Press Releases

Epiweek 12: 20/03/23 – 26/03/23

The March 2023 banking crises in the United States of America that have seen the collapse of two of its major regional banks and lenders with ties to the technological start-up industry (the Silicon Valley Bank and the Signature Bank) as well as the winding down of operations of crypto-focused Silvergate Bank have no direct […]

Cabinet at its meeting this week, Wednesday, 29th March 2023 approved the recommendation to appoint Afioga Fonoti Talaitupu Li’a – Taefu as the Chief Executive Officer of the Ministry of Customs and Revenue (MCR). Fonoti has been appointed for a contractual term of three (3) years.   Fonoti started serving at the MCR as a […]

The University of the South Pacific (USP) Laucala Campus welcomed its Chancellor, the Head of State of the Independent State of Samoa, his Highness Afioga Tuimalealiifano Vaaletoa Sualauvi II, for a tour of the institute yesterday. The USP Chancellor, accompanied by Samoa’s High Commissioner to Fiji, His Excellency Aliioaiga Feturi Elisaia, Pro-Chancellor & Chair of […]

The Government of Japan through its Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) Scholarship has once again granted the opportunity to a Samoan national to further his studies in his respective field at a prominent University in Japan for its academic year 2023-2025. The Embassy of Japan in Apia organised a brief pre-departure […]