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Apia, SAMOA — The number of names on Samoa's sex offenders register is increasing. The Samoa Observer reports Deputy Police Commissioner Papalii Monalisa Tiai-Keti saying the names on the list were increasing as more sex offenders were being convicted. She said there are cases whose names are...
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa police have found the body of 55-year-old Tasi Pologa Tuipeā who went missing last Thursday. Ministry of Police Prisons and Corrections Services said in a post on its Facebook page that he was pronounced dead upon his discovery. "Samoa Police, Prisons and Corrections Services...
Samoa welcomed 2023 with a 15-minute fireworks show
Samoa welcomed 2023 with a 15-minute fireworks show that thrilled hundreds of people who made their way to the seawall next to Apia's Friendship Park to witness the spectacle on Saturday night. See more photos of Samoa's New Year 2023 celebration at the Samoa Observer website. [photo: Rashmi Lameta...
Faleolo Intl Airport
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa police are puzzled as to how a Samoan woman in her 20s managed to pass through immigration and airport security get on a Fiji Airways aircraft, hide in the lavatory, and make her way to Fiji. This happened on Christmas weekend. The woman was caught sleeping in the lavatory by...
Police Commissioner Auapa’au Logoitino Filipo
Apia, SAMOA — In the weeks leading up to the Christmas holiday, four murders were recorded in neighboring Samoa, with one on Christmas day. The Christmas day incident occurred in Faleula in the early morning hours when a man died in Faleula after he was assaulted Police Commissioner Auapa’au...
Senior Justice Vui Clarence Nelson
Apia, SAMOA — A Supreme Court Senior Justice in Samoa has decried the continued increase in sexual offences targeting young children, despite efforts to increase court-imposed penalties for offenders. Senior Justice Vui Clarence Nelson was commenting as he sentenced a 20-year-old man to 12 years in...
Joanya Tafua holding the American Samoa flag
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A former local educator has been appointed to a position with the Ministry of Education in Samoa. Aeau Christopher Hazelman, an educator for 29 years, will lead the Ministry of Education, Sports and Culture as its CEO for the next three years. The appointment was...
Samoa police officers
Apia, SAMOA — A warning has been issued that cyber crime is on the rise in Samoa after the police thwarted an attempt by hackers to take money from a government authority and a local company. The Samoa Observer reports the Land Transport Authority and a local construction company were victims to...
Samoa Supreme Court building
Apia, SAMOA — In Samoa, a repeat drug offender has been jailed and will serve two years and eight months in total for several concurrent sentences. The Samoa Observer reports Junior Filifili Prichard of Vaigaga had also been assessed to have a severe dependence on both methamphetamine and marijuana...
 Fuimaono Dylan Asafo
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND — A Samoan law lecturer believes the suspension of Samoan opposition leader and former prime minister is unconstitutional. Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi has been suspended for two years along with his party secretary, as a result of contempt of parliament charges. Auckland...

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