SAMOA PARLIAMENT
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa's Parliament has voted to uphold recommendations to suspend two party members for 24 months.
Opposition Human Rights Protection Party Leader, Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi and party secretary, Lealailepule Rimoni Aiafi were asked to leave the Parliament.
In May, the two members...
Apia, SAMOA — A new era has dawned in Samoa with the swearing-in of three women MPs, taking the number of women in the Legislative Assembly to seven.
The swearing-in follows a court ruling issued by Chief Justice, Satiu Simativa Perese, Senior Justice Vui Clarence Nelson, and Justice Lesatele Rapi...
Apia, SAMOA — As Samoa police were poised to remove opposition HRPP members from Parliament grounds by force the Head of State, Tuimalealiifano Vaaletoa Sualauvi II, arrived and was then seen greeting the tearful leader of the HRPP Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi.
Despite the police instructing the...
Apia, SAMOA — The Samoan Parliament will meet for the first time since before the April general election, on September 14.
Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa announced on Wednesday that the budget for the next financial year would be tabled until then.
She said the budget would be presented by the...