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Apia, SAMOA — In Samoa, two people will be facing charges relating to an alleged conspiracy to assassinate Prime Minister Tuila'epa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi.
This was confirmed by Samoa's acting police commissioner, Papalii Monalisa Keti.
However she said the Attorney General, Lemalu Herman Retzlaff,...
Apia, SAMOA — The high ranking chief of Lauli'i village in Samoa, Leniu Vainiu Te'o, has spoken out on the alleged plot to assassinate the Prime Minister, Tuila'epa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi.
Three people are involved in the allegations - two from Lauli'i and a man from another village married to a...
Apia, SAMOA — The Lauli'i village council in Samoa says it believes a baby found floating off a beach near their village was dumped there last Wednesday.
The Samoa Observer newspaper reports local mayor, Fa'alogo Sasauli Moli, saying the council had been to every family in Lauli'i and concluded...
Apia, SAMOA — The Coast Guard Cutter Walnut (WLB 205) crew conducted a three-day port call and several engagements in Samoa the first week of August.
The crew is participating in Operation Aiga to conduct fisheries law enforcement and strengthen partnerships in American Samoa and Samoa throughout...
Apia, SAMOA — A woman was attacked at around 3 pm outside of the Vaivase Primary School gate yesterday.
Police were at the scene and an ambulance rushed the woman to the hospital.
Some of the eye witnesses said that the woman who was in a blue car was attacked by four women.
Onlookers who spoke to...
Apia, SAMOA — In Samoa the sentence of Malele Atofu Paulo also known as King Faipopo on a charge of making false accusations and defaming Prime Minister Tuila'epa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi, has been set aside.
This comes as Paulo considers vacating the guilty plea his lawyer entered last week.
The...
Asau, SAMOA — Early in the morning, before sunrise, low tide on the Samoan island of Savai'i reveals the remnants of an old American airstrip, washed away by decades of erosion, cyclones and tsunamis.
The World War II site in Asau, which also hosts a 1960s-era concrete wharf in its well-protected...
Apia, SAMOA — The Samoa Ministry of Health has issued a statement to clarify the circumstances around the death of a week-old baby girl at the Tupua Tamasese Meaole Hospital yesterday.
Ministry of Health Deputy Director General of Clinical Services, Tevaga Dr Ponifasio Ponifasio has condemned a...
Apia, SAMOA — A Salelologa couple is denying criminal charges of possession of narcotics, firearms, and ammunition. The couple entered not guilty pleas to 11 charges in court this week before Justice Leiataualesa Darryl Clarke.
Court prosecution has alleged that the illegal items were found on...
Apia, SAMOA — Police investigation into the deaths of a church minister and a female church member now await the arrival of a pathologist from New Zealand to determine the cause of the death.
Police say their team is continuing to collect information in connection to the deaths.
Speculations on the...