August 2017
![Congresswoman Aumua Amata and Interior Department Secretary Ryan Zinke during a stop in California on her way back to Washington in May of this year. [Courtesy photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Amata%20and%20Zinke%20in%20CA.jpg?itok=T4xZp4o0 "Congresswoman Aumua Amata and Interior Department Secretary Ryan Zinke during a stop in California on her way back to Washington in May of this year. [Courtesy photo]")
![[photo: Barry Markowitz, June 2017]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Nanai%20williams%20passes_0.jpg?itok=LsE_tWSN "[photo: Barry Markowitz, June 2017]")
Pacific News Briefs
![First Union members - and a giant Easter bunny - picket Auckland councilors before their meeting on Easter Sunday trading. [Photo: RNZ / Anusha Bradley]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Easter%20bunny.jpg_large.jpg?itok=53VMd2ZO "First Union members - and a giant Easter bunny - picket Auckland councilors before their meeting on Easter Sunday trading. [Photo: RNZ / Anusha Bradley]")
AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES MINISTER RESIGNS FROM CABINET
Wealth by women for women
![A breathable wrap that keeps avocado green for four days, rather than it browning straight away was an idea that may have languished, were it not for the intervention of fund helping women entrepreneurs grow their start-ups. [RNZI]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Avocado%20wrap%2030286415_m%20copy.jpg?itok=-nUoCaaG "A breathable wrap that keeps avocado green for four days, rather than it browning straight away was an idea that may have languished, were it not for the intervention of fund helping women entrepreneurs grow their start-ups. [RNZI]")
A breathable wrap that keeps avocado green for four days, rather than it browning straight away was an idea that may have languished, were it not for the intervention of fund helping women entrepre
Proposed beer tax amendment targets volume, not value
![[photo: Tulaga Whitcombe on Youtube]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/vailima.jpg?itok=8N3duh88 "[photo: Tulaga Whitcombe on Youtube]")
G.H.C. Reid & Company has voiced its support of the Lolo Administration’s proposal to change how the government imposes the import tax on beer — based on volume, not on value.
Strong opposition voiced to reducing the national marine sanctuaries
![Pacific Islands Remote Marine National Monument [Photo: Beth Pike, Marine Conservation Institute via Wikimedia]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Pacific%20remote%20monument.jpg?itok=tmTDaNwV "Pacific Islands Remote Marine National Monument [Photo: Beth Pike, Marine Conservation Institute via Wikimedia]")
A retired US based scientist has voiced her strong opposition to any reduction of the National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa (NMSAS), which includes the entire Rose Atoll Marine National Monum
Fo'isia
The government owned Fo'isia vessel, which sunk at the Malaloa Marina on Wednesday, May 7, 2017, was finally pulled out of the water yesterday by local businessman Iupeli Kava and the crew from P.J
Tulafono su’e ai tagata faigaluega malo ‘ava malosi ma fualaau faasaina
Ua i luma nei o le maota maualuga a le Senate i le Fono Faitulafono se pili mo se tulafono tau fa’aofi, e faia ai suega mo tagata faigaluega uma a le malo po o latou fa’aaogaina fualaau fa’asaina e
Lagolago Kamupani G.H.C Reid fuafuaga a le malo e si’i lafoga o oloa
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I se tusi sa tu’uina atu e le Pulega a le Kamupani o Oloa a Leala (G.H.C Reid & Company, Ltd) i le Fono Faitulafono i le amataga o le vaiaso nei, o lo o taua ai le matua latou lagolagoina o fua
Tala otooto mai le Fono Faitulafono
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PASIA SENATE PILI MO FAIGA PALOTA MA TAUSIA LELEI O FALE AOGA