MEDICS

A U.S. Army medic reckons working in a district hospital on Upolu feels like ‘combat medicine’ due to resource constraints. Imagine if they worked in Savai’i.

A STAR

One Cabinet Minister has become a celebrity of sorts, appearing on livestream programs every week. If only the MPs were equally committed to press conferences.

PRESSER

Government media gurus are also yet to advise if the Samoa-American Samoa leaders will convene a press conference like at the last Atoa o Samoa. Guess times have changed. 

WELCOME

A traditional presentation yesterday for the visiting Samoa and American Samoa leaders in Savai’i. It came courtesy of a businessman with links to an infamous boat!

CROOKED

Another political record from the region. A lawyer and aspiring politician from PNG was jailed last week for stealing SAT$121 million in public funds between 2007-2011. 

DRIER

There’s no doubt El Niño is wreaking havoc with local weather patterns. Dark clouds gathered overhead around noon yesterday, and a slight drizzle and that’s it.