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Margret Mutonga, staff member of the Protea Fire & Ice Hotel, Capetown, South Africa, shares her interpretation of the South Pacific ie lava lava. Margret, her staff associates, and the management of the Protea Fire & Ice have greatly facilitated the Samoa News Rugby World Cup 7s Team to...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — To honour the legacy and life of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Governor Lemanu Peleti Mauga ordered the flying of flags at half staff in the territory.
This was confirmed in a general memorandum issued on Thursday.
Pursuant to the Proclamation by U.S President Joe...
Gov. Lemanu Peleti Mauga (middle) accompanied other guests who took part in turning of the soil during the ground breaking ceremony on Tuesday for the new Alataua II Elementary School gymnasium. The project has been awarded to Jay’s Construction, according to the Governor’s Office, but didn’t...
The Dept. of Health, BYU and local volunteers remind that free heart screening by the BYU RHD Relief Team ends Wed, Sept. 7. The screening is to find kids with leaky heart valves due to Rheumatic Heart Disease. Your child may have RHD and not know it. Early screening and treatment will protect...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A.B.L.E. is seeking aspiring actors 14yrs old and above to be a part of Moso'oi Festival of Arts Production. Practice starts Tuesday, Sept 6, 2022 at TAOA Fale Samoa at Lions Park at 4pm. Please contact Leia Tasi at 258-3812 for more information.
Be a part of "O LE...
Los Angeles, CALIFORNIA — Unions are more popular now than at any time since 1965, and the U.S. is in the midst of a new upsurge of union organizing. Is a Hollywood drama about angry Starbucks baristas or frustrated Amazon warehouse workers far behind?
Hollywood studios and independent producers...
During the ASCC-ACNR/National Parks Swim Training held this summer, three of our four new Red Cross Lifeguard Instructors welcome trainer Kimberly Lytle (2nd left). Seen here with Ms. Lytle are (l-r) Tilali Scanlan, Lytle, Madeline Harris, and Vincent Jagon. [courtesy photo]
Manumalo Daycare Staff welcomes their new students with open arms and beautiful smiles on their first day to school since school closure from COVID 19 restrictions. Praise be to God for making it all possible for us… Light the way all the way FLAMES! [courtesy photo]
Young local artist Talanoaifaivaoalii Jordan Lagafuaina during the introduction of his work yesterday at the Jean P. Haydon Museum during the official opening of the 2022 American Samoa Constitutional Convention Exhibit, which showcases his artwork.[photo: Julie Pau’u]
PAPUA NEW GUINEA — In many parts of Melanesia the 'supernatural' is so much a part of everyday life that it's perceived as 'natural'. That the dead play a part in the lives of the living, is an understanding that scarcely bares mentioning. Those who act as conduits between the realms of the living...


![The United States and the American Samoa flags flying at half-staff throughout the territory - as seen in this Samoa News photo yesterday in front of the entrance to the Port of Pago Pago - “in honor of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II”, who passed away Sept. 08 at the age of 96. [photo: Si’u Crichton] Flags flying at half staff for QE II](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/flags_half_staff_port.jpg?itok=qyn2N2cv)



![‘The Salt of the Earth,’ made during the height of the post-World War II Red Scare, was blacklisted. Decades ahead of its time, this story of New Mexico mine workers deals with issues of racism, sexism and class. [photo courtesy IMDB] Scene from The Salt of the Earth](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/salt_of_the_earth_image.jpg?itok=faiDyhvf)



![Evelyn Kunda — Human Rights Defender in her safe house among the slums of Goroka [photo: Paul Wolffram] Evelyn Kunda](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/human_rights_worker_in_png.jpg?itok=Qp6T09BQ)