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![Manusina coach Ramsey Tomokino. [Photo: PHOTOSPORT]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/eight_col_Ramsey.jpg?itok=JSr6LVL2 "Manusina coach Ramsey Tomokino. [Photo: PHOTOSPORT]")
Samoa women's rugby coach Ramsey Tomokino believes he has the required passion and experience to take charge of the men's sevens program.
Applications closed on Friday to replace Damian McGrath, who was sacked following Samoa's failure to qualify for the Rio Olympics.
Tomokino coached the Samoa...
Apia, SAMOA — A teacher from Pope Paulo High School has been arrested and will be charged with sexual assault involving female students. This was confirmed during the police press conference where Samoa’s Police Spokesperson, Superintendent Su’a LeMamea Tiumalu said the matter was reported to the...
Come join us for a night of celebrating American Samoan culture! Ticket price includes a traditional Samoan dinner, cultural entertainment and auction fun! All money raised will go towards supporting the Wahtonka Community School students' efforts to establish an exchange program to American Samoa...
“An increased empowerment and inclusion of women is not just about fairness, it’s about huge economic opportunity that is otherwise simply missed,” yet, exclusion and marginalization prevents women from participating in tackling important issues like climate change, says Patricia Scotland,...
![The dramatic moment the baby was rescued after five days down a 2.4m drain where he was left by his mother in November 2014. [photo / supplied]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/dfg_480x270.jpg?itok=UrQJjPrp "The dramatic moment the baby was rescued after five days down a 2.4m drain where he was left by his mother in November 2014. [photo / supplied]")
She was a young woman from the islands with a pretty face living far away from her deeply religious Samoan parents when she secretly became pregnant to her first Australian boyfriend.
Then aged 30, she worked at a food storage warehouse in northwestern Sydney, just a 20-minute drive from the home...
Samoa police have charged a mission school teacher over having sexual connection with two female students.The police spokesperson says the alleged victims, aged 15 and 18, are from the same school.
Meanwhile, the police are investigating a woman's complaint against the police after her husband...
![Defendant Mauga Precious Chang with her attorney exiting the courthouse. [photo: JL]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Precious%20Mauga.jpg?itok=NZPPN18G "Defendant Mauga Precious Chang with her attorney exiting the courthouse. [photo: JL]")
Apia, SAMOA — Attorneys will battle before the Supreme Court next week to determine who will prosecute in the case against suspended National Prosecution Office (NPO) Director Precious Mauga who is facing two charges in connection with a traffic incident — whether it’s Simativa Perese an attorney...
When I was a child, my parents hit me with a salu. A salu is the hard part of the coconut leaf — you take away the leaf and tie them together, just like a whip. Most Samoan families had a salu around the house. It was meant to be for cleaning rubbish, but was always used for punishment whenever a...
BLUE SKY SALE IS A BUSINESS MOVE
Apia, SAMOA — The sale of Bluesky Communications to Fijian-owned company Amalgamated Telecom Holding Limited, is but a business move and no matter who buys Bluesky, the Samoa Government is still a shareholder, says Samoa’s Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele...
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa’s Attorney General's Office has defended their move to hire independent prosecutors in the criminal matters filed separately against Samoa’s Police Commissioner Fuiavailili Egon Keil and Director of the National Prosecution Office (NPO) Mauga Precious Chang.
Fuiavailili is...