Manu Samoa’s new coach, Steve Jackson, remains focussed on the job. Despite the controversy, politics and hurt feelings surrounding the appointment of the Manu Samoa coaching role, Jackson, who met with Prime Minister Tuilaepa Dr. Sa’ilele Malielegaoi yesterday (see story), remains optimistic.
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New head coach for Manu Samoa Steve Jackson met Prime Minister and Chairman of the Samoa Rugby Union (S.R.U.), Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi, yesterday at the Government building. The Prime Minister personally congratulated Mr. Jackson and told him to “just enjoy it.” “You have my full support and the support of the board,” he said.
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Samoa is setting a legacy when it comes to accommodation for athletes and officials who will be attending the 2019 Pacific Games in Apia next year. For the first time in the 55 year old history of the Games, athletes and officials will not be staying in a Games Village instead accommodation will be outsourced to the private sector, which includes hotels and private homes.
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The Football Federation Samoa (F.F.S.) in partnership with the National Advocacy Organization of People with Disabilities hosted a two-day course training on the Just Play Programme at Tuanaimato.
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We humans have always had the tendency to exploit our natural environment – nothing new there. But let’s put all other environmental exploitations aside and focus on our marine ecosystems, and how human activities threaten it daily.
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The Audit Office has submitted the Irregularity and the Audit Report for the Government for the financial year ending June, 2017. The submission of the report on October 3, 2018 means that the Audit Office is now up to date in all its reports on the Government’s use of public funding up to the last financial year.
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The Government’s total debt as of June 2018 remains at $1.1 billion tala. This is according to the Ministry of Finance quarterly bulletin for the financial year 2017-2018. The $1.1 billion debt is similar to the figure released by the Samoa Bureau of Statistics Financial Statistics for the December 2017 quarter.
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At a young age, Christopher Adolfo Krieg knows how to become a successful entrepreneur. Chris, as he is commonly referred to, is 26 years old and is a shared owner of the Eris’ Tattoo and Barber Shop located at Matautu. He’s a tattooist and he loves what he does because it’s basically his passion and it makes him happy.
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The exact number of athletes expected to converge in Samoa for the 2019 Pacific Games would not be determined until Games time. But until then, the Games Organising Committee will work according to data and analysis collected from previous Games in terms of accommodating athletes and officials.
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Local band Ebur Band launched their first album to mark their one-year anniversary. The formation of the band was the result of band member Faith Amiatu Sitivi’s vision to start a band. They originally began with four members and expanded to six.
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Facebook’s community standards allow women to be abused and threatened, especially when that abuse is not in English. This is according to Lani Wendt Young, a Samoan writer, editor, publisher and journalist, who was invited by Netsafe NZ to speak at the 2018 Trans-Tasman Netsafe Crossroads Conference held in Auckland, New Zealand recently.
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Samoan Lani Wendt Young says New Zealand’s independent non-profit online safety organisation Netsafe is useless as it does not have regulatory powers. Speaking at the 2018 Trans-Tasman Netsafe Crossroads Conference held in Auckland, New Zealand recently, she said internet giants such as Facebook did not recognise it as an equal partner in building safe online spaces.
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The Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Samoa donated computers and sports equipment to Falefitu Primary School. The school was the first to be established in the Vaimauga district and students still lacked access to computer studies, but the donation changes everything.
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Two Samoan girls are on the list of nominees for the prestigious International Children’s Peace Prize 2018, which will be awarded next month in Cape Town, South Africa. The profiles of the nominees for this year’s awards are on the website of KidsRights Foundation, a Netherlands-based children’s aid and advocacy organisation, and two of them are Samoans.
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The Government has lost a senior bureaucrat with the passing of Sa'u Fiapaipai Justina Sa'u Lam, the Unit Trust of Samoa Chief Executive Officer. The Police have confirmed that an investigation has been launched into the death of the senior government official. Sa'u had been the Chief Executive Officer of Unit Trust of Samoa since 2011 and was only reappointed last year to another three-year term.
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A mother of six yesterday shed light on the struggles she encounters daily with the lack of consistent water supply to her home. Viena Mikaele, 40, of Aleisa said their water problem has become a part and parcel of their lives and continues to be a worry for her family members.
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Students from Palauli i Sisifo College in Savai’i were among the winners of an agriculture competition, which was part of the Agriculture Show and World Food Day 2018 celebrations, held in Savai’i this week.
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The village of Leulumoega welcomed five new matai title holders yesterday morning. The paramount chiefly title Ailao and four chiefly titles Sulufau were bestowed during a traditional and colourful ceremony.
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Students of Loto Taumafai Inclusive Education in Vaitele were the first to receive dental checks last Friday using a new mobile dental clinic donated by the government of Japan.
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Tagaloa Eddie Wilson’s work in the kava industry has received global recognition. As the Chair of the international Kava Executive Council and President of the Pacific Kava Association, Tagaloa has been honoured for leading the lifting of the 2001 ban on Pacific kava and restoring regional kava exports globally
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Think a minute…We’ve heard the expression, “The devil is in the details.” In World War II, General Dwight Eisenhower was the Supreme Commander of the Allied forces who defeated Adolf Hitler and his massive Nazi army.
In his article “Geoengineering worsen climate and hurts Paris Agreement” (October 11, 2018, posted online October 15, 2018), Fiu Mataése Elisara, Executive Director – O.L.S.S.I contends geoengineering (climate engineering) “…is a deliberate attempt by the rich to distract from the real priorities of fossil fuel emission reductions.
No media The British American Tobacco Company, previously known as Rothmans, celebrated a milestone at Robert Louis Stevenson Museum last night. It was their 40th birthday in Samoa.
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