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Apia, SAMOA — Teachers in Samoa have been warned to go to work this week, despite the extended school holiday, or face the sack. Samoa's Government has announced a five-day school break for students beginning on Monday, to help control an influenza outbreak that began seven weeks ago and raise the...
cult members at Cook Islands interview
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A secretive religious group expanding into the Pacific Islands is targeting Pasifika people from differing faith backgrounds, according to a report by Melanie Earley published recently in Stuff New Zealand. A group of former members said there was immediate concern at...
SAMOA FLAG
Apia, SAMOA — In a first for Samoa, the independent state’s United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Accelerator Lab (AccLab) has won one, of only two spots, for the Japan Development Goals Innovation Challenge. Samoa and Zimbabwe are the only AccLabs selected from a pool of 91 UNDP AccLabs across...
Dr Aiono Alec Ekeroma
Apia, SAMOA — All schools in Samoa have been ordered to close for at least a week as officials race to contain a flu outbreak that has infected hundreds of children. The Government announced that all state, independent and church schools were to be closed from Monday, May 1, until at least Friday,...
STARKIST SAMOA PLANT
Apia, SAMOA — There could be employment for Samoans in the neighboring country of American Samoa as the StarKist fish processing plant looks for workers. This is following labor mobility issues that were raised during the Atoa o Samoa talks..  A report by the Samoa Press Secretariat on Thursday...
A tsunami drill at a school in Tonga where
Nuku'alofa, TONGA — Almost a year and a half after Tonga's underwater volcano disaster triggered waves up to 90 meters (98+ feet) high, a recent report is revealing, “that there's a whole type of volcanic activity … that we never imagined could happen.” The University of Miami and the Khaled bin...
Samoa police officers
Apia, SAMOA — Almost half a kilogram of marijuana was intercepted by the Police K9 unit at the Post Office in Apia through a joint effort with the Ministry of Customs and Revenue (MCR). The 489.9 grams of compressed marijuana arrived in the form of brown hashes with the Police making no arrests...
Archbishop Alapati Lui Mataeliga
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND — Bishop Peter Brown Archdiocese Samoa Pago Pago announced with great sadness the passing of their beloved Archbishop Alapati Lui Mataeliga at 3 am Auckland time in New Zealand Tuesday morning. “We the Bishop’s, Priests, Deacons, and Catechists and people of he Diocese of...
Police searching on beach
Wellington, NEW ZEALAND — Police have identified the owner of a foot found on Petone Beach on March 25. The beach is located on the northern side of Wellington Harbor. Stuff New Zealand reports DNA confirmed it belonged to a Petone man, Fiva Pita, 74, who went missing before Christmas. Wellington...
Samoa PM Fiame Naomi Mataʻafa
Apia, SAMOA — Prime Minister, Fiame Naomi Mataʻafa has praised the framework of the Atoa o Samoa summit, which has enabled Samoa to establish dialogue with American Samoa. In her speech at the follow-up summit in Pago Pago last week, the Prime Minister said the framework governing the discussions...

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