Press Releases

8 August 2023: Australia recognises the critical role the Samoa Bureau of Statistics plays in ensuring decision-makers are informed by accurate and comprehensive data. Today, the Australian Deputy High Commissioner, Ms. Claire McGeechan, presented equipment to the Chief Executive Officer of the Samoa Bureau of Statistics, Leota Ali’ielua Salani, to support their work as they […]

Today, the Minister of Works, Transport and Infrastructure Hon Olo Fiti Afoa Va’ai and New Zealand High Commissioner HE Dr Trevor Matheson signed a Partnership Arrangement for the installation and maintenance of next generation aviation security screening equipment. An Aviation Security Adviser from the New Zealand Civil Aviation Authority will oversee the acquisition, installation and […]

The Liquor Control Board (“Board”) issues this Press Release in relation to your article titled, “Shut local distiller considering court decision” which was published in your Samoa Observer Edition on 28 July 2023, and your Editorial based on this article. The article alleges that Mr Rankin’s company continues to be shut down even after it has […]

O lenei pepa o fa’amatalaga o lo’o auiliili atu ai le mataupu o lo’o fa’aulutalaina. Na tuuina mai le  talosagaina a le Kamupani a le Tatiana Investment Limited (Kamupani)  mo le toe fa’afouina o ana laisene pisinisi, e aofia ai ma le laisene mo le faleaiga a le Rosa fa’atasi ai ma le Fale Kalapu […]

This press release is to provide a brief factual background to this matter. Tatiana Investments Limited (“the Company”) applied in about March 2023 for the renewal of its business licenses for Rosa Café and RSA Night Club. One of the supporting documents required to support the renewal of a business licence for a business operating […]

4 August 2023 Samoa’s Eye Health Department hosted an eye health stakeholder consultation on the 2nd August with the aim of lessening avoidable blindness in Samoa. Stakeholders from within the Ministry of Health, district health facilities from Upolu and Savai’i, as well as representatives from the Ministry of Education, the World Health Organization, The Fred […]

(GOVT. PRESS SECRETARIAT)-Cabinet at its meeting on Wednesday, 2nd August, 2023, approved the recommendation from the Panel to reappoint Tuifa’asisina Sieni Tualega – Voorwinden to the position of Chief Executive Officer of the Samoa International Finance Authority. This will be her second term in office. Tuifaasisina Sieni Tualega – Voorwinden is a lawyer by profession […]

The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology is partnering with CERT NZ with support from Cyber Safety Pasifika, NetSafe, Ministry of Police and Prisons, Ministry of Education, Sports and Culture and Office of the Regulator will be in Savaii from 1-4 August 2023 for the inaugural 7-day campaign called the ‘Cyber SMART Samoa Roadshow’ funded […]

MATTER: SAMOA TRIATHLON FEDERATION (1st AUGUST 2023)