July 4th will be honored, along with our youth

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Double disaster
batters the
Marshalls… 4
Robbery/assault:
One arrested, 1
other loose… 2
5-time champ
Williams exits
Wimbledon B1
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Fa’atalofa ma
le Teine o le
Vateatea… 14
StarKist Samoa has teamed with the LBJ Medical
Center Pediatrics Ward to aid children with heart
problems by hosting a fundraiser to raise up to
$50,000 to bring to the territory a group of eight Volunteer Cardiology Team doctors from Oregon to care
for our children with heart problems. StarKist employees Epati Paletaoga, Wendy
Crichton, Cassandra “Sandy” Satele, Andy Docherty
and Miss StarKist Josephine Mativa pose for a photo
to highlight “Charlie’s Heart2Heart $1 Drive”, which
is now going out into the community.
[Courtesy Photo]
See story inside.
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Tuesday, July 2, 2013
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Governor assigns 5 July 4th will be honored, along
teams for “Adopt- with our youth, declares Gov.
A-School” initiative
by Fili Sagapolutele, Samoa News Correspondent
“We need your collaboration,
unique talent, time and energy”
by Joyetter Feagaimaali’i-Luamanu, Samoa News Reporter
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Governor Lolo Matalasi Moliga has established five teams
assigning departments and agencies to schools in connection
with his “Adopt-A-School Initiative”. This was announced
during the cabinet meeting held last week Friday at the Tauese
Sunia Ocean Center.
A memorandum was also issued by Governor Lolo prior
to his departure, which was distributed to government leaders
during the cabinet meeting, led by Lt Governor Lemanu Peleti
Mauga, as Acting Governor. This matter has been brought up
on several occasions during previous cabinet meetings.
According to the memorandum, this initiative will provide for a partnership between ASG, the private sector, nongovernmental organizations and the community to afford the
public and private schools the opportunity to build long-lasting
relationships that will serve and support the students.
“We need your collaboration, unique talent, time and
energy to give our children the additional supports and
resources they need in order to succeed academically and
compete globally. The Initiative provides both the organizations and schools an opportunity to produce educated and well
rounded citizens that will contribute to the economic development and social well-being of our community,” said Governor
Lolo in the memorandum.
PROGRAM CATEGORIES
According to the memorandum, this process of building
a culture of collaboration in the territory will open doors of
schools to the community to become major partners in the
educational experience of the children. “The major partners
to include government entities, businesses and social entities
will join as a Team that is uniquely designed to connect the
organizations’ energy and passion directly with the students
and schools staff”
According to the memo, this initiative will provide additional resources to enhance the academic experience of students and increase their exposure to career opportunities, as
well as create opportunities to motivate students and reward
them for excelling in academic performance.
Participation in clean up days or beautification projects at
the school and making financial and/or in kind donations that
support the school’s beautification programs is also part of
the initiative. Additionally, the teams will be hosting events
or make donations to assist in recognizing teachers and other
school personnel for their good work throughout the year. TEAM SEGAULA (MANU’A SCHOOLS)
All ASG offices in Ofu and Olosega are assigned to the
schools in Olosega, while all ASG offices in Ta’u are assigned
to the schools in Ta’u. These are for Manu’a High School and
all the Elementary Schools — Olosega, Fitiuta, Faleasao and
the ECE.
(Continued on page 11)
For the first time, in a very long time, American Samoa is preparing a special ceremony,
including a parade, to mark the United States’
birthday on the 4th of July this Thursday, which
is a national holiday.
Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga declared
Thursday a local holiday and he is scheduled
to deliver special remarks during the celebration, set to get underway after 7:30a.m. at the
Su’igaula o le Atuvasa malae at Utulei Beach.
The celebration has as its theme ‘Our Future Is
in Your Hands’ —which also marks the 4th as
Youth Day, as well as July as Youth Month.
The governor first revealed this celebration
during a cabinet meeting late April this year
telling directors that the event and ceremony
will be marked every year along with the month
of July to honor youth in the territory during the
four years of his administration.
“We need to celebrate that and to make sure
that the spirit” of the 4th of July remains with
American Samoa —especially our kids — and
that’s why this month of July for the next four
years will be the month for the youth,” said Lolo.
He said the Department of Youth and Women’s Affairs is in charge of planning the activities “to make our youth feel important” for their
contribution to the territory.
At last Friday’s cabinet meeting, Lt. Gov.
Lemanu Peleti Mauga, who was also the acting
governor, told directors that the planned activities for July have been set, as well as the proclamation signed by the governor honoring youth
in the territory. He said the special 4th of July
celebration will be marked with entertainment,
fireworks and other events.
On June 24, 2013, in Kourou, French Guiana — the Soyuz rocket sitting in the housing on
the launchpad was being prepared to launch the first of four satellites in the new O3b satellite
constellation intended to provide broadband backhaul to customers around the globe. American
Samoa is an early adopter and will be among the first customers to go live later this year, along
with Telecom Cook Islands. [photo: JD Hall]
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samoa news, Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Robbery, stealing &
assault case: One
person behind bars,
another on the loose
(ANSWER on page 14)
STRANGE BUT TRUE
By Samantha Weaver
✖ It was actor-turned-politico Arnold Schwarzenegger who made the following sage
observation: “Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.”
✖ Southern California has more cars than India has cows. If cows are sacred in India,
what does that say about how Californians feel about their automobiles?
✖ If you’re like an average person, the time you spend blinking in one day adds up to
about 30 minutes of shut-eye.
✖ A New Yorker named Ashrita Furman holds the world record for the most world
records: He has set 462 of them and currently holds 160. Among his exploits are the longest
yodel (more than 26 hours); the longest distance traveled via acrobatic somersaults (12
miles, 390 yards); jumping up steps on a pogo stick (1,899 steps in 57 minutes, 51 seconds);
the fastest time skipping through a marathon (5 hours, 55 minutes, 13 seconds); running
the fastest mile with a milk bottle balanced on his head (7 minutes, 47 seconds); creating
the largest popcorn sculpture (20 feet, 10 inches tall); underwater hula hooping (2 minutes,
38 seconds); the most candles burning simultaneously on a cake (48,523); the longest rally
while playing table tennis with an egg (14 hits); and the fastest time for orange peeling and
eating (3 oranges in 1 minute, 9.72 seconds).
✖ In the Middle Ages, chicken soup wasn’t just comfort food for those suffering from a
cold; at the time, it was considered to be an aphrodisiac.
✖ Scientists at NASA are working on developing a kind of space broom. The device will
use a laser to sweep debris out of the way of the International Space Station.
• • • • • • • • • • • • • Thought for the Day • • • • • • • • • • • • •
“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
— H.G. Wells
One of two suspects in a robbery case has been arrested on
charges of robbery, stealing and third degree assault, in connection with the case of a Korean couple claiming they were
assaulted by two men who allegedly broke into their store.
The arrested man is Don Fred Bernard, while the second suspect is still at large and Samoa News understands he’s currently
in Samoa.
Bernard is being held on bail of $50,000 and is represented
by Assistant Public Defender Mike White.
According to the government’s case, Detective Filemoni
Amituana’i was assigned to investigate this matter. It’s alleged
on May 30, 2013 police received a call from a Korean couple
seeking immediate assistance and police responded.
Court filings say the Korean woman told police she and her
husband were robbed and assaulted by two men who covered
their faces with their shirts, showing only their eyes. The woman
further told police that one of the men was tall, the other was
short, and it was the short man that she recognized as a customer.
Police officers picked up Bernard for identification, however
the Korean woman was unable to proceed with the identification
process as she was very “distressed, crying and traumatized”
from the incident. Police then released Bernard to go home.
On June 6, 2013 the lead investigator received a tip from an
anonymous caller that there were witnesses who placed Bernard
and the second suspect at the scene. “The caller said as soon as
Bernard and the second suspect saw them (the witnesses) they
hid boxes that were in their possession.”
CID proceeded to speak with the two witnesses who wrote
statements to police, and their statements coincided with a list
of items that were removed from the store, which included 12
cartons of cigarettes, multiple phone cards valued at $350 and
$30 worth of quarters.
The Korean woman told police it was in the middle of the
night that she and her husband heard noises coming from outside
the store when they were sleeping, and they woke up and turned
on the lights surrounding the store and they saw two men right
outside their store.
According to court documents, the shorter suspect allegedly
smashed the front door window with a rock, while the taller individual reached in and unlocked the door. The man told police the
taller suspect came straight to him and he defended himself by
striking the tall suspect with a stick. However, it is alleged the
tall suspect grabbed the stick from the Korean man and broke it,
then allegedly held him by the neck to the ground.
The man stated that the tall suspect told him to stay down and
not to move or make any noise, or he would kill him.
The man said at the same time he heard his wife screaming
for help yet he was unable to see what was going in because he
was being held to the ground. The Korean woman said it was the
shorter suspect that came toward her, but she was able to escape
and she ran outside the store, where she saw a car passing by.
She said she yelled for help, but the car just kept on going.
It’s alleged the defendant pulled the woman by the hair and
dragged her back into the store. Court filings say, the short suspect then called out to the woman by name and demanded that
she get the money. It’s alleged the short suspect then took off the
shirt covering his face and the woman turned the lights on and
recognized him as a customer.
The woman told police as soon as she recognized the short
suspect, Don (Bernard), she begged him not to hurt her husband.
It’s alleged the defendant demanded that she turn off the lights
and then started taking the cigarettes and other merchandise, and
called out to the tall suspect that they should leave.
Police were able to identify the first man as Bernard and the
second suspect as Winnville Galo,from Seattle Washington, who
was visiting his aunt living in the area where the incident occurred.
Court filings say that CID Detectives questioned Galo, a
week after the incident, who allegedly admitted to committing
the said crime. It’s reported that Galo said he was playing volleyball when he was approached by Bernard and that they were
in a drinking session.
It’s alleged that what Galo told police corroborated the statements made by the couple to police.
An Arrest Warrant has been issued in Galo’s name.
Court filings say the estimated value of items taken in this
robbery case is approximately $1,120.
The Bernard’s case is pending in High Court.
Reach reporter at joy@samoanews.com
by Fili Sagapolutele
Samoa News Correspondent
American Samoa Visitor’s
Bureau executive director
David Vaeafe has called on
all departments and agencies
of the government to work in
partnership with the private
sector in order for the territory to develop tourism, which
once flourished years ago with
a Five-Star hotel and several
major airlines stopping in Pago
Pago.
Vaeafe’s comments were
made last Friday during a
power-point
presentation
given by the Visitor’s Bureau
at the cabinet meeting, headed
by Lt. Gov. Lemanu Peleti
Mauga, who was also Acting
Governor. Lemanu agreed
regarding the importance of all
working together to develop
this industry as another economic option for the territory,
which has long been dependent
on the tuna canneries.
TOURISM
STATISTICS
From a global prospective, Vaeafe says, tourism
is the largest industry in the
world, adding that during a
2008 global survey by the
World Tourism Organization, some 922 million people
traveled to another country or
another place and those people
spent $944 billion in those
economies.
“If we look back at our statistics in 2008, we were 0000.1%
of the above number,” he said
and noted that on a regional
level, the South Pacific is the
“most undiscovered region left
in the world.”
“Also in 2008, 14 South
Pacific countries pulled in 9.8
million visitors — so that was
only 1% of the global total —
just to show you how small
the market is regionally and
the potential to attract more
visitors,” he said, noting that
these regional numbers come
from the Pacific Asia Travel
Association.
In further breaking down the
regional numbers by looking at
our three closest neighbors for
2008 — Cook Islands, Fiji and
Samoa — Vaeafe explained
that theCook Islands got some
85,000 visitors and their main
markets are New Zealand,
Europe and Australia; Fiji
received some 581,000 visitors
and their main markets are the
same as the Cook Islands; and
Samoa’s visitors count was
122,000 and their main markets are New Zealand, Australia and American Samoa.
“So visiting your family,
your relatives in Samoa, is
contributing to their numbers and contributing to their
economy,” Vaeafe told the
cabinet meeting.
LOCAL TOURISM PLAN
Cabinet members were told
that the territory has a Tourism
Master Plan, which was
released in 2010 and was originally commissioned by the
local Commerce Department.
The plan, he said, “is the
road map we are using for
tourism development” adding
that “it’s a very practical plan.”
According to the executive
director, tourism for American
Samoa is in its “infancy” and
this tourism master plan outlines a solid foundation and
building upon that for tourism
in the territory. He said such a
plan is necessary in order for
the territory to grow the tourism
industry and he encouraged
every director to get a copy of
the plan either from DOC or
from the Visitor’s Bureau.
He went on to say that
American Samoa is the last
country in the region to embrace
tourism but recalled that “we
actually had tourism here, back
in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s. We
had the first international FiveStar hotel here, the Rainmaker
Hotel, when Pan American
Airways and other major airlines used to fly here. This was
the first tourism market in the
region, long before Fiji, Tahiti
or anywhere else.”
Vaeafe also shared that the
local tourism industry is very
small — less than 20 hotels,
just over 200 rooms, 180 rental
cars, 20 odd restaurants, and
one local airline. He also says
that total visitor arrivals for
American Samoa in the last
five years, average between
60,000- 70,000.
And what does American
Samoa need to do to develop
tourism?
Vaeafe said there are two
“key” things— and the first
is that tourism become a “private-public sector partnership”. He says the only way
tourism will grow is if there is
a strong working relationship
between the government and
the private sector domestically
and internationally.
“We need to implement
business-friendly policies for
the public sector to operate.
We need to strengthen the
capacity of our private sector
to compete at a global level,”
the ASVB executive director
pointed out. “The reason I
say this is, without our private
sector, we will have no tourism
industry. We have the sites and
places to visit, but we have
don’t have the hotels, the airlines and so forth. And it can
only work if it’s a public and
private sector partnership.”
Vaeafe said the second most
important thing is that tourism
must be seen as everyone’s
business”.
BINGO!
Utulei Village
BINGO! BINGO!
2010 Tourism Master Plan
tapped as “local roadmap”
for successful development
samoa news, Tuesday, July 2, 2013 Page 3
“We need to have the
‘whole of government’ to
approach tourism,” he said and
noted that it’s not just the role
of the Visitor’s Bureau or other
front-liners, such as the airport
and port administration, immigration and customs etc.
He said each agency or
department plays a part in
developing tourism — directly
or indirectly. For example, he
said Human and Social Services Department supports the
families of those working in
the tourism industry.
Vaeafe said the challenge
is for each agency and department to determine what they are
doing to contribute to growing
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
SPECIAL MIDNITE
Bingo @ 11:30 p.m.
The Old Bowling Alley - Tafuna
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The 2013 Camps of
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Football • Volleyball
Coaches • Officials
July 2-5 at the Stadium and ASCC Gym
Fiji, Adeaze Concert (July 6)
presented by:
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with support from:
ASG/DOE/ASHSAA
Bluesky, Fletcher, GHC Reid, Godinet Rentals,
StarKist Samoa, ASPA, Sports Domain, Carl’s Jr,
Koko Bean, Forsgren’s, Samoa Ford Motors,
Samoa Tuna Processors, Island’s Choice Dairy,
Morris Scanlan, Samoa News, DPS, EMS
Elieani Tauasosi
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GHC Reid
Aluminum Can and Plastic Bottle Recycling Competition
RULES:
July 2nd to December 31, 2013.
• Only school and youth groups can register
• Register with Department of Youth and
Women’s Affairs
• Only aluminum beverage cans are acceptable
• Only plastic beverage bottles are acceptable
• All aluminum beverage cans and bottles must be
weighed in at the GHC Reid Company building
in Tafuna.
• Original receipt of pounds recorded at GHC
•
•
•
•
Reid must be submitted to DYWA office for
tallying within two days after weighing.
GHC Reid will pay $0.25 per pound of
aluminum cans.
GHC Reid will pay $0.00 per pound of plastic
bottle.
Individuals and/or family members
participating can give pounds recorded to
youth group of their choice.
Pounds of aluminum cans and bottles collected
by each youth group will be made known every
Friday through media outlets;
First Prize.........$1,000.00
Second Prize.....$ 750.00
Third Prize........$ 500.00
Fourth Prize......$ 250.00
Fifth Prize.........$ 100.00
6th to 10th place Prizes $75 and
consolation prizes for all participants.
Complimentary prizes for
all other participating youth
groups to be donated by
the business community
and indviduals.
For more information, contact
Orepa Faoa at 633-2835.
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WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK — Will Obama
kick the SOCCKET?
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AP) — A spirited game of
soccer can energize a crowd. Turns out it can also energize a
light socket. The SOCCKET ball, invented by two female Harvard graduates, is among the featured devices President Barack
Obama will see on exhibit during a presentation at a Tanzanian
power plant Tuesday.
U.S Trade Representative Michael Froman and deputy
national security adviser Benjamin Rhodes said they played
around with the ball for Obama to get ready for the event.
“We tried it, we test drove it,” Froman said.
The ball has been mentioned by former President Bill Clinton
as a device that could bring a bit of light to rural areas of undeveloped countries.
According to Uncharted Play, the gadget’s manufacturer, the
soccer ball has a pendulum-like mechanism that creates kinetic
energy during play and stores it. The firm says 30 minutes of
play can power a simple LED lamp for three hours. The plan is
to distribute the innovative balls to kids.
“Kids play soccer all day long. They take the ball home and
you can plug a lamp into it, and they can read at night, or they
can plug a cellphone charger into it,” Froman said.
No word yet whether Obama, who played some soccer as a
child in Indonesia, will create his own energy.
An avid basketball fan
An avid basketball fan, Obama can’t seem to take his mind
off the game, even during meetings with heads of state from
other countries. So it was after his closed-door, one-on-one
meeting with Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete. At a news
conference immediately afterward, Obama said they “covered a
lot of ground” but did not discuss a 7-foot-3 Tanzanian athlete
who plays center for the Oklahoma City Thunder in the U.S.
National Basketball Association.
“The president and I are both basketball fans,” Obama said.
“We did not discuss Hasheem Thabeet, who plays in the NBA,
but maybe next time we’ll have a chance to talk about that.”
In Senegal last week, Obama openly wished for his beloved
Chicago Bulls to draft Senegalese native Gorgui Dieng, who
played center for Louisville.
His wish was not fulfilled. Dieng was drafted by the Utah
Jazz and traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves.
We call it ‘The Beast’
Obama tried to impress guests at a state dinner in his honor
with his humor.
He noted that he arrived in Tanzania from South Africa, and
that he was following the path of Robert F. Kennedy, who visited both countries in the same order nearly 50 years ago.
“It was a little different back then. Kennedy and his wife,
Ethel, rode in the back of an open truck,” Obama said. “The
Secret Service has me and Michelle inside a fortified limousine.
We call it ‘The Beast.’
He continued: “As Kennedy’s truck made its way through the
crowds, he picked up two boys and let them ride alongside him.
The Secret Service doesn’t let me do these things.”
And the kicker: “When Kennedy came, it was a public holiday
here. I apologize to Tanzanians that you all had to work today.”
underprivileged boys and girls
Michelle Obama paid her respects at a memorial for victims
of a deadly bombing at the U.S. Embassy here nearly 15 years
ago. The U.S. first lady accepted flowers given to her by girls
and placed them at the foot of the memorial, which is located at
the National Museum.
The somber moment soon was supplanted by a lively performance by the Baba wa Watoto dance group, which performed for
Mrs. Obama, her daughters Malia and Sasha and Tanzania’s first
lady, Salma Kikwete, at the center that carries the group’s name.
The center serves underprivileged boys and girls ages 5 to 18.
Mrs. Obama visited on Monday because she has a solo event
Tuesday at the same time her husband was scheduled to visit the
memorial.
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From left, Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, Manitoba Premier
Greg Selinger, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert, Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch”
Otter, Canadian Ambassador Gary Doer, American Samoa Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga and Montana Gov. Steve Bullock pose for a group shot during the Western Governor’s Association 2013
annual meeting at Montage Deer Valley Friday, June 28, 2013, in Park City, Utah. (Gov. Lolo
was slated to return on last night’s Hawaiian Air — arriving on the same flight with the 2013
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Polamalu Football and Volleyball camps and clinics team.)
Double disaster batters the
Marshall Island archipelago
By Paul Brown, Climate News Network
LONDON, 30 June — High tides have
surged over sea walls defending the capital of
the Marshall Islands, adding to the crisis situation in this tiny Pacific nation, where a state
of emergency was declared only last month
because of a devastating drought in the scattered northern atolls.
In the last week, what the islanders call
“king tides” have repeatedly flooded parts of
the capital, Majuro, and its airport, in one of the
countries most vulnerable to sea level rise.
With a population of 68,000 spread across
34 coral atolls, none of which is more than two
metres above sea level, the country has been at
the forefront of appeals for action on climate
change.
Aid from the US and other countries is
now coming to the scattered communities
that inhabit the palm-covered atolls, living on
a few crops, seafood and a breed of small pig
descended from animals that arrived on the
islands centuries ago from the ships of European explorers and missionaries.
CROPS DESTROYED
The Marshall Islands government says the
drought conditions have depleted water tanks
and made groundwater unsuitable for human
consumption because of high salinity.
In addition, the drought has damaged or
destroyed local food crops, including breadfruit and banana, and about 6,000 people on
15 northern atolls are relying on fish, crabs and
other coastal food resources for survival.
All 34 atolls are chains of islands sitting on
top of coral reefs - the remnants of long-extinct
volcanoes that have sunk below the sea, leaving
idyllic-looking, palm-fringed lagoons.
The 1,100 islands are sometimes a few kilometers long but only 100 meters or so wide and
less than two meters above sea level, leaving
them vulnerable to storm surges and exceptional tides.
Normally, the scant fresh water supplies are
topped up from frequent evening rains, but a
devastating drought, which the locals blame on
climate change, has reduced a desperate population to rationing water supplies to a liter a
day. Their plight has been made worse by the
high tides that threaten their homes and tiny
gardens.
STORM WAVES
Following a request from Marshallese President Christopher Loeak to American President
Barack Obama, the US declared the drought a
disaster on June 14, paving the way for the provision of disaster assistance by US government
agencies. A team from the US Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA) arrived in Majuro
last week to assess the drought — only to witness
the “king tide” and storm waves knock down the
seawalls and flood the airport’s runway.
Tony deBrum, Minister-in-Assistance to the
President of the Marshall Islands, is responsible
for climate change issues and has called for a new
surge of political commitment and international
leadership to stave off further climate disasters
from battering his country, and other vulnerable
countries like it. “From drought to deluge, my
people are suffering an escalating climate crisis,”
DeBrum says. “Thousands of my people in the
north are thirsty and hungry, while thousands
of us here in the south are now drenched in seawater. As I said to the US emergency team this
morning, ‘Welcome to Climate Change!’”
CLIMATE LEADERSHIP
“We are very grateful for the help we have
received, but aid will not stop floods, droughts
and disease from becoming the new norm. As
we have said for years, prevention is far better
than cure. What we need is a new wave of climate leadership. “This September, we will
host the 44th Pacific Islands Forum Summit,
bringing together leaders from the Pacific
Island countries, Australia and New Zealand,
and our development partners from the world’s
biggest emitters, including the US, China, the
EU, India, Japan and Canada. “At the Forum,
we will propose a Majuroro Declaration for
Climate Leadership, to galvanize more urgent
and concrete action on climate change.”
He said President Obama’s announcements
in the last few days about combating climate
change were a welcome, if long overdue, step
in the right direction — but he stressed that it
was only a first step. “I urge US Secretary of
State John Kerry and other climate leaders to
accept our invitation to come to the Forum in
Majuro. Standing just two meters above sea
level, there is no more poignant place to say:
‘Enough is enough. We will beat this thing.’”
DOL provides MDT
with “information”
to aid fight against
human trafficking
Due to the lack of local trafficking laws in the territory, the
Multi Disciplinary Task Force has reached out to Timothy A.
Riera, Director of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, in Honolulu Hawai’i. Riera’s agency covers EEOC matters
in American Samoa. The MDT group advocates for survivors of
family violence and trafficking victims.
In this working relationship, the MDT has received publications from Terence J. Trotter-District Director for the USDOL
Wage and Hour Division, Honolulu district office, according to
MDT Vice Chair Ipu Avegalio Lefiti. The package contained
limited publications on the Electronic Code of Federal Regulations. (Current data as of 2012).
It also contains general regulations and their interpretation,
pertaining to the application of the Fair Labor Standards Act to
Domestic Services.
Lefiti noted that there are also copies or pamphlets with
“Handy Reference Guides to the Fair Labor Standards Act” and
included are Work Hours Calendars to record employment hours.
In the meantime, MDT, which is chaired by Deputy AG
Mitzie Jessop, is looking at hosting a second conference on
Human Trafficking in a few months. The first conference against
family violence featured a seminar on ending Child Abuse and
Human Trafficking in the territory.
“The MDT partners have been advocating for victims and
survivors of domestic violence, child abuse, sexual assault and
the prevention and awareness of human trafficking,” said Lefiti.
Through persistence and consistent advocating via media and
outreaches for our survivors, these bills are finally making their
introduction into the Fono.
It “is currently planning a follow up conference on Human
Trafficking. We are open to dialogue with our neighboring
islands — Apia, Tonga & the Philippians. Due to the increase of
criminal activities and victimization involving our neighboring
islands, it is important that we come together to create a language in agreement to the crime,” she noted.
“The year 2001 was an awakening year for American Samoa.
It was the first time we became aware of human trafficking, with
the Daewoosa clothing factory debacle.”
The MDT Vice Chair further noted that 2010 was the last
local attempt to enact the criminalization of human trafficking,
after its failure to pass through committee in the Fono.
“The Daewoosa incident and reported conditions cited by the
U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) — I felt cut right to the quick
what many of us grew up seeing. We felt it was wrong but it was
not a crime as long as no one was killed or died,” said Lefiti.
“Many to this day still carry the scars and have a story on the
incident that caused it.”
Lefiti stated that on the domestic scene, for years, they have
either watched or heard of the abuses forced upon our domestic
helpers and field hands. “We have witnessed their suffering
from forced labor under cruel conditions; beaten, starved into
submission or if it’s a female, they have their hair shorn off.”
“Talk about involuntary servitude, and many survivors who
have spoken to us admitted they had no idea they had any rights.
They believed their sponsors who kept their legal documents
had the undisputed authority over their lives, which included
their spouses and children,” she told Samoa News.
“Their blind obedience was not considered being held against
their will,” Lefiti said. She then noted that what is finally being
revealed are the forced sexual encounters by some sponsors or a
sponsor’s male family members.
“Now, we have the charges against sponsors who transport
women across the border under the guise of employment to provide sex for paying customers,”said Lefiti.
She explained that the scheduled conference will be enhanced
with the sharing of grass roots information, data collection and
a blanket discussion on legally adjudicated cases. “It also will
help to support front line agencies on their policies and procedures, to reinforce and align themselves with the law to include
the proper management of the victims and perpetrators.”
The American Samoan Coalition Against Domestic and
Sexual Violence (ASCADSV) is the only non-profit organization in American Samoa that provides shelter services for victims of violence. They are already assisting victims of employment trafficking from neighboring islands.
If anyone is interested in these publications, or further information, please contact the ASCADSV office at 699-0171.
Reach the reporter at joy@samoanews..com
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‘Charlie’s Heart2Heart $1 Drive’ to
aid children with heart problems
StarKist teams with LBJ Pediatrics Ward
by Joyetter
Feagaimaali’i-Luamanu
Samoa News Reporter
“Have a heart and donate
a dollar to help our children
at the Pediatric Ward who are
in need of cardiology evaluation, “pleads Cassandra
Solaita-Satele a supervisor
with StarKist Samoa Human
Resources/Safety Department.
In conjunction with the
Pediatric Doctors of LBJ Hospital, StarKist is hosting a fundraising to raise up to $50,000
to assist in bringing to the territory a group of eight Volunteer
Cardiology Team doctors from
Oregon to care for our children
with heart problems. “These doctors volunteer
their time to come to Samoa
and the last time they (group
of eight volunteer cardio team)
came to the territory was in
2010,” according to Mrs.
Satele, who noted that LBJ
Pediatric Doctors Beth Parker
and James Marrone have been
tracking children with the need
for subspecialty pediatric cardiology care since 2010.
“Currently there are 247
patients with this need, and by
far the most common cause
for cardiology evaluation is
rheumatic fever and rheumatic
heart disease, which accounts
for 67% of our pediatric population with known or suspected
heart problems,” said Satele,
quoting Dr. Parker.
“Rheumatic fever is a special concern in the South
Pacific; in American Samoa the
disease is 75 times more likely
to occur than in the mainland
United States,” according to
Dr. Parker. “Other children
who need referral have congenital heart defects such as
atrial septal defect, ventricular
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suspected cardiogenic syncope
round out the list,” explained
Satele.
According to Dr. Parker,
LBJ was fortunate to host a
pediatric cardiology team from
Oregon Health & Science University for the past two years.
The team came to the territory
for one-week pediatric heart
clinics.
“Ideally the team would be
composed of eight people: two
attending cardiologists, two
cardiology fellows, two echocardiogram technicians and
two support staff (nurse, nurse
practitioner, or physician assistant) said Dr. Parker.
The StarKist Samoa supervisor pointed out that in 2011
and 2012 the team that came
was not a full team but they
were still able to see 125
patients, respectively. However the problem encountered by the Pediatric Unit is
the expense, and that is why
StarKist agreed to host this
fundraising — to help the
children.
Each StarKist employee
has donated $1 to “Charlie’s
Heart2Heart $1 Drive” and
they were able to come up with
$1900.
StarKist is now making “the
$1 drive an island-wide effort
to help bring the Oregon Cardiology Group to help our kids
with heart problems,” stated
Satele.
Charlie’s $1 Donation
Boxes have been placed at the
following locations: Laufou
Shopping Center, Bluesky,
KS Mart, Carl’s Jr, DDW,
McDonald’s (both locations),
Koko Bean and the Pediatric
Clinic at LBJ.
Satele noted that if any other
business wishes to be a part of
this important cause, donation
cans or boxes will be delivered
to businesses and stores across
the island. You can contact
Satele at 252-8112.
She further noted that
Charlie’s donation boxes will
remain in stores until July 13,
2013.
Donations
will
be
announced at the StarKist 50th
Anniversary Celebration slated
for August 17 at Veteran’s
Memorial Stadium. Checks
can be made out to LBJ Pediatric Ward and dropped in the
box.
Reach reporter at
joy@samoanews.com
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March 23, 1955 - June 19, 2013
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Family Service
Thursday, July 4, 2013
5:00 pm - at the LBJ Hospital Chapel
Prayer & Burial Service
Friday, July 5, 2013
2:00 pm - at the Tonumaipe’a Residence in Faleniu
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Murder-for-hire
suspect in Puerto
Rico faces life
Prescott and other area department firefighters embrace during a memorial service, Monday,
July 1, 2013 in Prescott, Ariz.
The service was held for the 19 Granite Mountain Hotshot Crew firefighters who were killed
(AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
Sunday, when an out-of-control blaze overtook the elite group. NEWS IN BRIEF
North Korea wants talks
with US to ease tension
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei (AP)
— North Korea’s foreign minister has appealed
for direct talks with the U.S. to ease regional
tension, saying Washington’s hostile policies
against his country make war a possibility.
North Korean delegation official Choe Myong
Nam says Foreign Minister Pak Ui Chun also
told a regional security forum Tuesday in Brunei
that the North Korean nuclear standoff won’t be
resolved unless the U.S. changes its tone.
North Korea surprisingly offered to talk with
the U.S. last month after weeks of tension following its February nuclear test. The U.S. has
coolly responded the overture saying Pyongyang must first demonstrate its sincerity on
nuclear disarmament. Choe says Pak also said
that the U.S. must accept North Korea’s dialogue offer if it truly wants to promote peace.
Obama ends Africa trip by
meeting Bush at memorial
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AP) —
President Barack Obama and former President
George W. Bush have laid a wreath at a memorial for Americans killed in the 1998 bombing
of the U.S. Embassy in Tanzania. It was a rare
joint public appearance by the two presidents.
Both men bowed their heads after a Marine
placed the wreath on a stand. They shook hands
with victims and family and walked back to the
embassy together. The ceremony lasted minutes; neither man made any public comments.
Tuesday’s embassy visit is one of Obama’s
final stops as he wraps up a weeklong tour of
the continent. Bush’s institute is hosting a twoday summit here on African women. Both of the
presidents’ wives were at the summit Tuesday.
Felled tree causes shutdown at
Tenn. nuclear plant
SPRING CITY, Tenn. (AP) — Operations at
an East Tennessee nuclear power plant are back
to normal after an interruption caused by a large
tree falling onto a transmission line.
Tennessee Valley Authority spokeswoman
Gail Rymer says automatic shutdown procedures began at the Watts Bar plant when the
electrical fault was detected on Friday afternoon.
Rymer says a homeowner cut down the tree
that fell onto a 500 kilovolt transmission line
close to the plant located near Spring City, about
55 miles southwest of Knoxville. The plant’s lone
reactor was back online by Sunday afternoon.
TVA is the nation’s largest public utility.
It provides power to about 9 million people
in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi,
North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.
Obama congratulates new
Australian prime minister
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack
Obama has called new Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to congratulate him on his
return to office. Obama also called Rudd’s predecessor, Julia Gillard, who resigned the prime
minister’s post last week after losing a party
leadership vote to Rudd.
Obama made both calls from Air Force One
as he traveled from South Africa to Tanzania.
The White House said Obama expressed
confidence that the U.S. and Australia would
continue to work closely on international and
regional issues. Obama and Rudd also discussed
the importance of completing the Trans-Pacific
Partnership trade agreement.
Obama developed a friendly relationship
with Gillard, who was his host during his 2011
trip to Australia.
The White House said Obama thanked her
for her warm friendship and wished her well.
Fort Hood shooting suspect
to enter plea in mass murder
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — The Army
psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort
Hood shooting rampage will finally enter a
plea Tuesday, just a week before jury selection
begins in his court-martial. Maj. Nidal Hasan is
expected to plead not guilty. In military cases, a
defendant is not asked to enter a plea until right
before the trial is to start.
Hasan, 42, faces execution or life without
parole if convicted of 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in the massacre on the Texas
Army post. Under military law, a death penalty
case requires a plea of not guilty.
At previous hearings in which Hasan was
represented by military defense attorneys, he
indicated that he wanted to plead guilty. But
Army rules prohibit a judge from accepting a
guilty plea to charges that could result in a death
sentence, and the judge refused to remove execution as a punishment option.
The judge, Col. Tara Osborn, also denied
Hasan’s request to plead guilty to lesser murder
charges. She cited legal issues that could have
arisen because his court-martial would have proceeded; Hasan still would have gone to trial on the
premeditated murder charges, and if convicted,
he still would have faced the death penalty.
If Hasan, who now serves as his own
attorney, tries to plead guilty Tuesday, the judge
will reject it and enter a not guilty plea for him,
according to military law experts.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A Puerto Rican woman
accused in a murder-for-hire scheme that killed her wealthy
Canadian husband faces a maximum penalty of life imprisonment, authorities on the U.S. Caribbean island said Monday.
Aurea Vazquez Rijos was arrested Sunday in Spain by that
country’s police force after arriving in Madrid on a flight from
Italy, where she has been living since 2008.
She was charged that year by a U.S. grand jury with hiring a
man to kill her husband, Adam Anhang, in the colonial district
of Puerto Rico’s capital.
U.S. Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodriguez told reporters at a
Monday news conference that the suspect is “exposed to life
imprisonment on the charges as it is now.”
Carlos Cases, FBI special agent in charge in Puerto Rico,
said investigators recently received information that Vazquez
had bought a plane ticket to Spain using her U.S. passport.
The FBI sought the cooperation of Spanish authorities and
police arrested Vazquez at the airport in Madrid after her flight
touched down.
Vazquez, who had another man’s twins in Italy, had apparently been working as a tour guide, according to Cases. She
had lived in Florence and more recently Venice. She has denied
wrongdoing.
Anhang was beaten and stabbed to death by an attacker in
Old San Juan in September 2005 as he walked with Vazquez
near a restaurant he had bought for her. A wrongfully convicted
Puerto Rican man spent eight months in prison for the Winnipeg native’s murder before getting released in June 2008 after
another man, Alex Pabon Colon, was indicted for the slaying
and pleaded guilty after cooperating with investigators.
According to the 2008 indictment, Vazquez offered Pabon
$3 million to kill her 32-year-old husband.
The indictment said two other unidentified people were
involved in the plot to kill Anhang, who developed beachfront
condominiums and hotels in Puerto Rico and also was CEO of
an online gambling software company based in Costa Rica.
On Sunday, the suspect’s sister and an ex-boyfriend were
arrested in Puerto Rico and expectations are they will soon be
charged as co-conspirators in the September 2005 slaying.
After Anhang’s murder, Vazquez refused to cooperate with
investigators and filed a civil suit against her late husband’s
family, seeking $1 million in damages and millions more from
his estate.
A judge in Puerto Rico dismissed her suit.
U.S. officials in Puerto Rico say the extradition process
could take nine months.
In The High Court
of American Samoa
TRIAL DIVISION
PR No.: 5-75
In the Matter of the Estate of
LAGAFUAINA LAISENE,
Deceased
FEO LAGAFUAINA,
Petitioner/Administrator for the
ESTATE OF LAGAFUAINA LAISENE
NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION
OF ADMINISTRATOR OF ESTATE OF
LAGAFUAINA LAISENE TO
DISTRIBUTE DEVISE OF LELEO
SOLAITA UNDER THE WILL TO THE
ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF
LELEO SOLAITA
TO: All Heirs of Lagafuaina Laisene
And To All Interested Persons
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the administrator
for the Estate of Lagafuaina Laisene has
petitioned the court for an order distributing
the devise of Leleo Solaita under the will of
Lagafuaina Laisene to the administrator for the
Estate of Leleo Solaita. This petition is
scheduled to be heard on August 13, 2013 at
9:00 a.m. in the Trial Division of the High Court
of American Samoa in the High Court Building,
in Fagatogo, American Samoa.
Dated: June 20, 2013
Clerk of Courts
Published 7/01, 7/08, 7/15
➧ Tourism…
Continued from page 3
the tourism sector and what policies and initiatives they have to
help develop this sector.
“This doesn’t mean, you
have to create new policies
and procedures,” he said and
noted that each one have their
mandates and they have to
achieve them. For example,
Department of Public Works
is contributing by providing
an access road to the Fagatele
National Marine Sanctuary.
“So you’re already doing
that, but you need to identify and
use that as your mandate and
tell us,” he said. “And we will
likely tell you, if there are things
that need to be done. Once
again, it’s about the ‘whole of
government’ approach.”
“Like everything, we are
starting from scratch and there
are issues we have to deal with.
These issues aren’t new, they’ve
been there. The first thing is
changing people’s mind-set
about tourism,” he said.
More in tomorrow’s edition
about the Visitor’s Bureau and
the tourism industry.
New Jersey-based
firm wins bid on
phase 1 of ASPA’s
new power plant
by Samoa News staff
Snoop Dogg and his family arrive at the BET Awards at the Nokia Theatre on Sunday, June 30,
(Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
2013, in Los Angeles. ➧ NEWS IN BRIEF…
Audit: Guam government
owes $1B in long term debt
HAGATNA (AP) — An independent audit
shows the Guam government has more than $1
billion in long-term debt. The U.S. territory’s debt
of $1.08 billion rose 44 percent in fiscal 2012,
the Pacific Daily News reported Monday. That’s
according to an audit from Deloitte & Touche
LLC. Gov. Eddie Calvo’s office released the audit.
The audit reported a cash surplus of $30.1
million in the government’s general fund as of
Sept. 30. But that surplus is primarily because
of more than $358 million in bonds. The loans
were needed to immediately pay off obligations
that had high interest rates, Calvo said.
The new bonds restructured the debt to save
the government about $4 million per year, the
Guam Economic Development Authority said.
Guam’s debt repayments will increase in
each of the next three years, with annual payments scheduled to be $85 million by 2017 until
the debts are paid off in 2042, according to the
authority. The bond money has been used for pastdue income tax refunds and other obligations.
Calvo said the territory needs to get to a point
where it pays refunds with cash set aside earlier.
3 held after woman’s face
sliced at Calif. club
COVINA, Calif. (AP) — Two sisters and
their sister-in-law are accused of mutilating
another woman’s face with a beer bottle during
an argument at a nightclub in eastern Los Angeles
County. The San Bernardino Sun reports the
alleged attack occurred early Sunday after a confrontation on the dance floor at 3Vino’s in Covina.
Twenty-nine-year-old Cynthia Carlin and
25-year-old Lisa Carlin, sisters from Rancho
Cucamonga, and their sister-in-law, Melissa
Carlin, were arrested for investigation of assault
with a deadly weapon and mayhem.
Police say the victim, a 37-year-old Long
Beach woman, was hospitalized with a 4- to
5-inch-long gash to her cheek.
Investigators say the altercation apparently
erupted because the sisters felt the woman was
dancing too closely to a man.
China, Russia in largestever joint naval drills
BEIJING (AP) — China says it will join
Russia later this week for its largest-ever naval
drills with a foreign partner.
The exercises in the Sea of Japan starting
Friday and running through July 12 underscore
deepening military cooperation between the
former Cold War rivals. China has long been
a key customer for Russian military hardware,
but only in the last decade have their militaries
begun taking part in joint exercises.
The Defense Ministry said Tuesday that China’s navy will send four destroyers, two guided
missile frigates, and a support ship to take part in
the exercises. They departed Monday from the port
of Qingdao. China will take part next year in the
U.S.-organized multinational Rim of the Pacific
exercises, the world’s largest maritime exercises.
Ranger shot with bullet
that killed suicidal woman
BUFORD, Ga. (AP) — Police in Georgia say
a park ranger who was shot in the stomach was
wounded by the same bullet that killed a suicidal
woman. Authorities said D.P. Wright, a ranger
for the Army Corps of Engineers at Lower
Buford Dam Park, was shot the night of June 26
when he went to tell a 34-year-old woman sitting in a truck that the park was closed.
Gwinnett County Police Cpl. Jake Smith says
investigators found a single bullet casing on the
scene. Authorities believe that the woman and
the 70-year-old ranger were both wounded by a
single bullet. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
reported Monday that Wright’s family expects
him to be discharged from the hospital sometime this week.
UN atomic agency chief:
nuclear theft is rife…
VIENNA (AP) — The head of the U.N.
nuclear agency says that well over 100 cases of
nuclear theft and related incidents are reported
to his agency each year but many more may go
undetected. “We cannot be sure if such cases are
just the tip of the iceberg,” says Yukiya Amano,
head of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Amano spoke Monday at the start of an
IAEA conference on nuclear security attended
by government ministers and other senior officials from more than 100 countries. He urged
more IAEA member nations to ratify an agreement that obliges them to secure nuclear materials and facilities on their soil, saying 30 signatures are still needed to bring it into force.
China demands knives and
offers rewards in tense west
BEIJING (AP) — Police in China’s restive
far west have announced that they are confiscating long knives, explosives and guns — and
also computers and cellphones containing “terrorist” material — as the government tightens
controls on the region after recent unrest.
The order was issued Tuesday by the public
security bureau of Xinjiang.
Police also are offering rewards of up to
$16,300 for information on terrorist activity
that helps solve major terror crimes or leads to
the arrest of terror suspects. It says those who
knowingly shelter, protect or help “violent terrorist criminals” will be prosecuted.
Bloody clashes in Xinjiang (shihn-jeeahng)
over the last several months have killed more
than 50 people. It has long been home to a simmering rebellion against Chinese rule among
parts of the Uighur (WEE’-gur) population.
The American Samoa Power Authority has contracted a
New Jersey based company to supply engines and switchgears
for the first phase of the federally funded rebuilding of the
Satala power plant that was destroyed by the September 2009
tsunami.
The Louis Berger Group Inc., announced last week Tuesday
in a national news release that it has won a $36 million contract
to help rebuild the Satala Power Plant.
The company will provide the engineering and plant
design, equipment procurement, and installation and commissioning of the power generation along with ancillary electrical equipment.
Responding to Samoa News questions, ASPA chief operations officer Reno Vivao says the contract was awarded Apr.
30 for Phase One of the project, to supply complete engines,
switchgear and auxiliaries. He said three companies bid for the
contract — two from off island and one local company.
The Louis Berger Group says the major equipment will
include seven primary generators, two emergency back-up
generators, switchgear assembly, two station transformers and
motor control centers.
The newly installed equipment at the completed plant will
contain a capacity of 24.5 megawatts.
Vivao told Samoa News that the engines ASPA selected
“have excellent fuel efficiency” and they also meet Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Tier 2 engine standards and
operate on ultra-low-sulfur diesel.
The ASPA chief operations officer says Phase Two of the
project, which will be for the design and building contract of
the Satala power plant, will be out for bid soon. He says the
design and build Request For Proposal (RFP) is 99% for the
construction of the new power plant and the starting date will
hopefully be early next year.
Ray Mardini, P.E., associate vice president of Louis Berger’s global energy systems division, said the company has
designed, installed, operated and maintained power generation
and distributed power systems at more than 15 locations on
four continents over the past five years.
“Our proven experience as a turn-key power project and
equipment provider will enable us to successfully complete
this extremely important project in the South Pacific for the
people of American Samoa,” he said in a news release.
It also says that Louis Berger’s assignment is expected to
reduce ASPA’s total plant lifecycle costs by supplying highly
fuel-efficient, low-maintenance power generation equipment.
Additionally, the new equipment, combined with the technical support and training that Louis Berger will provide, will
enable ASPA to reliably operate the power plant for years to
come.
Rebuilding of the Satala Power Plant is funded by the U.S.
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which also
funded the engines at the temporary Satala plant.
Samoa News reporter Fili Sagapolutele contributed to this
report.
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Antonio Lopez Chaj, a 43-year-old house painter, appears with his attorneys at a news conference
in Los Angeles Monday, July 1, 2013. Lopez Chaj is so badly brain damaged for a beating in a bar that
left him with half his skull permanently bashed in that he cannot speak. His lawyers announced he
(AP Photo/Nick Ut)
has been awarded a $58 million by a jury in Torrance Superior Court.
So. Calif. painter awarded
$58 Million in bar beating
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 43-year-old
house painter so badly brain damaged that he
can’t speak has been awarded $58 million by a
jury after a beating at a bar left him with half his
skull permanently bashed in.
Antonio Lopez Chaj (chy) appeared at a news
conference Monday with lawyers who announced
the award handed down against a security company Friday in Torrance Superior Court. It was
among the largest damage awards ever given to
one person in California, the lawyers said. They
said they expect an appeal and there could be settlement negotiations before Chaj receives anything.
Chaj had to be supported by relatives at the
news conference. When he took off a baseball
cap hiding his injuries, gasps could be heard from
people present. “His skull is like a pie with 25 percent cut out of it,” said attorney Federico Sayre.
Chaj was attacked at a mid-Wilshire bar after
trying to intercede in an attack by a bartender and
security guard on two relatives who were with him.
Lawyers said an unlicensed, untrained security guard beat Chaj with a baton, kicked him
in the head eight times and smashed his skull
against pavement four times.
“It was truly a horrendous and brutal beating
by a guy who shouldn’t have been working at
all,” said Sayre, who represented Chaj along
with Fernando Chavez, the son of famed civil
rights leader Cesar Chavez.
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Police say South Korean man
spurred NJ school lockdown
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean
police say a local man is responsible for prank
911 calls that prompted school lockdowns in
New Jersey last year.
The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said
Monday in a statement that a 19-year-old surnamed Lee made calls from South Korea to a
New Jersey communications center and threatened to use an AK-47 to kill students at Hackettstown High School.
The calls led schools in the northwestern
New Jersey town and at Centenary College to
keep students inside for four hours while police
searched the area.
South Korean police began investigating
after U.S. authorities traced the calls to South
Korea. Police say Lee used a smartphone application to make the calls.
Police declined to provide contact information for Lee. The statement says he’s serving in
the military.
The security guard, Emerson Quintanilla, and
the bartender-manager who sparked the attack
have disappeared without a trace, Sayre said.
“I think the man went crazy, lost his mind,” he
said of Quintanilla. “It was a species of road rage.”
Sayre said the confrontation begin April 20,
2010 when Chaj, his brother and two nephews,
who all worked as house painters, went to Barra
Latina, a neighborhood bar.
One of the relatives got into a dispute with
the bartender-manager who came after him with
brass knuckles, Sayre said. Quintanilla, who was
working for DGSP Security and Patrol Services,
began kicking and beating members of the group.
Chaj tried to intervene and said, “Stop beating
my nephews.” At that point, Sayre said, the guard
beat Chaj into unconsciousness. Part of his skull
was gone when he reached the hospital.
“They saved his life but he has significant
brain damage,” Sayre said. “He can’t speak and
he requires 24-hour nursing care.”
He said Chaj faces more surgeries.
Phone messages seeking comment left with
attorneys for the defendants were not immediately returned.
In civil courts, only nine of the 12 jurors have
to agree on a verdict, Sayre said. But this jury
was unanimous in finding for the plaintiffs on all
claims, and it granted the $58 million award the
plaintiffs requested.
Vigilantes burn politician’s
home in northeast Nigeria
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Vigilantes
on Monday torched the home of a senior politician they accuse of supporting Islamic militants
in northeast Nigeria, witnesses said.
The arson came as soldiers acting under a state
of emergency killed some 40 men accused of
belonging to the extremist Boko Haram group on
the outskirts of Maiduguri city, according to a soldier who said he participated in the fighting. The
soldier requested his name not be used because he
is not authorized to speak to reporters.
The arson was the first indication that the
vigilantes, who have been arresting alleged
extremists and handing them over to the military, could be getting out of control.
Members of the party of the targeted politician and party chairman Mala Othman said opponents used the vigilantes “to settle cheap political
scores” in Maiduguri. Neighbors said soldiers
smuggled Othman out of the house before it was
➧ July 4th will be honored, along with youth…
In his proclamation the governor pointed
out that nearly one-third of American Samoa’s
population — approximately 18,000 American
Samoans — are young people between the ages
of 16 and 35. Additionally, the territory’s “most
valuable resource is its people, including our
youth, upon which we rely as vital community assets and resources, having their unique
knowledge, idealism, skills, perspectives, ideas,
and creativity, that contribute to their awareness, service, advocacy, and philanthropy.”
He then designated the 4th of July as Youth
Day and July as Youth Month in the territory.
He says all sectors of American Samoa should
recognize the significance of the youth of the
Territory “to our future well-being; and craft,
implement, and evaluate programs to assist in
their development.”
The 4th of July celebration will include a
parade at Utulei Beach, cultural games, entertainment, as well as a concert set to begin at 6p.m.,
with a firework display — provided by Bluesky
Communications — to end that day’s festivities.
Also included as part of the program, is the
Troy Polamalu Football Clinic, being held from
today to the 5th of July. The Troy Polamalu
Community Concert is set for July 6.
DYWA has set daily activities marking
Youth Month and the complete schedule was
published in last Friday’s edition of Samoa
News along with the proclamation and Thursday’s program.
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TEAM FETO O SASA’E (EASTERN DISTRICT SCHOOLS)
For Fagaitua High School, and Elementary Schools: Matatula, Aunu’u, Olomoana, Alofau,
Masefau, Laulii and all ECE’s in the Eastern District, the ASG Agencies assigned to these schools
are the DOC, ASPA, CJPA, Insurance Commission, Finance, Samoan Affairs, Marine Railway/
Shipyard, Treasury and the Governor’s office including, Territorial Audit Office, Historic Preservation Office, Medicaid Office, Veteran Affairs, Internal Audit, TOFR, Tradesman Board, Vocational Rehab, Sports Complex, Policy Unit, Licensing and Boards, OFPI, and Office of Grants
Oversight and Accountability. TEAM TAUTAI MATA PALPALA (Central District Schools)
The Central District schools of Samoana High School, and the Elementary schools of Aua,
Afono, St Francis, Coleman, Fagasa, Matafao and SPICC and all central district ECE’s will be
covered by DPW, DOH, DPS, Administrative Services, Budget Officer, EPA, Legal Affairs,
Medical Services Authority, Public Library and DBAS.
TEAM AIGA POTOPOTO (Mid-Western District Schools)
The schools included in this team are Tafuna High School, Nu’uuli Vocational Technical High
School, SPA, Kanana Fou School, SBA, Iakina, Pacific Horizons, Tafuna Intermediate School,
Manulele, Lupelele, Manumalo elementariness, and all ECE schools. These schools will be covered by ASPA, Human Resources, Port Administration, DYWA, Arts Council, DMWR, ALJ,
DHSS, Public Defender, Public Information Office, TAOA and the Visitors Bureau.
TEAM FAUTASI (Western District Schools)
Team Fautasi includes Leone High School, Fa’asao and Marist, the elementary schools: Midkiff, Pava’ia’i, Siliaga, Nua and Seetaga and ECE schools in the Western District and will be
covered by ASTCA, Parks and Recreation, DOA, Procurement, TEO, Property Management,
Homeland Security, ASCC, Election Office and Protection and Advocacy. Reach reporter at joy@samoanews.com
invaded by scores of young men who set it ablaze.
Cops: $500,000 in jewelry
stolen from AC’s Borgata
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Police say
approximately $500,000 worth of jewelry has
been stolen in a smash-and-grab at a store in the
Borgata Hotel amid the Atlantic City casino’s
10th anniversary celebration.
Atlantic City Police Sgt. Monica McMenamin says a call was received from Borgata
security at about 8:45 p.m. Monday reporting
a theft in a jewelry store. In a statement, police
say three men fled the store on foot before
taking off in a dark colored vehicle.
No arrests have been made and no other information was immediately available. The Borgata
opened July 2, 2003, as the first new casino in
the resort town in 13 years. It has 11 retail shops,
2,000 guest rooms and suites, nearly 200 gambling tables and more than 3,400 slot machines.
Bank of England’s new
governor starts work
LONDON (AP) — Canadian Mark Carney,
the first non-Brit to run the Bank of England
in its 319-year history, has started work amid
hopes that he can help revive the economy.
Carney beamed as he arrived by underground before 7 a.m. on Monday. Looming on
his agenda is a Monetary Policy Committee
later this week. The nine committee members
will discuss whether to expand a stimulus plan
that has pumped 375 billion pounds ($579 billion) into the economy since 2009.
The economy is still struggling. It grew just
0.3 percent in the first quarter this year compared with the previous quarter. The 48-yearold has been lauded for steering Canada through
the 2008 financial crisis and for overseeing the
fastest recovery of any G-8 country.
6-year-old boy rides three
miles on van roof in Alaska
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska
State Troopers say a 6-year-old boy climbed on
top of his parents’ minivan and rode it for three
miles down a highway before he fell off and
suffered cuts and bruises.
Trooper spokeswoman Beth Ipsen tells the
Anchorage Daily News the boy has apparently
gone for roof rides before, hanging on to the
bars mounted on the minivan.
The boy told troopers he climbed on to the
vehicle Sunday as it left his home at Mile 52
on the Parks Highway about 10 miles north of
Wasilla. He lost his grip at Mile 49. The driver
continued on. Another motorist picked the boy
up, drove him to a gas station and called 911.
Ipsen says no one has been charged with a
traffic violation or crime.
Chicago police: Homicide,
shooting numbers fall
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police say the
city has seen a significant drop in the number
of homicides and shootings during the first six
months of 2013. The department said Monday
that there have been 184 homicides this year,
29 percent fewer than the 260 homicides during
the same period in 2012.
The number is the lowest for the time period
since 1965, police say. Chicago saw 500 homicides total in 2012. Police also said there have
been 843 shootings in the first six months of the
year, down 25 percent from the 1,117 shootings during the same time period last year. The
department said Chicago officers have seized
more than 3,500 illegal guns so far this year.
LAND COMMISSION
NOTICE is hereby given that FANENE V. SO’OTO of MALAEIMI, American Samoa, has
executed a LEASE AGREEMENT to a certain parcel of land commonly known as MALAEIMI
which is situated in the village of MALAEIMI, in the County of TUALAUTA, WESTERN District,
Island of Tutuila, American Samoa. Said LEASE AGREEMENT is now on file with the Territorial
Registrar to be forwarded to the Governor respecting his approval or disapproval thereof
according to the laws of American Samoa. Said instrument names JEANNETTE YAMASAKI as
LESSEE.
Any person who wish, may file his objection in writing with the Secretary of the Land
Commission before the 19TH day of AUGUST, 2013. It should be noted that any objection must
clearly state the grounds therefor.
POSTED:
JUNE 19, 2013 thru AUGUST 19, 2013
SIGNED:
Taito S.B. White, Territorial Registrar
KOMISI O LAU’ELE’ELE
O LE FA’ASALALAUGA lenei ua faia ona o FANENE V. SO’OTO ole nu’u o MALAEIMI, Amerika
Samoa, ua ia faia se FEAGAIGA LISI, i se fanua ua lauiloa o MALAEIMI, e i le nu’u o MALAEIMI i
le itumalo o TUALAUTA, Falelima i SISIFO ole Motu o TUTUILA Amerika Samoa. O lea
FEAGAIGA LISI ua i ai nei i teuga pepa ale Resitara o Amerika Samoa e fia auina atu ile Kovana
Sili mo sana fa’amaoniga e tusa ai ma le Tulafono a Amerika Samoa. O lea mata’upu o lo’o
ta’ua ai JEANNETTE YAMASAKI.
A iai se tasi e fia fa’atu’i’ese i lea mata’upu, ia fa’aulufaleina mai sa na fa’atu’iesega tusitusia
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Celebrating Our Youth 2013
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JULY 4TH, 2013
7:00am to 9:00pm • Su’igaula a le Atuvasa Malae – Utulei
YOUTH DAY AGENDA
Theme: “OUR FUTURE IS IN YOUR HANDS”
7:00 am
7:30 am
8:00 am
8:30 am
8:40 am
8:45 am
9:00 am
9:10 am
9:20 am
Parade Setup
Parade Begins
~Led by Fatuoaiga Band
Assemble on field
Arrival of Invitees
*Arrival of Honorable Governor
~Lolo M. Moliga
*Welcoming Remarks
~Pa’u Roy T. Ausage
DYWA Acting Director
*Invocation~Reverend Asiata Fouvale
Matu’u CCCAS
*Flag Raising
US National Anthem~Aeone Fuimaono Sagapolutele
AS National Anthem~Anasetasia Momoe
*Reading of the Proclamation
9:30 am
10:00 am
10:30 am
11:00 am
12:00 pm
12:30 pm
12:35 pm
6:00 pm
8:30 pm
Alice Malele /English
Kurt Aab/Samoan
*Special Remarks
~Honorable Governor Lolo M. Moliga
Pass & Review ~ All Youth Groups
Performances ~ East, Central, & West
Cultural Games
~Tapumanaia Galu Satele Jr.
DYWA Deputy Director
LUNCH - Fale Aitu; Pili, Ne’emia, & Leuma
Retire the colors
Benediction ~Reverend Asiata Fouvale
Matu’u CCCAS
*CONCERT ~ Youth Groups & Comedians
*FIREWORKS ~ Blue Sky Communication
“We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH AND WOMEN’S AFFAIRS
JULY 2013
SUN
MON
TUE
WED
1
THU
2
FRI
3
SAT
4
5
TROY POLAMALU Football Clinic
Cooking Training
Session-2 Beings
(Utulei/Old
election Ofice)
Boys Scout Camp
Launching of
Aluminum Can&
Plastic Bottles
Recycling Program
Construction of
Basketball Court
Juvenile
Delinquency Center
YOUTH DAY
(Suigaula Beach)
All Day
TROY POLAMALU
Football Clinic
6
-Troy Polamalu
Community Concert Heart to Heart Movie
Premier @
Lee Auditorium
BOY SCOUT CAMP
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7
8
Special Olympics
Youth Games
(Stadium)
14
Computer 15
Basics Training
(July 15 Aug 2nd)
(Feleti Barstow Library)
• 9am - 12am
21
22
Launching of Le
Fatuga Samoa Project
(Fale Samoa)
28
29
9
10
Youth Leadership
Training
(Lee Auditorium
8am-12am)
Special Olympics
Youth Games
(Stadium)
16
Enviro-Discoveries
Summer Camp
(Manu’a)
23
Enviro-Discoveries
Summer Camp
(Tutuila) (Fale
Samoa)
30
17
Enviro-Discoveries
Summer Camp
(Manu’a)
24
Enviro-Discoveries
Summer Camp
(Tutuila)
11
Population Day
(Lee Auditorium)
18
Enviro-Discoveries
Summer Camp
(Manu’a)
25
Enviro-Discoveries
Summer Camp
(Tutuila)
12
13
19
20
Movie Night
At The Beach
(Suigaula)
Kids Day • Le Leo
For KIDS Showcase
(Suigaula Beach)
Kids Day • Le Leo
For KIDS Showcase
(Suigaula Beach)
26
BLOCK PARTY
(Suigaula Beach)
10am – 2pm
31
OPEN MIC AT THE
OCEAN CENTER
(Tauese Ocean
Center)
Contact info - DYWA 633-2835 Pa’u, Tapumanaia or Orepa
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Le
Se vaaiga i turisi o lo o tietie i totonu o le pasi a’o galulue le aufaigaluega a le Ofisa o Turisi e
faailoa i ai nofoaga o le a latou asia, ina ua malaga asiasi mai le vaa turisi a le Sea Princess i le
[ata: AF]
masina o Me na te’a nei i le atunuu.
Fa’ataoto Ofisa Turisi ta’iala e faaleleia ai le atina’e o turisi i le atunuu
tusia Ausage Fausia
E leai se isi auala e televave ona faaleleia ai le atina’e o turisi i Amerika Samoa e pei o le
galulue faatasi o tagata o le malo ma pisinisi tua i le sailia o auala e faatosina mai ai turisi i
totonu o le teritori, e pei ona taua e le pule o le Ofisa o Turisi ia David Vaeafe, i sana saunoaga
i luma o le fonotaga a le Kapeneta i le aso Faraile na te’a nei.
Na taua e Vaeafe e faapea, o le ripoti ua maea ona saunia e le Matagaluega o Fefaatauaiga
ma Alamanuia (DOC) “O le galuega a tagata ta’ito’atasi uma le faia o auala e faatosina mai ai
turisi i le atunuu.”
Mai le faitau miliona ma miliona o turisi o lo o felelei i vaalele ma asiasi atu i isi atunuu o le
lalolagi i tausaga taitasi, e na o le 1% le aofa’i o turisi o lo o faamauina o lo o asia atunuu eseese
e 14 o le Pasefika e aofia ai ma Amerika Samoa i le tausaga tasi, ma o se numera ua atagia mai
ai le pau maualalo o le atina’e tau turisi i le Pasefika e aofia ai ma Amerika Samoa.
“O le fesili po o fea tonu le taimi e tatau ai ona amata galulue le atunuu e faaleleia atina’e mo
turisi o le taimi nei, ae o le isi fo’i fesili po o ai tonu e i ai le matafaioi o le faatosiina mai lea o
turisi i le atunuu, o le tali o tagata Amerika Samoa uma,” o le saunoaga lea a Vaeafe i luma o le
kapeneta.
“O le fesili po o a auala e tatau ona faaleleia mo le atina’e o turisi i le atunuu, o le tali, e tatau
ona faaleleia fale talimalo, faleaiga, kamupani vaalele ma kamupani taavale rental ina ia lava ma
totoe mo le faaaogaina e turisi pe a malaga mai i le atunuu, e tatau foi ona faaleleia le sootaga
vava lalata o le malo ma pisinisi tua, ma ia aoaoina tagata taitoatasi i auala e fesootai atu ai i
turisi pe a ulufale mai i le atunuu,” o le saunoaga lea a Vaeafe.
O le taimi nei i Amerika Samoa, e le atoa se 20 o fale talimalo o lo o i ai,e na o le 180 taavale
rental, e sili laititi lava ma le 20 fale’aiga ae na o le tasi le kamupani vaalele, pe a faatusatusa i
le 67,000 i le 72,000 turisi sa mafai ona asia le atunuu i le lima tausaga talu ai, e pei ona taua e
Vaeafe.
Ina ua faatoa faavae le Ofisa fou o Turisi i ni nai tausaga e le’i mamao atu, na maitauina ai
le le toe i ai o se sootaga galulue faatasi a le malo ma pisinisi tua i le faatosina maia o turisi i le
atunuu
“Soo se tagata lava e ulufale mai i Amerika Samoa ae le o ia o se Amerika Samoa, o le turisi
le ta’uina o lena tagata, mo se faataitaiga o le taamilosaga taitoa 7 a le TMO Marist na faatoa
maea atu nei, na malaga mai ai le toatele o tagata mai Samoa tuaoi ma isi atunuu o le pasefika
e auai i lea taamilosaga, ma o i latou uma na e taua o turisi, e le gata o lo o malaga asiasi mai
ae o lo o faaalu a latou tupe e totogi ai mea o lo o nonofo ma aumau ai i Amerika Samoa,” o le
saunoaga lea a Vaeafe.
O ni isi o auala o lo o faia e atunuu tetele o le lalolagi e faatosina atu ai turisi i o latou atunuu,
o le faatau i ai o a latou oloa ma faailoa i ai nofoaga mananaia e faatosina i ai loto o turisi ina ia
fiafia pea e asiasi atu i o latou atunuu, ma o ni isi ia fuafuaga faataoto a le Ofisa o Turisi e tatau
ona faia ina ia faaleleia atili ai le atina’e o turisi i le teritori, e pei o le tatala lea o ni maimoaga
i le motu o Manu’a, ma faailoa i ai ni nofoaga matagofie e faafiafia turisi e matamata ai, ma
faatosina i ai o latou loto e malaga i Manu’a.
Fesootai mai i le tusitala ia ausage@samoanews.com
Fa’atalofa ma le
Teine o le Vateatea
tusia: Leua Aiono Frost
“O se fa’amanuiaga ese fo’i le mafai ona fa’alogo ma matamata taumafaiga eseese sa uia mai e se tasi o le a avea ma
pailate o va’a o le vateatea a le NASA, o se mea sa le moemiti e
o’o mai ia te a’u a’o ola!” O se tala ata lea a le afioga Su’a Carl
Schuster mai Utulei.
O le aso Tofi na fa’atulaga ai e le pulega o le Nationa Marine
Sanctuary ma le NOAA se avanoa lelei mo le tama’ita’i ua tofia
nei e avea ma se tasi o Asetoronoti mo Va’a o le vateatea a
Amerika i Houston Texas.
I lana folasaga sa fa’aalia i le kelope o le Ocean Center i
Utulei, sa fa’ailoa mai ai le tala’aga matagofie o le amataga
o lona olaga faigaluega o se tama’ita’i Inisinia fa’aeletise lea
na pasi mai ma ia i le Iunivesite o North Carolina e maua ai
lona Masters.
E fa’amaonia lona lea manatu, ona e fa’alua lelei ona talosaga Tina e soso’o lana Konekarate e toe faigaluega ai i’inei, ae
le’i o’o ina talia mai lana talosaga e fia avea ma Asetoronote e
pei ona i ai nei.
O le manulauti o lana folasaga e fa’atatau i lona olaga taumafai ia maua uma mea sa ia fa’anaunau i ai o se Inisinia
Eletoronisi ma o se saeanitisi fo’i, sa ia fa’alauiloa mai ai “O
lo’u Mana’o!” Sa ia mana’o e na te fia molimauina se ‘Lagoto
sili ona umi’ i le lalolagi!
Sa ia molimauina lea tulaga i pole e lua o le lalolagi sa ia
galue ai, o le fa’atumutumuga o le setete o Alaska i le Pole
i Matu, sa galue ai o ia e fa’atutu satelite sa ia inisiaina! E 6
masina o nofo ai, i le nofoaga e lanupa’epa’e fa’atasi le lagi ma
le laufanua i le ‘aisa pa’epa’e ma e te le iloa po’o fea e fetaui ai
le lagi ma le laueleele - e le mailoa se horisone!
Soso’o lea ma le isi ona vala’auina e galue e fa’atutu satelite
ma le Ofisa i le Pole i Matu, ma sa fa’ae’e atu o latou va’alele
mai le fa’atausi’usi’uga o Invagergill i Niu Sila i Saute. O ni
galuega e matua tetele afaina e lamatia ai le ola, ae sao i ama
nei galuega uma, ma sa toe o’o ina vala’auina e toe fa’atutu isi
satelite i le pole i matu i le itu o Greenland i Europa, lea sa mafai
ona o’o ai o ia i le Nofoaga o Satelite fa’avaomalo i Rusia.
Mai i’ina, ae o’o atu loa le vala’au, e mana’omia le inisinia lea, e na te fa’apipi’ia totoga o le satelite i Matatula, lea
ua ia fa’ailoa mai, “O le nofoaga ua sili ona mama lona ‘Ea
i le lalolagi atoa, i taimi uma e fuaina ai le mama o le ea, e
sili lava Amerika Samoa! O fetaua’iga tonu lea o Matamatagi
Tradewinds ma le Vai To’elau [southerly winds]!”
Sa ia saunoa foi e tusa o lona aiga i Tula, e na te misia
Amerika Samoa ma ona tagata i lo latou agalelei, alolofa ma
uiga tausa’afia, “Ou te le maua so’o ni tagata fa’apenei i so’o se
mea ua ou faigaluega ai ma nofo ai!”
Na toe fa’atepa e Tina Amerika Samoa i le ulua’i taimi na
toe tulaueleele ai va’a o le vateatea i ou ogasami, lea sa tatou
talimalo ai, i le auva’a o le Apollo 12, ma o le ulua’i taimi lea
na o’o mai ai se Peresetene o Amerika i o tatou laueleele President Johnson ma lona faletua Ladybird Johnson po’o Manulele
Tausala! O pine fa’amau, o le igoa o le tatou falema’i tele i
Faga’alu ma le a’oga Manulele Tausala Elementary i Nuuuli.
O le tatou Asetoronote lea ua filifilia mo le malaga i Mars,
ma e fiafia tele e nofo i Amerika Samoa, aua e laufofoga ma ola
fiafia tagata! “O lenei lava lo’u nu’u moni!” [ata: Leua Aiono Frost]
tusia Ausage Fausia
MOLIA ELILOE MAU I LE TALEPE FALE MA LE GAOI
Na tulai i luma o le Faamasinoga Faaitumalo i le aso ananafi
ia Eliloe Mau, lea o lo o tuuaia i lona osofaia o se faleoloa i
Seetaga ia Me 2012, ma ua molia ai nei o ia i le talepe fale i le
tulaga muamua ma le gaoi.
E $10,000 lea ua faatulaga e le faamasinoga e mafai ona
tatala ai o ia i tua mai le toese, e faatalitali ai le isi ana iloiloga
lea ua faatulaga mo le Aso Tofi o le vaiaso nei.
Na o’o atu lenei mataupu i leoleo ina ua usu atu se pule o se
faleoloa i Seetaga e tatala lona faleoloa ia Me 13, 2012 ae ona
vaaia le salalau solo o oloa i totonu o le faleoloa.
Na taua e le pule o le faleoloa i leoleo e faapea, ina ua alu
atu e siaki le vaega o lo o teu ai oloa i totonu o le faleoloa, sa
ia maituaina ai se faamalama o le faleoloa ua malepe, ma o
lalo atu o le faamalama o lo o taatitia ai pea seevae tosotoso
lanu uliuli.
O le isi itu o le faleoloa na maua i ai e le alii pule se pusa
vai ma se pusa apainu o lo o tuu i totonu o le taavale e la’u i
ai faatau, ae maua ni isi oloa, na aofia ai ma se pusa Steinlager
ma se pusa sikaleti i se nofoaga e le mamao ma le fale o le
ua molia.
Na ioeina e Mau i leoleo lona osofaia o le faleoloa ma ia
gaoia oloa sa aofia ai ma pusa pia ma pepa sikaleti, ae le gata
i lea, o ona seevae tosotoso lanu uliuli lea sa galo i totonu o le
faleoloa.
O mea na faaleagaina i lenei osofaiga e pei ona taua e le pule
o le faleoloa i leoleo, e aofia ai le faamalama e $30 lona tau ma
oloa na gaoia e tusa ma le $150 le tau.
TATALA KAIO LEVAO I TUA MAI LE TOESE
O le vaiaso na te’a nei na tatala mai ai i tua mai le toese i
Tafuna le ali’i o Kaio Levao, ina ua manatu le fa’amasinoga o
le a le toe faaopoopoina se isi taimi e taofia ai o ia i le toese, ae
ua lava le umi lea na taofia ai o ia e avea ma ona faasalaga i le
mataupu e pei ona ta’usala ai o ia.
O Levao, 45 tausaga le matua na ulua’i tuuaia e le malo
i le moliaga mamafa e tasi o le tagofia lea o itutinosa o se
tama’ita’i e laititi i lalo o le tulafono, atoa ai ma moliaga
mama e lua o le faaoolima i le tulaga tolu atoa ai ma le faatupu
vevesi i nofoaga faitele, ae i le maliliega sa ia sainia ma le
malo ma talia e le faamasinoga, na ia tali ioe ai i le moliaga
muamua na toe teuteu e le malo, ina ia faailoa ai le solitulafono mama o le taumafai e tagofia itutinosa o se tama’ita’i i
le tulaga muamua.
I le ta’usala ai o Kaio i le solitulafono lea, sa ia tautino ai e
faapea, i se taimi o le masina o Tesema 2012 i Fagatogo, sa ia
taumafai ai e tagofia itutinosa o se tama’ita’i e 19 tausaga le
matua i se auala e le tusa ai ma le tulafono.
I le maea ai ona iloilo e le faamasinoga o talosaga ma faafinauga a itu e lua e tusa ai o lenei mataupu, na manatu ai loa le
faamasinoga e faasala Levao i le salatupe e $1,000 atoa ai ma
le umi lea na taofia ai o ia i Tafuna e avea ma ona faasalaga i
lenei mataupu.
O le mataupu na tuuaia ai Levao na alia’e mai ina ua alu
atu le tamaita’i na aafia e faafo’i ana ata video i se fale video
i Fagatogo, ae alu atu ai Levao ma taumafai e tagofia ona
itutinosa, ae ina ua fesiligia o ia e leoleo pe aisea na ia faia
ai lea gaioiga, na tali le ua molia, faapea lava ia e talafeagai
lona tagofia o itutinosa o le tama’ita’i na aafia ona o lea faatoa
uma ona fanau o ia.
JOE MAPU
O le taeao ananafi na faila ai e le malo le moliaga mamafa
faasaga i le ali’i o Joe Mapu o Nuuuli, ona o le faalavelave na
tula’i mai i Nuuuli i le aso 27 Iuni, 2013, i lona faaaoga faasolitulafono o se a’upega malosi po o le fana.
Ua molia nei Mapu i le moliaga mamafa o le faaaoga faasolitulafono o se a’upega mata’utia, atoa ai ma moliaga mama e lua
o le umia faasolitulafono o se fana atoa ai ma le faatupu vevesi
i nofoaga faitele.
O le taeao nei lea ua toe tolopo i ai le mataupu a Mapu, mo
le iloiloina pe mana’o e faataunuu lana ulua’i iloiloga i luma o
le faamasinoga faaitumalo, pe tuu sa’o atu loa lana mataupu i
luma o le faamasinoga maualuga e faaauau ai.
E $5,000 le tupe lea ua faatulaga e le faamasinoga e totogi
ona faatoa mafai lea ona tatala le ua molia i tua, ae faatalitali
ai taualumaga o lana mataupu, ma afai e mafai ona tatala o ia i
tua, ua faasa ona ia toe umia se fana po o ni aupega mata’utia,
faasa fo’i ona ia toe taumafai e faafesootai tagata na aafia i lenei
mataupu atoa ai ma molimau a le malo, ae ia avea o ia ma tagatanuu lelei e usita’i i tulafono ma ia auai fo’i i soo se taimi e
valaau ai lana mataupu.
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TEENA MINISITA SOIFUA MALOLOINA TALOSAGA FAASA SIKALETI
Ua teena e le minisita o le Matagaluega o le Soifua Maloloina, le afioga Tuitama Talalelei Tuitama,
le talosaga a nisi o lo o taumafai e faataua le soifua maloloina lelei i le atunuu, ina ia faasaina le
faatauina o sikaleti i totonu o le atunuu. i lana saunoaga i se feiloaiga ma tusitala e faalauiloa ai le fonotaga lona 10 a minisita o le soifua maloloina mai atunuu eseese o le Pasefika lea na amatalia ananafi
i Apia, na faaalia ai e Tuitama, o le a le faasaina le faatauina o sikaleti. Fai mai a ia, o tupe a le malo
e maua mai le faatauina o sikaleti o se alagatupe taua lea mo le malo i tausaga taitasi. E le gata i lea,
na saunoa le alii minisita, “o sikaleti e aoga i isi tagata aemaise i taimi o galuega ona e fesoasoani le
sikaleti i nisi tagata e lelei ai la latou galulue, ao nisi e tua i le sikaleti pe a malolo.”
FINAU SE TAMA MO ONA ATALII
O lo o finau malosi le tama o Kene Sanft, e 55 tausaga mai Alamagoto, o ona atalii talavou e toalua
sa molia ma taofia e leoleo ona o se fusuaga na tulai mai i le maea ai o le faaaliga taavale o le tutoatasi, e lei amataina lea vevesiga. Ua faaalia le toatamai o lea tama ona o lea tulaga na ia faamatalaina
e le faamaoni, ma le le manino o tali a leoleo i le mafuaaga ua loka ai ona atalii.
“Ua loka lau fanau e aunoa ma se mafuaaga tatau,” o le faagaulemalie lea a le tama o Kene Sanft.
Fai mai a ia, sa tafafao ona atalii ma a la uo i lalo o se faleie i le nofoaga sa faia ai le faaaliga taavale
ina ua maea lea faaaliga, ae faateia i latou latou i le alu atu saoasaoa o se pikiapu sesee faataamilo i
luga o le malae, ona tifa atu lea so’a se vaega o le faleie.
Sa feosofi i fafo ni alii se toatolu e faasua’ava ma faapea ona latou faatupuina se fusuaga ma i latou
sa i lalo o le faleie e aofia atalii e toalua o lea tama. Sa manua se tasi o ona atalii ina ua togi e se tasi
o ia alii i se fasi uamea. Peitai o le aso na sosoo ai, sa taunuu atu leoleo ma ave ona atalii e toalua ma
molia i laua i le faatupu vevesi, faaoolima ma le faaleaga o mea totino.
LE MANUIA LE APILI A SE TINA FAASAGA i LE KAMUPANI A AMAU
Ua le manuia le apili a se tina sa tetee i le tagi a le kamupani a Amau faasaga ia te ia, ma sa ia
apiliina ai le faaiuga a le Faamasinoga Maualuga sa faia lea sa manumalo ai le tagi a Amau. O le aso
Faraile o le vaiaso na tea nei na faatonuina ai e le Faamasinoga o Apili le tina o Agnes Lama Stowers
e totogi le tinoitupe faaopopo e $2,500 i le aofaiga e $17,375.11 o lana aitalafu ia Amau ma totogi o
loia ma le Faamasinoga.
Na faaalia i faamaumauga a le Faamasinoga e faapea, e $7,566.70 le tau aofai o oloa sa aitalafu ai
Stowers i le Oloa Siiatoa a Amau, ae sa ia tuuina i ai ni siaki sa ia finau sa le tatau ona talaina e Amau,
ae na ona taofi e faamaonia ai o le a ia totogiina le aitalafu.
3 TAUSAGA TOESEA MAI LE FAASALAGA O PETI KEY
Ua le manuia le apili a le alii pese o Peti Key ina ia faaleaoga lona moliaga o le faiaiga faamalosi,
ae na manuia lana apili ina ia faaititia lona faasalaga, ma ua toesea ai le tolu tausaga mai lona faasalaga e 14 tausaga.
O lenei alii na molia i lona faiaiga faamalosi i ni tamaitai se toatolu i le tausaga na tea nei i totonu o
le vaiaso e tasi. Na toe faatulagaina e le Faamasinoga o Apili lona faasalaga mai le 14 i le 11 tausaga,
ma ua faatulagaina ai foi taiala e faaaoga e faamasino e Iloilo ai ma faatulaga faasalaga o soligatulafono tau feusuaiga i totonu o le atunuu.
Na faaalia e afioga i faamasino, ua ela le Faamasinoga Maualuga i le faatulagaina o le faasalaga
o Key ona ua faaaogaina le faasalaga o se isi mataupu e 15 tausaga, e fua agai i ai lona faasalaga.
(Faaauau itulau 18)
Congo: united nation’s Experts
say armed groups prefer gold
GOMA, Congo (AP) — United Nations experts say gold
has become the commodity of choice for armed groups in volatile eastern Congo, partly because traders in the region buy it
without asking questions.
The U.N. group of experts on Congo notes there is “almost
no due diligence oversight” of the region’s gold sector.
The findings of the report for the United Nations Security
Council were made public over the weekend.
The experts say that despite numerous testimonies that nearly
all gold produced in Ituri district and North Kivu province of
eastern Congo is exported to Uganda.
A 2009 report published by the Congolese senate estimated
that 40 tons of gold were smuggled out of Congo each year.
Zimbabwe president’s
media lash out at Obama
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — The Zimbabwe president’s
party says U.S. President Barack Obama’s calls for more democratic reforms ahead of elections in this southern African nation
are “hypocritical.” Zimbabwe state radio reported Monday
that Christopher Mutsvangwa, a former ambassador to China
appointed by President Robert Mugabe, said Obama, currently
visiting Africa, voiced “a sinister plan” to influence Zimbabwe’s
elections to oust longtime ruler Mugabe, 89.
Speaking in Cape Town Sunday, Obama criticized Zimbabwe for bad governance and said the country is unlikely to
have fair elections later this month due to fear and insecurity
among voters and bias by the police and military.
In response Zimbabwe’s state-owned Herald newspaper said
Obama did not acknowledge American law-breaking in Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq. The newspaper said Obama was mired in
“international barbarism, drone assassinations and spying.”
lantern starts fire at UK recycling plant
LONDON (AP) — A very large fire started by a paper lantern has consumed more than 100,000 tons of plastic materials
at a recycling facility in central England.
Fire services said Monday more than 200 firefighters fought
the blaze near the city of Birmingham. Officials said in a statement that a paper lantern was spotted on CCTV floating into the
site before starting a fire among plastic bales.
Fire services said the smoke plume made by the fire was
rising up to 6,000 feet (1,800 meters) and may affect air travel.
Birmingham International Airport spokesman David Lavender
said officials did not anticipate any disruption to flights.
Officials said 11 firefighters were treated for various injuries.
There were no reported injuries to the public.
prince defends Gadhafi deal in UK court
LONDON (AP) — A prominent member of the Saudi royal
family is defending his handling of the 2005 sale of a jet to the
late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi in a London court.
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is being sued by a Jordanian businesswoman who claims she is owed a commission of 6.5 million
pound2 ($9.9 million) for helping arrange the sale.
Appearing in the High Court, he denied that he had agreed to
pay a specific commission to consultant Daad Sharab.
She claims the prince, a nephew of King Abdullah, agreed
to the commission during a meeting at Gadhafi’s tent in Libya.
Alwaleed’s wealth is estimated in the billions, but he told the
judge Friday that “every dollar counts for me.”
Pilot who landed chopper on river
NEW YORK (AP) — The pilot of a sightseeing helicopter
that made an emergency landing on New York’s Hudson River
says he was just doing his job.
Michael Campbell tells the New York Post everything was
going smoothly Sunday when suddenly he heard “a big boom.”
The charter helicopter was carrying a family of four Swedes
when it lost power shortly after takeoff. It landed safely on the
river. No one was injured.
Speaking from his Woodbridge, N.J., home, the 23-year-old
pilot said he knew he needed to remain calm. He says, “if I panicked, I knew it wouldn’t be a very good ending.”
Campbell deployed the craft’s pontoons, which kept it upright
and afloat. A boater brought the family back to shore.
Bulgarian charged in ID theft ring
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a Bulgarian
national long sought for his alleged role in an international identify theft ring is now in U.S. custody. Prosecutors say 30-yearold Aleksi Kolarov had evaded capture until June 2011, when he
was arrested at a hotel in Asuncion, Paraguay.
He was sent to the United States last week and is scheduled to
appear Monday in federal court in Newark, N.J.
Kolarov is charged with conspiracy and other counts for his
alleged role in Shadowcrew.com, an online marketplace that
trafficked in stolen credit and bank card numbers and counterfeit
IDs. It was dismantled by U.S. authorities in 2004.
Prosecutors say Kolarov served as a vendor for the organization. The government says only three of 19 international participants in the ring remain at large.
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republican fault lines
emerging on social issues
WASHINGTON (AP) — Key developments
on cultural issues like immigration reform and
gay marriage are offering an early preview of
potential dividing lines among Republicans
considering White House bids in 2016. In the
Senate’s vote on comprehensive immigration
reform, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida supported
the plan and Rand Paul of Kentucky opposed it.
At the same time, the Supreme Court rulings supporting gay marriage attracted broad
criticism from most Republicans considering a
presidential campaign. Rubio and New Jersey
Gov. Chris Christie said the decisions showed
a court overstepping its boundaries. Paul suggested that Republicans need to “agree to disagree on some of these issues.” For Republicans frustrated by President Barack Obama’s
re-election, the issues offer an early test for a
slate of newcomers charting their futures.
Germany: no charges over
German killed by drone
BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors say
they won’t file charges over the death of a
German Islamic militant who was killed in a
drone attack in Pakistan because they’ve decided
he was a combatant in an armed conflict.
Federal prosecutors last year opened an
investigation into whether the German’s
October 2010 death in a drone strike against
extremists in the town of Mir Ali constituted a
war crime under international law. The victim
was identified only as Buenyamin E. in keeping
with German privacy rules.
The U.S. program of drone strikes against
militant extremists is deeply unpopular in
Pakistan.
German prosecutors said Monday they
dropped their investigation after determining
that the German didn’t count as a civilian covered by international humanitarian law because
he was a member of an organized armed group.
Bandits rob cash-courier
boat in Venetian lagoon
ROME (AP) — Italian news reports say
three armed bandits pulled up alongside a courier boat in a Venice lagoon and robbed it of
nearly 1.3 million euros ($1.7 million) in cash.
Italian news agency ANSA said the heist
occurred Monday just after an armored truck
delivered three cases of money to the courier
boat destined for banks and post offices in
Venice. ANSA says the bandits took two cases
containing banknotes, but left behind the third
one, which was filled with coins.
Venice police said no one was immediately available to give more information. The
Venice-based armored courier company Civis
declined to give details about the heist on one
of its boats. The report said the courier boat had
just left the dock when the bandits’ boat pulled
up next to it.
Doctors — Patents keep
HIV drugs too pricy to use
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Doctors Without Borders says rising intellectual
property rights are blocking the generic production of newer drugs to treat HIV and keeping
them out of reach for developing countries.
The medical aid group says prices of older
drugs have generally fallen as India and other
countries make generics. But newer drugs that
are more effective against the AIDS virus are
too expensive, costing up to 15 times more.
Patients are treated with a combination of
three or four drugs, but those who developed
resistance to these drugs will need the newer
medicines.
The group on Tuesday urged the U.S. and
11 other countries not to sign a Trans-Pacific
Partnership they are negotiating. The group
says the pact will increase intellectual property
rights in the Asia-Pacific region and risk access
to medicines.
Mo’omia Fa’amalosiga
Tulafono o Fagotaga…
tusia: Leua Aiono Frost
I le fonotaga a le Komiti Faufautua a le MSAS i le vaiaso
talu ai, na matele ina fa’ailoa mai ai ni manatu e fa’asaga i le
tele o i’a e fa’atau atu i le mamalu o le atunu’u, e le o maua
le lapo’a fa’atulagaina mo ia ituaiga i’a e fagotaina ai mo le
fofoga taumafa.
O le susuga le ali’i Saeanisi a le Matagaluega o le Puipuiga
o le Gataifale ma le Vaomatua, Dr. Domingo Ochavillo, sa faia
lana folasaga e tusa o galuega a le latou matagaluega o lo’o faia
e va’ava’aia toto’a ai le olaola ma le toe totogo a’e o le amu fou
i le gataifale sa tau fa’aletonu ona o le fa’asao a le MPA[Marine
Protected Areas] mo le umi e ta’i tausaga po’o le 6 masina i nisi
afio’aga ua mae’a galulue fa’atasi ma le latou Ofisa.
“Afai fo’i ae ave se kula i’a mo Samoa mai i’inei, e ave fo’i
ma le matou pemita e fa’ataga ai, ua matou iloa e talitonuina
fo’i e Samoa lea pemita e fa’aaoga ai i aiga i Samoa.”
Ae o le tulaga o i’a ma lo latou lapopo’a e fa’atulaga ai, e
le’i pasia se tulafono e fa’amalosia ai, ona o lenei, e eseese le
lapopo’a o ia e o’o i ai lo latou tupu ona gata lea, e tatau la i le
tulafono e aiaia ai, ona talafeagai ma lena ituaiga i’a.
I le aso Faraile na te’a nei, sa fa’ato’a mae’a ai le isi a’oa’oga
fou a le vaega a le Feterale ma le Au Fa’amalosi tulafono a lea
matagaluega DMWR ina ia mautinoa ua a’otauina i latou i nisi
tulafono ma aiaiga fou o tulafono tau fagotaga i le tai.
Mai le vaega a le SSC [Scientific & Statistival Committee]
a le WPRFMC, ua latou fa’ailoa ane ai i le fonotaga na faia ia
Iuni 20, 2013 i Honolulu, ua fa’ateleina le aofai o i’a eseese e
fia taumafa ai tagata o atumotu i le alamoana atoa o le Pasefika.
O le fa’ateleina ua fuaina e i latou e tusa ma le 6% ma ua
mafai fo’i la ona latou si’itia le aofa’iga o pauna e mafai ona
fa’atulaga i ai le tele e mafai ona fagotaina e va’a fagota ae
maise o tagata taito’atasi mo le fofoga taumafa o aiga o le
atumotu.
Mo Amerika Samoa ua latou fa’ailoa mai ai, ua toe
fa’atagaina le fagotaina o le sword fish e le fa’atapula’aina,
mai le mea sa i ai e na’o le 10 ia na e talia i malaga uma a
va’ai’a ta’itasi. Afai e silia ma le 10 sword fish i malaga a va’a
i’a e taofi na’o le 10 sili ona lapopo’a, ae toe fa’asola uma isi
i’a na fa’asilia.
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tiga…
Tusia: Akenese Ilalio Zec
An Egyptian protester waves a national flag on a roof in Tahrir Square during a demonstration against Egypt’s Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in Cairo, Monday, July 1, 2013. Egypt’s
powerful military warned on Monday it will intervene if the Islamist president doesn’t “meet
the people’s demands,” giving him and his opponents two days to reach an agreement in what
it called a last chance. Hundreds of thousands of protesters massed for a second day calling on
(AP Photo/ Manu Brabo)
Mohammed Morsi to step down.
Diplomat: Nursing got us
ousted from country club
NEW YORK (AP) — A Belgian diplomat
says he and his wife were kicked out of a members-only New York restaurant because she
was breastfeeding. Tom Neijens, his wife and
daughter went to the Metropolis Country Club
in White Plains for lunch on June 8.
Neijens says that when his wife began to
breastfeed, a manager asked them to leave
because they were disturbing the members. The
incident was resolved when Neijens produced
State Department-issued identification.
The New York Post first reported the story,
including that club members told police they
thought the couple were terrorists because they
had a black backpack.
Neijens, who works at the U.N., confirmed
the facts to The Associated Press but declined
further comment. A Belgium foreign ministry
spokesman called the incident strictly personal.
2 shot near Gay celebration
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco
police say two men were shot near the city’s
Gay Pride celebration. The shooting occurred
around 6:45 p.m. Sunday in the city’s Civic
Center area, as revelers were still celebrating.
Police tell the San Francisco Chronicle multiple gun shots were heard. The two victims —
both men — were struck in the legs and taken
to San Francisco General Hospital. They are
expected to live. Police say the unidentified suspect disappeared into the crowd.
Obama calls Arizona governor
brewer to express his sorrow
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AP) — President Barack Obama called Arizona Gov. Jan
Brewer on Monday to receive an update on the
state’s wildfires and express his condolences
to the families of the 19 firefighters who died
in the blaze and to all whose lives have been
impacted by the fires.
Obama, who is on a trip to Africa, also
expressed his gratitude to the hundreds of first
responders who continue to work around the
clock to protect homes and businesses.
During the call, the president reinforced his
commitment to providing necessary federal
support to Arizona and to local first responders
fighting the fire. The administration says it will
continue to keep in constant contact with local
officials and coordinate with federal agencies.
Obama and Brewer have had a sometimes
frosty relationship dating back to 2012 when
the governor was caught on camera pointing
her finger at Obama on a Mesa airport tarmac
during a heated conversation about illegal
immigration and other issues.
Earlier Monday, Obama said America’s
thoughts and prayers go out to the families of
the firefighters.
He called their deaths a heartbreaking
reminder that emergency personnel put their
lives on the line every day while rushing toward
danger. “We are heartbroken about what happened,” he said.
Death Valley tentatively
ties U.S. June high temp
DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK,
Calif. (AP) — The National Weather Service
says California’s Death Valley National Park
tentatively recorded a high temperature of 129
degrees on Sunday, which would tie the all-time
June record high for the United States.
The weather service’s Las Vegas office on
Monday posted to its website a photo of a Park
Service thermometer showing the mercury on
June 30.
The reading preliminarily ties the U.S. June
mark of 129 degrees recorded on June 23, 1902,
at Volcano, a former town near the Salton Sea
in southeastern California.
The reading, however, is short of the alltime, world record 134 degrees set in Death
Valley on July 10, 1913.
Meteorologist Chris Stachelski in Las Vegas
says it will take a few months for Sunday’s
apparent record to be certified.
Vatican bank director and
deputy resign amid scandal
ROME (AP) — The director of the embattled
Vatican bank and his deputy resigned Monday,
the latest heads to roll in a broadening finance
scandal that has already landed one Vatican
monsignor in prison and added urgency to Pope
Francis’ reform efforts.
The Vatican said in a statement that Paolo
Cipriani and his deputy, Massimo Tulli, stepped
down “in the best interest of the institute and the
Holy See.” The speed with which they resigned,
however, indicated that the decision was not
entirely theirs.
Cipriani, along with the bank’s then-president, was placed under investigation by Rome
prosecutors in 2010 for alleged violations of
Italy’s anti-money-laundering norms after
financial police seized 23 million euro ($30 million) from a Vatican account at a Rome bank.
Neither has been charged and the money was
eventually ordered released.
But the bank, known as the Institute for
Religious Works, or IOR, has remained under
the glare of prosecutors and now Francis amid
fresh concerns it has been used as an offshore
tax haven.
It was the latest turmoil to hit the IOR, which
has long been the source of scandal for the Holy
See. Last year, the bank’s board ousted its thenpresident, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, for incompetence and erratic behavior.
Vaega: 86
Ua va’aia ataata manino ma ataata toto’a i lenei taeao fou, ua
fa’alogoina fo’i le sagisagi fiafia mai o manulelei o le taeao ona o
tatou iloa ai lea ma mautinoa le silisili ‘ese o galuega mamana a lo
tatou Atua e to’atasi. Ona o tatou fa’apea ifo ai lea, le Atua e, o i
matou lava o ni tagata fa’atauva’a ma le le atoaatoa i Ou luma ia e
alofa ma fa’amagalo mai i matou i lou agalelei.
O le alofa fai mai e fa’avae ai aiga, o le alofa na te lavatia mea
uma, o le alofa e maua ai le loto fa’amagalo, o le loto fa’amaualalo
ma le agamalu. E le losilosi vale le alofa, e le su’eina e ia ni ana lava
mea, ae fa’amaoni ma fa’amafola atu ona lima mo e ua puapuagatia.
Ua na o lo’u tu nei ma ou pupula atu i lo’u tuagane ma le ofo
o lo’u loto ma lo’u mafaufau i lea taimi. Pe aisea lava ua fa’apea
mai ai lo’u tuagane ia te a’u, e ‘ese le vave ona liua o le alofa, ma
o le alofa fo’i sa fusi ai matou uma mai lava i lo matou laiti, a’o lea
ua liua nei i le fa’anoanoa. Na ou toe manatua vave nei le manatu
po’o le a lava le alofa o le tagata, e alu aso, sau aso e motusia ai,
a’o le alofa o le Atua e le mafai ona mavae.
Na ou tu nei ma lo’u loto tele e tali atu i upu ua lafo mai e
lo’u tuagane ia te a’u, ma out e talitonu fo’i, afai e fa’alogo i ai se
tagata, tailo pen a te lavatia ona tatali le matuitui o nei upu ua lafo
mai ia te a’u. Ua ou tapena lelei e tu’u atu la’u tali i lo’u tuagane,
peita’i, e pei lava e fai mai se isi ia te a’u, ‘aua, ‘aua ne i o’u tali
atu i ai, ae tu’u ai pea. Na pau lava le upu na ou lafoina atu i lo’u
tuagane e fa’apea, “Peteru, afai ua e le toe alofa ia te a’u, ua lava
lea, ae o a lava mea uma o lo’o tutupu i totonu o lo tatou aiga, ou
te fa’amagalo ia te oe, leaga o oe o lo’u tuagane, o au upu fo’i ua
lafo mai ua ou lagona le matuitui ma le tiga Peteru, ae ou te alofa
ia te oe, ma ou te fa’amagalo fo’i ia te oe.”
Na uma atu loa a’u tala ia, o’u liliu loa ma ou savali sa’o atu i
le isi pito o lo matou fale, ae na fetaui lelei lava lo’u liliu atu ae ou
va’ai loa ua u mai le tua o lo’u tama ma o lo’o savali fa’atopetope
atu i le isi itu. Ai e musu ina ne i o’u iloa atu ia i lea taimi. Na
ou vala’au atu nei, “Papa, Papa, ae ua le liliu mai ia te a’u, na ou
tamo’e atu nei ona o lo’u fia talanoa i si o’u tama, ae ua ou le maua
atu, ua alu le ta’avale i lea taimi.
Ua ou tu nei ma o’u mafaufauga ua pei o se ao pouliuli i lea taimi,
ae ua le utufia o’u loimata, ua pei o uaga ua tafe to ifo mai le lagi.
Na ou fa’atu nei i luma tonu lava o le faitoto’a ma ou tagi ai lava, na
fa’ate’ia a’u ina ua ou fa’alogoina le lima o le tagata o lo’o tu’u mai i
luga o lo’u tauau, ma o le ala lea na ou tepa a’e ai loa i luga. “Averia,
Averia, aisea ua e tagi ai fa’apena, fa’amolemole ta’u mai ia te a’u.”
Ua ou tau le iloaina atu foliga o le tagata i lea taimi, ae o le
leo na ou iloa ai ma ou mautinoa, oi au e, o Tino. Na pei e fofo’e
‘ese atu e se tasi o’u manatu i lea taimi, ma ua lofia nei i le fiafia,
peita’i, sa le i mafai ona ave’esea ai lo’u loto mafatia ma lo’u
fa’anoanoa i lea taimi.
“Tino, Tino, na aapa mai nei si a’u uo ma fusi mau atu a’u i lea
taimi, ma ua avea lona alofa ma ou mapusaga i lea taimi o o’u tiga,
na avea lona o’o mai i lo matou aiga ma ala ua fa’amama avega
ai ia te a’u. Peita’i, sa ou lagona le maasiasi i lea taimi, ona ua
taunu’u mai nei Tino e aunoa ma so’u iloa, ae o lo’o fa’afegai ai
ma mafatiaga ogaoga i totonu o lo’u aiga.
“Tino, na e sau ana fea, a’o ai fo’i na e iloa ai le mea o lo’o i ai
lo’u aiga.” O fesili uma nei ua ou fia iloa nei, ae ua galo ia te a’u
na tu’u e lo’u tama le tuatusi o lo matou fale ia Tino ae matou te
le i toe fo’i mai.
“Averia, e le taua lea itu, ae sau ta o, ou te fia iloa po’o le a le
mea ua tupu ia te oe.” E faia pea…
➧ TALA MAI SAMOA…
Mai itulau 16
SAMALA E TUU’U FAITIOGA O
LANA LAFOGA i LE AFA PUSI
Ua samala e le faipule o le itumalo Siumu, le tofa Tuu’u Anasii
Leota, ia faitioga a nisi o le atunuu faapea nisi i Niu Sila ona o lana
lafoga sa faia i taualumaga a le Pelemene, lea na ia faatusaina ai
nofoa faapitoa mo sui faipule tamaitai e le manuia i le faiga palota
lautele ae filifilia i lalo o le tulafono fou ua pasia nei e le malo, o
afa pusi e le o ni pusi atoa.
Na faaalia le toatamai o le alii faipule i ia faitioga, ma sa ia teena
malosi ia tuuaiga e faapea sa faatatau lana faamatalaga i itutino sa
o le tamaitai. E pei ona lipotia muamua i a tatou tala, sa tetee
malosi le tamaitai faipule o Fiame Naomi Mata’afa i lea lafoga
a Tuu’u ma sa ia talosagaina le fofoga fetalai ina ia aveesea mai
faamaumauga a le Fono Aoao, ona e le faaaloalo toe le talafeagai.
Fai mai a ia, o lea lafoga e faifai toe vaai maualalo i tamaitai
ona e faatatau i o latou itutino sa. Peitai o lo o mausali le finau a
Tuu’u, e leai se agaga faapea sa ia te ia i le taimi na ia faia ai lea
lafoga. “O fea o le tatou gagana o taua mai ai o le isi uiga o le upu
‘pusi’ o le itutino sa o tamaitai?” o le fesili lea a Tuu’u.
Gay couple may be
the first to win US
immigration petition
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Bulgarian graduate
student and his American husband are the first gay couple in
the nation to have their application for immigration benefits
approved after the Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriages, their lawyer said.
The approval means Traian Popov, here on a student visa,
will be able to apply for a green card, and eventually U.S. citizenship. But he won’t be able to work or visit his family back
home for at least another three to six months while his application benefits are being be processed. And his marriage to Julian
Marsh, performed in New York, still won’t be recognized in
Florida where they live.
“It’s unbelievable how that impacts you,” Marsh told The
Associated Press on Sunday. “They make you feel more and
more like a second-class citizen and they don’t want you. And
that’s how I feel about Florida.”
Two days after the Supreme Court struck down a provision
of a federal law denying federal benefits to married gay couples,
Marsh and Popov were notified Friday afternoon that their green
card petition was approved by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security could not immediately confirm Monday whether this case was the first. Secretary Janet Napolitano said Monday the government would
start reviewing applications for green cards and other immigration benefits for same-sex couples in the wake of the Supreme
Court’s decision.
Popov and Marsh’s lawyer, Lavi Soloway of The DOMA
Project, said his organization filed about 100 green card petitions for same-sex couples since 2010 and expects more to be
approved in the next few days.
Lawyers say the ruling would help same-sex couples who are
running out of options or are facing deportations.
“Now all of those cases can go forward in the way they should
with the government respecting the fact that there is a legally
recognizable marriage there,” said Laura Lichter, past president
of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
There are roughly 36,000 couples in the country in which one
person is a U.S. citizen and one is not, according to Immigration Equality, a nonprofit organization that handles immigration
issues for lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender couples.
In the first three days after DOMA was struck down, the
group received 1,276 inquiries to its legal hotline — roughly the
same number they received in all of 2012.
“We are still getting more volume and expect by the end
of July to be around 3,000,” said Rachel T. Biven, the group’s
executive director.
The Supreme Court ruling is clear for same-sex couples who
live in the 13 states that allow same-sex marriages, but for couples like Marsh and Popov who traveled to another state to get
married, the latest victory for marriage equality is bittersweet.
“We would like our marriage to be recognized even in a
state where it wasn’t performed in,” Popov said. “We want civil
recognition.”
Florida voters approved a constitutional amendment in 2008
banning same-sex marriages, and it will take approval from 60
percent of voters to overturn it if the issue is put on the ballot
again.
The couple said they met in 2011 at a friend’s party and began
dating shortly after. “We just really liked each other and I knew
this was the man I wanted to be with,” Marsh said. Six months
later, he asked Popov to move in and by 2012 they were married
in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Popov, who is studying for a master’s degree in social sciences, was able to remain in the U.S. as long as he was enrolled
in school. When he graduated, though, he would have had to
leave the country if DOMA was not struck down.
“I wanted to stay with him forever in the country that we
chose to be in,” Marsh said. And the pair began planning their
next move — both have a European background and Marsh is
also a Canadian citizen.
But the couple wanted to stay in Fort Lauderdale, where they
live with their two Yorkshire terriers. So they reached out to The
DOMA Project, which works to stop deportations and separations of gay couples caused by the Defense of Marriage Act.
“I started crying,” said attorney and DOMA Project cofounder Lavi Soloway of when he found out that not only
DOMA was overturned, but that Marsh and Popov would be
able to stay together in the U.S. He said he was working to help
dozens of other couples facing similar separations.
Popov said the couple feels they’ve been vindicated.
“It’s still overwhelming, and we would like to make a difference in Florida,” Marsh said.
Julian Marsh, left, poses with his husband Tray Popov and their Yorkshire Terriers, Rosie,
left, and Phoebe at their home, Monday, July 1, 2013 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Popov, who is
a Bulgarian graduate student and Marsh, a U.S. citizen, are the first gay couple are the first
gay couple in the nation to have their application for immigration benefits approved after the
(AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriages, their lawyer says.
American Samoa TeleCommunications Authority (ASTCA)
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
Position Title: MARKETING & BUSINESS
DEVELOPER MANAGER
Position Type: Career Service/Probation
Job Opening: One (1)
Report to:
Deputy Director of Business
Posting Date: June 17, 2013
Deadline:
July 05, 2013
Starting Salary: GS14/13: $40,204.00
The Position reports directly to the Deputy Director of Business and is responsible for
Major
research, sales, promotion and marketing of ASTCA’s image, products and services.
Responsibilities Position is also responsible for all aspects of developing and generating business for
ASTCA. Duties are as follows:
• Develop, plan and implement marketing and sales goals and objectives for ASTCA’s
business outlets
• Develop and present written proposals such as marketing plan, business plans,
strategic plans, etc. in support of ASTCA goals and objectives
• Conduct marketing research and surveys; and perform cost analysis;
• Conduct staff and inspirational meetings to boost sales and performances;
• Develop and present business strategies, short and long term;
• Generate new client-base and maintain traditional customers;
• Create an atmosphere of entrepreneurship with clients and customers
• Generate revenues through sales and advertisement
• Promote ASTCA’s image, product and sales
• Develop and improve on marketing/outreach slogans, mission logos
• Purchase and sell latest technology gadgets, products and services in connection with
telecommunication industry.
Minimum Requirements & Qualifications
Education/
Experience
Skills &
Specifications
Must have a Bachelors degree from an accredited university in the following areas:
commerce (or business), economics, marketing and sales, communications, English,
accounting and finances or related fields such as technology, engineering, education, etc.
Applicant must have at least 5 years of progressive work experience in the areas of
marketing and sales, Business development, or accounting and finances; and, with 3 years
of experience in supervisory and management capacity in above noted areas.
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Qualified
Applicants
Apply
To:
Computer skills and technology literate
Excellent teamwork and interpersonal skills
Ability to coordinate and collaborate with different departments
Excellent communications (writing and verbal) skills (Note: Ability to use English
and Samoan languages is preferred but not required)
Thorough knowledge of and understanding with “local” market
Knowledge of technology and their trends of telecommunication products and
services
Good with numbers; detailed oriented and exceptional presentation skills
Excellent level of technical and selling skills knowledge in all areas
Ability to lead, manage and supervise
Human Resources Division
American Samoa Telecommunications Authority
(A.S.T.C.A.)
P.O. Box M
Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799
Tel: (684) 699-1121 ext 201
(684) 733-9048 cell
Fax: (684) 699-9026
An Equal Opportunity Employer
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