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Lemalu Hermann Retzlaff
Wellington, NEW ZEALAND — Samoa's former attorney general Lemalu Hermann Retzlaff is to become New Zealand's Public Defender. In this role, he will oversee the legal management of the ten public defender offices around the country and the about one hundred and sixty lawyers who work as counsel for...
Kingdon Chapple-Wilson, aka Kings
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND — The Vodafone Events Centre in Manukau, Auckland came alive with music, glitz and glam for the first live Pacific Music Awards in two years on Thursday night. The annual ceremony has been held online the past two years due to COVID-19 restrictions. Fa'anana Jerome Grey was...
Samoa Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
Apia, SAMOA — New Zealand will provide $15m to support Samoa with its climate change priorities. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern made the announcement on Tuesday morning, at a joint press conference with Samoan Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa. New Zealand will work with the Samoan government to...
Pacific Minister Aupito William Sio
Wellington, NEW ZEALAND — Pacific Minister Aupito William Sio is set to travel to Fiji tomorrow, while Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta is under increased pressure over Pacific relationships. Sio, who is also associate foreign affairs minister, will travel to Fiji from tomorrow to meet with Pacific...
The Matamata family property
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND — A cold slap of winter air snaps Junior* out of his sleepiness as he steps off the plane from Apia. It's just after 1am but he's grateful to finally be in Auckland where two years of work and good wages await. It's 30 July 2015. Junior is 53 years old and today his dream...
COVID-19 vaccine viles
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Dept. of Health reported at 11:59 Friday and released Saturday that on March 18, 2022, 795 tests were conducted with 151 individuals testing positive.  In the past 24 hours ending midnight Friday, 20 previous positive cases recovered and there was 1 new...
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Wellington, NEW ZEALAND — People from Nauru, Tuvalu and American Samoa will soon be able to enter New Zealand without going into quarantine or self-isolation, Minister for Pacific Peoples Aupito William Sio announced on Friday. The move is part of the government’s staged border reopening to...
Faleolo Airport
Apia, SAMOA — The 272 passengers who arrived from New Zealand on Saturday, Feb. 12, 2022 all tested negative for COVID. This repatriation flight was scheduled to arrive last month but was postponed due to the nationwide lockdown following the flight on Jan. 19, 2022. All 272 passengers were swabbed...
 Malia Su-emalo Lui, a receiving a covid-19 vaccination
Wellington, NEW ZEALAND — Pacific Island New Zealanders are now 90 percent fully vaccinated against Covid-19, and a public health expert is urging them to keep up that momentum in the New Year. In yesterday's daily briefing, the Ministry of Health said 90 percent of eligible Pacific people in New...
 Samoa prime minister Fiamē Naomi Mata'afa
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa has hinted that her Cabinet will consider a recommendation from the National Emergency Operations Committee to delay some of the planned repatriation flights from New Zealand and Australia. "This request came in after the Cabinet meeting and...

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