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![Posing for the Samoa News camera, one of the many South Pacific Academy students who participated in the school’s wave yesterday morning, reminding the public of the negative impact of bullying. [Photo: JL]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/stop%20bulleying_0031.jpg?itok=jWjRYpST "Posing for the Samoa News camera, one of the many South Pacific Academy students who participated in the school’s wave yesterday morning, reminding the public of the negative impact of bullying. [Photo: JL]")
South Pacific Academy has joined the globe in raising awareness against bullying on the first Monday of October each year. This year they are wearing blue shirts, and decided to also hold a wave in front of their school yesterday morning.
More than 200 students participated along with staff and...
![Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga during yesterday’s official opening of the Territorial Bank of American Samoa. In his remarks he said the solid collaboration, fashioned between the Legislative Branch and the Executive Branch, upon receipt of notification of the exodus of the Bank of Hawaii, facilitated this day. [photo: AF]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/govTBAS_0016.jpg?itok=Bwhik6-S "Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga during yesterday’s official opening of the Territorial Bank of American Samoa. In his remarks he said the solid collaboration, fashioned between the Legislative Branch and the Executive Branch, upon receipt of notification of the exodus of the Bank of Hawaii, facilitated this day. [photo: AF]")
“Today is history in the making. Not because we have dared to defy status quo, or endeavored to find banking solutions for our people, our businesses, and our economy, but more so because the leaders of our Territory have come together to find the answer to the crippling challenge affecting the...
The second category of local absentee voting, electors who will be on island but unable to go to the polling stations to cast ballots on election day, Nov. 8th, starts next week.
Those qualifed electors are individuals confined to any hospital, public institution, at home because of illness or...
A federal court judge has granted final approval of a multi million dollar settlement in a lawsuit filed in February 2013 by a California resident against StarKist Co., which owns StarKist Samoa cannery in American Samoa.
As previously reported by Samoa News, it was July last year that U.S....
Hawaiian Airlines’ decision to assign seats at the airport on its Pago Pago flights was the most efficient way to manage weight distribution for the Boeing 767 aircraft following a six-month survey this year that found that aircraft cabin weight was much heavier than projected, says airline...
![ASCC Samoan Studies Institute Director Mrs. Okenaisa Fauolo-Manila (left) receives a gift of books on the Tahitian language from Bishop Hubert Coppenrath of the Tahitian Academy during the recent Polynesian Festival hosted in Papeete by Te fare Tahiti Nui (also known as the Maison de la Culture). [Photo: T. Mulitalo-Cheung]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/ASCC-SSI-Tahiti%20Festival.jpg?itok=qVa3B21m "ASCC Samoan Studies Institute Director Mrs. Okenaisa Fauolo-Manila (left) receives a gift of books on the Tahitian language from Bishop Hubert Coppenrath of the Tahitian Academy during the recent Polynesian Festival hosted in Papeete by Te fare Tahiti Nui (also known as the Maison de la Culture). [Photo: T. Mulitalo-Cheung]")
Te fare Tahiti Nui (also known as the Maison de la Culture) hosted the first edition of their Polynesia Festival from September 12 – 17 in Papeete. The event brought together delegations from throughout the Polynesian Triangle to showcase and share their culture.
Highlights included native...
Apia, SAMOA — Supreme Court Justice, Lesatele Rapi Vaai has signed off on an order of a mediation outcome between former Secretary General of the Congregational Christian Church of Samoa (CCCS) , Rev. Dr. Afereti Uili and Angeline Lesa a member of his church. As reported earlier Rev. Dr Uili’s...
Bank of Hawaii president and chief executive officer Peter Ho has congratulated Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga a on the “historic chapter for American Samoa” with the establishment of the government owned Territorial Bank of American Samoa set to be launched today.
The TBAS opening ceremony is set at...
In a strongly worded letter to Bluesky’s parent company Amper SA, Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has demanded an explanation for the “termination and removal” of Aoe’e Adolfo Montenegro as president and chief executive officer of American Samoa Hawai’i LLC., (ASH-Cable), which is minority owned by the...
The Department of Public Safety is tight lipped about the escape of an inmate from the Tafuna Correctional Facility early Sunday morning. The inmate in question is Tao Liu, who was being held behind bars on a no bail status on 11 criminal charges, which included attempted assault, unlawful...