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Samoa
Compiled by
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SPORTS CANCELED AFTER STUDENT
RIOTS
Government has slammed the door
on school sports for the remainder of the year after student
riots last week left several injured and properties in Apia damaged.
The Cabinet decision on Wednesday has cut the schools rugby season
for boys and netball for girls short.
Schools will have to do without
an athletic season.
Apia Park, the country's main
sporting ground and venue for the popular intersecondary school
athletics is put out of bounds to them as well.
An independent inquiry into the
cause of the riot, including the involvement of teachers, will
be carried out.
ASIATA RELEASED, LE MAMEA
AWOL
The newly formed group of opposition
Members of Parliament has 'released' the leader of the Samoa
United Democratic party, SDUP, Satupaitea Member of Parliament,
Asiata Saleimoa "to follow up on issues he is keen to pursue."
MP Le Mamea Ropati, who resigned
from the SDUP, continues to stay away but with speculations
starting to come through that he may be headed for the Council
of Deputies.
The interim Chairman of the political
grouping, Faleata I Sisifo Member of Parliament, Lealailepule
Rimoni Aiafi, confirmed these latest developments last week after
a group meeting.
"We called an emergency
meeting last night (Wednesday night) and unanimously agreed to
release Asiata, to follow up on issues that are of interest to
him personally," Chairman Lealailepule confided to Newsline.
The MPs who were affiliated to
the SDUP before the merge with independent MPs last week, have
elected to stay on with the new political grouping.
NIU PHARMACY SET TO OPEN
A dream that was nurtured through
tough times of university education and internship training,
is about to bear fruit after six long years.
NIU Pharmacy is the name of that
dream, appropriately named after a tree that is referred to in
Samoa as the tree of life (coconut tree or NIU).
The dream belongs to Ms. Zhenna
Chan Mow, a 23 year old pharmaceutical graduate of the University
of Otago in New Zealand, and 2 years of internship work divided
equally between New Zealand and Samoa.
The young owner is all set to
open for business for the first time Monday morning, at
the Chan Mow Building at Saleufi.
"The location for NIU Pharmacy
holds strong sentiments for me personally because this is where
my grandfather, Chan Mow, started," she told Newsline during
a rare break in a race against the clock to get everything ready
for tomorrow."My grandfather and maternal grandmother, Ms.
Lisi Vaai were my inspiration they urged me to do my best
in school."
"I've always leaned towards
the health field and my parents suggested pharmacy."
Zhenna is the elder of two children
to parents Tugaga Sani and Ioana Chan Mow.
The NIU Pharmacy will become
the fourth in town after the Apia Pharmacy, where Ms. Chan Mow
took up her year of internship in Samoa.
The Samoa Pharmacy and Maria's
Health Care Pharmacies are the other two.
" I believe there is still
room for more, there is need for one in Savaii because people
there have to come to Apia for their medicine.
NIU Pharmacy is starting off
with a staff of four, but intends to take in more later on.
SAVAII STUMBLES AS UPOLU NOTCHES
UP ANOTHER WIN
The Upolu Samoa rugby team notched
up their third consecutive win Friday night when they beat the
Fijian Warriors 13-8 at Apia Park Samoa in the third round of
the Pacific Rugby Cup (PRC). The star of the match was Iosua
Timoteo who scored 2 tries in the second half.
The Fijian Warriors started off
well in the first half when they scored all their 8 points. However
the Upolu Samoa team came back strong in the second half and
scored all their 13 points
The win by Upolu Samoa gave the
Samoan rugby fans something to smile about this weekend after
the shock of the defeat of the Savaii Samoa team by the Tautahi
Gold 27-17 in Tonga earlier in the week.
(Source:Samoalive/Newsline)
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