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It is good news that progress is finally been made on Samoa’s National Identification Project (NIP). The ID card that will be issued at the completion of the project is supposed to replace the voter ID and can be used as a health or medical ID card.An article (National ID coming soon) in yesterda...
Governments and public institutions around the world have strict laws and policies governing the giving of gifts to public officials.The rationale behind these laws or policies, in most democratic nations with similar systems of governance to Samoa, is to maintain the integrity of the public offi...
Dear Editor, In the Weekend Observer issue dated Saturday, 18th February 2023, the abovementioned headlined article by reporter Sialai Sarafina Sanerivi was covered on front and second page.This article referred to “recent data released by the Samoa Bureau of Statistics (SBS)” more specifically the...
The debate on banning the overwhelmingly popular video-sharing app TikTok has been raging globally over the last three years, due to security concerns that its parent company, ByteDance could pass on confidential user data to the Chinese government.But Samoans, like other Pacific islanders, are u...
The second and final part of The Desmond Allen Interviews looking at the life of veteran journalist, broadcaster and playwright Barbara Gloudon published in the Jamaica Observer on...