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A Samoan lawyer who practices in Australia has raised concerns at what he described as the lack of insurance awareness for Samoan seasonal workers in Australia.Director of Brisbane-based firm WT Compensation Lawyers, Leota Sinaumea Taufao told the Samoa Observer in an interview on Monday that he ...

A Public Service Commission (P.S.C.) investigation into how a local consultancy firm staffed by former top bureaucrats was contracted to review a national health policy is still underway.The P.S.C. Chairman Nonu Lemauga Va'ai, in response to questions from the Samoa Observer, said on Tuesday that...

Japanese diplomats on Tuesday got to see the challenges Apolima residents have to endure daily when travelling to or out of their island home.Staff from the Japan Embassy in Apia travelled to the isolated island, nestled on a rocky enclave between Samoa's Upolu and Savai'i islands, for the openin...

Forty-five years ago one man believed in the noble cause of reporting the truth and holding the powerful to account and went about his work with the help of a loyal friend to create the first edition of this newspaper in a cookhouse in Vaimoso.The Samoa Observer, as we know it today, initially be...

The Leader of Opposition, Tuilaepa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi has commended Samoa Observer on its 45th anniversary and being of service to Samoa and its people. Tuilaepa, who served as prime minister of Samoa for 23 years, paid tribute to the service and legacy of the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the...

The former director of a non-government organisation that has worked with street vendors has urged authorities to address the increase in young child street vendors.Pastor Aumua Eric Poe of Christian City Church Apia Central, who was previously the director for Teen Challenge Samoa, told the Samo...

The Chief Executive Officer (C.E.O.) of Commerce, Industry and Labour, Pulotu Chu Ling has assured seasonal workers that setbacks brought about by the pandemic would soon be over as the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (P.A.L.M.) scheme is making grounds  in finding solutions.In an interview wit...

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

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Faipule Faimealelei Anthony Allen brought up an issue concerning private schools in American Samoa during the House session, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023.

A Samoan academic has supported recommendations by a Commission of Inquiry (CoI) for a review of criteria for election candidates with a court conviction and believes they should be barred. The CoI into the 2021 General Election, whose final report is now before the Legislative Assembly, in its r...