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Fua II: Steinlager I’a
Lapo’a Tournament
Champions… B1
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Fesoasoani IRB
si’itia ta’aloga lakapi i Am. Samoa 10
The Lt. Governor
leads a toast at the
annual Military Ball,
held at Maliu Mai Resort
in Fogagogo on Friday,
May 1st.
[Photo by Barry Markowitz]
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PAGO PAGO, AMERICAN SAMOA
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
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Tele le fesoasoani AG says he didn’t approve ImmiOfisa Nofovaavaaia gration Office “Orientals” memo
tagata solitulafono
It’s about 30-day permits for foreigners
by Joyetter Feagaimaali’i-Luamanu
Samoa News Reporter
tusia Ausage Fausia
I fa’amaumauga mai le Ofisa Fa’anofovaavaaia ua taua ai,
le tele o le fesoasoani a le Ofisa i le to’atele o tagata ua ta’usala
i solitulafono eseese, ina ia toe faia ni isi suiga i o latou olaga,
atoa ai ma le mulimulita’i i ta’iala ma poloaiga ua mae’a ona
fa’ataoto mai e le Fa’amasinoga.
I fa’amaumauga a lea ofisa o lo o taua ai e fa’apea, e
to’aititi lava nai tagata o lo o i lalo o le vaavaaiga a le Ofisa
Fa’anofovaavaaia latou te le o usitaia ni isi o poloaiga a le
Fa’amasinoga, peita’i o le to’atele o i latou ua mae’a ona lau
fa’asalaga ma ua tuuina atu ai fo’i poloaiga latou te usita’i ma
tausisi i ai, o lo o latou usitaia pea. Na taua e se sui o lea Ofisa
e le fa’atagaina ona ia fa’amatu’u fa’amatalaga fa’apenei i
tusitala e fa’apea, na pau ituaiga tagata solitulafono o lo o maua
i fa’amaumauga a le Ofisa, latou te le o usitaia tuutuuga a le
fa’amasinoga, “o i latou ua leva a latou mataupu, pe ua silia fo’i
i le ta’i fa tausaga o i ai i le polokalame a le Ofisa”.
“O le to’atele o tagata o lo o poloaina e le fa’amasinoga e auai
i ni aoaoga faa faufautua i tulaga o le ‘ava malosi po o le ita, ina
ia fesoasoani ai i a’afiaga ma fa’afitauli o lo o a’afia ai o latou
(Faaauau itulau 14)
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The Single Heaviest Yellow Fin Landed Award – was given to
the youngest registered angler in the 17th Annual Steinlager I’a
Lapo’a Tournament, Leon Simpson of the Fua II, who with his
father, Vaughn, ran a two-man crew that swept this year’s tournament for their second championship title here. This past Saturday
the tournament held its award ceremony at Tisa’s Barefoot Bar in
[photo: TG]
Alega. See story and photos in today’s Sports section.
“I did not approve” or “condone” the memo
that was posted inside the Immigration office
regarding entry permits for orientals, says
Attorney General Talauega Eleasalo Ale.
The AG was responding to Samoa News
questions following receipt of an email to Samoa
News regarding a “memo-alert” which indicated
that — per the Attorney General’s order — there
will be “no more” Entry Permits for any ‘orientals’ as of now until further notice.”
According to Talauega, the memo appears
to be an internal memo for Immigration officers
— to remind them of their effort to control foreigners entering the territory on 30-day permits.
Talauega told Samoa News that he’s now
reviewing all the 30-day entry permits and also
has a designee that’s been appointed to review
the permits, if he’s not available.
Samoa News received numerous calls about
this “memo” and when Immigration officers
were asked about it on Friday, they claimed that
the memo had been taken off the board. It should
be noted that the Immigration officers were more
interested in who took the picture of the memo
and sent it to Samoa News — than answering if
the memo was still in effect.
The AG told Samoa News that during the
amnesty program it was discovered that more
than 4,000 foreigners were residing on island
illegally — and a majority of them had entered
the territory using 30-day permits.
He said this is why he’s strictly monitoring all
the entry permits. He further told Samoa News
that he did not instruct or condone the notice that
was posted last week and he has asked Immigration to remove that notice.
Asked about the Immigration office being
labeled as discriminatory, the AG dismissed those
comments and said they were “irresponsible”.
The AG told Samoa News that he’s reviewing
all the entry permits for every foreigner. He further explained that it was a practice in previous
years for American Samoans to sponsor foreigners who came in on 30-day permits, and then
these people would seek employment paid under
the table, even without receiving the proper documents allowing them to work.
He stated it was this practice that led to countless foreigners living illegally in the territory.
Regarding the Immigration’s lunch hour
that left several people disappointed last week,
the AG said that it was a “one time thing.” Last
week Samoa News was contacted by an elderly
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In recognition of soldiers who passed away or were prisoners of war, the Lt Governor’s wife lit a
candle, with a rose, a firearm, and an empty chair being set as remembrance at the annual Military
Ball, held at Maliu Mai Resort, Fogagogo, American Samoa on Friday, May 1. [Photo by Barry Markowitz]
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samoa news, Wednesday, May 13, 2015
by Samoa News Staff
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LBJ HOSTS OFF ISLAND
NURSING STUDENTS
The LBJ Medical Center hosted ten nursing
students from Brigham Young University in
Provo, Utah who departed for a mini-break to
independent Samoa last Friday.
LBJ’s head of nursing Tofiga Tufele told Samoa
News yesterday that the girls were delighted to
spend a week at the LBJ, helping out during the
Nurses Week celebration and assisting with outreach activities in different clinics as well as the
Emergency Room. The students were here as part
of their work towards their bachelor’s degrees.
“The girls came to American Samoa to learn
more about how things are done here and the
differences - if any - compared to how things are
done off island,” Tufele said.
“The exchange between the visiting nurses
and the local nurses was very positive and productive. The students were very happy and they
enjoyed congregating with each other.” Tufele
said that the girls saw many similarities, although
there were some minor differences in routines
like hand washing and changing IVs.
May 6 was National Nurses Day - a one day
event in the US - and the students enjoyed very
much the fact that locally, it was a week-long
celebration that kicked off with a church service
and included many activities like zumba, outreach, and a family day.
In addition to experiencing working at LBJ,
the nurses also visited the local DOH dispensaries. The girls are being escorted to Apia by two
of their instructors. The BYU College of Nursing
sends students to different countries as part of a
global health experience and this is the first time
a trip has been made to the territory.
Next year, according to Tufele, visiting
nursing students will include boys and she has
already been informed by one of the visiting
nurses that after she graduates, she will apply for
a job at the LBJ Medical Center.
ONESOSOPO PARK
The Department of Parks and Recreation
plans to upgrade the conditions at Onesosopo
Park, to include new restroom facilities, a grand
stand, basketball and volleyball courts, and a
track encircled with perimeter lights for those
who wish to walk or run for exercise purposes.
Last year, the spectator stand that once stood
at the far east corner of the park was torn down
and the entire ground was leveled in preparation
for the planned upgrades.
DPR Deputy Director Ken Tupua told Samoa
News that the goal is to open up the area, to accommodate different sporting activities besides softball
and baseball, which the area catered to for many
years. Tupua said a proposal was being drafted to
construct a grand stand in the middle of the field
towards the sami side, facing the main road.
A walking trail encircling the perimeter of
the Park is included as part of the upgrade plan.
The area won’t be cemented but instead, it’ll
just be a grassy area marked off with lights similar to the ones at the Suigaula ole Atuvasa Beach
Park in Utulei.
Funding for the job comes from the Land and
Water Conservation Fund, administered by the
US Dept. of Interior. American Samoa is entitled
to $50,000 a year from the federal fund.
Last year, DPR reached out to the community,
soliciting public feedback and ideas on outdoor
activities people “want to see in our parks and
recreation areas”.
The goal was to get the community to voice
their opinion to determine where the majority
stands and where consideration will be placed.
PRIVATE NONPROFIT GROUPS
REMINDED OF DEADLINE
FOR DISASTER LOANS
The U.S. Small Business Administration
reminds American Samoa private nonprofit
(PNP) organizations that the deadline is less than
30-days away to apply for federal disaster loans
related to last year’s disaster in the territory,
which claimed one life and caused an estimated
amount of just over $2 million in damages.
In September of last year, President Barack
Obama declared that a major disaster occurred
in the territory, after severe storms, flooding and
landslides occurred between July 29 and Aug. 3,
2014. A report late last year by the U.S. Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to the
U.S. Congress states in part that the preliminary
damage assessment of American Samoa disaster
put the estimated total cost at $2.02 million.
The presidential federal declaration covered
only Public Assistance and Hazard Mitigation
funding as well as federal disaster loans by the
SBA, but did not cover Individual Assistance —
which is for families.
Earlier this week, Sacramento, California
based SBA Disaster Field Operations Center
director Tanya N. Garfield issued a reminder that
local PNP have until June 10 this year to apply
for an SBA federal disaster loan for economic
injury caused by last year’s disaster. PNPs that
provide essential services of a governmental
nature are eligible for assistance.
In a statement, Garfield said eligible PNPs of
any size may apply for such loans of up to $2 million to help meet working capital needs caused
Nuuuli Voc-Tech High
School accomplishes
fundraising coup…
samoa news, Wednesday, May 13, 2015 Page 3
Obtains 501(C) certificate and also
approved for CFC Charity List
by Fili Sagapolutele, Samoa News Correspondent
With an approved IRS 501 (C) certificate, the Nu’uuli Vocational Technical High School Parents and Teachers Association is
now eligible to seek federal grants and other financial assistance to
support the school’s short and long term goals and programs, says
school PTA president, Carol Baqui.
The high school’s PTA received a 501 C (3) Recognition Letter
from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service last December, said Baqui,
who also shared more good news, which she called “blessings”.
The other good news was that the PTA was recently approved to
be part of the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) Charity List —
which accepts donations from federal contractors and employees
worldwide. (The PTA’s approval falls under the Hawai’i District,
which includes the territories.)
Baqui first made a presentation about the PTA’s tax exempt
non-profit status from the IRS during the territory-wide meeting
of DOE with PTAs and parents two months ago and included in
the presentation some of the work that they are doing to assist the
school for the future.
Education director Vaitinasa Dr. Salu Hunkin-Finau said she
applauds the PTA’s efforts. “They’ve taken a proactive role and
I admire them for looking at other avenues such as the federal
government to obtain financial resources and not just the local
government,” she told Samoa News. “The PTA is moving forward to further assist the high school, which is the only technical
secondary school in the territory.”
Hunkin-Finau said that the PTA should maintain an open line
of communication with the main DOE office on these and other
types of issues going forward, so that her office is kept up to date.
She said this is also the same for other PTAs that have set their
agendas and programs. “An open line of communication is very
important so that we know what’s happening within the schools,
which are under the jurisdiction of the DOE,” she said in a phone
interview yesterday morning before heading to Manu’a for the
DOE meeting on Ta’u island with parents there regarding the proposal to combine Faleasao and Fitiuta elementary schools.
Baqui told Samoa News that while the PTA is actually a notfor-profit organization, the IRS 501(C) makes a huge difference in
regards to raising funds to support the school’s short and long term
goals and programs.
By attaining a 501C, the PTA is now eligible to seek grants,
financial and material donations from businesses, friends and
alumni of the high school on island and off island “to advocate
educational and trade-related equipment and tools,” she said.
Baqui shared that during the 2014-2015 school year, the PTA
created a ‘budget’ project to support all existing on-campus
events, clubs and organizations, such as Close-Up program,
Student Council, National Technical Honor Society and Science
and Math Clubs.
A ‘budget’ was also set up for the PTA Officers and Team
Committees in handling administration workload, printing supplies and promotional purposes, as well as a “unique budget”
for the principal to assist with campus activities and/or hosting
of guests and officials who visit the campus.
“Incredibly, the PTA purchased last November a new Commercial Reverse Osmosis Water System, which costs $1,300
including shipping and several sets of extra filters,” she explained,
adding that the Reverse Osmosis fetches 200 gallons per day and
it’s already installed on-island ready to be used as soon as the
‘water pressure’ issue is resolved.
According to the PTA president, this project will enable the
school’s students to “drink clean, purified water”.
Another notable project by the PTA was the pavement of the backroad to the campus, which was allocated about $1,000 not including
time and resources provided by PTA members and students.
“All these projects were successfully established before we
received our 501(C) status,” she said, adding that the PTA has
only a few months to work with the school principal and teachers
“to produce a favorable outcome of what the PTA stands for.”
She said that the PTA received local government approval of
its PTA’s Articles of Incorporation last November and thereafter
the PTA moved quickly for the 501(C) in early December.
“To our amazement, it took only two weeks for the IRS to
process our application and respond favorably on December
30,” she said.
Asked for reaction on their approval for the CFC Charity List,
Baqui said, “it’s an astounding moment for us” and “an answered
prayer and a gratifying moment for all PTA members and students
of Voc Tech High School.”
The 17th Annual Steinlager I’a Lapo’a Tournament’s organizing committee on Monday this week
donated six large fish caught during the tournament to Hope House, whose staff are pictured in the
background accepting the food donation. This donation is an annual gift for the staff and residents
[photo: I’a Lapo’a committee]
of Hope House from the I’a Lapo’a organizers. Page 4
Pope: God will judge you on
whether you cared for Earth
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis warned the rich and
powerful on Tuesday that God will judge them on whether they
fed the poor and cared for the Earth, his latest exhortation on the
environment ahead of his eagerly-awaited encyclical on climate
change and its effects on the world’s most vulnerable.
Francis delivered the warning during a Mass for the Vatican’s
Caritas Internationalis charity. In his homily, Francis said the
planet has enough food to feed the world but “it seems that there is
a lack of willingness to share it with everyone.”
“We must do what we can so that everyone has something to
eat. But we must also remind the powerful of the Earth that God
will call them to judgment one day,” he said. “And there it will be
revealed if they really tried to provide for him in every person, and
if they did what they could to preserve the environment so that it
could produce this food.”
No papal document in recent times has produced as much anticipation or anxiety as Francis’ encyclical, which is expected next
month. Environmentalists are thrilled that Francis is lending his
moral authority to provide an ethical foundation for action to stem
climate change. Conservatives, including many Christians, have criticized Francis for wading into the politically charged climate debate.
On Tuesday, one of Francis’ key advisers, Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, said he was stunned by the complaints he had heard
during a trip to the United States over a papal document that hasn’t
even been published yet. He accused those fueling it of an ideology
“that is very strongly linked to a vision of capitalism that doesn’t
want to renounce damaging the environment for the sake of profits.”
Francis has said global warming is “mostly” man-made and
that humanity has a moral duty to stop it.
Ms. Roberta Haynes is in Samoa for the 61st anniversary of her movie, “Return to Paradise”,
in which she stars with Gary Cooper. The movie is a part of an event sponsored by Fiji Airways
and co-sponsored by Sama Beer to raise funds for the Marist Trust to continue their support of
people living with spinal injuries in Samoa. The event is being held at the ‘Return to Paradise’ Hotel
[courtesy photo]
that opened last year in the village of Lefaga.
The start of a vineyard in the Territory?
[photo: Barry Markowitz]
COOLStuff
The American Samoa Government’s Department of Agriculture shared a healthy bunch of green, soon to be red grapes at
their Tafuna Industrial Park compound. At almost $9 a bunch
at most local stores, if this demo growth is successful, could this
be a profitable cash crop for American Samoa’s farmers?
Great to see ASG experiments in non traditional agriculture. The question is, will you take their efforts and make something of it? Go for it Coolios? I love fresh grapes... and sipping a little
medicinal wine for a gorgeous Territorial sunset would be
righteous too.
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A weekend of glamour
in Samoa as Hollywood
star returns to paradise
by Joyetter Feagaimaali’i-Luamanu
Samoa News Reporter
To commemorate the 61st anniversary of the
“Return to Paradise” movie that was filmed in
Samoa, Hollywood screen legend, Ms. Roberta
Haynes arrived in Samoa on Monday. She will be
in Samoa this week for a reunion of the hit movie
‘Return to Paradise’ after more than 60 years since
the movie brought international recognition to the
Treasure Islands of the South Pacific, Samoa.
The 61st anniversary premiere weekend will
begin this Friday, May 15, 2015 (Samoa Time)
at the very site where the movie was filmed in
1953, where a 61-room hotel now stands. ‘Return
to Paradise’ Hotel was opened last year in the
village of Lefaga.
The film is directed by Mark Robson and stars
Gary Cooper, Barry Jones and Roberta Haynes.
It is based on a short story by James Michener
in his short story collection “Return to Paradise”,
his sequel to “Tales of the South Pacific”.
According to wikipedia, Cooper washes up
on an island in the South Pacific, ruled by Pastor
Corbett (Barry Jones), a missionary who rules as
a religious despot.
In the movie, Haynes plays an island native,
who has an illegitimate child with Cooper.
Samoa Observer reports that for the movie
premier this Friday, All Blacks captain, Richie
McCaw, has donated his World cup commemorative captain’s jersey as a special auction prize
for the “Return to Paradise” Gala Charity Ball.
The Charity Gala Ball is part of a weekend of
glamour and follows the Friday night red carpet
movie premiere with special guest, Haynes who
is being flown out from Hollywood by event
sponsor Fiji Airways.
She will also be guest speaker at the Charity
Ball, sharing stories of the making of the movie
and the golden era of Hollywood.
“Interest is very high in both the movie premiere and the Gala Ball,” says Resort Chairperson, Hinauri Petana.
“This is a wonderful opportunity for all of us
here in Samoa to dress up and celebrate a very
special part of our history – the Return to Paradise movie. Tickets for both the Movie premiere
and the Gala Ball are selling fast.” According to
the Samoa Observer the Gala Ball, cosponsored
by Sama Beer, will raise funds for the Marist
Trust to continue their support of people living
with spinal injuries in Samoa.
“If you can support the Gala Ball at Return to
Paradise Resort, I know the funds will be used to
help for as many people as possible who really
need our help to live with dignity and purpose,”
said the All Blacks captain.
Other celebrities — including All Blacks, Fiji
Captain, Akapusi Qera and Sione’s Wedding
star, Robbie Magasiva — are also donating prizes
along with many local businesses including
Sinalei, Seabreeze and Orator Hotel.
NEWS IN BRIEF
Strong quake shakes northeast Japan, no tsunami risk
TOKYO (AP) — A strong earthquake hit Japan on Wednesday
in the same region devastated by a major quake and tsunami in
2011. Authorities said there was no risk of tsunami.
The magnitude 6.8 quake struck at 6:12 a.m. at a depth of 46
kilometers (29 miles) off the coast of Miyagi prefecture, the Japan
Meteorological Agency said. It shook a wide swath of northern
Japan and was felt in Tokyo, 415 kilometers (260 miles) to the
southwest. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.
Meteorological agency official Yohei Hasegawa told a news
conference that the earthquake was an aftershock of the magnitude
9.0 disaster that killed more than 18,000 people in March 2011.
No abnormalities were reported at the Fukushima Dai-ichi
nuclear power plant, which was damaged beyond repair in the
2011 disaster, or at other reactors in the region.
Iran warns Saudi, US against
targeting Yemen aid ship
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A senior Iranian military official
has warned the Saudi-led coalition targeting Yemeni rebels that
attacking an Iranian aid ship bound for Yemen will “spark a fire.”
Gen. Masoud Jazayeri, the deputy chief of staff, delivered the
warning in an interview with Iran’s Arabic-language Al-Alam
state TV late Tuesday. Iran says the ship, which departed Monday,
is carrying food, medicine, tents and blankets, as well as reporters,
rescue workers and peace activists. It says the ship is expected to
arrive at Yemen’s port city of Hodeida next week.
The U.S. and Saudi Arabia have accused Iran of arming the
Yemeni rebels, known as Houthis. Iran supports the rebels, but
both Tehran and the Houthis deny it has provided weapons to them.
94-year-old man finishes college
after starting 75 years ago
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — A 94-year-old man will be
one of the oldest graduates in the West Virginia University history
when he receives his diploma Sunday.
The school says in a press release that Anthony Brutto, who
studied on and off for 75 years, will be awarded his Regents Bachelor of Arts degree during commencement.
Brutto first entered the university in 1939 when tuition was
$50. He was drafted in 1942, serving in the Army Air Corps until
the end of World War II. Brutto re-enrolled at the school in 1946,
but could not finish because he had to care for his sick wife.
A machinist by trade, Brutto says graduating from college
was always important to him. He jokingly says he’ll take a break
before pursuing a master’s degree.
Congress passes bill setting
up alert when police are killed
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress has passed a bill setting
up a national alert system whenever a police officer is killed or
injured. Supporters say the bill would ensure that information
about suspects is quickly shared with other law enforcement
agencies and the public.
The program would be managed by the Justice Department.
Participation by state and local police agencies would be voluntary. About 20 states already have similar systems. The House
passed the bill Tuesday by voice vote. The Senate passed the bill
unanimously in April. It now goes to President Barack Obama.
The bill is named after New York City police officers Rafael
Ramos and Wenjian Liu, who were killed last year.
Student asks his girlfriend to the
prom while jumping out of a plane
POMFRET, Conn. (AP) — A northeastern Connecticut
boarding school student has videotaped himself asking his girlfriend to go to prom with him while jumping out of an airplane.
WVIT-TV reports Pomfret School student Eddie Staten saw people
skydiving on his way back from Easter vacation and decided that’s
how he would ask his girlfriend of about two years to prom.
Staten jumped out of the plane this month giving the camera a
thumbs up in one hand and holding the sign asking Talia Guilino
to prom in the other. He says she has agreed to go. The Skydive
Danielson company says this was the second skydiving promposal
it has helped with this year. The video was posted online May 3.
suspect is arrested after ‘liking’
mug shot on Facebook posts bond
GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana man who was
arrested after “liking” his mug shot on a Crimestoppers Facebook
page has posted bond in a felony forgery case.
Levi Charles Reardon of Great Falls was arrested on April 24,
three weeks after an acquaintance pointed out his picture on the
Great Falls/Cascade County Crimestoppers Facebook page and
Reardon liked it. Reardon told the Great Falls Tribune on Monday
that he was surprised at the level of attention he received after
liking the post listing him as one of the area’s most wanted.
The 23-year-old said he’d been contacted by national news outlets for interviews. Reardon pleaded not guilty on May 7. Public
defender Alex Spayd said Reardon posted a $2,500 bond the next
day. His trial is set for Aug. 31.
Emergency personnel help a passenger at the scene of a train wreck, Tuesday, May 12, 2015, in
Philadelphia. An Amtrak train headed to New York City derailed and crashed in Philadelphia.
(AP Photo/Joseph Kaczmarek)
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Project Notification & Review System
Legal Notice
PNRS BOARD MEETING
May 20, 2015
Notice is hereby given that the Department of Commerce/American Samoa Coastal Management
Program has received a Land Use Permit Application from the following individuals.
1. Baccalaureate Ma’o
15-3307-LVB
Proposal for repair of commercial structure - Atu’u
2. Emele & Iosefo Mose
15-3353-L
Proposal for excavation and construction of a new residential structure with utilities - Amouli
3. Meneva & Dorothy Fiaui
15-3455-L
Proposal for road and driveway repair - Utulei
4. Patricia Vaivao
15-3496-LVB
Proposal for two (2) bill board signs - Pago Pago
5. Amuia Ulufale
15-3499-LVB
Proposal for paving area of commercial structure - Malaeimi
6. Johnson S. Masunu
15-3489-L
Proposal for a new extension and repair with utilities - Nu’uuli
7. Tofoipupu Unutoa Mageo
15-3501-L
Proposal for new construction with utilities and septic tank - Aua
8. Selau Aiava
15-3510-L
Proposal for filling and brick wall extension - Pago Pago
9. DOC c/o Michael McDonald
15-3513-L
Proposal for sand recovery - Utulei
10. Solip Hong
15-3548-LVB
Proposal for a new commercial structure with utilities, paving, driveway, walls/fences - Tafuna
PROPOSAL FOR DRY LITTER PIGGERIES:
10. Paul Tialavea
Amouli
15-3387-L
11. John Shuster
Mapusaga
15-3389-L
12. Fa’amalele Ripley
Utumea
15-3393-L
13. Velonika Eugenio
Tafeta
15-3394-L
14. Aufata Maugale
Aoloau
15-3400-L
15. Lemasaniai Tali
Aoloau
15-3401-L
16. Vili Vili
Aoloau
15-3402-L
17. Wesley Tuilefano
Malaeloa
15-3405-L
18. Nikolao Alo
Fagasa
15-3407-L
19. Malaea Vagana
Aoloau
15-3406-L
20. Willie & Samuel Umi
Taputimu
15-3424-L
21. Maea Ueli
Fagasa
15-3444-L
22. Sauileone Aigofie
Malaeloa
15-3445-L
23. Malia Maea
Leone
15-3446-L
Persons interested in or affected by a proposed project, are invited to review the project file and
provide comments based on environmental issues, by contacting Marvis Vaiaga’e at 633-5155, at
the Department of Commerce in Utulei during regular ASG working hours. Public comments must
be received no later than 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 19, 2015. Interested individuals are also
invited to attend a Public Hearing at 9:00 a.m. Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at DOC Conference
Room, on the 2nd Floor of the Executive Office Building in Utulei.
O lo’o iai i le Ofisa o Fa’afetauaina ni talosaga mo Pemita e Fa’atagaina ai le Fa’aaogaina o Fanua ma
Laueleele e tusa ma ala o le Tulafono. A iai se tasi e fa’asea pe fia tusia se molimau i ni afaina o le
si’osi’omaga pe a galueaina nei galuega, telefoni mai ia Marvis Vaiaga’e i le 633-5155. E mafai fo’i
ona e auai i le fono a le Komiti Fa’afoe ia Me 20, 2015
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A Nepalese victim of Tuesday’s earthquake tries to sit up with the help of family members at
Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, May 12, 2015. A major earthquake has hit Nepal
near the Chinese border between the capital of Kathmandu and Mount Everest less than three weeks
(AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
after the country was devastated by a quake.
Thousands spend night outside
as the death toll rises in Nepal
CHAUTARA, Nepal (AP) — Thousands of
fear-stricken people spent the night outdoors
after a new earthquake killed dozens of people
and spread more misery in Nepal, which is still
reeling from a devastating quake that killed more
than 8,000 nearly three weeks ago.
A U.S. Marine Corps helicopter carrying six
Marines and two Nepalese soldiers was reported
missing while delivering disaster aid in northeastern Nepal, U.S. officials said, although there
have been no indications the aircraft crashed.
Home ministry official Laxmi Dhakal said
Wednesday that army helicopters were scouring
the Sunkhani area, nearly 80 kilometers (50
miles) northeast of Kathmandu, for the missing
helicopter.
Tuesday’s magnitude-7.3 quake, centered
between Kathmandu and Mount Everest, struck
hardest in the foothills of the Himalayas and triggered landslides that blocked roads to remote
villages in several districts. Most of the 65 people
confirmed dead by Wednesday morning were
in Dolakha district, located northeast of Kathmandu, the district’s chief administrator Prem
Lal Lamichane said.
“People are terrorized. Everyone is scared
here. They spent the night out in the open,”
Lamichane said, adding the administration was
running out of relief material.
He asked the government to send more helicopters and supplies, and said there were many
injured people stranded in villages.
Tuesday’s quake also left nearly 2,000
injured, according to the Home Ministry’s latest
count. But that toll was expected to rise as reports
trickled in of people in isolated Himalayan towns
and villages being buried under rubble, according
to the U.N.’s Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs.
Tremors radiated across parts of Asia. In
neighboring India, at least 16 people were confirmed dead after rooftops or walls collapsed onto
them, according to India’s Home Ministry. Chinese media reported one death in Tibet.
The magnitude-7.8 earthquake that hit April
25 killed more than 8,150 and flattened entire villages, leaving hundreds of thousands homeless
in the country’s worst-recorded quake since
1934. The U.S. Geological Survey said Tuesday’s earthquake was the largest aftershock to
date of that destructive quake.
Impoverished Nepal appealed for billions of
dollars in aid from foreign nations, as well as
medical experts to treat the wounded and helicopters to ferry food and temporary shelters
to hundreds of thousands left homeless amid
unseasonal rains.
Search parties fanned out to look for survivors in the wreckage of collapsed buildings in
Sindhupalchowk’s town of Chautara, which had
become a hub for humanitarian aid after last
month’s quake.
In Washington, Navy Capt. Chris Sims said
the missing Huey helicopter was conducting
disaster relief operations near Charikot, Nepal.
A nearby Indian helicopter heard radio chatter
about a possible fuel problem, said U.S. Army
Col. Steve Warren.
The Huey, carrying tarps and rice, had
dropped off supplies and was headed to a second
site when contact was lost, he said, adding that
there has been no smoke or other signs of a crash.
Due to the rugged terrain, the helicopter could
have landed in an area where the crew was unable
to get a beacon or radio signal out, Warren said.
Tuesday’s quake was followed closely by
at least 17 strong aftershocks, according to the
USGS.
Frightened residents in the capital, who had
returned to their homes only a few days ago, had
to again set up tents Tuesday night to sleep in
empty fields, parking lots and on sidewalks.
“Everyone was saying the earthquakes are
over. ... Now I don’t want to believe anyone,”
said 40-year-old produce vendor Ram Hari Sah.
Extra police were sent to patrol ad-hoc
camping areas, while drinking water and extra
tents were being provided, according to Kathmandu administrator Ek Narayan Aryal.
Meanwhile, new landslides blocked mountain
roads in the district of Gorkha, one of the regions
hit hardest on April 25, while previously damaged buildings collapsed with the latest quake.
Residents of the small town of Namche
Bazaar, about 50 kilometers (35 miles) from the
epicenter of Tuesday’s quake and well known
to high-altitude trekkers, said a couple of buildings damaged earlier had collapsed there as
well. However, there were no reports of deaths
or injuries.
The earth also shook strongly in neighboring
Tibet, unleashing a landslide that killed one
person and injured three, according to China
Central Television. Two houses collapsed, the
state broadcaster said, quoting disaster officials
of the regional Tibetan government.
Boston Marathon
bombing lawyers
to make their final
case for life, death
BOSTON (AP) — It’s the last chance for prosecutors and
lawyers to make a case for life in prison or the death penalty for
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev when they present
their closing arguments to the jury. The jury is expected to begin
its deliberations late Wednesday after it hears closing arguments
and instructions from the judge. During the four-month trial, prosecutors have portrayed Tsarnaev as a callous, unrepentant terrorist who carried out the deadly attack with his radicalized older
brother, Tamerlan. They say he deserves the death penalty.
Tsarnaev’s lawyers admitted he participated in the bombings, but
told the jury he was “a good kid” who was led down the path to terrorism by Tamerlan, who wanted to punish the U.S. for its actions in
Muslim countries. They’ve asked the jury to spare his life.
Three people were killed and more than 260 were injured when
two bombs exploded near the marathon’s finish line on April 15,
2013. Tsarnaev, 21, was convicted by a federal jury last month
of all 30 counts against him, including use of weapon of mass
destruction. The same jury must now decide his punishment.
In their opening statement, Tsarnaev’s lawyers urged the jury to
sentence Tsarnaev to life in prison, calling it the most appropriate
punishment for someone who was 19 when he committed the crime.
They said a life sentence also would help the families of his victims,
who wouldn’t be subjected to years of appeals and public attention
that would almost certainly result if he is sentenced to death.
The defense showed the jury photos of the federal prison in
Florence, Colorado, where Tsarnaev likely would be sent if he is
sentenced to life. There, his lawyers said, he would remain, locked
in his cell 23 hours a day, living an austere, solitary existence until
the day he dies, denying him the martyrdom he apparently wanted.
Prosecutors, however, said death is the only appropriate punishment for Tsarnaev. They said he was an equal partner with his
brother in planning and carrying out the bombings. He planted
his bomb behind a group of children, killing 8-year-old Martin
Richard. “Nothing will explain his cruelty and his indifference,”
prosecutor Nadine Pellegrini said.
Jurors must be unanimous in their decision to give Tsarnaev the
death penalty. If even a single juror votes against death, Tsarnaev
will be sentenced to life in prison.
Interior Grants of $650,000 to
combat threats to coral reefs
(BASED ON A PRESS RELEASE) — WASH. D.C. —
May 12, 2015) —Assistant Secretary for Insular Areas Esther
Kia’aina approved nearly $650,000 in initial grant assistance provided under the Coral Reef Initiative (CRI) program in the Office
of Insular Affairs to fund several efforts to reduce threats and
improve management of coral reefs in the U.S. insular areas. The
goal of the CRI program is to improve the health of coral reefs
and marine resources in the Nation’s island territories and freely
associated states for their long-term economic and social benefit.
“Coral reef resources are under threat from a variety of stresses,
including sedimentation, poor water quality, over-harvesting,
coastal development and climate change,” said Assistant Secretary Kia?aina. “It is important to build capacity by training high
school and college students interested in coral reef protection and
management and increasing education and awareness for the general public. These grants will help achieve these objectives while
addressing local threats and improving the overall health of coral
reefs that that are critical to the livelihoods of island communities.”
FOR AMERICAN SAMOA
National Coral Reef Institute — $200,000 to support a Coral
Assistantship program in American Samoa, Guam, the U.S.
Virgin Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands.
The program was identified as a priority by the insular areas in
the 2014 U.S. Coral Reef Task Force 2014 report for funding in
2015 and 2016. It will be administered by the Nova Southeastern
University’s National Coral Reef Institute. The program will help
fill current capacity gaps as well as build longer-term capacity by
placing qualified young professionals where their education and
work experience will meet each jurisdiction?s specific needs.
American Samoa’s Coral Reef Advisory Group — $135,169 to
assess water quality and identify sources of nutrient loads in American Samoa’s watersheds; install rain gardens to reduce land-based
sources of pollution in targeted watersheds including Faga’alu,
Vatia and Nu’uuli; and continue efforts to eradicate the crown of
thorns starfish invasion and monitor the bleaching event of 2015.
White police officer
won’t be charged in
Wisconsin shooting
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A white Wisconsin police officer
won’t be charged for fatally shooting an unarmed 19-year-old biracial man, a prosecutor announced Tuesday, prompting peaceful
demonstrations but none of the immediate violence that has hit
some other U.S. cities in similar cases.
Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne said he wouldn’t
file charges against Madison Officer Matt Kenny in the March 6
death of Tony Robinson, saying the officer used lawful deadly
force after he was staggered by a punch to the head and feared for
his life. Ozanne, mopping his brow repeatedly but speaking forcefully for some 25 minutes, took pains to outline his own biracial
heritage before announcing his decision.
“I am the son of a black woman who still worries about my
safety,” Ozanne said. “I am a man who understands the pain of
unjustified profiling, and I am the first district attorney of color,
not only in Dane County, but in the state of Wisconsin.”
Then, Ozanne walked through evidence from the scene, 911
callers, Robinson’s friends, police affidavits, crime lab reports and
more to paint a picture of a young man out of control from a mix of
hallucinogenic mushrooms, marijuana and Xanax. Kenny rushed
to the apartment building and immediately became concerned that
Robinson was attacking someone upstairs. He fired his weapon
only after he was punched in the head and feared he might be disarmed and killed, Ozanne said.
Kenny wasn’t wearing a body camera. Dashcam video released
Tuesday shows the outside of the home, and the shots fired can be
heard. “I conclude that (Robinson’s) tragic and unfortunate death
was the result of a lawful use of deadly police force and that no
charges should be brought against Officer Kenny in the death of
Tony Robinson Jr.,” Ozanne said. He quickly wrapped up and left
to meet Robinson family members.
Robinson’s mother, Andrea Irwin, said she was not surprised
by the decision. The investigation wasn’t thorough enough, she
said. “They could have done a lot. What they didn’t do was give
my son any respect,” she said. But family members, as they have
since the shooting, asked that protests remain peaceful.
About 100 people gathered at Robinson’s apartment house in
the wake of Ozanne’s decision. One of them, Jivonte Davis, 19,
said he had known Robinson since the fifth grade.
“I can go out and break stuff and do anything I want right now,”
Davis said. “But rioting and everything, what would that achieve?
We’re no Ferguson; we’re no Baltimore. We’re going to do this
the right way. We’re going to do this peacefully.”
The protesters, eventually estimated by police at 250 to 300
people, began marching to the state Capitol about a mile and a half
away. Some had dogs and strollers and were bound for a nearby
church for a prayer service. Marchers chanted, “No justice, no
peace. No racist police,” and held a banner that read “Justice for
Tony.” They eventually dispersed.
One lead group in organizing earlier protests, the Young, Gifted
and Black Coalition, had announced plans to demonstrate.
Jim Palmer, Kenny’s attorney and the executive director of
the Wisconsin Professional Police Association, the state’s largest
police union, issued a statement praising Ozanne’s decision. Palmer
noted that Kenny suffered several injuries including a concussion.
Robinson’s death forced Madison — a liberal bastion that is
home of the University of Wisconsin and the state capital — to
confront racial divisions. Blacks make up about 7 percent of the
population but more than that in arrests, incarceration and poverty.
One demand from the Young, Gifted and Black group was to drop
plans to renovate the county jail and to free 350 black inmates.
Police Chief Mike Koval wrote in a blog post following
Ozanne’s announcement that the city was at a crossroads, with the
chance to show that “civic dissent and even acts of civil disobedience” can co-exist with police. Koval’s post included how protesters could avoid the most damaging arrests, and he posted a list
of ordinance violations, misdemeanors and “protected activities”
complete with fine amounts for the violations.
But police were also ready for the possibility of violence. A
Madison police captain warned city leaders in an email before
Ozanne’s decision that police had received threats from reliable
sources that gang members planned violence against officers.
The shooting was another in a series of police confrontations that have ignited racial tension across the nation in the past
year. Most recently in Baltimore, riots erupted after the funeral
for Freddie Gray, a black man who suffered a fatal spinal injury
while in police custody. Other high-profile cases of officers killing
unarmed black residents include the deaths of Michael Brown in
Ferguson, Missouri; Eric Garner in New York City; and Walter
Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina.
Six officers involved in Gray’s death have been charged, as has
the officer who killed Scott. Grand juries declined to charge the
officers involved in Brown’s and Garner’s deaths.
➧ NEWS IN BRIEF…
Amtrak train derails killing 5
people; investigation begins
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An Amtrak train
abruptly overturned in Philadelphia, killing at
least five people and injuring dozens of others,
some of whom had to scramble through the windows of toppled cars to escape. The accident has
closed the nation’s busiest rail corridor between
New York and Washington as federal investigators begin sifting through the mangled remains to
determine what went wrong.
Train 188, a Northeast Regional, left Washington, D.C. and was headed to New York when
it derailed shortly after 9 p.m. Tuesday. Amtrak
said the train was carrying 238 passengers and
five crew members.
Mayor Michael Nutter, who confirmed the
deaths, said the scene was horrific and not all the
people on the train had been accounted for.
“It is an absolute disastrous mess,” he said.
“I’ve never seen anything like this in my life.”
He said all seven train cars, including the
engine, were in “various stages of disarray.” He
said there were cars that were “completely overturned, on their side, ripped apart.”
More than 140 people went to hospitals to
be evaluated or treated, and six were critically
injured. Amtrak said the cause of the derailment
was not known and that it was investigating. It
was bringing in lights to illuminate the scene
overnight as workers examined the wreckage.
More vehicles recalled for
problem Takata air bag inflators
TOKYO (AP) — Toyota Motor Corp. and
Nissan Motor Co. are expanding their recalls
over problem air bags made by Japanese supplier
Takata Corp. by another 6.5 million vehicles.
Toyota said Wednesday it was recalling nearly
5 million more vehicles globally for the air bag
inflator problem. Some 637,000 of the vehicles
are in the United States. In Japan, it is recalling
nearly 1.4 million vehicles.
The recall affects 35 models globally,
including the Corolla subcompact, RAV4 sport
utility vehicle and Tundra pickup, produced from
March 2003 through November 2007.
In the latest recall, front passenger and front
driver-side air bag inflators can deploy abnormally, or rupture, and put a person in a crash
at greater risk. This is different from an earlier problem with Takata air bag inflators that
deployed with too much force, which has affected
a range of automakers including Honda Motor
Co., Chrysler, BMW and Ford Motor Co. At least
six people have died worldwide due to that defect.
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Dozens feared dead in slipper
factory fire in the Philippines
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A mayor and
fire officials in a suburb of the Philippine capital
say dozens of workers are feared dead in a fire
that razed a rubber slipper factory.
Mayor Rex Gatchalian of Valenzuela city
north of Manila said at least 62 people were
reported missing by their relatives and that fire
officials say no one survived in the building after
the fire was put under control.
District Fire Marshall Wilberto Rico Neil
Kwan Tiu says he was among the first to reach
the second floor of the gutted building after the
fire and saw “numerous bodies,” many charred
beyond recognition.
Gatchalian says the fire apparently was ignited
from sparks from welding works at the building’s
main entrance door.
Police arrest man for stabbing
girl after marriage proposal
PHOENIX (AP) — A Phoenix man is awaiting
extradition from California back to Arizona after
police say he stabbed his girlfriend after she
declined his marriage proposal.
KNXV-TV reports that 34-year-old Michael
Turvey proposed to his girlfriend after she
had tried to break up with him. Police say he
responded by stabbing her multiple times.
Witnesses say he then left in the victim’s car.
He was found at a Greyhound station in California, where he had bought a ticket to Oregon.
The victim initially suffered serious internal
injuries. Her current condition was not available.
UK’s government will publish
Prince Charles secret letters
LONDON (AP) — Prince Charles’ secret letters to government officials are set to be released
to the public after a long court battle. The 27 contested letters have been called the “black spider”
memos because of Charles’ handwriting style.
The memos to be published Wednesday have
long been sought via a Freedom of Information
Act request by a Guardian newspaper journalist.
Britain’s Supreme Court in March supported a
lower court ruling that the letters be published.
The government has sought for years to keep
the letters out of the public domain for fear that
publishing them might damage public perceptions of Charles’ neutrality.
As heir to the throne, Charles is expected to
stay out of political matters. He has in the past
expressed views about architecture, genetically
modified food and climate change.
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Indonesian police arrest
7 in seafood slavery case
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP)
— Two Indonesians and five
Thais were arrested on charges
of human trafficking connected
with slavery in the seafood
industry, Indonesian police said.
They were the first suspects
taken into custody since the case
was revealed by The Associated
Press in a report two months ago.
The arrests were made
Monday and late Friday in the
remote island village of Benjina, said Lt. Col. Arie Dharmanto, National Police antitrafficking unit chief.
Five Thai boat captains and
two Indonesian employees at
Pusaka Benjina Resources, one
of the largest fishing firms in
eastern Indonesia, were taken
into custody. The arrests come
after the AP reported on slavecaught seafood shipped from
Benjina to Thailand, where it
can be exported and enter the
supply chains of some of America’s biggest food retailers.
“They have committed an
extraordinary crime, and we will
not let it happen again in Indonesia,” Dharmanto said Tuesday.
“We will not stop here. We will
pursue those who are involved in
this case, whoever they are.”
Police will recommend they
be charged by prosecutors. If the
men go to trial, they could face
jail sentences of up to 15 years
and fines as high as $46,000.
He said the number of
suspects would likely climb
because authorities are still
investigating how thousands
of foreign fishermen from
Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and
Thailand were put on fishing
boats in Thailand — sometimes
after being tricked or kidnapped
— and brought to work in Indonesian waters where they were
not allowed to leave. Many said
they were beaten and forced to
work up to 24 hours a day with
inadequate food and unclean
water. Most were paid little or
nothing at all.
The yearlong AP investigation found that tainted fish can
wind up in the supply chains of
some of America’s biggest food
sellers, such as Wal-Mart, Sysco
and Kroger. It can also find its
way into the supply chains of
some of the most popular brands
of canned pet food, including
Fancy Feast, Meow Mix and
Iams. The companies have all
said they strongly condemn
labor abuse and are taking steps
to prevent it, such as working
with human rights groups to hold
subcontractors accountable.
Gavin Gibbons, spokesman
for the National Fisheries Institute, which represents about 75
percent of U.S. seafood sellers,
said they are eager to see the
cases prosecuted. “This is exactly
the kind of action we’ve called
for,” he said Tuesday. “We are
pleased to see the government
of Indonesia working swiftly to
investigate and acting to arrest
suspects in this incident.”
In April, a week after the
story was published, Indonesia’s Fisheries Ministry made a
dramatic rescue when officials
loaded more than 300 slaves
and former slaves in Benjina
onto six fishing boats for a
17-hour overnight voyage to the
island of Tual where they have
since been housed at a makeshift camp near the port.
With
59
Cambodians
returning home Monday, most
of those remaining are from
Myanmar, otherwise known as
Burma, but a few are also from
Laos. More than 200 others have
also been identified in Benjina
and are waiting for travel documents to go home as well.
Dharmanto said authorities
planned to fly all the suspects to
Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, after
the investigation is completed.
Police were still questioning the
company’s security guards, who
were also expected to be named
as suspects, he added.
He said the police probe
found that hundreds of foreign
fishermen were recruited in
Thailand and brought to Indonesia using fake immigration
papers and seamen books and
were subjected to brutal labor
abuses. The suspects are accused
of locking fishermen up for one
to six months in a prison-like
cell located in the company’s
compound in Benjina.
Police have seized five
fishing boats allegedly used by
the suspects for human trafficking and slavery-like practices as well as dozens of fake
passports and seamen books.
Dharmanto said the arrests
were made after police questioned more than 50 foreign fishermen from Myanmar and Cambodia along with 16 witnesses,
including company employees,
immigration and port officials.
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Clooney, astronauts mark 45th
anniversary of Apollo 13
SUGAR LAND, Texas (AP) — George
Clooney has joined astronauts Jim Lovell, Tom
Stafford and Eugene “Gene” Cernan at a gala in
Texas to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the
Apollo 13 mission.
The event to mark last month’s anniversary
was held Tuesday night at an airport hangar in
the Houston suburb of Sugar Land.
The Apollo 13 mission was the third intended
to land on the moon, but after it launched April
11, 1970, an oxygen tank exploded, crippling
the spacecraft. The crew was forced to orbit the
moon instead of landing and returned safely on
April 17. Lovell commanded the mission.
Clooney is a brand ambassador for Omega,
which sponsored the event and outfitted the astronauts on the mission with watches.
The event culminated with dinner in a room
designed to mimic the surface of the moon.
Perris City Councilman pleads
guilty to drug charge, resigns
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Perris City Councilman Julio Rodriguez has pleaded guilty to a
felony drug charge and has finally stepped down
after resisting calls to resign his council seat.
The Riverside Press-Enterprise reports that as
part of a plea deal, Rodriguez pleaded guilty to
a sole count of furnishing methamphetamine on
Monday.
In September, the 29-year-old was charged
with felony possession of meth and two counts
of furnishing the drug. He was also charged with
two misdemeanors: being under the influence of
meth and possession of a drug pipe.
The former councilman’s attorney has
declined to speak until after Rodriguez’s May 15
sentencing.
Perris Mayor Daryl Busch says the council
will have to call for a special election or appoint
a replacement to fulfill the remainder of the term,
which expires in 2016.
Police — N.Y. bus driver drove
drunk with 35 students on board
CORTLANDT, N.Y. (AP) — Police say a
school bus driver was driving drunk with 35 students on board when she sideswiped a utility pole
in suburban New York. It happened Monday as
56-year-old Mary Coletti was taking students to
Walter Panas High School in Cortlandt.
Authorities say she sideswiped the pole
around 7 a.m. They say her blood-alcohol level
was above the legal limit of .08 percent.
A few students suffered minor injuries.
Lakeland School District Superintendent
George Stone tells The Journal News Coletti’s
bus driver’s license has been revoked.
Coletti was arraigned Monday and sent to jail
on $1,000 bail. She’s due back in court May 18.
It’s unclear if she has an attorney.
Inmate hurt in blast at California sheriff’s gun range dies
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A jail inmate who
was injured in a gas pipeline explosion at a central California sheriff’s gun range last month has
died, authorities said.
Jeremiah Espino, 52, of Sanger, suffered
severe injuries in the April 17 blast and died
at a hospital on Monday afternoon, the Fresno
County Sheriff’s Office said.
The explosion sent 11 people to the hospital,
including eight jail inmates who were doing
cleanup work at the range and a county employee
operating a front-loader. Two other inmates and
the county worker are still hospitalized, sheriff’s
spokesman Tony Botti said.
The county worker remains in critical condition, said Mary Lisa Russell, a spokeswoman for
Fresno’s Community Regional Medical Center.
The blast occurred while the employee was
using the front-loader to build a dirt berm to confine gunfire to the range. The explosion sent flames
towering over a nearby highway and warped 400
feet of nearby railway line, shutting down both.
Philippines seeking help
from the US in stopping
China land reclamation
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Philippines’ top diplomat said
Tuesday he is seeking more U.S. help in stopping massive land
reclamation by China that could give Beijing effective control of
the South China Sea. Foreign Minister Albert del Rosario told
a Washington think tank that China is attempting to enforce its
so-called “nine-dash line” — the rough demarcation of China’s
territory on its official maps that virtually envelopes that ocean.
He described the line as “unlawful.”
China and five other claimants, including the Philippines, contest control of the potentially resource-rich waters.
The United States, a treaty ally of the Phillipines, has expressed
growing concern over China’s creation in the past year of artificial islands, particularly in the Spratly Islands chain. A senior
U.S. defense official said last week that China’s land reclamation,
potentially for military use or airstrips, now totals about 2,000
acres. “We are taking the position that we must do something
quickly lest the massive reclamation results in de facto control
of China of the South China Sea,” del Rosario told the Center for
Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
He said that China’s control could lead to militarization, and
also threatens the rule of law and freedom of navigation.
Chinese officials defend the reclamation, saying it is Beijing’s
territory and that the buildings and infrastructure are for public
service use and to support fishermen. It accuses the Philippines,
Vietnam and others of carrying out their own building work on
other islands. The U.S. says it takes no position on sovereignty
claims in the South China Sea, but has an interest in peace and
stability in its busy shipping lanes. It is providing millions in aid
to boost the Philippines’ capability in maritime security and has
voiced support for Manila’s ongoing legal challenge to China’s
nine-dash line. But del Rosario said the U.S. can do more boost its
engagement in Asia, including stronger economic ties.
Del Rosario was speaking after Senate Democrats blocked
efforts to begin a full-blown debate on a trade bill that is key to
President Barack Obama’s ambition to complete a pan-Pacific
free-trade agreement.
The Philippines is not among the 12 nations negotiating the
agreement, but del Rosario said Manila hopes to join eventually.
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Fesoasoani IRB
si’itia ta’aloga
lakapi i ASamoa
tusia Ausage Fausia
O le auai atu ai o le Ta’ita’ifono o le Iuni Lakapi a Amerika
Samoa (ASRU) i se a’oa’oga o le a fa’atautaia e le Faalapotopotoga o le ta’aloga lakapi i le lalolagi (IRB), lea e faia i Ausetalia i
le vaiaso fou, ua atagia mai ai le naunau o le IRB ina ia televave
le atina’eina o le ta’aloga lakapi i Amerika Samoa, e pei ona
fa’amaonia mai e le afioga i le matua ia Togiola T. A Tulafono i
le Samoa News.
O le fa’aiuga o le vaiaso nei e tuua ai e Togiola le atunu’u mo
lea fonotaga i Ausetalia, lea o le a a’oa’oina ai o ia i tiute fa’a
fa’amasino i taimi o ta’aloga lakai (Judiciary Officer).
O le toe taliu mai ai o le Taitafono o le ASRU i le atunu’u
pe a mae’a lenei aoaoga e faia mo le tolu aso (Me 18-20), ona
ia fa’atautaia ai loa lea o ni aoaoga mo ni isi e mafai ona avea
ma Fa’amasino i taimi ta’aloga lakapi i le teritori, i lalo o le
fesoasoani mai a le IRB.
“O le ulua’i taimi lenei ua valaaulia mai ai e le IRB ia Amerika
Samoa e auai atu i aoaoga nei, ma o se avanoa lelei lea e mafai
ai ona ou maua le tomai e fa’atino ai ituaiga galuega nei, ma le
fa’amoemoe a mae’a ona fa’apineina a’u i lenei aoaoga, ona ou
fo’i mai loa lea ma fa’atino ni aoaoga mo ni sui o le atunu’u latou
te fa’atinoina lenei galuega fa’apitoa”, o le saunoaga lea a Togiola.
O le fa’afitauli o lo o feagai ma le ASRU i le tele o tausaga,
e le gata e leai se tasi ua agava’a e avea ma Fa’amasino i taimi o
ta’aloga lakapi, ae tau aami mai foi sui mai le Iuni Lakapi a Samoa
e avea ma Fa’amasino. O le tagata e avea ma Fa’amasino i taimi
o ta’aloga, o ia lea e faia le faaiuga i se tagata taalo poo se kalapu
fo’i e fa’asala e le laufali i le taimi o le ta’aloga.
O le mae’a ai o le aoaoga a le IRB mo le tolu aso, ona sosoo
atu ai loa lea ma le fonotaga fa’aletausaga masani a le IRB i le aso
Tofi ma le aso Faraile o le vaiaso fou, lea o le a talanoaina ai ni
isi o mataupu mo le faaleleia atili o le ta’aloga lakapi i le lalolagi.
O le fonotaga a le ASRU i le vaiaso nei lea ua fa’amoemoe e
fa’amautu ai loa le aso e amata aloaia ai lana ta’amilosaga ta’ito’a
15, mo le fa’amoemoe e saili mai sana au fili e auina atu i le
ta’amilosaga a le Oceanaia, lea e faia i le masina o Oketopa 2015
i Papua Niu Kini.
Saunoa Togiola e faapea, o le taua o le ta’amilosaga a le ASRU
lea ua fa’amoemoe e amataina i le masina lenei, o le a fili mai ai
se ‘au lelei a Amerika Samoa, e to’afa i ai au e sailia le siamupini
o le Pasefika. O ‘au e fa o le a sailia se siamupini o le Pasefika i
le ta’amilosaga a le Oceania e aofia ai Papua Niu Kini, Atu Kuki,
Tonga ma Amerika Samoa.
Feso’ota’i mai i le tusitala ia ausage@samoanews.com
Se tasi o tama matua o lo o gafa ma le filiina o le ‘afa Samoa.
[ata: AF]
To’atele tagata matutua o le
a aloaia TAOA la latou tautua
tusia Ausage Fausia
E to’atele tama ma tina matutua o le a aloaia la latou tautua e le Ofisa o Tagata Matutua (TAOA),
i le sauniga fa’apitoa lea o le a faia i le aso 28 Me 2015 i le malae o le Su’igaula a le Atuvasa i
Utulei, le aso fo’i lea ua fa’apitoa mo tagata matutua i le teritori.
Na taua e le Fa’atonusili o le TAOA i le Samoa News e fa’apea, o fa’ailoga eseese o le a
tauaaoina atu i lea aso, o le a taualoa ai le tautua a tama ma tina matutua i le atunu’u, lea fo’i e
aofia ai ma ni fa’ailoga fa’apitoa mai le Vaega a le Feterale o lo o fa’atupeina le tele o polokalame
mo tagata matutua, le Regioa IX, o le ulua’i taimi fo’i lea ua latou saunia ai ni fa’ailoga fa’apitoa
mo tagata matutua.
“O le fuafuaga a le TAOA ua mae’a ona fa’ataoto mo le aso o tagata matutua i lenei tausaga,
o le a fa’aauau pea ona matou aloaia Tina matutua i le atunu’u, aemaise ai Tina sa tautua i vaega
‘au a le malo tele, ona o lea fo’i sa fa’ataua i latou i le sauniga o le fu’a o lenei tausaga”, o le saunoaga lea a Ale Tifimalae.
Mai fa’ailoga taualoa masani e tolu sa masani ona tauaao atu e le TAOA i le aso e fa’ataua ai
tagata matutua, e lua isi fa’ailoga taualoa ua fa’aopoopo atu i ai.
O ia fa’ailoga e lua o le “Military Appreciation Award” ma le “Region IX Presentation”.
O fa’ailoga taualoa masani e tolu o lo o faia i tausaga uma lava, e fa’amanatu ai le aso
fa’apitoa o tagata matutua i le teritori, e aofia ai le fa’ailoga mo le tagata pito matua o lo o
(Faaauau itulau 14)
Le taaloga i le va o le au mai Fagatogo ma Mapusaga, i le
[ata: AF]
ta’ito’a 7 o le fu’a na se’i mavae atu nei.
tusia Ausage Fausia
POUONO GALA MUASAU
Ua toe taofia nei se ali’i mai Pago Pago i le toese i Tafuna, ona
o tu’uaiga i lona le usitaia lea o tuutuuga o lana nofovaavaaia, e
mafua mai i le mataupu lea na ta’usala ai o ia e le fa’amasinoga
maualuga i le 2011, i lona umia fa’asolitulafono lea o vaega o le
laau fa’asaina o le mariuana. O le aso Faraile na te’a nei na tu’uina
atu ai e le Ofisa Fa’anofovaavavaia se poloaiga e pu’e fa’apagota
mai ai Pouono Gala Muasau, ae o le aso Gafua na te’a nei na fa’atoa
pu’e fa’apagota mai ai o ia, ma tula’i ai loa i luma o le fa’amasinoga
maualuga i le taeao ananafi mo lana ulua’i iloiloga.
O lo o tu’uaia e le Ofisa Fa’anofovaavaaia ia Muasau i lona le
usitaia lea o poloaiga o lana nofovaavaaia, e pei o le alu lea e vaai le
Ofisa Faanofovaavaaia i le masina, ma totogi le salatupe e $2,000 i le
fa’amasinoga. I fa’amaumauga sa mafai ona fa’alauiloa i luma o le
fa’amasinoga i le taeao ananafi, e le gata o lo o taua ai le ova atu i le 6
masina e le i toe alu Muasau e vaai le Ofisa Nofovaavaaia, ae na te lei
totogiina fo’i le salatupe sa poloaina o ia e le fa’amasinoga e totogi.
O le aso 29 Me lea ua fa’atulaga e faia ai le iloiloga fa’apitoa o lenei
mataupu i luma o le ali’i fa’amasino sili ia Michael Kruse, e iloilo ai
pe fa’amaonia tu’uaiga a le Ofisa Fa’anofovaavaaia. Ua toe taofia nei
Muasau i le toese e aunoa ma se tupe ua fa’atulaga e tatala ai o ia, e
fa’atali ai le aso lea ua fa’atulaga e toe valaau ai lana mataupu.
FREDDIE VILIAMU
O le ali’i lea o lo o tu’uaia e le malo i ni mataupu eseese se lua
sa tutupu i le 2012, ua ia sauni e tu’uina atu lana tali ioe i luma o le
fa’amasinoga, e tusa ai o tu’uaiga fa’asaga ia te ia. O le aso Faraile o
le vaiaso nei lea ua fa’amoemoe e fofoga aloaia ai le maliliega lea ua
mae’a ona sainia e le malo ma le susuga a Freddie Fa’aoso Viliamu,
ma le fa’amoemoe e fa’amuta ai loa taualumaga o ana mataupu i
luma o le fa’amasinoga. O le mataupu muamua lea na tula’i mai i le
masina o Ianuari 2012, o lo o tu’uaia ai o ia e le malo i le moliaga
o lona talia lea o ni oloa sa ave fa’agaoi e ni isi tagata, o ni masini
computers mai le aoga maualuga i Leone, lea na gaoi e ni isi ali’i ma
tu’u atu ia Viliamu, ona ia alu lea ma fa’atau atu i isi tagata.
O le mataupu lona lua na tula’i mai i le masina o Oketopa 2012,
ina ua la ulufale ma se isi ali’i i totonu o se faleoloa i Leone i le
leva o le po, ao fusi o la foliga, ma ia ave fa’agaoi ai se vaega tupe
e $600 mai totonu o le masini tupe a le faleoloa, ao matamata i ai se
tama’ita’i Asia e galue o se tali tupe i le faleoloa.
Na taua e le tama’ita’i tali tupe i leoleo e fa’apea, sa taumafai e
tago atu lona lima e taofi mai le masini tupe, peita’i sa po ese e se tasi
o i laua na i ai i le osofaiga lona lima, ae aveese le tupe sa i totonu
o le masini. Na fiu leoleo e tau saili i laua tonu na fa’atinoina lenei
solitulafono, ae ina ua vaavaai i ai ni molimau i ata sa pu’eina i luga
o le masini pu’eata a le faleoloa, sa latou fa’ailoa ai i leoleo, o se tasi
o i laua sa auai i le osofaiga, o le ali’i o Viliamu, lea sa faigofie ona
latou iloa o ia i lana savali atoa ai ma lona faitino.
O lo o taofia pea Viliamu i le toese i Tafuna e fa’atali ai le aso
Faraile nei lea ua fa’amoemoe e lau ai lona fa’asalaga.
FAASALALAUGA
SUAFA “TUANA’ITAU”
O PAVA’IA’I
E muamua ona ou fa’atulou atu i le paia mai Saua se’ia
o’o atu i Falealupo. Pa’ia foi i le Aufaigaluega a le Atua
i fata faitaulaga e fia, Tulou, Tulou, Tulouna Lava.
Ia fa’ata’alolo atu la’ia o pa’ia na.
A’o lenei fa’asalalauga e fa’asino tonu i Suli moni uma
o le Suafa “Tuana’itau” i le afioaga o Pavaiai.
Le afioaga o afio ai le Afioga i le Sa’o ma ona Tei, Susu
Letelesa, Susu Ma’ava ma Taumafalofi, Fetalaiga i le
Matua, Nofo a Tualauta, Salemeana’i ma le Lufilufi.
O le a faia la tatou talanoaga i le Aso To’ona’i, Me
16, 2015 i le itula e 10:00 i le taeao, i le Maota
talimalo o Tuana’itau i Pavaiai lava. E vala’au atu ai,
ina ia tatou auai faatasi i lea aso ua atofaina. O lou le
auai o le a le taofia ai finagalo o aiga.
Faia ma le fa’aaloalo tele,
TOLUAO SEUTA’ATIA
O se va’aiga i le taimi na ootia ai e le afioga Senatoa Alo Fa’au’uga le lipine e tatala aloa’ia ai le Laoa
o Sili & le Maota o Tuinei o Olopitomoa i lona umusaga i le aso Faraile na te’a i Fagasa a’o tutula’i le
afioga le To’afiaoali’i Alo Paul Stevenson, le tofa Papatua ma Atuatasi ma Atuatasi. [ata: Leua Aiono Frost]
OLAGA LE TUMAU
Tusia: Akenese Ilalio Zec
Vaega: 33
Fa’atalofa atu i le mamalu o le atunu’u i lou
alafa’i mai i le manuia i lenei taeao fou, o se taeao
toto’a, taeao manuia i le alofa ma le agalelei o lo
tatou Tapa’au oi le lagi, e ao ai ona o tatou fa’apea
ifo, “Le Atua e, e fa’asilisili lava Lau Afio i mea
uma matou te manatu i ai, e leoleoina ai i matou,
a’o le vi’iga e fo’i atu lava i Lau Afio e fa’avavau,
fa’avavau lava, amene.”
Ua ma’ea le talatalanoaga a Loleni ma le ali’i
Leoleo o Keneti, ma na fa’alogoina fo’i e Keisi, ua
tu i luga le ali’i leoleo, ina ua pa’o vae o le nofoa sa
nofo ai. E fa’alogo atu Keisi, ua fa’apea le tala a le
ali’i leoleo o Keneti, ia ua uma le ta talanoaga mo
lenei taimi, ae se i fai pea su’esu’e a lo matou ofisa,
ma fa’agasolo pea le sa’ili’iliga o le fa’alavelave.
Na toe tali ane i ai Loleni, ua lelei, ae ia logo ane
ia, pe afai e maua nisi fa’amatalaga mautu e uiga i le
fa’alavelave. Ua fa’apea lava ona fai, ma ua tu’umuli
loa Keneti, ae ua nofonofo nei na o Loleni ma Keisi i
totonu o le potu. Fai mai, e le iloa e le to’alua o Keisi
le tamaloa o Loleni, o lo’o malamalama uma Keisi i
tala o lo’o fai, e le o iloa fo’i e foma’i ma tama’ita’i
tausima’i lea itu, ma e le o iloa fo’i e uo a Keisi o
Keli ma Lenina ae maise o le uso o Keisi le teine o
Lulu, o lo’o malamalama lelei Keisi i a latou tala o
lo’o fai pe a o ane e asi ia i le falema’i.
O le mea ua tupu, fai mai, a koma loa le tagata,
ua i ai le manatu o ali’i foma’i, ua le toe i ai se
aoga, ma ua le toe mafai ona toe lagona ni tala,
le mafai ona toe gaoioi, le mafai ona toe lelei le
mafaufau, peita’i, ua galo i ali’i foma’i, atonu,
e i ai lava nisi tagata ua koma, ae o lo’o lelei
lava o latou mafaufau. O le tulaga la lea o lo’o
i ai nei Keisi, ona o se tama’ita’i, e fiafia tele i le
fa’amalosi tino, e tamo’e lava i aso uma.
Atonu o le isi lea itu na feasoasoani malosi ia
Keisi, ina ua lavea i le ta’avale, ma o lea ua koma ai
nei i le falema’i. A’o ta’oto’oto Keisi i luga o lona
moega, ua toe mafaufau nei i le tala a le ali’i leoleo
o Keneti, lea na fai ane i lona to’alua o Leoleni, e
fa’apea, “O le latou su’esu’ega o le a fa’aauau pea,
ma e maua lava tala fou i lea aso ma lea aso.”
Fai mai Keisi, “Oi ta fefe, o lona uiga o le a
umi ona ou fa’apenei, o lona uiga fo’i, o le a le
toe mafai ona toe savali, pese, tamo’e, tapolo, ma
toe va’ai i nai ana uo o Keli ma Lenina, ae maise
o si ona to’alua fa’apelepele o Loleni.” Na avea
mafaufauga ia o Keli ma ala na moe ifo ai lava, a’o
lea o lo’o nofonofo pea lona to’alua o Loleni i ona
talane. E faia pea…
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Conchita Wurst, Austrian winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2014, left, unveils his wax figure
(AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
at Madame Tussauds in Vienna, Austria, Tuesday, May 12, 2015. ➧ NEWS IN BRIEF…
Dad avoids jail in amusement
park fight over knife ban
BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) — A Vermont
man has received a six-month suspended sentence on several charges following a fracas last
summer that erupted at a New Hampshire amusement park when his family was told they couldn’t
carry their knives.
Police said the judge set a dangerous precedent regarding E. Alan Perry’s sentence Monday,
creating the impression that people who disobey
officers can get away with it.
Perry, of Lyndon, and his family tried to enter
Canobie Lake Park in Salem last June, some with
knives on their belts. Security said the knives
were prohibited.
Authorities say the family became increasingly belligerent after two police officers arrived,
leading to physical confrontations that injured an
officer.
Judge David Anderson noted a jury acquitted
Perry of assault and his two sons face trial.
Prosecutors requested an 18-month-to-twoyear sentence.
Chinese workers at machinery
plant protest poor management
BEIJING (AP) — More than 10,000 Chinese workers at a state-owned heavy machinery
manufacturer are protesting low wages and the
company’s plan to lay off thousands of staff after
posting losses for three straight years.
Several employees of China National Erzhong
Group Co. in the southwestern city of Deyang on
Wednesday confirmed the massive street protests
that broke out on Monday.
They say incompetent and corrupt management of the company is behind its losses and poor
treatment of employees.
Erzhong employees say they have demanded
fair compensation for workers slated to be laid
off and for administrative costs to be trimmed.
Calls to Erzhong rang unanswered Wednesday.
Local police confirmed the protests and said
they were handling them without giving further
details.
Gutted Costa Concordia cruise
ship now ready for scrapping
ROME (AP) — The shipwrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner is finally ready for scrapping,
after being gutted of its insides, including furniture and wiring.
A pair of tugboats on Tuesday eased the
hulking wreck into a section of Genoa harbor
where the shell of the ship is expected to start
being dismantled in a week. Last summer the
Concordia made a more dramatic journey, towed
for several days to the Genoa area from the
Italian island of Giglio, where it struck a reef off
the Tuscan coast in 2012 and capsized, killing 32
people.
Starting from the top, the Concordia will be
dismantled one deck at a time and the material
scrapped.
The Concordia’s captain was convicted this
year of manslaughter and causing the shipwreck
and sentenced to 16 years in prison.
Climbers who stomped ‘SOS’ in
snow rescued from mountain
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — National
Park Service officials say two climbers from
Idaho who stomped out “SOS” in the snow were
rescued unharmed from an Alaska mountain after
triggering an avalanche.
Officials say 27-year-old Saxon Spellman
of Pocatello and 24-year-old Michael Wachs
of Idaho Falls were not caught in the avalanche
Monday evening at the 7,500-foot level of Mount
Dickey in Denali National Park and Preserve.
Park spokeswoman Maureen Gualtieri says
the climbers tried to leave the area on their own
but were unable to find a safe exit route.
The pilot of an air taxi saw the stranded
climbers waving their arms near an “SOS” that
had been stomped out in the snow on the west
shoulder of the 9,545-foot mountain.
Park rangers flew by helicopter to the area
after being notified.
The helicopter pilot landed on a flat area, and
the climbers were flown out.
Virginia couple testifies about
bizarre home-invasion attack
FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A lawyer and his
wife have testified about surviving a brutal
home-invasion attack in a Washington suburb
that prosecutors say was carried out by another
pair of lawyers.
Leo Fisher said at a preliminary hearing
Tuesday in Fairfax, northern Virginia, that
Andrew Schmuhl forced his way into Fisher’s
home, shot him with a Taser and slit his throat.
Police say Schmuhl and his wife Alecia
planned the November attack in retaliation for
Alecia Schmuhl getting fired from Fisher’s law
firm.
Fisher said Andrew Schmuhl pretended to be
a law enforcement officer during the attack and
interrogated him about his law firm.
Fisher’s wife, Susan Duncan, wept as she testified. She was shot in the head and stabbed.
The Schmuhls are jailed pending trial, each
charged with malicious wounding and abduction.
Nurse in Italy tests positive
for Ebola; was in Sierra Leone
ROME (AP) — Italy’s health ministry says a
nurse who came to Italy from Sierra Leone last
week has tested positive for the Ebola virus.
The ministry said a blood sample was sent to
Rome for testing Tuesday from Sardinia, where
the nurse had arrived on May 8.
The nurse, who wasn’t identified to protect
his privacy, worked for the non-governmental
aid group Emergency in Sierra Leone, one of the
African countries hardest hit by often-fatal Ebola.
The ministry said the nurse noticed the first
symptoms on Sunday evening and was admitted
to the infectious disease ward of Sassari hospital.
He will soon be transferred to Rome’s Spallanzani infectious disease hospital, which last year
successfully treated an Italian doctor who contracted Ebola after working in Sierra Leone, also
for Emergency.
Security Council
calls for UN-brokered Yemen talks
UNITED NATIONS (AP)
— The U.N. Security Council
is calling on Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon to convene peace
talks on Yemen.
A council statement Tuesday
night also welcomed the start of
a five-day pause in the fighting
to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid, but it warned that “all
parties will need to transparently and reliably suspend military operations.”
The statement says U.N.guided talks should include all
parties and must be a Yemeniled process. The U.N.’s new
Yemen envoy Ismail Ould
Cheikh Ahmed began his first
visit to the country on Tuesday.
Officials have said there
is no set time or place yet for
U.N.-led talks on Yemen. The
council statement welcomes a
separate May 17 conference in
Riyadh in support of talks.
Obama to meet with
Saudi leaders ahead
of Gulf summit
WASHINGTON (AP) —
President Barack Obama will
meet Wednesday with top Saudi
leaders skeptical of his nuclear
negotiations with Iran.
The meeting with the crown
prince and deputy crown prince
comes a day before Obama
holds a summit with the Saudis
and other Gulf nations at Camp
David. The White House
announced last week that Saudi
King Salman would represent
the kingdom, but Saudi officials
said over the weekend that the
king’s travel plans had changed.
The White House insists
the king’s absence is not a
snub. The Saudis have been
among the most vocal critics of
Obama’s outreach to Iran and
worry about Tehran’s meddling
in the region.
The Camp David summit
is aimed at reassuring the Gulf
states that the U.S. isn’t ignoring
those concerns and will aid their
security.
Boy struck, killed
by San Francisco
light-rail train
SAN FRANCISCO (AP)
— San Francisco police say
a middle school student was
struck and killed by a light-rail
train as he ran across a street.
The boy — identified as
12-year-old Andrew Wu —
was killed Tuesday in the
city’s Oceanview neighborhood. Police spokesman Albie
Esparza says he was trying to
catch the train to get to school
and ran into a crosswalk.
Two drivers came to sudden
stops before the boy was struck
and dragged by the train.
He was pronounced dead at
the scene.
Witness James Hayter told
KGO-TV the boy’s parents
were hysterical, and the mom
tried to pull him out from under
the train.
The San Francisco Chronicle
reports that counselors with the
fire department arrived to speak
with the boy’s parents and first
responders.
Police: Don’t chase
bears while drunk,
wielding a hatchet
NORTH ADAMS, Mass.
(AP) — Police in Massachusetts
have some sage advice: Don’t
go chasing after bears while
drunk and armed with nothing
more than a dull hatchet.
North Adams police wrote
on their Facebook page that
someone did just that on
Monday. The department noted
that the drunken man was taken
into protective custody.
No name was released.
Police say anyone who sees
a bear should leave it alone and
call authorities. They say they
don’t want to see anyone “going
all Davy Crockett.”
Bears are not unusual in the
largely rural western part of
the state.
A dispatcher said Tuesday
said no one was available to
handle media calls.
Subway employee
fired for posts celebrating police deaths
LAUREL, Miss. (AP) — A
Mississippi Subway restaurant employee has been fired
after posting a photo on Facebook that appeared to show
her in uniform celebrating the
killing of two police officers in
Hattiesburg.
Multiple news outlets report
Sierra McCurdy, who worked
at a Subway in Laurel, wrote
“GOT EM” in reference to the
Hattiesburg officers on a post
accompanied by emojis of a
handgun over a photo of herself
in a Subway uniform.
The post apparently referred
to the fatal shootings of
34-year-old Benjamin Deen
and 25-year-old Liquori Tate
on Saturday. Four people were
arrested for the crime and one
faces capital murder charges.
McCurdy’s posts created a
firestorm on Twitter and many
urged Subway to fire her.
Subway responded with
a tweet saying the franchise
had fired McCurdy and her
behavior does not represent
company values.
Navy fighter crashes
in the Persian Gulf;
American pilots safe
WASHINGTON (AP) —
The U.S. Navy says one of its
fighter jets has crashed in the
Persian Gulf, and the plane’s
two pilots ejected and were rescued without serious injury.
The Navy’s 5th Fleet said the
F/A-18 Super Hornet crashed
shortly after taking off Tuesday
from the aircraft carrier USS
Theodore Roosevelt, operating
in the Gulf.
The two aviators aboard
ejected from the plane and were
recovered by search and rescue
personnel from the Roosevelt,
which is conducting strike operations against the Islamic State
in Iraq and Syria.
The Navy offered no reason
for the crash but said it was not
caused by hostile activity.
The F/A-18 is part of Strike
Fighter Squadron 211, based
at Naval Air Station Oceana,
Virginia, and assigned to Carrier Air Wing One.
shooting spree in
So. Korea leaves
2 dead, 3 injured
SEOUL (AP) — A South
Korean reserve soldier went on
a shooting spree Wednesday,
killing a fellow reservist and
injuring three others before
killing himself, army officials
said. The soldier opened fire
with a K-2 rifle on fellow reservists during mandatory drills at a
reserve forces training site in
Seoul, the army officials said
speaking on condition of anonymity because of office rules.
The soldier committed suicide after the rampage and one of
the injured was declared dead at
a hospital, the army officials said.
The military is investigating but
had no other initial details.
Shootings at military barracks by soldiers have happened
with some frequency in recent
years, raising worries about bullying and mental health conditions in the country’s armed
forces. But a shooting spree
involving a reservist is unusual.
Last year, a South Korean
soldier threw a grenade and
opened fire on colleagues,
killing five and wounding seven
others. He later told investigators he shot fellow soldiers after
seeing a drawing they made of
him that he considered insulting.
All able-bodied men must
serve two years of mandatory
military service under a conscription system aimed at coping with
threats from rival North Korea.
Past rampages raised questions
about the discipline and readiness
of the South Korean military.
After finishing their military
duties, South Korean men are
required to take annual military training as members of the
country’s reserve force for eight
years and their training involves
shooting drills for the first six
years, according to the Military
Manpower Administration.
FAASALALAUGA
SUAFA “TIVAO”
OLOSEGA, MANU’A
O le a mapu i le tialogo le galu o le moana, le paia ma
le mamalu o sa ma faigata o Samoa mai le Matafanua
o Sasa’e seia pai’a le Mulifanua o Sisifo. Fa’apea foi le
tapuaiga i le aufaigaluega a le Atua o lo’o talafa’auto i
itu e fia o Samoa ona o le Atua ma Lana talalelei.
Taoto ia, ae mapu ane i ou falamatu ae tulou, tulou,
tulouna lava.
Ae fa’asilasila atu i paia o le Aiga Sa Tivao i Olosega,
Manu’a, o lo’o papa a’ao i Samoa ma atunu’u i fafo.
Ona o tulaga faigata o auala i Manu’a, o le mea lea o le
a faia ai le talanoaga a lo tatou aiga i le Ofisa o
Mataupu Tau Samoa, i le aso 16 o Me 2015 i le itula e
9:00 i le taeao.
O lou le au ai i lea talanoaga taua o le a le suia ai se
fa’aiuga o le a faia i lea aso.
Ma le fa’aaloalo tele lava,
o Tama & Tina o le Aiga Sa Tivao
Aveina Brothers, Inc.
Wholesale & Retail Grocers
HELP WANTED
Cashiers - Experience Preferred
Warehouse/Store Helpers - Willing to do hard work
Truck Drivers - Need Current AS Commercial Drivers License
Carpenters - Need Tradesman License
Pick up applications @ Aveina Bros Office in Matu’u
NO PHONE CALLS
Keep
Island Beautiful!
AS-EPAOurSAYS:
Do Not Litter. Please put
trash in the proper place.
Litter hurts. .
Do the right thing
VACANT POSITION
Applications are invited for the position of ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT/RECEPTIONIST (AAR)
with the Samoa Consulate General.
The post-holder will be responsible to the Accounts/Administrative Officer (AAO) for:
1. General Administrative duties
2. Establish and maintain a variety of files and records
3. Receive and Process entry permits
4. Process passport applications
5. Mail collection/dispatch: Tafuna Airport and Post Office
6. Respond to enquiries on matters pertaining to the mandate of the Consulate-General
7. Assist the AAO with matters requiring follow-up/remedial action
8. Any other duties as directed
a. The AAR must be neat and tidy and well presentable
b. Must be computer literate
c. He/She must have a valid driver license; a clean police report and at least 5 years relevant
work experience
d. Must be willing to work overtime; be a team member, hard-working; and of the highest
integrity
e. Be prepared to provide two references from previous employment, as/when required
f. An AA Degree in Accounting and/or Administrative/Management highly desirable
g. Salary will be in the range $12,000 - $15,000 p.a.
Please address all applications to: Samoa Consulate-General, PO Box 1313, Pago Pago, AS 96799.
And be received no later than Friday, May 15, 2015. For further information, please contact Samoa
Consulate General at 633-5919
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➧ Ofisa Nofovaavaaia…
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olaga, ua fa’au’u mai i latou nei i aoaoga e pei ona fautuaina, ma
ua vaaia fo’i suiga i o latou olaga”, o le saunoaga lea a se sui o le
Ofisa Faanofovaavaaia.
Na pau fa’afitauli o lo o mafua ai ona toe taofia fa’apagota mai
ni isi o lo o fa’anofovaavaaia, ina ua maitauina lo latou le tausisia
o ni isi o poloaiga e pei o le toe totogi lea o vaega tupe sa latou
ave fa’agaoi mai galuega sa galulue muamua ai, le fa’amaoni i
le totogiina o le salatupe, po o le faatamala fo’i e asiasi i le Ofisa
Fa’anofovaavaaia fa’atasi i le masina.
O isi tiute o lo o fa’atinoina e le Ofisa Fa’anofovaavaaia i le
taimi nei, e mata’ituina ai tagata ua ta’usala i solitulafono po o
latou usitaia poloaiga a le fa’amasinoga, o le mulimulita’i lea i
nofoaga o lo o nonofo ai i latou, ma vaavaai po o latou usitaia
poloaiga e pei o fanau e talavou i lalo o le tulafono, lea e fa’asa
ona latou tuua o latou fale mai taimi o le afiafi seia oo atu i le taeao,
poo le siaki fo’i lea o fale kalapu i tagata matutua ua poloaina le
fa’asa ona latou toe tagofia le ‘ava malosi.
“O le agaga autu o le Ofisa, ia ta’u atu i tagata solitulafono, e le
o se ta’aloga le galuega o lo o matou fa’atinoina, ae o lo o matou
taumafai i le mea sili ina ia mautinoa e i ai se aoaoga taua latou te
maua mai nei taimi e tele o lo o fa’anofovaavaaia ai i latou”, o se
saunoaga lea mai le sui o le Ofisa Fa’anofovaavaaia.
Na taua fo’i e le sui o le ofisa e fa’apea, o le isi fa’afitauli o lo o
fetaia’i ma le Ofisa i le taimi nei, o tagata e toe taofia mai e leoleo
ma tu’uaia i isi fo’i solitulafono fou, ae lei mae’a tausaga o loo
fa’anofovaavaaia ai.
“O le fa’afitauli o lo o pito sili ona a’afia ai i latou o lo o toe
molia mai i isi solitulafono fou, ae o lo o nofovaavaaia pea, o le
tagofia lea o le ‘ava malosi, ma o le tiute o le fa’amasinoga o le toe
fa’afou lea o poloaiga e tu’uina atu i lea tagata, pau le vaega a le
Ofisa e fai, ia mautinoa o lo o usita’i lea tagata molia i poloaiga a
le fa’amasinoga”, o le saunoaga lea a le sui o le Ofisa.
Feso’ota’i mai i le tusitala ia ausage@samoanews.com
➧ Immigration Office memo…
woman complaining that the Immigration Office had not informed
the public that they would be closing their office at lunch hour,
because they had never done that before.
When Samoa News arrived at Immigration that day, about
ten people were waiting outside while the Immigration Office
was locked.
Talauega told Samoa News that it’s rare for the Immigration
Office to close for lunch, and that they also open early to accommodate people working at the canneries who cannot afford to
take the day off.
Immigration Officer Siutu Savusa, who spoke on behalf of
Chief Immigration Officer, Peseta Dennis Fuimaono last week,
said they open at 6:30a.m. to accommodate the public and that’s
why they need to take a break during lunch hour.
“But it’s not everyday my boss decides to close down the office
so we can take a lunch break,” said Savusa.
tusia: Leua Aiono Frost
MANU TA’ALOA & FAGAFAO AOINA E TETEU
Ua vaaia le toe gaoioi mai o le “Ofisa o le Tausiga o Manu” a le Matagaluega o Fa’ato’aga,
le tama’ita’i foma’i o Dr. Brenda Smith fa’apea le aufaigaluega, e aoina manu ta’aloa i nofoaga
faitele, ma avatu ina ia teteu e lelei e filemu ai i latou aiga.
O le galuega ua fa’atinoina nei, e le o fa’apea e ao ta’ifau ina ia latou tapeina, ae ua avatu ina
ia teteu.
Ua va’aia le gaoioiga lelei, ona talanoa mai lea o Luana Scanlan e fa’apea, “O le galuega lenei o
lo’o faia i le Maota Talimalo o le afioga le Senatoa Afoa Moega Lutu i Utulei, ua tu’uina mai matou
te fa’aaogaina, ina ia taumafai e ave’esea uma le tele o manu ua ta’aloa i le Malae o le Suigaula o le
Atuvasa, fa’apea nofoaga lata mai e aofia ai ma Fagatogo i le aso Lua ma le Aso Tofi, e talia uma ni
fagafao e fia fa’ao’o mai mo lea tautua masani.”
“O le tautua alofa i meaola, e ao ai ina tatou galulue so’otau’au ma ia tausia meaola e pei lava
ona tatou fiafia i a tatou fagafao uma i o tatou aiga. Peita’i, ua va’aia, e i ai nai manu, e le o toe fo’i i
o latou aiga, ae ua ta’aloa, ma ua tatau ona teteu i latou e nofo filemu ai i o latou aiga,” o se isi lea
toe fa’aopoopo mai a Luana e tusa o le galuega o faia nei e i latou.
E ese mai lea, ua talia se vala’au mai mo se meaola e fia ave’esea mai se aiga, meaola e fia sailia
se aiga e manana’o i ai latou te fa’afagafaoina, po’o se auala fo’i e fa’ao’o mai ai ni meaola e fia teteu
e le matou vaega lenei i aso Lua ma aso Tofi o vaiaso ta’itasi. E tatala le tautua i le itula e 8:00 se’ia
o’o i le itula e 3:00 i le afiafi.
Telefoni i le ofisa 699-9445 ma le telefoni a Luana Scanlan 731-6675.
E fa’asaolo fo’i i nisi nofoaga, peita’i i le taimi nei, e le’i mautu lea tulaga mo se fa’asalalauga mo
le silafia lautele a le atunu’u.
TATALA OFISA O MATUA -COLEMAN ELEMENTARY
O se talanoa mai a le peresetene o Mike Himphill e tusa o le latou “Ofisa Fou mo Matua” ma fanau
a’oga fo’i ua mae’a fa’atula’ia i totonu o le a’oga tulaga muamua Coleman Elementary i Pago Pago.
O lea ofisa o se falea’oga tuai, ae ua mae’a toe lipea ma fa’aleleia e fa’atulaga ai ni a’oa’oga taua mo
le fanau ma matua fo’i.
Ua fa’ailoa mai e Himphill, “O le ulua’i taimi lea ua fa’amautu ai se fale fa’apea mo matua fa’apea
le fanau. Ua taumafai ina ia avea ma se isi sosia e a’oa’oina ai le fanau i nisi o matata e le o a’oina
ai i potu a’oga, e pei o le su’isu’i ma le lagaina o galuega alofilima a le atunu’u. Ua faia fo’i ma se
nofoaga e feso’ota’i ai ni tomai o matua i ituaiga tomai fa’aonaponei i komipiuta ma masini sa le i ai
i vaitau a’o a’o’oga mai i latou. O se fale e mafai ona maua ai nisi mea fou e matua fa’apea fanau.”
O lo ua fa’ailoa mai ua fa’atulaga nei le vaitau o le tu’uaga umi a le fanau a’oga e fa’atautaia ai
nisi o a’oa’oga fa’apitoa e ofoina mo le fanau a’oga ma matua fo’i e avanoa, e faia i lea nofoaga. “O
se mea taua e mafai ona fa’aaoga ai lea fale, ia toe fa’aofi atu nisi tomai lelei i le fanau, ae o matua
fo’i, ia iloa lelei komipiuta ma iloa fa’aaoga, ina ia le va’ai i fanau o latou fa’aaogaina na masini ae ia
fa’aosofia fo’i i latou e fa’aaogaina masini mo feso’ota’iga ma i latou, pe a tu’ua e i latou mafutaga i
le aiga ae aga’i atu i fafo mo a’oa’oga maualuluga,” o se fa’amatala mai lea a Himphill.
O aso 2 o Me, 2015 na tatalaina ai lea fa’amoemoe, ma sa fa’atino ai fo’i e le fanau vasega 8 le
Ava Fa’atupu o Feiloa’iga, fa’apea ma lauga e agatonu ma lea agaifanua a le atunu’u, fa’atasi ai ma
sua o fa’aaloaloga ina ua mae’a le ava usu.
Ua fa’ailoa e Motugafa Tagovailoa i le Coleman Elementary, “E aoga le a’oa’oina o lauga, le
fa’atinoga o le ava usu i le fanau matutua i lenei a’oga, ina ia latou o ese atu ma va’ai ma fa’alogo i
nei aga a le atunu’u, ae ua iloa fa’atino.”
Ua manatu fo’i o ia, “E aoga le fa’atinoga o vaega ta’itasi, ae le o le fa’asoloatoa o mea uma i le
taimi e tasi, ia maua’a ai i finagalo o le fanau mea ta’itasi ona fa’ato’a tu’ufa’atasia lea i se isi tausaga
o lumana’i, ae ua iloa so’o le fau ma le fau i nei vaega o le aganu’u a Samoa.”
➧ To’atele tagata matutua…
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galue i le polokalame a le TAOA, lea e saunia e le faipule o
le Konekeresi; o le fa’ailoga taualoa mo le tagata matua o lo
o tautua i le atunu’u, lea e saunia e le Peresetene a le kalapu o
le Liona, ma le isi fo’i fa’ailoga i le tagata pito i matua o lo o
galue i le polokalame a le SCEP, lea e saunia e le peresetene
o le Rotary Club.
“O le agaga lava o le ali’i kovana ma le Ofisa a le TAOA, ia
fa’aauau pea ona aloaia tautua a tama ma tina matutua i soo se
tausaga e fa’amanatu ai lo latou aso fiafia, lea fo’i la ua matou
manatu ai, talu ai o lea fa’atoa mae’a atu le aso Sa o Tina, atoa
ai ma le fa’atauaina o Fitafita tuai ma i latou o lo o tautua pea
i le malo i le sisiga fu’a na fa’atoa mavae atu nei, ua manatu ai
le TAOA, o le a fa’aauau pea ona aloaia Tina i le aso o tagata
matutua, e tusa ai o le latou tautua i le malo ma le atunu’u”, o le
saunoaga lea a Ale.
O le polokalame lea ua fa’ataoto mo le fa’atauaina o le aso o
tagata matutua e tatala lava i le solo tele a tama ma tina matutua
e amata mai i luma o le Fale Laumei i Utulei, ma aga’i atu ai loa
i luma o le Fale Samoa a le malo, o iina lea ua fa’amoemoe e
fa’atautaia ai le polokalame atoa.
O le susuga i le ali’i Faifeau ia Rev. Lalomauga Pa’au mai le
Ekalesia EFKAS i Fagaalu o le a saunia le tatalo e tatala aloaia ai
le polokalame, sosoo ai loa ma le saunoaga fa’apitoa mai le afioga
i le ali’i koana ia Lolo Matalasi Moliga.
O le mae’a ai o le tufatufaina o fa’ailoga fa’apitoa, ona sosoo
ai loa lea ma le taumafataga e saunia lava e le Ofisa o le TAOA,
sosoo ai loa ma fa’afiafiaga mai Autalavou e fa ua filifilia, ae taualuga i le fa’afiafiaga a tagata matutua.
I le fonotaga a le Kapeneta i le lua vaiaso talu ai, na talosagaina ai e le ali’i kovana lana kapeneta, ina ia auai uma i le
fa’amamaluina o le aso o tagata matutua i lenei tausaga.
➧ COMMUNITY BRIEFS…
by the disaster. She also said that the loans “may be used to pay
fixed debts, payroll, accounts payable and other bills that cannot
be paid because of the disaster’s impact.”
Additionally, the loan assistance is available regardless of
whether the PNP suffered any property damage. Interest rate is
2.625 percent with terms up to 30 years. Loan amounts and terms
are set by SBA and are based on each applicant’s financial condition. Applicants can apply online at [https://disasterloan.sba.gov/
ela] or call (800) 659-2955.
Meanwhile, FEMA online records show that as of yesterday,
the agency has obligated a total of $665,370 in Public Assistance grants to American Samoa for this disaster, with $260,230
obligated for emergency work - which is work that must be performed to reduce or eliminate an immediate threat to life, protect
public health and safety, and to protect improved property that is
significantly threatened due to disasters or emergencies declared
by the President.
Of the total obligated funds, just over $392,444 is for “permanent work” — which is work required to restore a damaged facility,
through repair or restoration, to its pre-disaster design, function and
capacity in accordance with applicable codes and standards.
Some of the departments which were affected by the disaster
are the Territorial Registrar’s office, the Department of Education,
the E-Rate Office and the Department of Public Safety.
USDA MEAT INSPECTION DIVISION
TRANSFERED TO AGRICULTURE
In a memo last week, Lt. Gov. Lemanu Peleti Mauga, who is
also the acting governor, transferred the local USDA Meat Inspection Division from the Department of Administrative Services
to the Agriculture Department and the organizational change
reporting structure went into effect on May 7.
Lemanu said the purposes and functions of the division are
better aligned with the mission of Agriculture, which is “to ensure
that our foods are grown, prepared and processed under sanitary
conditions.”
He asked both Administrative Services and Agriculture to
work closely to implement procedures that will ensure a seamless
transition, and to execute any and all necessary documentation for
the transfer of duties and responsibilities.
The USDA Meat Inspection Division, funded by federal grants,
has been under the Administrative Services for years, and lawmakers in the past have questioned why this division was not part
of the local DoA.
Under the current fiscal year 2015 budget, there are three
employees in this division with a total budget of $72,000 and they
are charged with ensuring that all meats imported into the territory
meet federal regulations.
➧ Nuuuli Voc-Tech…
Baqui said of the approval, “it’s a stepping stone to access
financial donations from contractors and federal employees both
locally and globally during the year 2016.”
She explained that the CFC program will provide an opportunity to friends, families and alumni of NVTHS to support and/or
give back to the high school, especially to support the Trades and
vocational program on-campus.
Asked how the PTA plans to use money received through the
CFC, she said all funds will be utilized to sustain existing Vocational programs that may not be up to par with their tools, equipment, supplies and/or resources.
“The PTA desire to offer the best learning/teaching environment experience for our students and teachers, so that the partnership amongst the Voc Tech High School PTA and principal &
staff, DOE and numerous stakeholders will continue to strengthen
as we seek resources to advocate classroom instructions and
hands-on training for our students,” she explained.
Also, these funds will be considered to enhance the high
school’s sports program with the necessary equipment and
resources for training purposes of the school’s student athletes,
and to prioritize a special budget for the School Years 2015 to
2017 for all on-campus clubs and organizations.
“These monies will be accounted for the benefit of our high
school, students and teachers,” she stressed. Additionally, donations made by federal contractors and employees through the CFC
will be received every quarter starting April next year.
“As the first PTA from America Samoa to become recognized in
the national CFC program, it is my hope that the Lord will provide
faithful yet willing PTA members to serve on the PTA Leadership
board for [new] School Year 2015-2016,” she said. “The School
and our students need ‘our’ help and support, and now is the time
to make that commitment.”
She personally thanked the PTA members and officers, team
leaders, friends and school principal for their prayers and compassion. And she encouraged local PTAs and faith-based and community non-profits to apply to CFC next year.
She said the CFC application is issued every year and they need
to apply before the last day of March. For more info: www.cfchawaii.org
During yesterday’s Mother Day church service at the CCCAS- Fagatogo, some of the mothers are
[photo: AF]
seen here performing skits and songs for their special day.
AMERICAN SAMOA
COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Physical Facilities and Management
EMPLOYMENTO PPORTUNITY
Position Title:
SECURITY OFFICER I
Employment Status:
Full Time 12 months (Career Service)
General Description:
The Security Officer reports directly to the Chief of Security and serves as part of Campus Security
for ASCC. Works on designated shifts; upholds all safety procedures of ASCC; patrols entire
campus and carries after-hours phone; monitors time clock procedures for ASCC; and maintains
daily log of noticeable events and circumstances on a database for review by the supervisor.
Responsibilities and Duties:
• Know and understand all safety procedures and security regulations set by ASCC.
• Provide written reports of incidents during shift.
• Maintain golf carts, vehicles and equipment required for job performance.
• Keep office area clean and neat, and observe all duty regulations.
• Make patrol rounds according to shift assignment
• Keep daily log in monitoring the time clock, and record any significant events or issues that
arise.
• Participate in all trainings in order to upgrade skills.
• Carry out all other responsibilities designated by the supervisor.
• Perform other duties as assigned by Chief Security or Director of Physical Facilities and
Management.
• Report to work on time according to assigned shift.
• Monitor and answer phone calls after hours and on weekends.
• Enforce campus security.
• Wear official uniform to work unless instructed otherwise.
Minimum Qualifications:
• High School diploma or better. Two years related experience and/or training. Must be
physically fit; be fluent in Samoan and English; be willing to work all shift hours, including
weekends. Must become familiar with all safety and security procedures of ASCC and have
the ability to stand and walk for long periods. Must have a current and valid driver’s
license.
Salary: GS 07/07 : $10,746.00 - $12,826.00 per annum.
Application Deadline: Wednesday, May 27, 2015 • 4pm
Applications are available from American Samoa Community College, Human Resources Office.
Call 699-9155 Ext. 477/335/403 or email Lipena Samuelu at l.samuelu@amsamoa.edu or
Silaulelei Saofaigaalii at s.saofaigaalii@amsamoa.edu .
“An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer
And A Drug-Free Workplace”
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