On 19 September the Sagaga Secondary School celebrated its 50th Anniversary. During that celebration, the government promised to donate $1.5million to relocate the school from Tuana’i to Afega, next door.

The occasion was attended by Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi, the Minister of Education, Sports and Culture, Magele Mauiliu Magele and the Chief Executive Officer, Matafeo Falana’ipupu Aiafi.

In his address, Tuilaepa emphasized the importance of education saying wisdom and understanding were the most important things in life.

“If they have the wisdom, that is the key to open all the doors and the beauty of life and the world that God has built for us to live and be happy,” said Tuilaepa.

He also said there was no limit to what a wise child could achieve. He said every child had the potential to go on and do great things for his family, his village and his country.

“We have come a long way,” he said. “We work so hard, we sweat for the sake of our children; God has answered our work and prayers.”

Tuilaepa said the Government has attracted plenty of support from developing partners and donor countries to improve education in Samoa.

As for Sagaga Secondary School, Tuilaepa said yesterday’s birthday was a milestone achievement.

He then announced a new beginning for the school. “This is the last time Sagaga will be a Secondary School,” Tuilaepa revealed.

“It will become a College next year. With this new college, the government will have 25 colleges in the country.”

Later when he spoke, the Chief Executive Officer (C.E.O.) of the Education Department, Matafeo Falana’ipupu T. Aiafi, revealed that the Government had agreed to grant $1.5million to relocate the school from its present location at Tuana’i to Afega at the beginning of next year.

Matafeo explained that the school needed to relocate because it was too close to the sea.

The school has a roll of about 300 students.

The Minister of Education, Sports and Culture, Magele Mauiliu Magele gifted $2,000 to the school.

Last month though, problems emerged.

Owners of the land on which the school would be built, have objected saying they were opposed to the deal.

It is understood that one of the deal’s principal negotiators is a matai of Afega, Maulolo Tavita Amosa.

Those who object are the heirs of Fata Pouvi Lei’ataua Soava’a Pouvi, Maria Pouvi Vaotuua and Marieta Pouvi Falana’i.

They have written to the C.E.O. of the Education Department, Matafeo, raising their displeasure saying Maulolo Tavita had no right to the land in question, and asked to “suspend any further plans of Maulolo Tavita and others as well as (those by) the Ministry of Education … to be carried out on our land.”

The letter was copied to the Minister of Education Magele Mauiliu Magele, Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi, Minister of Environment, Dr Faamoetauloa Tailo and the Senior Registrar of the Lands and Titles Court, Masinalupe Tusipa Masinalupe.

The heirs also wrote to the President of the Land and Titles Court, Tagaloa Sale Kerslake, asking for help in ensuring that “Susuga Maulolo Tavita and his Committee (are refrained) from trespassing and doing anything on our land; and to) refrain our village by telling them that the heirs concerned have not agreed ….”

The two letters in question are published below.

22 November 2013

Afioga Matafeo Falana’ipupu T. Aiafi
Chief Executive Officer
Ministry o Education Culture & Sports,
Malifa

Sir,

As heirs of the title Manuaifua and the title Mata’afa in Afega, we are the owners of the land Mauti’eti’e in Afega.

There is no agreement by the heirs of our family pertinent to the proposals of your Ministry inclusive of Maulolo Tavita and his Committee to erect the Sagaga School Building on our land.

Asked for a comment Maulolo Tavita Amosa said he was busy.

He said he would call back.

He did not call at press time yesterday.

In addition, the chief titleholder of our family resides overseas.

As such, we therefore respectfully implore the Minisitry to now suspend any further plans of Maulolo Tavita and others as well as the Ministry of Education proposed to be carried out on our land.

Please refer to the attached copy of our letter to the Land and Titles Court at Mulinuu advising about our concern over our land being taken without our consent.

With respect

Lei’ataua Soava’a Pouvi
Maria Pouvi Vaotuua
Marieta Pouvi Falana’i

Cc: Afioga Hon. Magele Mauiliu Magele (Minister for Education, Sports & Culture) Afioga Hon. Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi (Prime Minister of Samoa) Afioga Hon. Dr Faamoetauloa Tailo (Minister of Environment) Afioga Masinalupe Tusipa Masinalupe (Senior Registrar)

21/11/2013

His Honour the President
Land and Titles Court
Mulinuu.

Gentlemen,

With respect we sincerely write this letter to request your opinion regarding our petition.

We are deeply concerned to have seen our land being cultivated with trees being felled in our land Mauti’eti’e in Afega as a result of what has been described as a plan of the Sagaga College PTA involving Maulolo Tavita Le’aula and others of their School Committee. It has also been rumoured that some of the matais of our village have agreed to the proposal as the matai of our family namely Afioga Manuaifua Vitale was not in the country at the time and that even our own family comprising of all heirs of the title Manuaifua who are the rightful owners of the said land had not had time to discuss the issue.

We are true heirs of the titles Manuaifua and Mataafa who are currently occupying other lands pertinent to the title Manuaifua of our family at the moment. We are the only heirs occupying the lands of our family and we therefore request Your Honour for an Interim Order to:

(1) Refrain Susuga Maulolo Tavita and his Committee from trespassing and doing anything on our land:
(2) Refrain our village by telling them that the heirs concerned have not agreed and that the issue is yet to be discussed as the Chief matai of our family is currently absent overseas.

That is our letter to Your Honour the President trusting that right may be done in this matter to be in line with the laws and esteemed customs of Samoa.

May God be gracious unto you through wisdom and far sightedness that is required for the performance of your duties for the welfare of Samoa.

Once again – thank you,

Prepared and Signed:

Lei’ataua Soava’a
Maria Pouvi
Vaotuua Luteru.

Samoa’s decision to join the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has been praised during the opening session of the 9th WTO Ministerial Meeting in Bali Indonesia.

The praise came from the WTO’s Director General, Roberto Azevêdo before Ministers and hundreds of delegates from the organisation’s 159 members attending the meeting at the Bali Conference Centre.

The Ministerial conference, held every two years, is the topmost decision-making body of the WTO. It brings together all members of the WTO to discuss and approve decisions on all matters under any of the multilateral trade agreements

Mr. Azevêdo welcomed Samoa to its first Ministerial meeting as a member country, after becoming the 5th least developed country to join the organisation since 1995.

He congratulated the other new members including Vanuatu from the Pacific.

The acknowledgement last night would have brought a smile to the face of the Deputy Prime Minister, Fonotoe Pierre Lauofo who was present during the opening session.

Fonotoe has been instrumental in Samoa’s accession to the world’s leading body that deals with global rules of trade between nations.

Accompanied in Bali by the Associate Minister of Commerce, Industry and Labour as well as Trade Negotiations, So’oalo Mene, Fonotoe believes Samoa’s WTO membership is a milestone with the country’s economy standing to benefit a great deal.

But the road ahead is fraught with uncertainties, Mr. Azevêdo admitted yesterday.

He urged all WTO members to stand united to reach a deal in Bali.

“A deal on trade facilitation will cut the costs of trading on a global scale by removing onerous red tape at the border through a range of simple and high-impact measures for all 159 WTO Members,” he said.

“Currently, up to seven per cent of the value of global trade is lost in inefficiencies at the border.”

“In addition, outcomes on agriculture, covering food security issues, export subsidies and improvements to the tariff rate quota system, as well as elements benefitting Least Developed Countries, form a critical part of the Bali package and specifically respond to the Doha Round’s development dimension.”

The Director General said a successful outcome in Bali will benefit everyone and will give a great boost to the multilateral system.

The Chairman of the meeting and Indonesia’s Minister of Trade, Gita Wirjawan is optimistic.

“We’re so close to the finish line that I think there’s hope that in the next couple of days, we can sit down together with the key countries that hold different views about a particular topic or topics,” he said.

“We’re sensitive to nation’s aspirations to serve their national and sovereign interests but I think there can be a bridge between that interest with multilateral interest,” he added.

Indonesian President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono appealed to leaders of the world’s bigger economies to open their markets to support the development of the poorer countries.

The President said giving the least developed countries an opportunity to trade gives them an opportunity to develop.

“Despite our progress, 1.2 billion people continue to live in extreme poverty,” the president said.

He said it was imperative to help the weak grow strong because this would bring benefits, contributing to regional and global stability.

Despite significant progress made over the past few months, negotiators from the members of the global trade governing body in Geneva last week failed to agree on texts to be rubber stamped at the ministerial meeting after the meeting reached an impasse.

A few members still held opposing views regarding the public stockholding proposal, particularly the duration of the interim solution for agriculture subsidies and some parts of the trade facilitation draft rule.

Some progress was made by least-developed countries (LDCs) and related key stakeholders at the end of last week as they resolved issues on the trade facilitation text, regarding assistance from developed countries to assist the cross-border flow of goods.

The main stumbling block in the G33 proposal talks now lies in the duration of the interim arrangement, which prohibits developing nations from disputes when breaching the subsidy limit of 10 per cent of their national farm output.

For some members, the time frame should be open-ended before a revision to the WTO agriculture agreement, which justifies an increase of the subsidy limit to the current level, is completed.

In a communiqué released by the G33 agriculture producing group on Monday, the 46 members called for immediate engagement to jump-start work toward a permanent solution after the Bali meeting to conclude it during the time frame of the interim solution.

Negotiators pointed out that India could change the landscape of negotiations, with a nod to a four-year subsidized food policy offer expected.

But Indian Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma stood firm, vowing that India would offer “no compromise” on its domestic policy to subsidize food for its poor population, Reuters reported.

WTO director general Roberto Azevêdo said that Bali should not become a “negotiating conference” and what remains to be negotiated is not something that could be easily managed by the ministers in Bali despite existence of “landing zones” for some pending issues.

WTO information and external relations chief Keith Rockwell said that despite the pessimism that emerged following the failure to complete the texts last week, the meeting in Bali might still generate a balanced outcome with the much needed political will.

“The issues that remain are few. They are very easily defined. They are not too technical and they are easily resolvable with sufficient political will and flexibility,” Rockwell told a press briefing in Nusa Dua, Bali.

“We now have the political leaders here and this obviously makes for a different environment. How that will play out we don’t know, we will just have to wait and see.”

With reporting from Linda Yulisman, The Jakarta Post

Lady Naomi crew member, Liki Kerisimasi, and another man, Fatu Vagana, have been charged in connection with the smuggling of marijuana into the territory last week Thursday.

Vagana and Kerisimasi were arraigned in High Court on Friday and each is charged with unlawful possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and unlawful possession of marijuana.

Defendants are being held on bail of $50,000 each.

According to the government’s case, Vice and Narcotics were informed of alleged illegal activities going on at Vagana’s residence in Aoloau.

Commanding officer of Vice and Narcotics, Captain Paulo Leuma was informed by a Confidential Informant (CI) that he has known Vagana since 2008, as they work together.

The CI said Vagana would come to work with loose marijuana and hand rolled marijuana joints and during breaks Vagana allegedly sold marijuana to people at the work place.

Court filings say that the CI rode in Vagana’s vehicle and saw marijuana inside his vehicle.

The CI further stated that he also went to Vagana’s residence where he saw marijuana, not only at his family residence but also at the shack located behind his house in Aoloau.

“The CI providing information was used several times in the past, and was found to be a credible and reliable source”, say court documents.

A search warrant was executed on Vagana and police began surveillance on him last week Thursday when the Lady Naomi arrived in Port.

It’s alleged Vagana drove around the town area while police followed him. Court filings say that he picked up Kerisimasi at the wharf when all passengers were through with clearance from Immigration and Customs.

According to the government’s case, police followed Vagana after he dropped off Kerisimasi at the wharf, while Vagana proceeded to the StarKist parking lot where the Vice and Narcotics approached the vehicle to execute the search warrant.

Police found in the vehicle three bundles, which tested positive for marijuana.

According to the government’s case, when police questioned Kerisimasi he said he came from Apia with the package to be delivered to “someone in American Samoa who would be calling him.”

Kerisimasi further told police he was suspicious that the package he had contained methamphetamine and that he became worried about it.

- Samoa News

Ua i ai nei se tasi o faamanuiaga taua mo le atunuu, e ala lea i le malaga mamao mai ai o le susuga Lauano, ma tatalaina se tasi o Leitiō faasalalau i le afiafi o le Aso Luan a tea nei. O lenei alaleo faasalalau, ua faaigoaina o le “Power FM, lea ua faatuina i le Nia Mall i Apia.

O lenei uluai alaleo faasalalau i totonu o le atunuu, na faafeiloaia ma le agaga fiafia e le Afioga i le Fofoga Fetalai, La’auli Leuatea Polotaivao.

Na fesiligia e le Samoa Observer le susuga Lauano, ma na ia saunoa mai, sa i ai lava lona naunautaiga ina ia mafai ona faatuina lenei faamoemoe taua i totonu o le atunuu.

O le sefulu ma le tasi o masina ma le vaiaso ua tuanai, sa ia manao ai loa o le a malaga mai i Samoa e faatuina se faalapotopotoga faasalalau mo le mamalu o le atunuu.

“Mai lava i lou taimi talavou ma le taimi na avea ai au ma tamaititi, na ou manao ai lava ina ia avea au ma radio joker, e pei o Casey Kasem ma Shotgun Tom Kelly,” o lana saunoaga lea.

E na o le pau lava foi lea o i laua e sili ona ou fia faalogologo ai i le leitio, i le amata o le amataina mai o le 1970, o le taimi foi lena na amata mai loa ona ou naunau mo lenei faamoemoe.

Na fesiligia o ia pe o le a le faamoemoe ua ala ai ona ia filifilia lenei miti i lona olaga, ae na ia faapea mai,o se faamoemoe sili lea ia te ia, aua e maua ai e ia ni lagona lelei e mafai ai ona ia ausiaina ni taumafaiga lelei ma le maoae i lona olaga.

“E le mafai ona ou faatinoina lenei tulaga, pe ana faapea e leai se fesoasoani mai a lau faalapotopotoga.

O le tulaga fiafia foi ua oo mai i lou tagata ona o lea ua mafai ona tau lau o lou faamoemoe sa ou momoo i ai.”

Na saunoa Lauano e faapea, na ia faatauina mai meatotino uma lava e faaoga mo lenei alaleo fou maI I Sigapoa ma Indonesia. Ina ua ou taunuu mai ma nei meatotino , e le mafai ona feauautai tulafono ma meafaigaluega ua ou faatauina mai.

“Ae peitai, na mafai lava ona o matou amataina loa lenei polokalame.” E leai se mea o faaletonu ai, na ia mafaufau o le a ia faia tau lava o le maua o le fiafia ma le malie.

“Ua ou manatu o le a ou faatinoina lava tau lava o le amataina o sou faamoemoega.” Ae ui i lea, e le o mailoa mai se tau o loo amataina ai lenei alaleo ae na o le laisene lea ua mafai ona suia lona faamoemoe e avea ma se pisinisi taua.”

Na ia saunoa e ui lava i le tele o faafitauli, o le a le mafai ai lava ona ia teena lana tautua i totonu o le atunuu, e ala lea i le tautuaina o i latou e malaga mai i lea alaleo i aso uma.

“O lea ua mafai ona ou maua le lagona o le taumafai ma ua ia faapupula tulaga uma ua ia ausiaina,” o lana faamatalaga lea.

“O le faamoemoe, o le a avea lenei alaleo faasalalau e fesoasoani ai i le mamalu o le atunuu, ma o le a mafai ona siitia lenei faamoemoe i se taimi o i luma.

“Na ia saunoa foi a faapea e mafai e nisi ona faatino lenei galuega, e mafai foi ona ou faatinoina.” Afai o le a e manao e sui se alaleo e te fia faafofoga ai, pe e te manao foi e te faafofoga mai lenei alaleo, ia avea lenei alaleo ma au leitio faasalalau.

Afai foi o loo e fia faafofoga i pese a le Five Star ma le Penina o le Tiafau, sui le nila o lau laau faalogologo i le 96.9 poo le 106.7.

O le tamaitai o Taeaomanumalo Kitiona mai le afioaga o Levī Saleimoa, o ia lea na matua logologoā ma tautaua lona igoa, ina ua mafai ona faaiuina ma le manuia lana taumafai, ma faapaleina ai loa e avea ma tamaitai ua mafai ona ia taimuaina le vaa o le Tausaga 13 a le Kolosi o Avele mo lenei tausaga, e pei ona faataunuuina le Laugatogi a lea Kolisi i le Hall a le EFKS, i Sogi, i le Aso Lua na tea nei.

I le gagana Peretania, na tautala i ai le tamatai o Taeao i se taeao e uiga ese i lona olaga, ma na ia faapea mai o se taeao na matua iloga ona faaailoa ai le agaga fiafia o lona aiga, ina ua mafai ona ia ausiaina lenei tulaga maoae, ao faatasia ai le faitau selau ma selau o matua, o uo ma aiga, aua le molimauina o la latou taumafaiga mai le tausaga atoa, lea na auai atu i lea aso.

O le tulaga lua na maua e Pofiti Fuimaono ae o le tulaga tolu, na maua e le alii o Junior Avealalo mai Moamoa.

Ua mauta mautinoa lelei lava e le tamaitai o Taeao o le a maua lona lumanai manuia, ona o lona taumafaiga ua ae ma le manuia.

“Na ia faapea mai foi o le a ia faia lava le mea o le a fina galo le Atua e fai.”

Na matua faaailoa foi i lea taeao le agaga fiafia o lona tamā o Kitiona, ona ua mafai e lona afafine ona faaiuina lona taumafai, ma ua mafai foi ona ausia lea tulaga faale aoaoga.

Na ia momoli le agaga faafetai i faiaoga ma le Alii Pule mo le galuega fi tā sa o latou feagai ai ile tausaga atoa faatasi ai ma le fesoasoani i lona afafine, lea ua mafai ai ona tulai mai i se tulaga lelei i lenei aso.

“Ou te faafetai i si ou afafine, ona o le faatioina o se tulaga maoae out e maua ai le fiafia. Ua ou iloa o ia o se afafine galue Malosi, ma o lea ua mafai ona ia selesele i mea na ia luluina mai lava i le amataga o le tausaga, seia oo mai i le taimi nei.” Ua matua ofo ma faateia le tama ia Vaa, ona o le taumafaiga a lona afafine.

“I le avea ai o se tama, sa ou feagai ma le tele o luitau mai lava i le amataga o le aoga a lenei tamaitai, na ia faapea mai foi o le taimi tonu lava lena na matua ia le faalogologo tiga ai le taimi na maliu ai si ona tina talu mai le tausaga e 2007 i le masina o Tesema.

“Ina ua maliu le tina o Taeao i le aso 22 o Tesema o le tausaga e 2007, o le taimi lena sa ia auai ai i le tausaga 7 i totonu o Hawaii,” o le faamatalaga lea a lona tama.

“O se tulaga faigata tele, ona ua o tatou iloa lelei lava o le tinā, o le faamoemoega atoa lava lenei o soo se aiga, e ala lea i le tausiga o fanau. Ina ua maliu lona tina, sa faigata ia te au ona maua se tomai ona e le gata o loo avea au ma tama, ae le gata i lea, o le tau aoaoina foi o le avea o se tina i totonu o lou aiga i lea taimi.

O lo’o tele oloa auina mai a Samoa, ae ititi oloa auina atu e pei ona fa’ateteleina ai tupe pa’u i se isi la’asaga e 20.5 pasene i le kuata muamua o le tausaga fa’a-le-tupe lenei.

E tusa ai ma fa’amaumauga o Galuega Fa’atino Tau-Tamaoaiga a le Faletupe Tutotonu o Samoa i le masina o Setema 2013, na lipotia mai ai le pa’u i lalo i le $2.0miliona o tupe e maua mai i oloa auina atu i fafo, ona o le laiti o tupe e maua mai i i’a fou, o le suau’u popo ma le sua o le nonu, o fasi-u’amea ma isi oloa e toe auina atu.

“I se fa’aopoopoga, o le aofaiga atoa o oloa auina atu mo le tolu masina muamua o le 2013/14, e 29.7% e la’ititi ai nai lo masina e tolu muamua o le 2012/13,” o se faitauga lea i le lipoti.

“I se isi itu, o le totogi o oloa auina mai, ua fa’aopoopo atu i le 1.2 pasene, $0.8 miliona i le $69.7 miliona. “E tutusa lava ma le tau aofai atoa o oloa auina mai mo le tolu masina muamua o le 2013/14 e $206.9 miliona, e 14.8 pasene e maualuga ai e pei o le masina lava lea e tasi o le piliota o le 2012/13.” O le mafua’aga lena na ala ai ona oso fa’afuasei i luga le pa’u o tupe maua i fa’afetauaiga, o le lipoti lea a le Faletupe.

E tusa ai ma fa’amaumauga a le Investopedia, o le pa’u maualalo o tupe maua o fefa’atauaiga, o se paleni le manuia lea o fefa’atauaiga i le maualuga ai lea o oloa auina mai a se atunu’u nai lo ana oloa auina atu.

O le pa’u o tupe maua i fa’afetauaiga, e ta’u mai ai le tele o tupe a le atunu’u e solo atu i maketi i fafo. “I se fa’aiuga, na si’itia ai le pa’u maualalo o tupe maua mai i fefa’atauaiga oloa i le 6.4 pasene, $4.0 miliona, i le $66.5 miliona,” o le lipoti lea a le Faletupe.

“I le tolu masina lea e fa’auma i le masina o Setema 2013, na si’itia ai le pa’u o tupe maua o fefa’atauaiga oloa i le 20.5% mai i le $159.9miliona i le $192.6 miliona.”

O alaga tupe tetele o le atunu’u e maua mai i tupe fa’amomoli taitasi mai i atunu’u mamao, na pa’u i le 19.8 pasene po’o le $7.2miliona i lalo o le $29.2 miliona i le masina o lo’o i lalo o le iloiloga.

“Ae peitai, i le tolu masina lea e fa’aiuina ia Setema 2013, na mataina ai le si’itia o tupe maua i tupe fa’amomoli mai fafo i le 5.6% i le $105.6 miliona mai i le piliota lava lea e tasi i se tausaga talu ai,” o le lipoti lea a le Faletupe Tutotonu o Samoa.

O fa’amaumauga a le Faletupe mai i le Matagaluega o Fuainumera Fa’amaumauina, na lipotia mai ai le pa’u i lalo o tupe maua mai i turisi e pa’au mai i totonu o le atunu’u i le 2.8% i le 11,227 ia Setema 2013, e sau mai i tua o le vaivai o le vaitau o turisi ia Aukuso o le tausaga nei foi.

“Ae peitai, i le tausaga atoa, o le numera o tagata femalagai o lo’o i ai i le taimi nei e 2.0 pasene le maualuga,” e tusa ai ma lipoti a le CBS.

“I le isi itu, o le aofaiga atoa o turisi i le tolu masina e fa’aiu i le masina o Setema 2013, e 1.7 pasene e laititi ai pe a fa’atusatusa atu i le piliota lava lea e tasi o le 2012/13.

“I le vaega o tupe maua mai i turisi, o le aofaiga atoa o tupe maua i le masina o Setema 2013, e 16.5%, $4.3miliona, e maualuga i le $30.3miliona, o se vaega e 3.1 pasene e maualuga ai foi nai lo le masina o Setema 2012.

“Ae peitai, o tupe maua mai i turisi mo le tolu masina muamua o le 2013/14, na pa’u i lalo i le 2.5 pasene, e fa’atusatusa atu i masina lava ia e tolu o le 2012/13.”

Ua fa’amaonia mai le tofia o le Palemia ma le Minisita mo Fefa’atauaiga ma le Va-i-Fafo, Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi, e avea ma taitaifono o le fono lona 98 o le Laulau-a-fono a Minisita mo le Vaega a le ‘au Aferika, Karipiane ma le Pasefika(ACP).

O lea fonotaga, lea na amata mai i le Aso Lua, ua tu’u fa’atasia ai le ‘au faigaluega mai i le 79 sui o setete i Brussels, e fuafua toto’a ma faia se filifiliga i faiga fa’avae po’o aiaiga mo le Vaega.

O le Laulau-a-fono a Minisita, o se itutino o le fa’alapotopotoga e faia fa’aiuga maualuluga i lalo o le Ao Mamalu o le Malo.

O vaega autu mo lea fonotaga o lo’o i luga o le pepa o galuega e aofia ai:

• O mataupu laualuga mo le lumanai o le Vaega a le ACP;

• O mataupu tau Fefa’atauaiga e aofia ai le Maliega o le Tamaoaiga Fa’a-pa’aga a le ACP-EU

• O le tulaga o le ACP i le Fono fa’a-minisita o le Fa’alapotopotoga o Fefa’atauaiga a le Lalolagi

• O mataupu i oloa gaosi (fa’i, suka, lavalava) • O galuega fai-fa’atasi mo le atina’eina o vaega tau-tupe a le ACP-EU

• O mataupu tau tala o le tupe mo le Vaega Fa’a-failautusi O isi mataupu mo le talanoaina e aofia ai le tulaga o le ACP i luga o le vaega o pepa o galuega tau-atina’e 2015, o aiaiga o atina’e o vaega tumaoti, o le tauiviga fa’asaga i le au fa’atupu vevesi, ma le fa’amaoniga o le toe iloiloga lona lua o le Feagaiga Fa’apa’aga a le ACP-EU(Cotonou Agreement)

O le Minisita o le kapeneta na fai i le Freight e fa’amatuu i tua ia fa’amomoli poo uta i le aso Toonai e aunoa ma se tupe totogi, e lei tiuteina foi, e pei ona taua i luma o le Fa’amasinoga Fa’aitumalo i le aso ananafi.

O le fa’amatalaga lea a le Sui o le Palemene o Gagaemauga Numera 2. Levaopolo i lana molimau mo le taimi muamua talu ona amata suesuega o moliaga fa’asaga ia te ia ma lana teine faigaluega i le fa’aulufale fa’anana mai i totonu o le atunuu o le 700 pusa o fagu malosi o le whisky. Ua faia le molimau a Levao ina ua mae’a le le molimau a lana teine faigaluega o i le aso Tofi lea pe a ma le tolu itula na fesiligia ai.

O Leavaopolo o lo’o tulai ai le alii Loia o Teo Richard Faaiuaso. O le Tama’ita’i Fa’amasino Mata Tuatagaloa o lo’o fa’atautaia lenei mataupu.

Na laga e Teo le mataupu lea i le kiliaina o uta poo fa’amomoli i le aso Toonai e le Ofisa o le Tiute. Na fesiligia e le alii Loia le fa’atinoina o latou uta ma fa’amomoli i aso Toonai. Na saunoa le alii Faipule o le taimi nei e fua lava i le taimi e taunuu mai ai vaalele, i aso Toonai ma Aso Sa.E mafai foi e le Polenisia ona kilia ia fa’amomoli a tagata ae lei taina le itula e 12 i le aoauli o le aso Toonai. E fa’apena foi la le latou kamupani.

Na tauaaoina i luma o le Fa’amasinoga se pepa e fa’apea na ave ai i tua ia ni fa’amomoli mai a ni tagata i Falealili. Ina ua fesiligia e le Loia le Faipule po’o le a lea pepa. Ae tali “o le pepa lea na ia aveina ai i tua (release) ai tua fa’amomoli a nisi o lona itumalo” Na saunoa Levaopolo sa silafia lelei lava e le Minisita e tapuni lana kamupani i aso To’onai, sa fa’amalie i le Afioga i le Minista e le mafai ona ave i tua nei oloa sei vagana ua maua atu se isi o le Ofisa o Tiute e kilia.

“Ae sa ia tali mai ia te a’u o ia o le Minisita o le Matagaluega o Tiute ma e leai se isi e sili ifo o la ua saunoa mai ia te a’u”. O Levaopolo lea. Na agai atu i lana warehouse ma tatala ma ave i tua fa’amomoli a tagata ia sa fa’atali atu i Vaimoso.

O nei fa’amomoli e lei faia ni package surface e lei totogia foi ni tiute. “E te silafia o le a se mea na naunau ai le Afioga i le Minisita ? o le Loia lea. Ae na tali Levaopolo ona o le aso Toonai lea ao lumanai le aso Sa o Tamaiti pei o se tulaga fa’apena na ia manaomia ai le ave i tua o oloa a nisi o tagata o lona itumalo.

O loo molia faatasi lea tamaitai ma Levaopolo lea o loo feagai ma ni moliaga se fa tau le faaseseina o pepa e tusa ai ma le fuaiupu 221 ma le 209 o le Tulafono o Tiute 1977 ma le fa moliaga o le tau faasese o le Ofisa o Tiute e tusa ai ma le fuaiupu 218 ma le 209 o lea lava tulafono.

E lima tuuaiga tau le faasesē o pepa o loo feagai ma lea tama’ita’i, faia o pepa sese ma le valu tuuaiga o le “faailoa mai” o pepa ua faasese e tusa ai ma le Tulafono o Soligatulafono 1961. O nei moliaga e e fa’apea faapea na la fa’aulufale mai i totonu o le atunuu se 700 katuni o fagu uisiki e aunoa ma le totogiina o se tiute. I le taimi na fesiligia ai na ta’ua ai e Levaopolo i le Fa’amasinoga o ia o le pule o le kamupani a le Island Freight o se freight forwarder.

Na ia fa’aalia sa ia iloa lenei pusa oloa, ae le’i alu i Niu Sila i le aso Lulu 19 Tesema 2012. Na ia fa’amaonia o lenei pusaoloa na aumai i Sini Ausetalia.

Na leai le alii Faipule ina ua fesiligia e le alii Loia pe sa malaga ua taunuu atu le pusa oloa i totonu o le lotoa a lana kamupani. Na ia ta’ua na te manatua lelei lava na vili atu ia Christine ia te ia o le talosaga Mr Johan Lee, na oo atu ia te ia ma fai atu o lo’o fia maua se vaega o le lona fale sei tuu atu ai ana oloa. Sa tali mai ia Christine a fa’apea o avanoa se vaega o le fale ona tuu lea o le avnoa a Johan, ia a leai e fai lava e ia le tulaga talafeagai.

I le molimau foi a Levaopolo, “Na fa’apea atu Christine o lo’o tumu totonu o le warehouse ae o loo avanoa le isi container lea na aumai ai le matou fa’amomoli mai Ausetalia e lei faafoia o lo’o taatia ai lava i totonu o le latou lotoa ua leai ni oloa”. Sa fai mai ia Christine a mafai ona totogi e Johan ia le bong o le pusa oloa ona tuu lea iai na te fa’aaoga.

E iai aiaiga a uma le 14 aso e lei toe fa’afoia, ona totogi loa lea.

“ Na iai se lua fesootaiga ma Johan Lee ao e iai i Niu Sila?” o le fesili lea a Teo. “leai”. O Levaopolo lea. Ae na fa’amaonia e Ms. Ainuu ina ua kolisi lana molimau i le aoauli o le aso Tofi, o Mr Lee e valalata le la mafutaga ma le Faipule. “ E le’i taua mai e Christine ia te a’u po’o a oloa ia na avatu e Johan”.o Levaopolo lea. Na fesiligia e Teo pe fia le aofai o le bong.

Na tali Levaopolo na te leiloa le aofai o le tupe totogi.

“E te manatua le molimau a Komisi Koria, na e fai atu ia laua ma Tanuvasa o Johan na vili atu., o le lau molimau i lea tulaga? Fesili a Te’o. Ou te te’ena le tulaga e ala i le molimau a le alii Loia, o le tulaga vili atu Johan ona ou vili mai lea ia Christine e teu pea ia iloa oloa a Johan pe a taunuu mai. E le sao lana molimau. “O le isi molimau a Komisi Koria o oe sa e Niu Sila i le masina o Fepuari” o le alii Loia lea.

“E le sao o a’u na fa’atoa ou taunuu mai iinei i le aso 20 Ianuari 2013 ma ou te lei toe malaga i se isi mea. Ae lei faia le molimau a le Faipule na iai foi nisi e o molimau e to’alua e lagolagoina le molimau a Ms.

O nei molimau o le alii o Mr. Bean Faalogo ma Mr. John Sala o Vaimoso na faia la molimau o laua na laua ia fa’amomoli mai totonu o pusa oloa i le Island Freight.

E maua le la ta’i $20-30 tala ma le pusa pia e totogi ai la galuega. Na taua e Mr. Faalogo ma Mr. Sala o le aso Faraile ao lumanai le Kirisimasi na o ai lau ese mai ia fa’amomoli mai totonu o pusa oloa.

O totonu o nei pusa oloa o loo iai masini ta lavalava, faamalu, ma na nofoa fa’amoe o lo’o fa’atumutumu ai totonu.

O le aso Gafua ao faia latou moagavao ae vaaia se van ma se pikiapu o loo lau atu ai ni oloa ma ave tuu i totonu o le pusa oloa.

E fa’apea na vaaia se tamaloa o lo’o pulou atu i se pulou kaupoe o loo oso atu i fafo ma le van. O ia foi lea na alu atu ma tatala le pusa oloa.

Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sa’ilele Malielegaoi has one young enemy. That much we know. The young man is so unhappy with the Prime Minister’s behaviour he’s filmed himself saying some “emotionally distressful” stuff about Tuilaepa. For legal reasons, we cannot tell you what he said.

But as if filming his outrage wasn't enough, he then posted it on the internet for the world to see.

Yesterday, Assistant Police Commissioner Fauono Talalelei Tapu said the video clip has been brought to their attention.

They are investigating.

Meantime, Fauono said the clip appears to have been filmed on a mobile phone by the young person pretending to be a television presenter.

The Police suspect that the clip was filmed somewhere in Savai’i.

According to the Assistant Commissioner, the clip has appeared on the social media, including youtube and Facebook.

“The contents of the clip are emotionally distressful,” said Fauono. “They carry verbal harassment towards” the Prime Minister, he said.

Asked what actions they are likely to take, the Assistant Commissioner said the youth could be charged, once they locate him.

Fauono denied that the youth involved is from the village of the Prime Minister.

Instead, he said; “The village of Lepa has also lodged a complaint regarding this clip.”

The identity of the youth could not be ascertained at press time last night.

It was also impossible to confirm whether the Prime Minister has seen the clip.

Last week, Tuilaepa travelled to Brussels to chair an ACP Ministerial meeting.

Police cannot investigate allegations of police brutality from two weeks ago because the man involved did not lay a complaint before he returned overseas.

That confirmation came from Assistant Police Commissioner Fauono Talalelei Tapu after questions were raised by the Sunday Samoan.

A New Zealand-based Samoan, Fofoga Crichton, claims that he was punched and kicked in the face several times by police from Asau, Savaii, when he was visiting for a family funeral.

When he was first attacked he said he was knocked unconscious.

He alleged that three officers had came back for him after they first arrived at his family home to stop an argument between relatives.

He has returned to New Zealand but claimed that speaking out about the incident was his way of alerting the people of Samoa about the mistreatment of those in Police custody. Mr. Crichton at the time of the interview claims that this was the first time that he had experienced such treatment by Police. He has being living in New Zealand for the last seven years and returned for the funeral of his father.

He told the newspaper that he has not made an official complaint to the appropriate authorities regarding the alleged bashing from the officers.

And that is why Fauono said nothing can be done about the matter, as Mr. Crichton had not made an official complaint to the Professional Standards Unit of Police, nor is he in the country for them to follow up on the matter.

Instead “if he returns to Samoa and still wishes to lodge a complaint he is welcome to do this”.

Fauono said he was aware of the article published about Mr. Crichton’s experience.

Fauono said that he contacted the Assistant Police Commissioner in Savai’i and was informed that no one was aware of the claims by Mr. Crichton.

“His injuries could very well have been caused as a result of the family fight and he hasn’t lodged a complainant so we can’t investigate his claims.”

Mr. Crichton did not confirm when he would next return to Samoa. The incident leading up to claims by Mr. Crichton occurred following a fight that erupted between family members.

On the day of the incident he and three other family members had gone out drinking.

He claimed he only had one bottle of beer.

The other three were intoxicated, he said. When they arrived home his older brother was unhappy about their drinking and started telling them off. This led to them being beaten by the older brother.

One of his cousins who was part of their drinking party was injured as a result of this.

While this activity was happening in front of their home, someone who worked at the hospital across the road from their home contacted Police.

When Police arrived they wanted to take the men to the Police station.

Mr. Crichton refused.

Instead he insisted that his cousin who was injured be taken into the house.

Police refused to listen, claims Mr. Crichton.

He said he wanted to take his cousin into the house to put on a shirt and then take him down to the hospital for medical attention.

“Eventually I told them if that was the case they should do their job and carry my cousin themselves into their vehicle.

They left then with the other three while I headed for a shower.

He also said that as a result of his frustration told the Police to watch their heads or he might cut them off since they were on his family property.

Mr. Crichton said he was also speaking out publically because “my treatment that night was uncalled for and completely unlawful”.

“I was concerned for my cousin who was unconscious on the ground.”

Later that night, the Police returned.

When he refused to get in the car, he was dragged in and driven away.

That ’s when the al leged brutality took place.

Asked if he has filed an official complaint, Mr. Crichton said no.

“I return to New Zealand tomorrow (today) and this is one of the reasons why I haven’t taken this bashing incident further,” he said.

But he said he spoke out publically for one purpose.

“My treatment that night was uncalled for and completely unlawful,” he said.

“How many other people are being treated this way?”

So far, no one else has complained to the media about police brutality.

However rumours of rough treatment have been widely talked about over the years.

The widow of the late Taule’ale’ausumai La’avasa Malua yesterday paid tribute to a loving father, wonderful husband and a “gentle man” who was committed to serving Samoa.

Taule’ale’a was the Chief Executive Officer of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE) until he passed away last Friday evening.

He was 45.

During an interview with the Samoa Observer, Pesetā Margaret Peters-Malua was emotional as she recalled that today, 17 December 2013, would have been their 19th wedding anniversary.

“I am heartbroken,” she said. “But I also know there is nothing much we can do when our Heavenly Father calls us.”

Peseta said her husband’s passing has come as a shock to her, their family and everyone who knew Taule’ale’a.

She said he had just returned from Fiji when she noticed he was not feeling very well.

He was admitted to the Tupua Tamasese Meaole Hospital several times, she said.

Yesterday, the widow said it was difficult to accept what has happened.

However, she reiterated that “God has called my husband home and God’s timing is entirely his prerogative.”

Dealing with the loss though is not easy. For instance, she admitted that it was hard to forget Taule’ale’a, who is affectionately known as “Stau” to relatives, colleagues and friends.

“He was a great father,” said Peseta.

“He loved to spend time with his children and that’s what mattered the most to him.”

One of Taule’ale’a's quality that would be hard to forget was his ability to remain calm under pressure.

“He was a steady person in the sense that he remained calm when things did not go well at the workplace or at home,” she said.

“Everyone is going to miss him.”

The late Chief Executive Officer was also passionate about serving God.

As a member of the Congregational Christian Church of Samoa at Vailoa-uta, Peseta said her husband always made time for his church.

“He loved serving the Lord through the church,” she said.

“La’avasa is a gentle and very humble man. He knew every one on both his mother and father’s side and no matter what fa’alavelave came up, he never shied away, he was always there.

“Yes…he is a gentle man” Taule’ale’a was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Ministry of Natural Resources in 2009.

“On the second day of his new appointment as a C.E.O, the tsunami hit Samoa,” said Peseta. “I still remember those days. He used to spend endless hours at work. He was dedicated to his work and that’s one quality that people who worked with him will miss.”

But Taule’ale’a was strong at work because he was well supported at home.

“We supported him all the way,” said Peseta.

Taule’ale’ausumai started working for the Government in 1990 at the Cabinet Secretariat.

He then moved to the Department of Lands and Survey in 1992 as an Environment Officer after receiving his Bachelor in Arts from Victoria University, Wellington New Zealand.

Work, at times, was challenging, Peseta recalled.

“But he shared only the stuff that he believed would help me and the children. When it comes to other matters at his workplace, he never [spoke about it].”

Taule’ale’a was not only a public servant.

He held many roles outside of government including the Presidency of his village’s rugby club, Vaiala.

Taule’ale’a was the third of six children of the late Asomua Vili Malua Bentley and his mother, Alovale. He is survived by Pesetā and their two children.

His funeral service will be held next Monday.

PROFILE:

Academic Qualifications

2006 Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management, University of New England, Australia.

2000 Master of Science (First Class Honors) – Environment and Marine Science Auckland University, New Zealand

1992 Bachelor of Arts – Geography, Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand

1987 University Preparatory Certificate of Merit – National University of Samoa, Samoa

1986 University Entrance – Samoa College – Samoa

1985 School Certificate – Samoa College – Samoa

Employment Details

2009 Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Government of Samoa

2006 Assistant Project Manager, Samoa Infrastructure Management Project, World Bank/Govt of Samoa

Also Environment Specialist, Isikuki Punivalu and Associates (IPA) Ltd, 2002 Assistant Chief Executive Officer Planning and Urban Management Agency, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, 1998 Chief Environment Planning and Policy Officer, Division of Environment, Depar tment of Lands, Surveys and Environment, Government of Samoa

1996 Senior Environment Planning and Protection Officer, Division of Environment, Department of Lands, Surveys and Environment, Government of Samoa.

1992 Environment Officer, Division of Environment, Department of Lands, Surveys and Environment, Government of Samoa

1991/92 Clerk, Cabinet Secretariat (November 91 – March 92)

1990/91 Clerk, Cabinet Secretariat (November 90 – March 91).

Domestic violence is not a Samoan issue, it is a universal issue.

So says Lemalu Sina Retzlaff, after taking out a protection order against a former partner, Muliagatele Brian Lima, who assaulted her – in public during the weekend.

A former Manu Samoa, Muliagatele was arrested on Friday, Assistant Commissioner, Fauono Talalelei confirmed yesterday.

“He will be remanded at large until his case is mentioned in Court on 13 January 2014,” he said.

Fauono said Muliagatele has been charged with causing actual bodily harm and being armed with a dangerous weapon.

Police have obtained his travel documents. He has also been ordered not to approach or have contact with Lemalu.

During an interview with the Samoa Observer yesterday, Lemalu said from her experience, it didn’t matter whether you were rich or poor, educated or not, if you lived in Apia or within the rural areas within the village council setting, women everywhere are being affected by it.

“It doesn’t have any boundaries in terms of culture or religion it can happen to anyone and I believe it does happen to women from all walks of life,” she said.

Lemalu is speaking now simply because she has had enough.

She has been divorced for two years, and recently her ex-partner assaulted her again – this time in public.

“I should have gotten a protection order earlier and I learnt that the hard way,” she said. “My face is saying you should have gotten a protection order. You feel that you have left and that is enough then you try and make it an amicable situation where you take the children to breakfast together once every one month or two months.

“That is where I thought we were at, we would go together and take the children.

“There was a concert for our children just a couple of weeks ago where yes you can sit apart but then you get together and say hello and you are there because your children have a concert.

“What I was trying to avoid by not getting a protection order earlier is a relationship that was mature and healthy, the fact that we had three children.

“I am now learning the hard way that we need to assess situations where we need to be strong and women need to get a protection order when they leave.

“The moment you leave then you get a protection order and maybe for at least the first three years until everybody is used to it.”

Why didn’t she get one earlier?

“I thought it would have angered him…it was the eggshell approach I thought that anything to keep the peace,” she said. “And the protection order might even trigger some violence towards me that was unnecessary.

“I didn’t fully understand that I really needed it.”

Thankfully, Lemalu had a support network that rallied around her to ensure that the protection order was in place.

“I have been very fortunate to have support, especially these last few days,” she said. “Yesterday (Monday) for the protection order – five different lawyers who were either close friends or cousins offered to put the protection order application together.

“However, in going through the process of the police pressing charges, and myself getting a protection order I really, really thought about women who don’t have this support.

“What about women who don’t have the access and the privilege to this support?

“I can say from my experience that I don’t believe that we have systems and processes in place that are enough,” she said.

“I said this to the Domestic Violence Unit yesterday that I would be saying publically that it is not enough.

“When I asked the Domestic Violence Unit does the new Family Safety Act automatically have you put this protection order in process they said no.

“I thought that we had lobbied for that process to be done by the police.”

Instead, she was told that the Samoa Victims Support Group (S.V.S.G.) could help her to arrange for the order to be put in place.

“The answer I learnt yesterday was that the policeman at the Domestic Violence Unit told me that I can do that through their partners S.V.S.G.”

She said that was fine, but she knew that this was a Non-Government Organisation with a finite budget.

“I didn’t visit the Samoa Victim Support Group office yesterday simply because I felt that that was an organisation with limited resources and the last thing they needed was somebody to come and take up those resources when I had access to my own,” she said.

“So I didn’t walk across but I was definitely advised by the police Domestic Violence Unit to go across to them if I wanted a protection order.

“If that is the process that we have in place then I would urge Pacific Prevention of Domestic Violence Programme (P.P.D.V.P.) who fund the Police D.V.D. that their funding is in the wrong place.

“That their funding should be then across the  road with Lina (Chang) because that is where I was referred to if I needed a protection order; those are the people who do it.”

She said to be fair to the Ministry of Justice, the process of getting a protection order has been made much more simple.

“It is a very simple process now,” she said.

But “that would have required that the woman had the courage like I did yesterday to walk in without sunglasses on and ask.

“I don’t imagine many women would think to walk into the M.J.C.A. office in the courts.

“But you can and they will help you and the staff members there will be able to get the protection order rolling. You can have access to lawyers who will do it very quickly.

“Yes the process is simpler in that by the end of yesterday a judge had signed off and my protection order was in place so that is good.

“But I still feel it should be as simple as a woman walking into the D.V.U. of the police department and not have to have access to any other.

“What if they didn’t have access to the other resources around them, to networks of people around them?”

Like most countries, most violence against women is not reported.

“Women that are going through it now and our statistics say that in reported cases this issue is heavily underreported,” she said.

“The reported cases is one in three in Samoa.

“The latest U.N. report states that close to half the women in Samoa have experienced some sort of violence towards them.

“In all of those cases the perpetrator is a family member.

“The intimate partner relationship is the area where women are most affected.

“And I use that term because you don’t have to be married in our culture you can be living together.”

She said what she hopes for is that there can be discussions around early signs where our young women are able to see the issue and then help to avoid it in that sense.

“I feel that generally in Samoa we need to talk about it a lot more.

“It exists but it is very much seen as a private family matter,” she said.

“I’d like to have our conversations both publically and privately reach a point where we accept that it is not a private matter.

“That it is very much a national issue that…affects mothers, of course, apart from affecting mothers, there are your aunties and your sisters.

“I have studied a case where in one incident a Samoan male killed his partner she - was a grandmother.

“So, low and behold, it’s affecting women right to the end of their marriages even when they have matured into grandmothers…the heart of the family.

“The statistics say you go back seven times before you actually leave.

“So again as a nation, as we talk about this as a national issue, I would like to think that we grow and develop as people who become more understanding.”

Lemalu wants young women to know, young women who have yet to choose their partner to think about whether their relationship is healthy.

“I am saying to young women out there check who chooses the movie you go to, check whose friends you are around.

“Do you still have your friends or are you always around his friends?

“Those are the little signs I would like to put out there for young women.

“Think about what you are doing together and are you making any of those decisions?

When was the last time you chose the restaurant?

“Just to make you think, hang on, I actually don’t choose the station in the car and that’s while you are dating.

“Then, after dating, of course the skirt you used to love that was short can’t be short anymore.

“Those kind of things but those are the early warning signs.

“I would like to think that we don’t talk about abusive relationships to our young people, that we talk to them about healthy relationships and say this is what a healthy relationship looks like.

“And then put in the early warning signs instead of being in people's faces about anti-abuse it would be really great to start a healthy relationship campaign."

Tomorrow: the full Lemalu story.

Na taofia ma tu’uina atu le ali’i o Muliagatele Brian Lima i lalo o le va’ava’aiga a leoleo i le Aso Faraile na te’a nei, na fa’amaonia mai e le So’oupu o Leoleo, Fauono Talalelei i le aso ananafi.

“O le a taofia ai pea, seia o’o i le aso e vala’auina ai lana mataupu i le fa’amasinoga i le aso 13 o Ianuari 2014,” o lana tala lea, e fa’asino i moliaga e fa’atatau i se fa’ao’olima i se fale pia fa’asaga i lē sa avea ma ona to’alua.

Na ia taua, na molia Muliagatele i le fa’ao’omanua ma le fa’aaupegaina i ni aupega mata’utia(fagu).

O lo’o taofia e leoleo ana pepa malaga, ma e le mafai ona toe fa’alatalata pe feso’otai atu i lē na a’afia.

O le po o le Aso Gafua o se aso faagaeetia lea mo Samoa i loto ma agaga o le susuga Fuaialii Tagataese ma lona aiga.

O se taimi e le mafai ona ia faagaloina lona ausiaina ma faauuina e maua le se tasi o faailoga maualuga ua taua o le PhD ao aoaoina ai o ia i le Iunivesite a Queensland, ao faatautaia ai le Faauuga a leQueensland University of Technology i totonu o Perisipeni i Ausetalia.

O Dr. Tuia e mai le afioaga o Vaie’e, Ti’avea ma Fagalii. Ao avea ai Tuia ma Metotisi malosi, o ia e laititi ai lava i le fanau e toafitu a le Faafeagaiga malolo ia Tupu Toia ma Siniu Tupu Toia.

O le taimi nei, ua avea nei Tuia ma Faiaoga i le Iunivesite Aoao o Samoa, i le Aoga faafaiaoga, i le maea ai ona ia faauu mai i lenei faailoga maualuga, e pei ona ia agai atu ai i totonu o Brisbane i Ausetalia.

I ana sailiiliga ma suesuega uma, ua avea ai nei Dr. Tuia ma se tasi e fai ma faataitaiga lelei i fanau a ona uso ma ona tuafafine, ae le gata i lea, o i latou o loo aoaoina i le Aoga Faa-faiaoga.

O le taumafaiga a Dr Tuia o se faamanuiaga lea na vaaia ai le agaga fiafia o ona uso, tuafafine aemaise ai lona tina ma lona aiga atoa.

Na faailoa e Dr. Tuia e faapea, o le ola finau ma le ola suesue, e le mafai ona manuia, pe a fa’apea o le a le aofia ai i totonu ou fesootaiga i tulaga o le aganuu Samoa, faapea ai foi ma lona taua i tulaga o aoga a Samoa ma atunuu o le Pasefika.

Na faapea mai Tuia e faapea, “ Ou te faamaulalo ma tuuina atu le mamalu atoa i le Atua ona ua faaiuina ma le manuia lana taitaiga ma lana puipuiga ao ou suesue ai i nei aoga, aua ana le seanoa lona alofa ma lana tausaga, e le mafai ona ou mauaina lenei meaalofa matagofie.”

Ua tonu i le Loia Sili a le Malo o Aumua Ming Leung Wai e lē faia ni moliaga tau solitulafono e faasaga i le Samoa Observer ma isi lava nusipepa na lomia faasalalau se ata na mama atu i tua o le Lipoti a le Pule ma Su’etusi Sili o Fuimaono Camillo Afelr mo le 2009/2010

O lea faaiuga na folafola faalaua’itele e le Loia Sili a le Malo e ala i se pepa o faamatalaga ananafi. “Ua i le Palemene le aia tatau e puipui ai le tulaga mamalu o ana taualumaga,” o le faaaliga lea a le Loia Sili o Aumua.

Ae peita’i, o lana saunoaga faaopoopo lea, o lenei aia tatau “e tatau i taimi uma lava ona fuafua lelei i le faafeagai ai ma aia tatau a tagata lautele e ala i lo latou maua o faamatalaga a le malo e uiga i faiga lelei a le malo faaasi ai ma le mautinoa leleia o ia vaega o loo O lana faaiuga e lē faia se moliaga ua tuuina mai e ui lava i lapataiga mai le Fofoga Fetalai o le Maota, Laauli Leuatea Polataivao e faapea e ono feagai nusipepa ma ni sala tupe ma le nofo i le falepuipui, ona o le lipotia o le lipoti a le Pule ma Su’etusi Sili a’o le’i pasia e le Maota.

O pepa o faamatalaga a le Loia Sili a le Malo ua lomia atoa i lalo: Ofisa o le Loia Silia a le Malo Pepa o Faamatalaga Na lagā ni fesili e uiga pe faamata o le a molia nisi o tagata ona o le lomia faasalalau o le Lipoti a le Pule ma Su’etusi Sili (CCA) e faasino i le Faalapotopotoga o Eleele a Samoa, a’o le’i iloiloina e le Komiti Filifilia a le Palemene.

O le Fuaiupu 25(e) o le Tulafono o Pule ma Aia Tatau a le Fono Aoao Faitulafono 1960 o loo faasa ai ona lomia faasalalau lipoti poo faamatalaga molimau na tuuina atu i komiti, a’o le’i lipoti atu ia komiti i le Fono Aoao Faitulafono.

I ana sailiiliga ma suesuega uma, ua avea ai nei Dr. Tuia ma se tasi e fai ma faataitaiga lelei i fanau a ona uso ma ona tuafafine, ae le gata i lea, o i latou o loo aoaoina i le Aoga Faa-faiaoga.

O le lomia faasalalau o le lipoti a le Pule ma Su’etusi Sili CCA ua tuua’ia ai e faapea ua soli ai lea aiaiga. Ae ui o lea, ina ua mae’a ona iloilo lelei se anoano o itu e aafia ai, o lea ua tonu ai ia te a’u e lē faauluina ni moliaga e uiga i lenei mataupu.

O se tasi o iloiloga aupito i taua i lenei mataupu e faapea e o’o mai i le aso 17 o Tesema 2013, ua avea nei faamatalaga ma vaega o lomiga faalaua’itele.

E lē gata i lea, o le avega ua faae’e atu i luga o tupe a le atunuu i le tuliloaina o ia moliaga pe a fua i le faasalaga ua aiaia e lenei Tulafono, poo le a lava le ono faasalaina ai o se tasi i lalo o ia tulaga, ae matua lē talafeagai lava pe a fua i le manuia o tagata lautele. Ae ui o lea, e tatau ona faailoa atu e faapea o aiaiga e pei o ia o loo i totonu o le fuaiupu 25, o loo tuuina atu ai se faamoemoe taua mo tagata lautele.

O le mea lea, o le faaiuga e tusa ai ma lenei lava mataupu ma i latou o nei tulaga faapitoa, o le a le tatau i soo se auala ona faatatauina e faapea o se tusi vala’au lea e soli ai tulafono a lo tatou atunuu.

I le avea ma tagata faigaluega o le malo, ua ia i matou se tiute tauave aloa’ia i tagata o Samoa e lē gata e faatino ai ma le amiotonu,lelei ma le atoatoa tiute o le Ofisa, ae ia faapea foi ona faia e ala i le tilotilo ma le faaeteete i mea moni, taualumaga ma faiga masani ia ua loa ona avea ma vaega o le tatou faiga-malo faa-temokalasi.

Faiga faatulagaina, e pei ona faata’oto i totonu o le Fuaiupu 25, ma e tatau ona i ai se mafuaaga o loo tumau ai pea. Latou te saili ina ia faatagaina se iloiloga faaeteete, auiliili ma se iloiloina ese o molimau ua tuuina i se komiti o le palemene ina ia mafai ai ona latou faatino le finagalo o tagata i se faiga e sa’oloto mai le aiaina e lagona o tagata lautele e mafua mai le lomia a’o le’i o’o i le taimi e tatau ai, o lipoti ia sa iloiloina mae’ae’a lelei e se komiti a le palemene.

O le faaiuga e lē faia se tagi e faasaga i lenei mataupu e le o se faaiuga na faatafulu ona fai ae na fai e tusa ai ma le vaaia aoao o le mea e sili ona lelei e faatumauina ai le mamalu ma le sologa lelei o lo tatou temokalasi. I se otootoga, o se faaiuga na fai ina ua mae’a ona fuafuaina ma le faaeteete itu uma lava tau aia tatau a tagata lautele ae le’i faia ona o se suiga puupuu o le tulaga lelei o tagata.

Ua i le Palemene le aia tatau e puipui ai le mamalu o ana taualumaga, ma o le itu lenei e tatau i taimi uma lava ona fuafua i le va ma aia tatau a tagata lautele e faasino i lo latou avanoa i faamatalaga mo tagata lautele e faasino i faiga lelei a le malo atoa ai ma le iloa lelei o ia vaega o loo mana’omia ai ni tulaga tau le toe faaleleia.

O le lu’itau mo i tatou uma ia auai i le soifuaga masani o le taumafai lea e fai le mea sili tatou te mafaia e faa-paleni ai nei mana’oga tauva ina ia maua le mea lelei mo tagata uma lava.

Ou te talitonu.o le faaiuga ua ‘ou faia i lenei mataupu ua faamalieina ai ia itu uma lava.

O faaunegatupe mai le Faletupe o le Atiina A’e o Asia lea e sili atu i le $22 miliona ua liua nei e avea ma tupe foa’i faa-meaalofa, o le faaaliga lea a le Minisita o Tupe, Faumuina Tiatia Liuga.

“Ua matua faateleina foa’i faa-meaalofa mai fafo ina ua mae’a ona faamaonia se foa’i faa-meaalofa e 100 pasene mai le Faletupe o le Atiina A’e o Asia e lagolago a’i tala faatatau o tupe,” o lana faaaliga lea i le Palemene ananafi, ma tuuina atu i le Laulau-a-fono a le Palemene le Tala Faatatau Faaopoopo o Tupe lea o loo sailia ai se isi $14 miliona faaopoopo mo tupe faaalu. “O le aofaiga atoa e $22.6 miliona sa tuuina mai muamua e avea ma faaunegatupe mai le Faletupe mo le Atiina A’e o Asia ae o lea ua avea nei tupe foa’i faa-meaalofa e ala i lenei tala faatatau o tupe.”

O Tupe alu autu na faaalia e aofia ai:

Businesswoman Lemalu Sina Retzlaff has urged mothers who are suffering in abusive relationships to seek help. For many of them, she says they believe that suffering is normal.

For Lemalu, it was her “normal” for a while.

A day after she broke her silence publically about being in an abusive relationship, she tells the Samoa Observer that she fell in love and she never imagined herself a victim, much less a ‘survivor’ of years of domestic violence.

“If someone told me the person I fell in love with would be doing what he did to me over the years I would say ‘no way’,” Lemalu says.

“I fell in love with an almost timidly humble young man who was very successful in what he did. And I respect that the discipline that he applied to his chosen profession was at a high level and ended up making him one of the best in the world in his profession.”

The man in question is her former husband, Muliagatele Brian Lima. A former Manu Samoa, Muliagatele was arrested and charged for causing actual bodily harm and being armed with a dangerous weapon in relation to an incident involving Lemalu last week.

Lemalu says the attack last week was the latest in a series of incidents.

The first very public incident was six years ago before the 2007 Rugby World Cup. This was the first time she realised she no longer had any boundaries.

“We had an incident that went public,” she said. “And my father’s note to me to was place your boundaries around you and make sure everybody knows where they are.

“It was the first time I realised that all my boundaries had collapsed, that it wasn’t about me anymore it was about him.”

The second public incident was when her former partner chopped off her hair.

“I came to an impasse where the incident had gone beyond a boundary that you didn’t think it would go beyond,” she says. “In my case and I am trying to keep this very general, but in my case it was when my hair was cut, just chopped off.

“I was very fortunate my impasse, my incident - that made me think it is now beyond the boundary it’s time to leave was that - it could have been worse.

“But that’s when I thought I would leave “Leaving was very difficult, even today.

“It has been three and half years since I left. June of 2010 was when I moved out and then the divorce proceedings were granted two years ago in 2011.

“It is now three and a half years since I moved out and left, which means my ex-husband and I were no longer living together.”

This is why this latest incident was so unexpected.

“In this case I was totally taken by surprise you know,” she said.

“You thought you moved on and you are trying to move on. Then for the first 24 hours afterwards, I thought, is this ever going to end is this it for me forever?”

It wasn’t forever. Lemalu finally found a self that was stronger than she ever imagined – she was a survivor and one that would not live in the deafening silence of spousal abuse any longer.

It doesn’t mean that living with the abuse in the preceding years hasn’t taken its toll.

“You are actually tip-toeing around the situation. You are thinking twice about how you wear your hair, the length of your skirt, you are to think twice about saying the wrong things, you get to learn what the triggers are and then you avoid all those triggers.

“So you are actually living like you are walking on eggshells.

“In a moving car whether you change the station to Corey because that is what you want to hear in the morning, your partner may not want to hear Corey, he may want to hear Sioeli in the morning.

“That might be a very normal conversation for a different type of relationship to have in the morning – ‘Honey I want to hear Corey this morning because there is something happening’.

“In these situations you are driving in you are just making sure whatever the station is its theirs.

“If you do turn it, you know exactly what the wrath is going to be, what the reaction is going to be – so you do tiptoe around.”

She said this was becoming her “normal.”

“The children were young but it was becoming my normal,” she said.

“It was my norm to tippy-toe, it was my norm to walk on eggshells, it was my norm to think twice before saying, speaking, thinking, touching things.

“I was becoming somebody who thought twice before going and saying hello to somebody in public especially males because like I said, to think the most common part of the abuse is the accusation of an affair, it becomes quite embarrassing in a small community.”

She said often what is not understood is that this behaviour towards a survivor of domestic violence is sustained and controlling.

“It is not a one off incident of a man who has a bad day and knocks around a woman,” she said.

“It is the result of daily emotional abuse and the women are being verbally abused on a daily basis.

“That is the environment that they are living in, we are living in constant verbal abuse. I received texts constantly for the last three years despite having left.

“I got texts right up until this incident.”

She said her situation is not unique and that in a PPDVP study on reported cases here in Samoa every one of them had horrible verbal words.

“So its not a case of one off not controlling your anger and hitting someone,” she said. “It is a sustained verbal really ugly, really ugly verbal abuse.

“What the studies say the most common one is you are a whore, and then you are ugly and then you are useless. Another one I found that was very common was your friends are all talking about you your friends hate you.”

She said in learning about domestic violence she came to understand that this was the process of isolation – the abuser comes across as charming and you fall in love with them. Then the abuse starts.

“There is an illusion created that you are the stronger more controlling partner,” she said.

“There is an illusion created that you are the more dominant partner. When I hear that in researching the issue it really took me back because I was Brian’s agent, I negotiated his contracts. So there was this illusion that you can do all that that is your role.”

She said there was also constant build up of your successes

“They build you up a lot – ‘you’re smart’, ‘you’re funny’, ‘you’re beautiful’ all the things you want to here,” she said.

“So yes you fall in love. But the very things they tell you that they are attracted to you for are the very things that then get destroyed throughout an abusive relationship.

“Those are the very things that get attacked first. You go from ‘you are so smart, you are so intelligent, boy you’re so clever’ to ‘gee you’re a fiapoko you think you’re so smart, you think that because you have a degree and I don’t, that’s what it is isn’t it?’

“So this is the kind of thing that starts.”

She also had the children to think of.

“We are a very public case and always have been and that also has an impact on the boys,” she said. “I guess why now (about speaking out) it has always been about the boys with me.”

She said it was in the aftermath of this last incident that for the first time she did not make excuses for her ex-partner to her sons.

“On the Friday I was at home, I woke up and had a session with my sons and tried to make them understand,” she said. “Again nothing bitter I could see the disappointment in their faces (with) what happened.

“I said ‘it was dad’ and they just understood and then I said ‘well you know he was angry and I am not going to make excuses for him this time’.

“We had a good session about that this is mum’s face. It is now difficult to protect them when they have to see their mother looking like this.”

Saying that though, she said she was trying to make this interview as independent as possible.

“So I don’t seem to be angry person I don’t want to make it a situation where I’m trying to lay blame on the abuser – he remains the father of my children,” she said.

“I would like to say Sophie that throughout the whole process, I still believe that the boys need to maintain a relationship at the end of the day it is there father.

“That has been the most difficult part of having to speak about this and I think for many women that would be the same case.

At the end of the day you have children and it’s their dad and every kid wants to have a cool dad.

“And you try very hard to try and shelter the children from it.

“I urge every woman that is in this situation to not paint an unnecessarily ugly picture of their partners when there are children involved. To try as much as possible to protect the children from that and they can still maintain a relationship with their dads.”

She said this last incident they had broken through another boundary.

“I thought I had broken all the boundaries and moved on,” she said.

“We need to be aware that not only do you need to be doing support around your families around your women during the time when they are in a relationship.

“I think it is important to understand that we need to also take care when women leave the relationship.

“I have three boys and they have to know that it is wrong. Again when I say that I am very aware that I would like my boys to love their father and never take that away.

“But as boys in general growing up they need to know that it is not normal behaviour that this is not a normal situation.

“I am not bitter and I do pray that people who can and have connections to offer support to Brian and his family also at this time.”

To be continued…

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E to’a 10 tamaitai talavou o le a mafai ona fa’aauau pea a latou aoaoga i le totogiina e le Faletupe o le Westpac mo tau o a latou aoga mo le 12 masina e soso’o ai.

Ao faia se sauniga na fa’atautaia e fa’aeaea ai i a latou taumafaiga, na saunoa le Pule Sili o le Faletupe, Cameron Penfold, o ia fa’ailoga e fa’apupula ai se tasi o vaega o Pepa o Galuega Fa’atumauina a le Westpac o le Pasefika. Na ia taua, o le vaega muamua o le Faiga o Teugatupe i so’o se mea, lea ua lagolago e Westpac i faleoloa ma le ofoina atu o Teugatupe fa’a-mopili. “I le Westpac a Samoa, o tamaitai o se vaega pito i sili lea ona taua o la matou pisinisi,” o lana tala lea.

“Mo se fa’ataitaiga, o le 65% o matou tagata faigaluega o tamaitai, o le 50% o Vaega o Fa’auluuluga o le Faletupe, o tamaitai.

“Ma e pei ona silafia e le to’atele o outou, o le Pule Sili o la matou pisinisi i Ausetalia, o se tamaitai, o ia lea o Gail Kelly.” Na taua e le ali’i o Penfold, o isi vaega autu e lua o le Faiga Mausalio le fa’atauaina lea o tamaitai ma le fa’amalosia e ala atu i aoaoga ua talafeagai tonu lava lea ma le mafua’aga o le faia o lea sauniga.

“O upu tu’u sa’o nei a Gail Kelly, ‘o le suiga tatou te mana’omia, e amata i totonu o le potu aoga ma ui atu ai i so’o se auala i le potufono o taitai.

“Ae paga lava lea, e tusa ai ma le AusAid, e 2/3 o tamaitai ma teineiti o le tasi le piliona o tagata i le lalolagi, e itiiti o latou tomai tau aoaoga.

“Ia, e matou te fiafia tele e galuea’ina se matafaioi e lagolago ai i tamaitai e ala atu i tulaga o fesoasoani tau aoaoga, ona e matou te fa’atauaina tele le tulaga tutusa o ituaiga. “Ma, a tatou o’o atu i le tulaga tutusa o ituaiga(gender), e le fa’apea tatou te fai ia tutusa tagata uma.

“Mo i tatou, e fa’atatau uma lava i le fa’ailoa ma le talanoaina o mana’oga eseese, o le taua, o talitonuga ma mea e fiafia i ai tamaitai ma ali’i.”

Na taua e le na manumalo, Fosi Logovi’i Filemu mai i le Kolisi o Kerisiano Fa’atuatua, e leai sona manatu o ia le isi o le a fa’amanuiaina i lea fesoasoani.

“Ou te matuai talisapaia lava le fesoasoani fa’ameaalofa mai i le Westpac,” o lana tala lea. “E matuai tele lava lea fesoasoani mo o’u matua i le totogiina o lo’u piliaoga ma a’u meaaoga foi.

O se vaega o fuafuaga lautele o le Pasefika, o Fesoasoani Fa’ameaalofa a le Westpac mo Aoaoga a Tamaitai, e tu’uina aloaia atu i tamaitai i tausaga taitasi.

O le tausaga nei, e 90 i latou na talosaga mo ia fesoasoani fa’ameaalofa- o tamaitai talosaga taito’atasi, na tusia ni tala e tali atu ai i le fesili.

“O le a lau mea e fai e fai ai se suiga i ou tagata po’o lou atunu’u? Ma o le a le mafua’aga e te faia ai lea vaega?” Na taua e la ali’i o Penfold, mai i le faitauina o ia tusigatala, na maofa ai le au faigaluega a le Westpac Samoa i le va’aiga manino ma le sao, lea ua o’o i ai vaega ia e pei o aoaoga, o aganu’u ma polokalame tau soifua maloloina.

“O le vaega taua e uiga i le sao o i latou na manumalo, o le talafeagai lelei o i latou uma nei mo Samoa i le asō,” o lana tala lea.

“O latou o sini autu ma taunu’uga fa’amoemoeina, o le itu lea o lo latou alualu i luma ma toe aumai ai i tua i le fa’alapotopotoga.

“Ma o latou, e mo le fa’amanuiaga o tagata Samoa uma, aemaise lava i le itupa o tamaitai. “Ou te talisapaia ma fa’afetai atu i tamaitai uma mo le auai mai i lea polokalame.

“Ma ou te fa’amalo atu foi i a’i latou uma na manumalo.”

O i latou e to’a sefulu na fa’amanuiaina i lea fesoasoani fa’ameaalofa o: Logoasa Palamo, Sitoelau Fetu Tala, Fossie Logovi’i Filemu, Fanaafi So’oaemalelagi, Nelle Merle Laban, Sonya Sione, Lynn Ueselani, Naimilakakina Malaga, Hazel Tufuga ma Fusi Toma.

A young Samoan man with a big future ahead of him in boxing is home for the holidays. And there is no other place Joseph Parker would rather be.

Speaking to the Samoa Observer yesterday, Parker vividly remembers that the only time he risked getting a box around the ears as a child was if he spoke English in front of his family.

Despite being raised in New Zealand, Parker says his first language was Samoan.

“Apart from my boxing career, Samoa is a place always in my heart wherever I am going,” he says. “It’s where my heart, my life, my ancestors belong.”

Success in the boxing ring all started from within his family, he says.

“At the age of twelve, I started to see my dad and his interest in boxing and that’s why I became addicted to boxing,” says Parker.

“Even though I was born and raised in New Zealand, growing up in a real Samoan family, and the culture, was something that my family values the most”.

Parker was born in South Auckland. He stayed with his family and a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Mangere. He went to Marcellin College in Royal Oak.

Despite being raised overseas, Parker still speaks Samoan very well – surprising local media who started their questions in English yesterday.

“I am so thankful because my parents never allowed me and my siblings to speak in English at home,” he says. “The only place that I could speak English was at school and with friends.”

He says his parents had “itchy ears” when they heard them speaking English.

“It was the number one rule in our family. It’s a challenge too to everyone especially the rising stars of Samoa.

“Value your culture, especially your language, do not lose it.”

His father John agrees and smiles when he hears his son speaking fluently.

And the language has helped his fighting Samoan spirit reach success.

Since turning professional in May 2012, Parker has had seven fights and won six of them by knock-out.

“I love boxing,” he says. He also defeated Francois Botha 'the white buffalo' on the 13th of June 2013 with a 2nd round knockout over the former four-time world heavyweight contender.

Botha gave him the nickname of 'Baby Joseph' but after the K.O. he said that "he is not Baby Joseph anymore, he's a big man".

But Parker is not letting the fame get to his head.

“Being a big man in the game is all through giving all your strength, body and mind but what is also very important to know is how to humble ourselves.”

He says that after his holiday here in Samoa, his next scheduled bout is against Brazilian Heavyweight Champion George Arias (53 wins; 11 losses) in March, 2014.

“I am ready.”

Parker is here for two weeks holidays and he will return to New Zealand on the 30th December.

He hails from the village of Faleula and Tapatapaō.

“Samoa is the place I belong.”

O le sauniga e faailoga ai le amataga o le fausia o le fale taalo o le Kolisi o Samoa na faatino ananafi fa’aauau pea a latou aoaoga i le totogiina e le Faletupe o le Westpac mo tau o a latou aoga mo le 12 masina e soso’o ai.

O Reverend Siaosi Salesulu, o ia lea sa ta’ita’ia le sauniga na ia faamamafaina le taua o le galulue faatasi.

E tusa ai ma le faaaliga a Ulugia Fala o le Asosi a Tama ma Teine Tuai o le Kolisi o Samoa (S.C.O.P.A.) e lē o iloa le umi e fau ai le fale taaloa fou.

“O le tau o le galuega ua faatatauina e latalata i le $650,000,” o le faaaliga lea a Ulugia. “Na tapa e le komiti ni tauofoga mo le fausia o lea fale ma o lea ua manumalo ai Zheng,” O le Pule o le Kolisi o Samoa o Auava Papalii Rimoni ma Ulugia na suaina le eleele e fai ma sui o le a’oga ma i latou sa a’oa’oina ai.

O Me o le tausaga talu ai na fai mai ai le sui o le SCOPA ma o le Sui Usufono foi o le Palemene o Lealailepule Rimoni Aiafi e faapea o le sauniga faamanatu o le tausaga nei e le faapito I le 60 tausaga talu ona faavae le Kolisi o Samoa.

“O le sauniga lenei e le faapito i le samiga o le 60 tausaga ae o se avanoa foi lea e toe tuu atu ai se mea i le aoga sa aoaoina i tatou i mea uma lava e tatau ona tatou iloa ina ia tatou iloa ai lea vaitau ma le tulaga ua tatou i ai nei,” o le faaaliga lea a Leala.

“O le faamanatu o lea tasi lea ae o le itu e sili ona taua, o loo fia iloa e Tama ma Teina Tuai o le Asosi a le Kolisi o Samoa (SCOPA) pe o le a le mea e ao ona tatou faia e fesoasoani atu ai i le atiina a’e o le Kolisi ma faaleleia ai le aoaoina o a tatou fanau ma tupulaga fai mai i le lumana’i”.

Fai mai Mr. Rimoni o le fale taalo o le a faamae’a ai le “vaega e mapu I ai” mo le a’oga, lea o le a fesoasoani ai fo’i i le atiina a’e o taaloga.