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Apia, SAMOA — A 41-year-old Samoan man has been jailed for three years after pleading guilty to cultivating marijuana plants for sale.
Justice Vui Clarence Nelson told Ulugia Sala Suivai of Vaiusu the penalties for drug sellers must be severe.
Police said when they searched the defendant's home...
Apia, SAMOA — A team of 13 sailors, 2 coaches, and many parents and supporters from the Sailing Association of American Samoa (SAASI) traveled to Apia this weekend for this year’s Fealofani Cup Regatta. Fifteen-year-old Victor Chen took Gold in the Olympic Class Open Laser event. Victor began...
Apia, SAMOA — ‘First and worst’ is how environmental campaigners describe the impact of climate change on the people of Samoa in the South Pacific. The Polynesian nation of 200,000 people fears it will feel the full force of more frequent tropical cyclones, and that rising sea levels will drive...
Apia, SAMOA — The Samoa Police Service has appealed to the public for assistance in locating a young girl.
Roite Tinei of Toamua-Uta, 15, was last seen on Thursday and left her family home around 4.00 pm and is yet to return.
The Samoa Police Service has appealed to the public for assistance in...
Apia, SAMOA — In Samoa Malietoa Fa'amausili Moli has been charged with carrying a dangerous weapon.
The Samoa Observer said this followed an incident at his Fagali'i residence last month, when a gun was allegedly discharged.
A Courts Administration official said Malietoa Fa'amausili had been...
Apia, SAMOA — The Ministry of Health has advised that for the first time since 2012, two new cases of the H.I.V. virus have been detected in Samoa.
The two patients who tested positive for the virus—which over time can lead to Acquired ImmunoDeficiency Syndrome (A.I.D.S.)—have begun treatment. ...
Apia, SAMOA — The 29-year-old daughter of a Cabinet Minister, Rose Hope Ah Leong, who pleaded guilty to negligent driving causing death, has been given a 12 months probation sentence and a $1,000 fine.
The decision was delivered by District Court Judge Alalatoa Rosella Viane Papali'i yesterday....
Apia, SAMOA — The cutting of native trees and the existence of invasive species are increasingly putting a threat to the endemic manumea bird population in Samoa.
With the manumea species declining in numbers, the Samoa Conservation Society Environmental and Geographic Information System Specialist...
Apia, SAMOA — The Samoan Ministry of Agriculture wants to free up government-owned land for commercial farming in a push to increase exports.
Newsline Samoa reported farmers are being restricted by a lack of land.
The ministry's chief executive, Tilafono David Hunter, said government land could be...
Apia, SAMOA — A public holiday has been declared for Wednesday in Samoa, to mark 100 years since the start of the influenza pandemic that killed about a fifth of the population.
On 7 November, 1918, the SS Talune arrived in Apia with sick passengers on board.
The New Zealand administrators allowed...