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Unpaid overtime for kitchen staff leaves hundreds of patients at Samoa's main hospital without meals
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Hundreds of patients at Samoa's main hospital, the Tupua Tamasese Meaole Hospital in the capital, Apia, went without meals after kitchen staff failed to show up for work in protest over unpaid wages.
The inpatient capacity of the national hospital is around 200 beds....
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — As the world watches the unfolding events in the Middle East, including the emotional reunions between the last of the Israeli hostages and their loved ones, support for the State of Israel continues to resonate in Samoa, thousands of miles away from the Holy Land....
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — July 1970. The Cold War is thawing, but far from over; the Nixon government is retreating from Vietnam in the face of an enormous anti-war movement; and a corporation called Deepsea Ventures is conducting the world’s first deep sea mining test on the Blake Plateau, 300...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Fijian Teachers Association (FTA) is advocating for "some form" of corporal punishment to enforce discipline in primary and secondary schools, but the government says physical punishment cannot be the solution to indiscipline.
The association's general secretary...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Tonga's health ministry has launched its long-awaited National Mental Health Strategy and Policy at Vaiola Hospital.
Health officials have described the move as a milestone in strengthening mental health services and coordination across Tonga.
The nation's head...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Compensation for communities affected by the grounding of the New Zealand Navy vessel HMNZS Manawanui will be confirmed once the national budget is passed, the Samoan government says.
Monday marked one year since the Manawanui ran aground and sank off the south coast of...
Radio NZ Pacific — Reubenson and Martin Fugui have been boating around their island village their entire lives, but they'd never seen anything like this before.
The cousins were on their usual morning boat run on Saturday to get supplies from a local market when they spotted it.
"It was an object...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Samoa's longest-serving leader Tuilaepa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi says his time in parliament is drawing to a close after more than four decades in politics.
"This is my last term, to the end of this term, not necessarily the leadership, but to continue," he told RNZ Pacific...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — French authorities in New Caledonia are investigating after a sea turtle was found tied to a tree.
The female turtle, about 25-30 years-old, was bound in rope in the Koutio mangrove swamp in Dumbéa and rescued on 14 September.
An Aquarium des Lagons spokesperson said she...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Samoa government has paid $6 million in compensation to Samoa, to mark one year since the grounding and sinking of HMNZS Manawanui.
On 6 October, 2024, the vessel ran aground on a reef off the South Coast of Upolu, and then sank.
Foreign Minister Winston Peters said...