Smallest footprint, biggest trouble: Inside the push to measure the vulnerability of Small Island Developing States.
Written by Simona Marinescu, Ph.D. Resident Coordinator for the UN Multi Country Office for Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau and Samoa.…
DEAR OH DEAR ….to peanut farmers, it’s not peanuts.
There’s a $15,000 tala set aside in the budget for Samoa talks. Why is that a budget item when we’re…
Wake Me Up When You’ve Done Preaching
By Seuamuli Desmond Bentin According to a story in The Guardian by Australian based freelance Pacific Affairs reporter Joshua Macdonald,…
MY SAY : Make A Stand But For Goodness Sakes Stand As One
FILE PHOTO: Teachers outside the TATTE Convention Centre after a MESC meeting
DEAR OH DEAR…. horrors of a budget combing to remember
The way Stui and Co. combed those budget items with surgical intent was mouth opening. A bit rough on the…
OUR SAMOA : Why Not A Farmer’s Car?
….a spade and a pitchfork tucked neatly behind this vehicle’s boot door caught the attention. The top rack made it…
MY SAY : Young and FAST. Not Always A Matured Option To Trust
By Mataeliga Pio Sioa The shame and shambles of last week would all have been avoided if the Speaker Papali’i…
OPINION : A Dark Week
This week will go down in our history as the darkest week in Samoan political history. In only the 8th…
DEAR OH DEAR : ….save a life, go get vaccinated
So our cuzzies across from Aleipata have finally found a live COVID-19 virus carrier of their own. Welcome to the…
OPINION : So this is What, Who, Where, We are now?
On Friday, 17 September 2021, 18 HRPP Elected Members were allowed into and were sworn in inside the House of…