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Medical education linked to Samoa's health system is the focus of a two-day international medical conference currently underway in Apia.The Gold Coast Medical Association's Samoan Medical Conference started on Friday morning at the Taumeasina Island Resort and targets students and medical profess...

Faleatiu Primary School students have returned to classes despite last Friday's inferno destroying their top-floor classrooms with the rubble and damage from the blaze still visible. Samoa Observer visited the school on Thursday afternoon, six days after the fire destroyed the school building, an...

Local seasonal work agencies or recruiters are yet to be informed about the amendments to the new policy by the Seasonal Employment Unit, Samoa Observer can reveal.They are yet to be informed of the new update which will now require agents to pay a SAT$10,000 registration fee in order to recruit ...

Outgoing Minister for Women, Community and Social Development, Leota Laki Sio says internal issues concerning the district council committees are handled by the ministry. Leota was asked by the Samoa Observer to comment on calls by the Sagaga No. 2 M.P. Maulolo Tavita Amosa for an investigation o...

A lot was said last week on both social media and mainstream media about the April 2021 death of 18-year-old National University of Samoa (N.U.S.) student Tuuau Faasavalu in a hit-and-run incident. But it was the announcement by the Acting Prime Minister, Tuala Iosefo Ponifasio late last Friday o...

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A drug raid at a local business in Samoa netted meth, marijuana and over $10,000 in cash.

It has been just over a week since the fire crippled and forced the closure of one of Apia’s leading medicine suppliers Maria Pharmacy on Vaea Street. Last Wednesday morning, the blaze burnt Maria’s Mall and impacted neighbouring businesses including Talofa Airways, Maria's Pharmacy Healthcare, a...

The Sagaga No. 3 District Council Committee needs to be commended for putting aside their differences and coming together for the better good of all people living the villages that form the district.Their ability to dialogue and resolve the issue around representation shows that perhaps once the ...

A round-up of news in brief from around the region.

The mother of a deceased teen, a victim of a hit-and-run incident in April 2021, said their family's only wish is for peace after his case was discussed by the Cabinet last Friday.In an interview with the Samoa Observer on Monday, Rosie Maletino said they have already forgiven whoever did her fam...