September sorrows haunt me. A kind of haunting that follows you like a ghostly shadow. Even in sleep, it comes to you, tall and dark, but hollow. Emptiness isn’t the word for it, because fulfillment lies on the other side. It is, I guess, a narrow road with a dead end, no opposite, no place […]
Global Voices
To Know my Writing is to Recognise my Suffering
I’m only a small writer in the big world. My voice is deathly silent compared to the whispers of the child vendors in Apia and Salelologa these days. Life as I grew up got torn. Now, like fog, I’m drifting along the hills of Tiavi. Sometimes I’m hidden beneath the swaying ginger grass and other […]
Sunset in Samoa – Bailouts for Samoan People
By Michael Tanuvasa I don’t speak Samoan, I can’t spell faavelevas (faalavelave), and I dont know the culture; but I do know what an economy about to collapse looks like. I know people will go hungry, and some already are. I know distress is coming, and desperation has arrived. Forget the lockdown, this is […]
Ten to Twenty Days? Are you Serious?
So the Ministry of Health has advised the nation that Samoa now has a suspected case of COVID-19 being treated at the Tupua Tamasese Meaole Hospital at Motootua. But in that press statement.. the Ministry of Health says this about the timing of the test results: “The patient’s samples have been sent to Australia for […]
We ALL Need to Step Up and Do Something About It
About this horrific incident at the Gas Station: Dear Parents, Raise your son right. Don’t raise little shitty boys who turn into abusive, murderous monsters. Allow men to feel and express their emotions the right way when they are young so they can grow up and be mature and loving fathers and husbands. Nurture […]
There are many different forms of bullying
I want to take a minute to talk about something which I feel is becoming more of a huge issue again in our nation…..BULLYING. There is a misconception that bullying is only physical; yet bullying can have many forms such as isolating somone, singling someone out on purpose, manipulating someone on social media and all […]
Cancer is a B!$%£€ and this is Part of My Story
Today is World Cancer Day. I lost my Mum to cancer so I thought I would write about her. I don’t think I have ever written about her before. I don’t know why, she was much nicer than my Dad. Lol. A lot of the things that happened during her battle with cancer are blocked […]
Looking Back at 2019 in the Spirit of Positivity
It’s a few more days until the New Year! Normally, it is a time for me to look back at ALLLLLL I set out to achieve this year, and didn’t. Like how I lost about 14 pounds over 6 weeks from April this year, then put it all back again after 4 weeks. However […]
Have You Ever Felt Like People Just Don’t Understand You?
Have you ever felt like people just don’t understand you? Or you just don’t really understand people? Have you ever felt at some point like you don’t really fit in somewhere? Well I have. Lol. Lots of times. I’m weird like that. I came across the term “introvert” a few years ago. I don’t fully […]
#Opinion Are We as a Country Focusing on the Wrong Aspects of Development?
#Opinion by Floris Niu, Farmer, Tuanai Village (25 km from Apia). I’m worried that this Measles tragedy has exposed many vulnerabilities for Samoa and Samoans…that we are not as strong or resilient as we sometimes make out. Are we as a country focusing on the wrong aspects of development? I’ve just come back from UN […]