![Samoa’s gold medalist Petelo Matagi is now fighting for American Samoa. [photo AF]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Petelo%20Matagi_0302.jpg?itok=fpU2O9sZ "Samoa’s gold medalist Petelo Matagi is now fighting for American Samoa. [photo AF]")
![Petelo Matagi during his training with the American Samoa Boxing Federation last week. [photo AF]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Matagi%20during%20training_0250.jpg?itok=FW_Rr06J "Petelo Matagi during his training with the American Samoa Boxing Federation last week. [photo AF]")
![Petelo Matagi helping one of the young fighter during their training last week at the American Samoa Boxing Federation training spot in Tafuna. [photo AF]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Matagi%20coach%20a%20young%20boxer_0275.jpg?itok=MB4lWJY_ "Petelo Matagi helping one of the young fighter during their training last week at the American Samoa Boxing Federation training spot in Tafuna. [photo AF]")
Samoa’s gold medalist Petelo Matagi will no longer fight for his home country Samoa in the near future, he’s now switching his boxing career to American Samoa, the place where he started his boxing
![Associate Judge Suapaia Pereira (far left) administers the oath of office for the new Western District Governor, Fuamatu J.V. Fuamatu, (middle) at the Governor’s Office Conference Room yesterday morning. Holding the Bible is Fuamatu’s wife. [photo: AF]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Fuamatu%20sworn%20in%200675.jpg?itok=vMrWOBRP "Associate Judge Suapaia Pereira (far left) administers the oath of office for the new Western District Governor, Fuamatu J.V. Fuamatu, (middle) at the Governor’s Office Conference Room yesterday morning. Holding the Bible is Fuamatu’s wife. [photo: AF]")
In a general memorandum dated May 15, Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga appointed Fuamatu J.V.
![Viewers at the Women's Work exhibit. [courtesy photo via RNZI]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/womens%20art.jpg?itok=SuoZVo6G "Viewers at the Women's Work exhibit. [courtesy photo via RNZI]")
A new art exhibition in Whangarei featuring Pacific artists is pushing the boundaries about the notion of women's work in everyday society.
The three-day 2017 Caribbean Regional Seminar by the United Nation Special Committee on Decolonization was held this week in the Caribbean nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
![[SN file photo]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/police%20dept_6.jpeg?itok=u0SUX480 "[SN file photo]")
Cases being delayed due to police investigations, police needing more training, and drug problems spreading to schools, are just some of the issues that Police Commissioner Le’i Sonny Thompson, dis
![ASCC student Ms. Quendolyn Eseroma (right), seen here with her mother Mrs. Lagituaiva Agnes Eseroma, has been selected for a 10-week internship with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) this summer. [Photo: J. Kneubuhl]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/ASCC%20Student%20FAA%20Internship.jpg?itok=Bl1_WAnj "ASCC student Ms. Quendolyn Eseroma (right), seen here with her mother Mrs. Lagituaiva Agnes Eseroma, has been selected for a 10-week internship with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) this summer. [Photo: J. Kneubuhl]")
American Samoa Community College (ASCC) student Ms.
![[photo: AF]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/foisia%20boat_0648.jpg?itok=SfKzVEMm "[photo: AF]")
A sad ending to the $300,000+ government boat, the Fo'isia bought in 2009, by former Gov. Togiola Tulafono, to serve as a passenger vessel for the Manu’a islands.
In the story, “Court upholds three felony sex charges against Okense Alo” — published on Thursday, May 18, 2017, Samoa News failed to mention that Okesene Alo came before the court on Wednesday, Ma
A new art exhibition in Whangarei featuring Pacific artists is pushing the boundaries about the notion of women's work in everyday society.
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O le tagi fou lea ua toe faila e le malo o Amerika Samoa fa’asaga i le ali’i talavou o David Fo’a, ua atagia mai ai le tu’uaia o ia i lona osofaia lea o ni faleoloa se 9 i le itu i Sisifo o le atun