For 16 years, a family in Saleimoa tried to use plastic wrappings as tarpaulins to protect their home during heavy rain and they continue to live with that challenge.
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The lack of water supply is a concern for Seti Saofaiga from Saleimoa. Fifty-five-year-old Seti and his family do not have water gallons or a water tank. Despite living in a shack, for him water is the most vital need any human being needs to survive.
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Music liberates the soul. Young singer Maryann Victoria To’uika Savaiinaea knows this well.
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Nuanua O Le Alofa (N.O.L.A.) held a two-day forum for young people with disabilities at the Moanalisa Hotel conference room earlier this month.
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The development of any community focuses on the social, economic and religious growth of its people.
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Lucymaria Titiuatoa Sio and Marcus Fiso Ofoia Sr exchanged vows before families and friends at the Catholic Parish in Vaimoso during the weekend.
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Coming back on a high from The Queen’s Young Leaders Awards in June, a young Samoan woman is putting her learning into action.
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The Samoa Quality Broadcasting Corporation, which runs TV1, celebrated its 10th birthday during the weekend. To mark the occasion, the Managing Director Galumalemana Faiesea Matafeo and the Management of TV1 hosted a Ball at the Tanoa Tusitala Hotel.
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The Samoa Airways sales office will remain open to the public despite criticisms that the national airline was undercutting airfares.
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Cabinet has approved the establishment of a Government-owned Digital TV.
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The Government has a moral obligation to do what is right. And if the family of Matamua Samuela, of Salelologa, caught up in the Salelologa wharf extension should be compensated, so be it. This is what Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sa’ilele Malielegaoi said.
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Prime Minister Tuilaepa Dr. Sa’ilele Malielegaoi has threatened to remove Member of Parliament, Olo Fiti Vaai, from Parliament’s Finance and Expenditure Committee. He issued the threat during his weekly media programme where he accused of Olo of playing “dirty politics.”
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The family of a one-year-old toddler is blaming the country’s public health system for negligence resulting in their son’s paralysis. Tovanse Meni of A’ufaga was born healthy last year until he became ill and was diagnosed with pneumonia and admitted to the Moto’otua Hospital.
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A coronial inquest will be done on July 25 into the deaths of two toddlers from Safotu, the Ministry of Police has announced. “On 12th July, a post-mortem examination was conducted at Moto’otua Hospital for the two babies from Safotu, Savaii. The post-mortem examination was conducted by a pathologist from Australia. Further inquiries with samples obtained from the two babies have been taken overseas for analysis,” stated the statement.
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“I am an old man now, but God gave me a gift to share with my community.” Taueva sets a great example for those that surround him. Although he has entered his seventies, he still works very hard to gain an income, and because of this, his children can go to school.
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Luatala is a mother of two beautiful children from the village of Lepa. She lives with her family at her husband’s family at Vaimoso and she is therefore what you would refer to in Samoa as a nofotane.
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Samoa and Papua New Guinea will represent the Pacific at the Ministerial level central negotiating for the post-Cotonou agreement. This is according to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade C.E.O. Peseta Noumea Simi, who added that Samoa is in the technical negotiating team for pillar two on development cooperation.
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The Daughters of the King women’s conference 2018 ended with a royal banquet on Friday night. It was a four-day conference where mothers and young ladies gathered in the house of God to hear the Word and be empowered.
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After serving the church faithfully as a teacher and a Church Minister for many years, Reverend Masunu Utumapu, is calling it a day. He was among two Elders of the Church whose life of service was recognised yesterday. Rev. Masunu and Reverend Halefoti Seloti’s services was celebrated as they retire (malōlō manumalo).
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The Office of the Attorney General has appealed the decision by District Court Judge, Alalatoa Rosella Papali’i, to discharge the President of the Land and Titles Court, Fepuleai Atilla Ropati, without conviction. Fepulea’i had pleaded guilty to the assault of a Security Officer who was drinking alcohol on the job.
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Think a minute…It is true: “There’s no place like home.” In fact, who we are, what we think about ourselves, others, and life, mostly comes from our family with whom we grew up as children and teenagers. That is why they say, “The apple does not fall far from the tree.”
I have been watching with great interest from afar the development of this issue in our beloved country. Interestingly, many, including the highly credentialed Rev Vaiao Eteuati, have been fooled by the apparent simplicity of the issue. But I do not see the issue as simply about the clergies paying taxes.
Of ‘Papa Stui’ and fa’afafines Well it looks like some customers have kicked up a big stink about McDonald’s Unisex toilet.
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