Prime Minister Mark Brown was one of the close to four thousand people who took up the opportunity presented by Airport Authority Cook Islands to walk along the 2.3-kilometre airport runway for the first time on Tuesday.
A prominent Samoan businessman, former General Manager for Polynesian Airlines, and founder of Natural Foods International Limited, Papalii Grant Stephen Percival passed away on Tuesday.According to his family, he passed away in New Zealand at the age of 70, four weeks after his family got togeth.
Last Thursday 30 November 2023 I clocked out as an employee and editor of the Samoa Observer after five years and five months.But I remember vividly my arrival in Samoa on Sunday 24 June 2018, having transited through Brisbane, Australia a day before from Port Moresby, the Papua New Guinea (PNG) .
The Press in Samoa, like the country itself, is very small. There are five newspapers-Savali, which are owned by the Government, and the rest are independently owned. The independent ones are Samoa Weekly, all in Samoan; Newsline, bilingual and published twice weekly; the Samoa Observer, which pu.