged with unlawful possession of ‘ice’
Tue, 01/24/2017 - 1:41pm
Cheyenne Lafaele a former United States Postal Service (Federal) Employee, has been criminally charged by the Attorney General’s Office with unlawful possession of contro
Presidential order withdrawing from TPP hailed as positive for fisheries
Tue, 01/24/2017 - 1:35pm
![Congresswoman Aumua Amata and President Donald Trump. [courtesy photo]](http://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/trump%20n%20amata.jpg?itok=zpF5Zfyj "Congresswoman Aumua Amata and President Donald Trump. [courtesy photo]")
US President Donald J.
Missing girl
Tue, 01/24/2017 - 1:24pm
Local authorities are looking for 10-year old Atina'e Losa Taliva'a, who they say was removed from her school last Friday, by her biological mother, Sara Taliva’a. Assistant AG Terrie H.
Fa’aaliga - Talitonu i ai pe Leai?
Tue, 01/24/2017 - 12:48am
O se va’aiga i le taimi na feiloa’i ai le tama’ita’i o Toaipuapuaga Opapo ma le afioga le Pope a’o aofia fa’atasi o ia ma lona tama, Rev. Opapo ma lona to’alua, lana tama teine fa’apea fo’i nisi o Tama’ita’i Sa o le latou au malaga mai Samoa. [ata: foa’i]
Manatua le tama’ita’i na fa’ailo manu’a i ona foliga ma ona lima i le vaitimi o le Aso Maliu i le tausaga ua tuana’i, ua fa’ailoa mai, ua matua o’o lava o ia i Roma ma ia feiloa’i ma le Pope, ma fa
Falepuipui ta’ita’i o le au talepe faleaoga mo le 28 masina
Tue, 01/24/2017 - 12:40am
O le ali’i e 19 tausaga le matua lea o loo fa’aigoaina e le malo o ia lea o le “ta’ita’i” o le vaega e to’atolu sa latou osofaia ma talepe le Ofisa o le aoga maualuga a Tafuna i le tausaga na te’a
Fa’alauiloa Kovana isi ana tofiga fou mo sui o lana Kapeneta
Tue, 01/24/2017 - 12:35am
O le vaiaso ua te’a na fa’alauiloa ai e le afioga i le ali’i kovana ni isi o ana tofiga ua mae’a ona faia, mo i latou e avea ma sui o lana Kapeneta fou mo lenei 4 tausaga ua amata, aemaise ai le av