DRUGS

Reports circulating about rising drug use locally. Word on the street is it includes those two mysterious car racers, one of them responsible for the death of a foreign national.

HISTORY

Top marks to the Samoa Weightlifting Federation for playing host to elite champion weightlifters from around the region. Definitely for the history books. 

LARRY

Seems a prominent scribe pressed the wrong button on his phone the other night, looking for a Larry. Ends up he calls another Larry in Australia who’s elated at the phone call! 

TREMOR

The earthquake yesterday measured 5.0 on the Richter scale and had a depth of 52.4 km at Hihifo, Niuas in the Tonga region according to the U.S. Geological Survey. 

HELP! 

Is there anyone out there who can step forward and donate books as well as desks for the fire-stricken Faleatiu Primary students? Surely, there are Good Samaritans out there.

CHECK

A local structural engineer might want to offer his or her time FOC to the school and check the structures of the fire-gutted building and if it is safe for use.