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Honolulu, HAWAII — Rodrigo Mauricio knew that his wife Mary was going to die. For a decade, he had watched her diabetes worsen and her kidneys weaken. He had ushered in 2020 with her in the hospital. He had read the pamphlets from Island Hospice about what to expect when the end came.
On the day...
Apia, SAMOA — The Samoa Govt is planning to send to New Zealand this weekend on a cargo flight arriving Friday and returning the same day swab samples from the Samoa sailor, the first suspected COVID19 positive case in the country.
While awaiting the results from New Zealand, the sailor placed...
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa has recorded its first positive test for Covid-19, Prime Minister Tuila'epa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi announced in a live address to the nation this morning.
He confirmed one patient in a quarantine facility tested positive to the coronavirus on Wednesday night.
However Tuila'epa...
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa's National Emergency Operations Center (NEOC) reports the 19 staff placed under controlled isolation a week ago since the 3 reported cases in American Samoa linked to the container ship – Fesco Askold, remain under 14 days quarantine as a health precaution.
They undertook COVID...
Seattle WASHINGTON — US District Court Judge Richard A. Jones at the federal court in Seattle yesterday sentenced 40-year old Iliganoa Theresa Lauofo to 27 months in prison for wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and embezzlement of mail by a postal employee, according to federal prosecutors and...
Marjuro, MARSHALL ISLANDS — Tuna transshipment activity in the Marshall Islands picked up in October, but remains low compared to the past six years that saw Majuro become the world's busiest port for such transshipment.
Covid-19 quarantine requirements have reduced the number of purse seine...
Seattle, WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors say an American Samoa woman who has pled guilty to fraud and theft made a “decision to steal, month after month and year after year, resulting in dozens of discrete acts of theft,” according the US Justice Department sentencing statement filed with the...
Apia, SAMOA — From the Chief Executive Officer of Samoa Shipping Services, Lautimuia Afoa Uelese Va’ai;
“The photograph of an email conversation between Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) crew manager for cargo vessels only, Rocco Maresca, in Naples and the Samoa Shipping Services (SSS) was...
Apia, SAMOA — A total of 17 people are in managed quarantine after working with the now-infected container ship that passed through Apia this weekend, the Government has confirmed.
Four are Government staff from the Ministry of Health and the Samoa Port Authority and 13 are stevedoring crew members...
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa's largest church has been forced to make a public apology after it broadcast a debate that seemed to ridicule members of the fa'afafine community.
The Samoa Observer reports the debate by youth groups was on whether fa'afine should become members of parliament has angered the...