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Enjoy our 61st Independence Celebrations and Check Your Travel Insurance Policy is in Order

01 June 2023 Apia Samoa. Letter to the Editor by Leader of Human Rights Protection Party. This is a very small reminder to all those who may wish to fly in and out of Fagalii Airport, reopened this week by Prime Minister Fiamē Naomi Mata’afa. It was closed a few years ago following technical reports […]

Letter to the Editor: Is there any effort to revive our Samoa Airways?

Letter to the Editor by Opposition Leader Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi. Three major religious conferences were held in Samoa over the last week bringing many attendants from overseas which should generate some incomes for our hotels and related service like restaurants, transportation and shops. What is more important to the religious leaders of Samoa is that […]

Letter to the Editor: The war in Ukraine has given us all food for thought

Letter to the Editor by Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi, Leader of HRPP. The status of the war in Ukraine has given us all food for thought. We watch the daily news and undoubtedly we all want to help but, all we can do is to pray for Divine intervention. Yesterday, I asked a fisherman for the […]

Letter to the Editor: Former Prime Minister’s Take on “Harmony Agreements”

HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTION PARTY PETESA – BEACH ROAD MULINU’U – 18th February 2023 . LETTER TO THE EDITOR A “HARMONY AGREEMENT” IS A CORE TRADITION FOR MAINTAINING PEACE IN OUR PEACEFUL SAMOA 1] We hear often of the “Harmony Agreement” as a cultural tradition to end disputes in Samoa and for peace to be maintained. […]

Letter to the Editor: The Fundamental Right of Freedom of Speech and Expression

HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTION PARTY PETESA – BEACH ROAD MULINU’U – 5th February 2023 LETTER TO THE EDITOR The Fundamental Right of Freedom of Speech and Expression Removed Illegally Last week, the Fa’atuatua i le Atua Samoa ua Tasi party dominated Parliament removed the Constitutionally established fundamental right of Freedom of Speech and Expression of two […]

Letter to the Editor: Carbon Credit for Samoa?

HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTION PARTY PETESA – BEACH ROAD MULINU’U 28th January 2023 LETTER TO THE EDITOR Carbon Credit for Samoa? Another blind shot last week came from a senior Minister of Cabinet talking in Samoan about Carbon Credit and a billion dollars allegedly injected from the UN for Samoa to finance a Carbon Credit transaction […]

“There is a Reason and Season for Everything under the Sun”

HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTION PARTY PETESA – BEACH ROAD MULINU’U – 21st January 2023 LETTER TO THE EDITOR There is a Reason and Season for Everything under the Sun Early March 1982, I noted my breadfruit tree, at our gate was bearing again when the last breadfruit season has just ended. On numerous occasions’ years before […]

Letter to the Editor by HRPP Leader: The Best Kept Secret

Letter to the Editor from Human Rights Protection Party leader, Hon Tuilaepa Dr Sailele Malielegaoi. Published below in verbatim. “The Best Kept Secret” Two retiring Americans wanted to spend the rest of their remaining days on earth in some quiet Island in the Pacific in a small motel they proposed to invest in. They wrote […]

Tuilaepa Calls for Donations to Toa Samoa and Manu Samoa Radiothons

The leader of the opposition has called for Samoans to donate to radiothons by Samoa Rugby League and Lakapi Samoa, as part of obeying God’s commandment to love one another and love thy neighbour. In a Letter to the Editor issued Saturday night, the long serving Chairman of Lakapi Samoa says, “Rugby is the only […]

Tuanaimato Sports Complex – Best Decision for Youth and Sports Development

“The initiative in turning the Tuanaimato Cocoa plantation into sports fields was one of the best decisions made for our youth’s development by the HRPP government.” Opposition leader Hon Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi states this in his weekly Letter to the Editor following Samoa’s recent success across a number of sports including professional boxing fight wins […]