it’s cheaper to send Pictured is former Faga’itua Vikings star people off island than football player – also a former member of the American Samoa All-Star Soccer Team hiring a cardiologist...2 — Shalom Luani (center), who is now a starting Defensive Back (#26) for the Oak- land Raiders. Luani is pictured with die-hard Raiders fan Sila Samuelu and family, during Luani’s tatala le ta’elega mo visit at the FFAS Soccer Stadium during the OFC Champions League Qualifi er 2018 last le lautele - le “Pala Saturday aft ernoon. Luani will be returning to Oakland at the end of this week. lagoon Pool” Lali [photo: TG]

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PaGo PaGo, ameriCan samoa tuesday, January 23, 2018 $1.00 Haleck found ‘not Laser beam pointed at last guilty’ of drug charge by Fili Sagapolutele Friday’s Hawaiian fl ight Samoa News Correspondent A jury has found Gerhard Otto Haleck “not guilty” of one autHorities seeKinG tHe Community’s HelP in count of unlawful possession of a controlled substance — mari- identifyinG tHe CulPrit(s) juana — which was transported through the US Postal Service. The panel of 6 jurors handed down its verdict last Friday by Fili Sagapolutele According to federal law, The local resident described afternoon following a four-day trial where the defendant even Samoa News Correspondent enacted in 2012, it’s Illegal to the laser as “green and took the witness stand, telling jurors he didn’t know what was Hawaiian Airlines has con- aim laser pointer beams at an extremely bright”, saying “it in the package that he went to claim at the Post Offi ce on Jan. fi rmed that a “laser incident” aircraft or their fl ight path. Pen- was very alarming.” 3, 2017. occurred last Friday night, as alty for violating this law is up Another local resident, who “My client is very pleased with the jury’s verdict. He is the Hawaiian fl ight was coming to 5 years in prison and up to a was not a passenger on the thankful to God and his family for believing in him,” said Hal- in for a landing at the Pago Pago $250,000 fi ne. plane, told Samoa News yes- eck’s attorney, Marcellus Talaimalo Uiagalelei in response to International Airport. And local A concerned local resident, terday that he had a family Samoa News inquiries over the weekend. authorities are seeking the pub- who was a “frightened pas- member on that fl ight “and this Asked if the defense was surprised with the jury’s verdict, lic’s help in obtaining informa- senger” on board the fl ight, incident shouldn’t be taken as Uiagalelei said, “Honestly we were not surprised with the ver- tion on the incident, in which a raised the issue over the a joke at all. People with infor- dict, given our confi dence in our case and defense. However, laser beam was pointed towards weekend in hopes that someone mation should contact local sometimes you never know how these things will turn out. My the aircraft. would step forward to provide authorities.” client is just happy that he can now return to living a normal life What remains unclear is the information and assist local and Responding to Samoa News with his wife and kids.” area on the ground where the federal authorities in identifying inquires, Hawaiian spokes- “I always believed that he shouldn’t have been charged in laser was aimed from. the culprit or culprits involved. (Continued on page 10) the fi rst place, given the fact that he was just a guy who showed up to check the company mail,” he continued. “Unfortunately, the government felt that this unfortunate situation warranted a felony charge.” “Now that this case is behind us it’s time to move forward,” Uiagalelei said, adding that while he appreciates the govern- ment’s efforts in fi ghting the drug problem on island, “there should be another way to handle drug cases involving the mail, as sometimes people honestly don’t know what is being received, yet they fi nd themselves in a situation like what Mr. Haleck experienced.” Assistant Attorney General, Kristy Dunn, who prosecuted the case, offered no comments when approached after court pro- C M ceedings last Friday afternoon. final day Y K Last Friday morning, Chief Justice Michael Kruse — assisted on the bench by Associate Judges Muasau T. Tofi li and Tunu- popo Alaalafaga — gave instructions to the jury before their deliberations, saying the government — not the defense — has the burden of proving its case. Additionally the government has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the substance in the package, which arrived through the mail, was marijuana. The court also outlined for the jury elements to prove the charge, in that on Jan. 3, 2017 the defendant knowingly pos- sessed marijuana. “Your verdict of guilty or not guilty must be unanimous,” Kruse informed jurors before dismissing the alternate juror. Congratulations to SPC Auva’a P. of Malaeloa, American Samoa, promoted from Private First The case went to the jury around 9:45a.m. and before 1p.m. the Class (E3) to Specialist (E4) aft er receiving a waiver of 18 months of serving in the United States jury was back in the court room, with the foreperson announcing Army. that the jury had reached a verdict. SPC Auva’a, a transgender, joined the US Army two years ago, and became a role model for many When the court clerk read the verdict of “not guilty”, some transgenders in American Samoa looking at joining the military for career opportunities. of Haleck’s family members in the gallery were overheard by Th e Trump Administration has tried to stop transgenders from joining or serving in the US mili- Samoa News sobbing quietly, with hands on their faces. tary, with the President announcing his decision last July that he plans to reinstate a ban on trans- Uiagalelei patted his client on the back, and Samoa News genders from serving “in any capacity” in the US armed forces, via Twitter. However, by Jan. 2018, observed the defendant putting his fi ngers to his closed eyes. transgender people are allowed to enlist as well as continue to serve in the U.S. military despite Throughout the rest of the court proceeding, Haleck had his opposition from Donald Trump, refl ecting growing legal pressure on the issue. [photo: courtesy] (Continued on page 7) Page 2 samoa news, Tuesday, January 23, 2018 It’s cheaper to send people off island than hiring a cardi- ologist, says Medical director by Fili Sagapolutele guy left,” he testifi ed. Samoa News Correspondent According to the medical Medical Director of the LBJ director, it’s more affordable for Hospital, Dr. Iotamo Saleapaga the hospital to send a patient off testifi ed during a Senate com- island for medical care instead mittee hearing last week that of employing a cardiologist. He it’s very expensive for the hos- noted that LBJ can recruit a car- pital to recruit a cardiologist, in diologist, but it won’t be cheap. terms of salary and equipment Also, it depends on whether needed for such service. there is a cardiologist who wants Meanwhile, Sen. Fonoti to come to American Samoa. South Korea’s Financial Services Commission Vice Chair Kim Yong-beom, center, speaks at the Tafa’ifa Aufata shared with the Saleapaga said that if there is government complex in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018. South Korea said Tuesday that committee, as well as health cardiologist willing to come to local banks will launch a real-name system for crypto currency trading that make anonymous trans- offi cials who were witnesses at American Samoa, it will most actions to be traceable as the country seeks to curb speculation and criminal activities. the hearing, her belief as to why likely be a physician who has (Kim Seung-doo/Yonhap via AP) people have heart problems — already retired. He noted that having too many spouses. the salary for a cardiologist The Senate Committee of would be around $200,000 or the Whole, chaired by Sen, more a year. South Korea to start real-name Nuanuaolefeagaiga Saoluaga A 2016 Cardiologist Com- Nua, called a hearing early last pensation report by US-based week to discuss various health Medscape Group shows that the trading of crypto currency issues relating to the LBJ and lowest salary range for cardi- the Health Department. ologist is $190,000 working for SEOUL, South Korea (AP) South Korea who do not have The new requirements are Nuanuaolefeagaiga raised an outpatient clinic; $368,000 — South Korea plans to require local bank accounts and minors meant to ensure that a crypto an issue that has been fl oating working at a hospital; and local banks to launch a real- younger than 19 from buying or currency investor’s money around in the Fono as well as $454,000 working at a health- name system for crypto cur- selling bitcoins and other digital comes from a bank account the community in past years, care organization. the up-to-now anonymous warnings by South Korean The new rules also call for diologist at LBJ. He wondered During the committee transactions be traceable as the authorities that they would ban banks to refuse to open accounts how long the territory will have hearing, Fonoti revealed her country seeks to curb specula- anonymous trading in crypto with crypto currency exchanges to wait before LBJ hires a car- take on why people have been tion and criminal activities. currencies and crack down on that do not disclose information diologist, adding that many of faced with heart problems. Financial Services Commis- speculative trading and pos- about suspicious trading. the patients seeking off island According to her, if a man sion Vice Chair Kim Yong- sible crimes. Authorities are South Korea is home to some medical treatment are those has too many wives he will beom said at a press briefi ng seeking to prevent use of crypto of the world’s largest crypto with heart problems. have heart problems because Tuesday that the new measures, currency trading to engage in currency exchanges and a craze Saleapaga explained that instead of focusing on one wife, to take effect next week, will pre- money laundering, tax evasion for bitcoin and other crypto cur- cardiologists are considered he will also have to worry about vent foreigners residing outside and other criminal activities. rencies has swept the country. “sub-specialities” in the medical the “stand-by” wife. profession and these physicians The comment resulted in are very expensive in terms of laughter from several senators, salary, and the medical equip- witnesses, and others in the ment they use is “not cheap”. Senate gallery.For a woman, According to Saleapaga, Fonoti said if they have too several years ago, LBJ recruited many husbands — with one a cardiologist, who was here day set aside for the man she is not more than six months legally married to, and different before leaving and this was a days set aside for the “stand- Employment Opportunity in Banking loss to the hospital as far as the by” husbands — that will cause money spent on bringing in all heart problems for her.The Tua- ANZ Guam, Inc dba ANZ Amerika Samoa Bank is hiring and establishing a list of candidates for the the necessary equipment for the lauta female senator said people following full time position: cardiologist. need to take care of themselves “We spent a lot of money — fi rst, to prevent these many IT OFFICER thousands of dollars — and this health problems. • Our successful candidate would be accountable for providing effective management and governance of IT services Californians who fl ed mudslides • Minimum of two years of industry experience in Technology preferably in Banking and may start going home Jan. 31 Finance • Proven track record delivering major IT application or infrastructure projects SANTA BARBARA, Calif. before natural gas service is (AP) — Authorities hope to restored. • Experience implementing risk management frameworks such as ITIL, ISO start allowing residents to return A major highway reopened • Experience identifying and implementing IT solutions to suit business needs by month’s end to a Southern Sunday after a nearly two- California community devas- week closure caused by the • Technical knowledge to effectively assess and implement technical solutions. tated by mudslides — if they mudslides. can get most utilities restored Gov. Jerry Brown declared by then. Monday a “Day of Remem- Offi cials said Sunday that it brance of the Montecito Mud- This employment opportunity is open to all qualified candidates, individuals with disabilities, and will be a gradual process get- slides and ordered fl ags fl own at military veterans who are willing, able and available to perform the job, without regard to race, ting residents back into homes half-staff over the state Capitol. color, national origin, age, sex and citizenship. in Montecito, where at least 21 He called it California’s people were killed during fl ash deadliest fl ooding event in If this is an opportunity that interests you, all resumes are to be received before Sunday, January fl oods Jan. 9. A 17-year-old recent memory. 28, 2018 to [email protected]. All resumes will be handled confidentially and boy and 2-year-old girl remain “As we remember those we missing. lost in this disaster, we should confidential calls may be made directly to Kathy Manipol-McDonald, Head of HR at 671.479.9023. The coastal town’s narrow also remember the injured, the streets are clogged with bull- missing and the survivors who dozers and utility trucks as may need our help in rebuilding crews remove mud and boul- their lives,” his proclamation WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER ders and rebuild drainage pipes said. and power lines. Cottage Health system Robert Lewin, director of said three of the injured, Santa Barbara County’s offi ce including one in serious condi- of emergency management, tion, remained in its hospitals said it may be into February Monday. samoa news, Tuesday, January 23, 2018 Page 3 Stowers gets 5 years for drug possession CJ says sentence reflects “commercial undertone” of case FOR LEASE 2,400 SF Warehouse space (new) by Fili Sagapolutele Stowers’ attorney, Public $20,000. Samoa News Correspondent Defender Douglas Fiaui said the Kruse noted that the under- A drug defendant convicted defendant has spent almost 14 lining factor in this is case is 6,900 SF Warehouse space by a jury last year of drug pos- months at the Territorial Cor- that the defendant was involved session has been sentenced to rectional Facility for pre-trial in a “commercial enterprise”. 21’ High ceilings with 5 years imprisonment, which confinement and that under pro- “Because of the commercial Chief Justice Michael Kruse visions of the law for which his undertone” involved, it’s the 10’ wide awnings in the front says is the minimum sentence, client was convicted, there is no court’s opinion that imposing according to local drug laws. probation. just a fine is not enough to Falaniko Stowers a.k.a. Fiaui requested that his client comply with local drug statutes, May be leased separately or together ‘Nicole’, identified as a be slapped with a fine since she he said, before sentencing the fa’afafine (transgender) in court has served nearly 14 months in defendant to 5 years imprison- Secure gated lot, large parking area documents, appeared in High jail. ment and a $5,000 fine. Court yesterday for sentencing Prosecutor Woodrow “Those are the minimums Conveniently located across after a jury found her guilty of Pengelly said the government provided by the Fono” in the unlawful possession of crystal agrees with the probation office law, Kruse pointed out, adding from Procurement methamphetamine, but not report that this is a serious crime, that while the sentence “may guilty of unlawful possession adding that illegal drugs is a appear harsh” — the local drug For information call 252-1735 or 258-4471 with intent to distribute. danger to the community. “The statute was lifted from New Stowers, who remains in government sees no reason for York’s drug statute in the 1970s. custody unable to post $10,000 leniency,” he said, and sought While New York has aban- surety bond since her arrest in 5 years imprisonment without doned its statute, it is still in November 2016, asked for leni- parole. the local laws, he said, adding ency in sentencing, saying she In handing down the court’s that this is something the Fono is remorseful and she promised sentence, Kruse — who was should look at. never to appear in court again. assisted on the bench by Chief During closing statements, She also promised to help Associate Judge Mamea Pengelly argued that the two others stay away from these Sala Jr. and Associate Judge police officers, who testified types of crimes, adding that she Fa’amausili P. Pomele — first during trial, found 6 cut-up Employment Opportunity wants to be with her family to noted that a person convicted of straws in the defendant’s pos- help her mother. Stowers said unlawful possession of a con- session when she was stopped Tutuila Store is looking for she sees prison life on television trolled substance is sentenced on Nov. 28, 2016. And three of 2 SEAMSTRESSES with and she never thought she’d end to not less than 5 years and the straws sent off island tested up behind bars. She added that not more than 10 years impris- positive for methamphetamine. at least 3-4 years experience. she wants to “live a productive onment, and a fine of not less (See Samoa News Dec. 11, 2017 Please call 258-7711. life” going forward. than $5,000 and not more than edition for details). Cosby jokes in 1st show since American Samoa Government 2015 he ‘used to be’ comedian OFFICE OF PROCUREMENT PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Cosby, who’s legally blind, Bill Cosby performed in public seized on the moment. for the first time since a sex “Let me tell you something abuse scandal embroiled him in about people talking to blind 2015, joking that he “used to be people, you sighted people,” REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (RFP) a comedian” and playing with Cosby said. “If you see a blind a jazz band in his hometown as person walking into a pole or RFP-024-2018 a retrial looms in his criminal something, if you speak perfect sexual assault case. English, there’s a word called Issuance Date: January 16, 2018 Date & Time Due: February 16, 2018 The 80-year-old entertainer ‘Stop!’ Not ‘Whoa, whoa, No later than 2:00p.m (local time) took the stage for about an hour whoa, whoa!’ Monday night at a Philadelphia “You laugh when blind The American Samoa Government (ASG) issues a Request For Proposals (RFP) from qualified firms to provide: jazz club for his first show since people walk into things,” he “Development of Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy May 2015. Before a friendly continued. “And guess what: for the American Samoa Government” crowd, he told stories, honored Blind people laugh when Submission old friends and finished by sighted people fall down!” Original and five copies of the Qualifications must be submitted in a sealed envelope marked: “RFP-024- leading the band in a set, first Cosby arrived at the jazz club 2018: Development of CEDS for the ASG.” Submissions are to be sent to the following address and will be using his mouth to scat in place on the arm of his spokesman, received until 2:00 p.m. (local time), February 16vv, 2018: of a missing horn section and Andrew Wyatt. He wore a Office of Procurement then taking a turn at the drums. gray hoodie bearing the phrase American Samoa Government Cosby, handing the drum- “Hello Friend,” something his Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799 sticks off to the bass player’s late son, Ennis Cosby, often Attn: Dr. Oreta Mapu Crichton, CPO 11-year-old son, asked if the would say.He posed for photos boy knew who he was and then with friends, including a couple Any proposal received after the aforementioned date and time will not be accepted under any told him. he honored at the start of his set. circumstances. Late submissions will not be opened or considered and will be determined as being “I used to be a comedian,” They all grew up in the same non-responsive. Cosby deadpanned. public housing complex. Document Cosby reminisced about his Cosby said he decided to The RFP Scope of Work outlining the proposal requiements is available at the Office of Procurement, childhood, telling the crowd make his return to the stage Tafuna, American Samoa, during normal working hours. about how when he was 4 he because of his friends. grilled a relative about the “I came here tonight to enjoy Review impending birth of his brother. being with my friends and the Request for Proposal data will be thoroughly reviewed by an appointed Source Evaluation Board under the He mimicked his Uncle Wil- musicians and the people who auspices of the Chief Procurement Officer, Office of Procurement, ASG. liam, who took a swig from a came,” he said after the show. Right of Rejection cocktail before answering every He declined to discuss his The American Samoa Government reserves the right to reject any and/or all proposals and to waive any question — including whether a upcoming retrial in a sexual irregularities and/or informalities in the submitted proposals that are not in the best interests of the American stork was really delivering the assault case. Samoa Government or the public. baby to his parents. During the show, the recep- Afterward, Cosby nearly tive crowd applauded and dropped a glass jar he was using laughed along with Cosby’s as a prop, prompting a “Whoa!” jokes, a far cry from how his DR. ORETA MAPU CRICHTON from the crowd. last performances went. Equal Opportunity Employer / Affirmative Action Chief Procurement Officer Page 4 samoa news, Tuesday, January 23, 2018 Samoa’s reply to USDHS’ one year suspension of seasonal workers’ visas Based on press release - The government through our best of their lives in the US and front page article published Sat- Embassy in New York has many do not have family rela- urday December 20th by the been in discussion with the U.S. tives in Samoa anymore. Samoa Observer should dispel Department of Homeland Secu- “We are a small country and any further concerns or panic rity on the status and progress we have to make sure that when that entry visas for Samoans to of returning Samoans who have these people are returned to the United States are affected been convicted of felony in the Samoa, they will have families by the Executive Order issued US. And we have been advised to return to. And if they have by the U.S. Department of regularly. medical and parole conditions Homeland Security pertaining “Discussions have also the relevant authorities should to seasonal workers visas for been conducted with the US be advised well in advance. our citizens to enter the U.S. Charge D’Affaires to Samoa, “We are well aware of This is reaffirmed by U.S. Mr Antone Gruebel and he has Samoa’s obligations under Embassy Charge’ d’Affaires, been informed that Samoa will international conventions and Antone Greubel who is quoted continue to work closely with we are determined to uphold by the Samoa Observer as US government in facilitating our collaborative partnership saying that the decision does the return of Samoans who have with the US. not affect any other visa classes served imprisonment terms in “That is why since June and Samoans may still travel the US due to serious criminal 2017 seven Samoans have freely to the United States with convictions. been returned to Samoa after valid travel documents. “It is crucial to highlight the assiduous efforts to locate their FILE- In this July 21, 2017, file photo, Toby Clairmont, the For the record, the Govern- fact that most, if not all of these families and submission of their Hawaii Emergency Management Agency’s executive officer, shows ment of Samoa has been kept Samoans, left the islands when required documents. new informational materials to a reporter in Honolulu. Clair- abreast from the start by our they were infants and since “Like the US Department of mont told The Associated Press Monday, Jan. 22, 2018, that his Foreign Affairs and Diplomatic have limited or no contacts with Homeland Security, our ulti- decision to retire by the year’s end has nothing to do with the officials in the New York, says their relatives in Samoa. mate goal is the security and recent alert that mistakenly warned the public of a missile headed Chief Executive Officer of the “Government policy wellbeing of our people and to Hawaii. He says no one asked him to retire. Ministry of Prime Minister requires all convicted deportees this country. The events of the (AP Photo/Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, File) and Cabinet, (M.P.M.C.) who to tender to the Ministry a full recent past involving those who is also the Chief Immigration criminal history, complete have been returned to Samoa Officer, Agafili Tomaimano medical report, conditions of have proven that meticulous- Shem Leo. their people if they have been ness is to be exercised at all “And government has never released on parole, and that they times. Hawaii emergency wavered its standing policy should have family contacts “We will continue to work to maintain the mutual coop- in Samoa before they can be closely with US authorities to eration to work with the United issued with travel documents. facilitate the pending cases at States Government in all “The most challenging task hand,” he concluded. official to retire by facets,” he added. is locating of their families (Source: PRESS end of 2018 Continued Agafili, “The in Samoa. They had lived the SECRETARIAT) HONOLULU (AP) — The his career plans on Facebook Philippine volcano spews lava executive officer of Hawaii’s but wasn’t prepared to publicly Emergency Management announce his retirement. Agency is planning to retire by Clairmont, a registered fountains, 40,000 people flee year’s end. nurse, says he was at home Toby Clairmont told The when a state worker mistakenly LEGAZPI, Philippines (AP) vent villagers from sneaking of the thick gray ash fall, Jukes Associated Press Monday his sent the alert. — The Philippines’ most active back to check on their homes Nunez, another Albay provin- decision has nothing to do with Gov. David Ige’s spokes- volcano continued to spew and farms and to watch a cock- cial disaster response officer, the recent alert that mistakenly woman Cindy McMillan says fountains of red-hot lava and fight in an arena in Albay’s said by telephone. warned the public of a missile the governor didn’t ask for massive ash plumes Tuesday Santo Domingo town despite “It was like night time at headed to Hawaii. He says he Clairmont’s retirement. in a dazzling but increasingly the risks and police patrols and noon, there was zero visibility decided on retirement two years Hawaii Emergency Man- dangerous eruption that has sent checkpoints, said Cedric Daep, in some areas because the ash ago and no one asked him to agement Agency spokesman 40,000 villagers to shelter in a provincial disaster-response fall was so thick,” Nunez said. step down. Richard Rapoza says the agency evacuation centers. official. More than 30,000 ash masks Clairmont says he posted did not ask Clairmont to retire. Lava fountains gushed up In a sign of desperation, and about 5,000 sacks of rice, 700 meters (2,300 feet) above Daep told a news conference along with medicine, water Mount Mayon’s crater and ash that he has recommended elec- and other supplies, were being plumes rose up to 3 kilometers tricity and water supply be sent to evacuation centers, (1.9 miles) at night and before cut in communities within the Office of Civil Defense regional daybreak, according to the Phil- no-go zones to discourage resi- director Claudio Yucot said late ippine Institute of Volcanology dents from returning. Monday. and Seismology. An explosive “If pyroclastic flows hit Food packs, water, medicine eruption at noon Monday was people, there is no chance for and other relief goods remain the most powerful since the life,” Daep said. “Let us not adequate but may run out by volcano started acting up more violate the natural law, avoid mid-February if the eruption than a week ago. the prohibited zone, because if continues and adequate supplies Authorities warned a violent you violate, the punishment is fail to come on time, officials eruption may occur in hours or death penalty.” said.With its near-perfect cone, days, characterized by more The daytime eruptions have Mayon has long been popular rumblings and pyroclastic flows plunged nearby villages in with climbers and tourists but — superheated gas and volcanic darkness and sent lava, rocks has erupted about 50 times debris that race down the slopes and debris cascading down in the last 500 years, some- at high speeds, vaporizing Mayon’s slopes toward the no- times violently. The 8,070-foot everything in their path. entry danger zone. There have (2,460-meter) volcano has gen- After Monday’s huge explo- been no reports of deaths and erated tourism revenues and sion, officials raised Mayon’s injuries. Airplanes have been jobs in Albay, which lies about alert level to four on a scale of ordered to stay away from the 340 kilometers (210 miles) five, and the danger zone was crater and ash-laden winds and southeast of Manila. expanded to 8 kilometers (5 several domestic flights have In 2013, an ash eruption Mayon volcano erupts for the second straight day Tuesday, Jan. miles) from the crater, requiring been canceled. killed five climbers who had 23, 2018 as seen from Legazpi city, Albay province, southeast of thousands more residents to be Volcanic ash fell Monday ventured near the summit Manila, Philippines. The Philippines’ most active volcano ejected evacuated, including at least in more than a dozen towns in despite warnings. Its most a huge column of lava fragments, ash and smoke in another thun- 12,000 who left their homes coconut-growing Albay and destructive eruption, in 1814, derous explosion at dawn Tuesday, sending thousands of villagers and then returned during gentler nearby Camarines Sur province, killed more than 1,200 people back to evacuation centers and prompting a warning that a vio- eruptions. with visibility being heavily and buried the town of Cagsawa lent eruption may be imminent. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez) Authorities struggled to pre- obscured in a few towns because in volcanic mud. samoa news, Tuesday, January 23, 2018 Page 5

HEALTH SURVEY 2018 The Department of Human and Social Services and the Department of Health are working together to conduct a very important survey in the community. This entails surveying a selection of adults ages 18 and older from each county. Adults will be selected based upon a random sample of electric meters of households throughout the island. Representatives in blue will be out to identify electric meters, collect vitals signs and other information that relate to general and mental health. By taking this survey, you are helping to paint a picture of health for our people. If you are selected to participate, please help us to address the health needs of American Samoa by consenting to take part in the survey. For more information contact DHSS at 633-1157 or DOH at 633-1602. Surveyors will be revisiting villages throughout the island Page 6 samoa news, Tuesday, January 23, 2018 Mexico: Woman slain, dismembered, cooked; ex is lead suspect MEXICO CITY (AP) — afternoon, but was not heard The remains of a young woman from again, it said. who disappeared over a week State security spokesman ago in southern Mexico were Roberto Alvarez confi rmed Director of the Department of Agriculture, Filifa’atali M. Fuiava (middle), Dr. Kristen Jensen (right) from the Veterinary Clinic, and Land Grant’s Mark Schmaedick during a hearing before the discovered Monday by authori- later that the woman’s “dis- House Agriculture Committee last Friday. [photo: AF] ties who said she is believed to membered” remains had been have been slain, dismembered found Monday inside pots atop and cooked on a stove. a stove. Her ex-husband is suspected “It is presumed that she was Test results are in: Ban on taro in what is being investigated as cooked,” he said. a “femicide,” or the killing of Alvarez said the divorced a woman when the motive is husband is the chief suspect. C M directly related to the victim’s According to a report last from Samoa is lifted Y K gender. month by the Mexican gov- meanWHile, taro PlantinG in manu’a is BoominG Guerrero state prosecutors ernment and the UN Women by Ausage Fausia Filifa’atali Michael Fuiava con- “We’re planning that by the said in a statement that the agency, murders of women Samoa News Reporter fi rmed that he already informed month of March, the taro export woman left her home in the in Mexico rose sharply over American Samoa has lifted the Samoa Prime Minister and from Samoa will be allowed city of Taxco the morning of the last decade following two its ban on taro exports from the Samoa Minister of Agri- back to American Samoa, and Jan. 13. She later said that she decades of declines during Samoa. During a hearing before culture during the Two Samoa this will be a good news for would pick up her children at which the rate had fallen by the House Agriculture Com- Talks last year that American farmers from our neighboring her ex-husband’s home in the half. mittee last Friday, Director of Samoa is ready to allow taro island Samoa, who have been the Agriculture Department, exports from Samoa this year. waiting patiently to bring their taro to sell in our country,” said Filifa’atali who, together with Dr. Kristen Jensen from the Veterinary Clinic and Mark Schmaedick of the Land Grant, appeared before the House Agriculture Committee to tes- tify on issues that were raised by several lawmakers last week. Some of these issues include the relationship between the Dept. of Agriculture and the Veterinary Clinic; the future of taro in Manu’a; and banning taro exports from Samoa. taro from samoa Schmaedick confi rmed to the committee that they have received from Samoa, the results of tests that were sent to the University of Hawaii, to check on the type of virus that affect the taro in Samoa. Nine samples sent from Apia to the Hawai’i lab tested positive for a virus that affects taro leaves. Rep. Fagaoatua Dorian Salave’a asked the witness whether this is the same virus that affected the Samoan taro back in the 1990s and Schma- edick said no, this is a totally different virus. Salave’a expressed concern, saying taro is one of the food that is supplied by local farmers to the School Lunch Pro- C M gram, which is funded by the Y K US-DOE for American Samoa. “I don’t want the taro leaf blight that affected the Samoan taro over twenty years ago to come back to our shores and cause huge damage to our agricultural development. “I believe your staff has the experience to protect our farmers from experiencing another bad situation,” he told Filifa’atali. The Agriculture director told the committee that after he received information about the unknown virus breakout in Samoa affecting taro crops on the islands of Upolu and Savai’i, he made the quick move to sus- pend the importation of all taro and taro shoots from Samoa, for (Continued on page 12) samoa news, Tuesday, January 23, 2018 Page 7 ASH Cable does major upgrade to Samoa-American Samoa cable network equipment ATTENTION!! 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A group of senators gather off the Senate floor to speak to reporters after reaching an agreement to advance a bill ending a government shutdown on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Jan. 22, 2018. From left are, Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., Sen. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) What’s in, and not in, deal ending VACANCY American Samoa’s leading resort is seeking an honest, the government shutdown trustworthy and suitably qualified individual for the position of STAFF ACCOUNTANT. The deal to break through year renewal of a popular health brought to the U.S. as children the Senate stalemate over immi- insurance program for chil- and are now in the country ille- Requirements: gration and border security that dren in low-income families. gally. President Donald Trump • College/University graduate with a strong background in shut down the government is a The program known as CHIP ended the Deferred Action for Accounting, bare-bones accord. It provides became an unshakeable pillar Childhood Arrivals program, • 5 or more years equivalent experience. temporary funding to keep the for the Republicans throughout or DACA, late last year, but he • Have a sound knowledge of Accounting functions and principles. government operating for just the budget drama, and Demo- gave Congress until March 5 • Computer literate and familiar with Financial Management under three weeks. crats were hard-pressed to reject to pass legislation extending it. Systems. Senate Democrats dropped such a universally accepted DACA protects some 700,000 • Have experience in Accounts Payables/Receivables and Payroll. their objections to a stopgap plan. immigrants from deportation. • Able to work under minimal supervision. spending measure. In return, —Delays to three taxes under —New funds to toughen • Must display a willingness to learn and work within a team Senate Republican leaders the Obama-era health care law: border security, including environment. promised to soon take up immi- the medical device tax through money to start building Trump’s • Must have excellent communication skills. gration and other prickly issues. 2019, the so-called Cadillac long-promised wall spanning Application forms are to be picked up from the Front Desk at A look at what the deal has tax on generous employer-paid the U.S.-Mexico border. The Tradewinds Hotel and to be submitted no later than January 31, 2018 and doesn’t have: health care plans through 2021; wall was one of his leading cam- with a resume, copies of certificates and at least three (3) references. WHAT’S IN THE DEAL and a tax on health insurance paign promises, and a number All applications are to be submitted to: —Short-term funding for the companies through 2019. of congressional Republicans Tradewinds Hotel government through Feb. 8. The WHAT’S NOT IN IT have continually stressed border P O Box 999 Republicans had been insisting —Any move to halt depor- security in the budget talks. Pago Pago AS 96799 on longer, at least a month. tation efforts aimed at immi- —Longer-term funding for (Phone: 684-699-1000, Ext 716) —The long-delayed, six- grant “Dreamers,” who were the government. Student: Boy arrested in school shooting has violent past DALLAS (AP) — A school officials, including to a didn’t return a message seeking 16-year-old boy accused of vice principal. comment about his past. Ph. 252-2964 shooting a classmate at a Texas “This could have been avoid- Shook said the girl who was Location:Room 209, Tedi of Samoa - Fagatogo high school on Monday had a able,” she said. “There were so shot Monday had moved to the history of aggressive actions at many signs.”Shook said she school district a few months school, a fellow student said. first went to school officials earlier. Police said the girl Office Hrs. 9am to 2pm The injured student, a after the boy allegedly made was taken to Parkland Memo- (684) 633-0179 15-year-old girl, was airlifted a “hit list” in eighth grade and rial Hospital, where a spokes- to a hospital in Dallas following her name was on it. Then last woman said she couldn’t release Family Owned & Operated since 1998. 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The boy fled after being said.“I ran out of the classroom of about 2,000 people that dubs Do you have ROACH, ANT, FLEAS, TICKS, TERMITE, confronted by a school district screaming, telling everyone itself “The Biggest Little Town RATS, AND OTHER PEST PROBLEMS? official but was later arrested. to hide because I was scared,” In Texas.” Joffre said that about Cassie Shook, a 17-year-old Shook said.Shook said police 45 to 55 students are typically in • Call for a FREE PEST EVALUATION OR NO junior at the school, told The came to talk to the class after the the high school’s cafeteria in the OBLIGATION INSPECTION Associated Press that she was incident. She said the boy was morning for breakfast. He noted driving up to the building when removed from the school but that school would be in session • We do GROUND TERMITE TREATMENT & she saw “the doors fly open eventually was allowed back. Tuesday and that counselors and everyone screaming and Italy Independent School would be available. CONSTRUCTION PRE_TREATMENTS running out of the building.” District Superintendent Lee “In a small town, the school • We provide services for Houses, Boats, Cars, She said she was angry when Joffre said the district couldn’t district is the center of what she learned who the suspect comment on disciplinary actions goes on for our kids, and this Offices, Warehouses, Storage, Restaurants, Furniture was because she’d complained involving students. Police have morning’s tragedy hits the heart pieces, stores and cafeteria and health clinics. about the boy at least twice to not released the boy’s name and of this community,” Joffre said. Page 10 samoa news, Tuesday, January 23, 2018 Out of character, Trump keeps his distance as shutdown ends WASHINGTON (AP) — As character for a president who the weekend,” Schumer said the shutdown of the federal gov- made his reputation as the Monday. “The great deal- ernment lumbered toward an master of “The Art of the Deal,” making president sat on the end, President Donald Trump as he titled one of his books. sidelines.” remained out of sight, sup- “Look, what the president Trump initially chafed at pressing his instincts to become did clearly worked,” said White remaining out of the fray, part of the story by making a House press secretary Sarah grousing to aides and outside deal or picking a fight. Huckabee Sanders. She told advisers that he feared taking Trump told allies over the reporters that Trump’s focus the blame. He watched hours weekend that he hated being was on minimizing the impact of coverage of the shutdown on on the sidelines, but he fol- of the shutdown on Americans. cable TV over the weekend — lowed the recommendations of “That’s been a big priority including clips of him blasting his staff and key congressional for the president,” she said. “I President Barack Obama for Republicans and removed him- think that it certainly went much being passive during the 2013 self from the negotiations. The smoother than it has in the past, shutdown — and made a series president limited his public pro- but also the president was put- of calls to allies in which he nouncements to a few Twitter ting pressure and standing firm expressed fear he was looking bursts that bashed Democrats. on exactly what he was willing weak, according to a person He did not reach out to to do and what he wasn’t.” familiar with the conversations Senate Minority Leader Chuck Trump’s shifting posi- but not authorized to speak Schumer or any other Demo- tions, particularly on protec- about them publicly. crat, instead calling fellow tions for young immigrants, But Trump was pleased with Director of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mul- Republicans and Cabinet mem- twice scuttled deals that could the work of his staff defending vaney walks from a television interview outside the White House bers to check on the response to have avoided the shutdown, him on air and urged them to in Washington, Monday, Jan. 22, 2018, on the third day of the fed- the shutdown. frustrating Republicans and “hold the line” during a visit eral shutdown. Mulvaney is defending President Donald Trump’s The White House defended Democrats alike. Schumer, to Sanders’ office, which had lack of outreach to Democratic lawmakers during the government Trump’s hands-off approach who believed he was close to a become a de facto war room in shutdown. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) to the negotiations, one out of deal on Friday after meeting the the West Wing, according to a president at the White House White House official, who was over cheeseburgers, blasted not authorized to speak publicly Trump’s refusal to re-engage. about internal discussions. The AMERICAN SAMOA “The White House refused president warmed to playing COMMUNITY COLLEGE to engage in negotiations over hardball with the Democrats. Department of Agriculture Community and Natural Resources (ACNR) ➧ Laser… Continued from page 1 EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY person Ann Botticelli said to pilots, especially on approach Position Title: HEALTH AND FITNESS SPECIALIST Sunday afternoon that the cap- [because] lasers can blind pilots tain of last Friday’s night flight and therefore endanger their Employment Status: Full Time 12 months (Career Service) “did report a laser incident” to visibility in precision approach General Description: the tower at the airport but she to our airport at night.” didn’t have more information. He explained that shooting a The ACNR Health and Fitness Specialist will work with ACNR Extension professionals to develop and (Samoa News assumes that laser to an aircraft: can blind the deliver a variety of health fitness and program-specific physical fitness activities and promote an active, the tower referred to by Bot- pilot; jeopardize the safety of healthy lifestyle in the community. In addition, he/she will oversee the operation of the ASCC-ACNR ticelli is the one at the Faleolo landing the aircraft; and risk the Wellness Exercise Center to orient, assess, instruct, educate, and direct clients and visitors in a path that International Airport, as there lives of passengers on board. will correctly lead them to a healthier lifestyle. He/she will also be responsible for the Center scheduling, is no FAA control tower at the Fuimaono reminds the com- purchase requisitions, inventory, data, assessments, inquiries, maintenance, and reporting. Tafuna airport.) munity that the “majority of Job Duties and Responsibilities: The FAA public affairs passengers on planes arriving/ • Oversee the operation of the Wellness Center including, but not limited to, open/closing, schedules, office in Los Angeles, which departing Pago Pago airport are purchase requisition, inventory, data, client recruitment and retention, assessments, attendance, covers media issues for Hawai’i either our relatives or friends. reassessments, data collection, maintenance, and reporting. and the US territories, couldn’t This should be considered by • Supervise and oversee the correct use and operation of equipment and apparatus within the Center. be reached for comments as it the public for the sake and safety • Develop and deliver program-specific physical activities and actively promote and coordinate approved was closed due to the partial of aircrafts in our airport.” wellness activities and programs to increase adoption of healthy, active lifestyles in the community. Lead federal shutdown over lack of “In order to mitigate this various exercise session requests for tours and outreach programs. funding. practice, we are seeking assis- • Prepare and submit an updated plan of work and schedule and all biweekly, monthly, and annual reports An auto-reply message, to tance from the local Department for the Center. Samoa News email questions of Homeland Security and/or • Enforce and document compliance on the part of the exercise facility and program as well as its clients to on Sunday, recommends con- Department of Public Safety all legal and pre-exercise waivers and questionnaires and other health and safety requirements. tacting the airline and local air- if they can be on the lookout • Work with clients to assess physical health needs to ensure safe and effective exercise regime and port authorities. during the arrival of Hawaiian,” conduct regular assessments to monitor progress and prescribe appropriate exercise programming. Department of Port Admin- he continued. • Develop a Wellness Program that can incorporate ASCC-ACNR as a team and that will implement istration’s Airport Manager, “It takes less than 10 min- interventions. Tavita Fuimaono said yesterday utes for Hawaiian to reach Pago • Perform other relevant duties as assigned by supervisor or Director of ACNR. that an airport safety officer was Pago airport on final approach. notified of the situation around This won’t be much time to Minimum Requirements: 10:27p.m Friday by the local track a culprit shooting a laser,” • Bachelor degree in Health, Fitness, or related field. Hawaiian Air station manager Fuimaono said. • At least one year of experience in community-based promotion of active, healthy living; leading group and this was about 30 minutes The last known laser inci- exercise sessions; fitness assessments; and providing professional service to individuals to meet their after the plane’s arrival. dent involving a Hawaiian flight health and fitness needs. “We cannot control events while landing at the Tafuna • Shows competence to properly operate and maintain fitness equipment. outside of our airport at such Airport was in the later part • ACSM (American College of Sports Medicine), NASM (National Academy of Sports Medicine), NSCA a short time span,” said Fui- of March 2011. Samoa News (National Strength and Conditioning Academy) AFAA (Aerobics Fitness Association of America), or any maono responding to Samoa reported at the time the incident NCCA- National Commission Certifying Agency recognized certification. Current CPR/AED and First Aid. News inquiries on behalf of occurred “when the aircraft was Port Administration director descending” to the Tafuna Air- Salary: Salary to be commensurate with experience, qualification, and credentials. Taimalelagi Dr. Claire Pou- port. It was believed to be the Application Deadline: January 26, 2018 no later than 4:00pm. mele. “This is the same with first laser incident at the airport flying drones in airports. These at the time and there was no Applications are available from American Samoa Community College, Human Resources Office at are new challenges that we affect on the pilots or the safety 699-9155 Ext. 403/335/436 or by emailing Silaulelei Saofaigaalii at [email protected] or are facing with our airport of the passengers and crew. [email protected]. environment.” “There is nothing funny, Furthermore, “we need to humorous or cute about shining ‘educate’ the public about the a laser at an aircraft,” the FAA “An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer – And A Drug-Free Workplace” dangers of shooting laser beams said at the time. samoa news, Tuesday, January 23, 2018 Page 11 PRINTER FOR RENT! Offi cials: 5 missing, fi re out WIRELESS / COPY / PRINTER / FAX / SCANNER FOR FAST, UNLIMITED PRINTING, GREAT FOR COMMERCIAL USE

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Several people are missing just don’t know yet,” Elliott aft er a fi ery explosion ripped through the eastern Oklahoma said. Notice for Proposed Registration of Land drilling rig, sending plumes of black smoke into the air and leaving State environmental and reg- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN in accordance with the request which has been received by the a derrick crumpled onto the ground, an emergency offi cial said. Territorial Registrar for the registration of a certain land LALOOLEISU which is situated in or ulatory offi cials were heading near the village of VAITOGI, County of TUALAUTA Island of TUTUILA, from MATAUTU (Kevin Harvison/Th e McAlester News-Capital via AP) to the scene after being notifi ed, PETER TINITALI of the village of VAITOGI as a/an COMMUNAL land of FUAMAILA SOA according to Oklahoma Offi ce FAMILY. QUINTON, Okla. (AP) — said during an afternoon news NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that anyone claiming an interest in the above named land, Five people are missing after a conference. of Emergency Management may file an objection with the Territorial Registrar’s Office within 60 days from the date of post- fi ery explosion ripped through “Pretty much everything that spokeswoman Keli Cain. ing of this notice. If no objection is filed within 60 days from the date of posting of this notice, The drilling site was being the land proposed herein will be registered as such in accordance with the law of American an eastern Oklahoma drilling is on location is on fi re,” Enloe Samoa. rig on Monday, sending plumes said. operated by Oklahoma City- NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the survey and description of the said land are now on of black smoke into the air and A statement Monday night based Red Mountain Operating, file in the Territorial Registrar’s Office where they may be examined at any time prior to the expiration of the said sixty (60) days. leaving a derrick crumpled on from emergency management said Matt Skinner, a spokesman POSTED: DECEMBER 20, 2017 thru FEBRUARY 20, 2017 the ground, emergency offi cials said the fi re was out. for the Oklahoma Corporation SIGNED: Taito S.B. White, Territorial Registrar said. The explosion occurred Commission, which regulates More than 20 employees west of the town of Quinton, oil and gas operators in the Fa’aaliga o le Fia Fa’amauina o se Fanua were at the natural gas well site about 100 miles (161 kilome- state. Telephone and email mes- O LE FA’AALIGA LENEI ua fa’asalalauina ona o le talosaga ua fa’aulufaleina mai i le Ofisa o when the blast was reported ters) southeast of Tulsa. Enloe sages left by The Associated le Resitara o Amerika Samoa ina ia fa’amauina le fanua o LALOOLEISU, e tu pe latalata ane i le Press with Red Mountain were nu’u o VAITOGI, Itumalo o TUALAUTA i le motu o TUTUILA, ina ia fa’amauina e MATAUTU around 8:45 a.m., Pittsburg said fi refi ghters were letting PETER TINITALI ole fanua FAITELE o LE AIGA SA FUAMAILA SOA. County Sheriff Chris Morris the blaze burn and weren’t put- not immediately returned. SO O SE TASI e aia ma fa’atu’iese i le fanua ua ta’ua i luga ia fa’aulufaleina mai sana fa’atu’iese- said. Aerial footage showed ting water on it to keep from Houston-based Patterson- ga tusitusia i le Ofisa o le Resitara i totonu o aso e 60 mai le aso na fa’aalia ai lea fa’aaliga. Afai o le a leai se fa’atu’iesega e fa’aulufaleina mai i totonu o aso e 60, o le fanua lenei o le a fa’amauina e several fi res were still burning spreading possible hazardous UTI Energy Inc., a drilling rig pei ona ta’ua i luga e tusa ai ma aiaiga o le tulafono i Amerika Samoa. by midday on the rig and other materials at the site. operator, confi rmed in a state- O LE FA’AFANUA ma fa’amatalaga e uiga i lenei fanua, ua iai nei i le Ofisa ole Resitara, ma e equipment; the derrick, a tow- Enloe said about 17 workers ment Monday that some of its avanoa mo se iloiloga i so’o se aso i totonu o le 60 o le faitauina o aso. 12/22/17 & 01/22/18 ering metal structure above the were pulled from the site fol- employees remain unaccounted well, collapsed onto the ground. lowing the blast, including one for. Emergency crews were who suffered minor burns and “The cause of the fi re is pulled away after other explo- was treated at the scene. He said unknown at this time,” the com- sions at the site, where several crews were searching the sur- pany said.Skinner said a com- tanks are also located, Pittsburg rounding woods to see if anyone pany that specializes in rig fi res County Emergency Manage- had fl ed into the area. and other well control problems ment Director Kevin Enloe “Most everybody was also responded to the blaze. Trump applies tariffs to solar panels, washing machines WASHINGTON (AP) — “Mexico will use all avail- manufacturers of other equip- President Donald Trump on able legal resources in response ment used to run solar-power Monday approved tariffs on to the U.S. decision to apply pro- systems opposed tariffs, which imported solar-energy com- tections on Mexican washing they said will raise their prices ponents and large washing machines and solar panels,” its and hurt demand for the renew- machines in a bid to help U.S. Economy Department said in a able energy. manufacturers. statement. The Solar Energy Indus- The Republican’s decision The U.S. solar industry was tries Association, which rep- followed recommendations for split over the trade barriers. resents installation companies, tariffs by the U.S. International The tariffs were sought last said billions of dollars of solar Trade Commission. year by Suniva Inc., which fi led investment will be delayed or LAND COMMISSION “The president’s action for bankruptcy protection in canceled, leading to the loss of NOTICE is hereby given that MAGALEI LOGOVI’I of MAPUSAGA FOU, American Samoa, has executed a WARRANTY DEED to a certain parcel of land commonly known as makes clear again that the April, and the U.S. subsidiary 23,000 jobs this year. FUIALOA which is situated in the village of MAPUSAGA FOU in the County of TUALAU- Trump administration will of Germany’s SolarWorld. Mark Bortman, founder of TA, WESTERN District, Island of Tutuila, American Samoa. Said LEASE AGREEMENT always defend American They said that a nearly 500 Exact Solar in Philadelphia, is now on file with the Territorial Registrar to be forwarded to the Governor respecting his workers, farmers, ranchers, and percent increase in imported said the prospect of tariffs, since approval or disapproval thereof according to the laws of American Samoa. Said instrument names THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS as GRANTEE. businesses in this regard,” U.S. solar panels over fi ve years the trade commission recom- Any person who wish, may file his objection in writing with the Secretary of the Land Trade Representative Robert led to a ruinous price collapse. mended them in October, had Commission before the 9TH day of FEBRUARY, 2018. It should be noted that any objection Lighthizer said in a statement Nearly 30 U.S. solar-manufac- already caused him to delay must clearly state the grounds therefor. announcing the decision. turing facilities had closed in hiring and expansion plans. POSTED: DECEMBER 11, 2017 thru FEBRUARY 9, 2018 Most imported solar mod- the past fi ve years, they said, as “Solar is really just starting SIGNED: Taito S.B. White, Territorial Registrar ules will face an immediate China plotted to fl ood the global to take off because it is truly tariff of 30 percent, with the rate market with cheap products to a win-win-win situation” for KOMISI O LAU’ELE’ELE declining before phasing out weaken U.S. manufacturing. consumers, workers and the O LE FA’ASALALAUGA lenei ua faia ona o MAGALEI LOGOVI’I ole nu’u o MAPUSA- after four years. For large resi- Suniva spokesman Mark environment, he said. “Tariffs GA FOU, Amerika Samoa, ua ia faia se FEAGAIGA FOA’I, i se fanua ua lauiloa o FUIALOA e i le nu’u o MAPUSAGA FOU i le itumalo o TUALAUTA, Falelima i SISIFO ole Motu o dential washing machines, tar- Paustenbach called tariffs “a would really be shooting our- TUTUILA Amerika Samoa. O lea FEAGAIGA FOA’I ua i ai nei i teuga pepa ale Resitara o iffs will start at up to 50 percent step forward for this high-tech selves in the foot.” Amerika Samoa e fia auina atu ile Kovana Sili mo sana fa’amaoniga e tusa ai ma le Tulafono and phase out after three years. solar-manufacturing industry The case for tariffs on a Amerika Samoa. O lea mata’upu o lo’o ta’ua ai THE CHURCH OF JESUS OF CHRIST OF Mexico said Trump’s deci- we pioneered right here in washing machines was pushed LATTER DAY SAINTS. sion not to exclude it from the America.” by Benton Harbor, Michigan- A iai se tasi e fia fa’atu’i’ese i lea mata’upu, ia fa’aulufaleina mai sa na fa’atu’iesega tusitusia ile Failautusi o lea Komisi ae le’i o’o ile aso 9 o FEPUARI, 2018. Ia manatua, o fa’atu’iesega measures was “regrettable.” However, solar installers and based Whirlpool Corp. uma lava ia tusitusia manino mai ala uma e fa’atu’iese ai. 12/22/17 & 01/22/18 Page 12 samoa news, Tuesday, January 23, 2018 ➧ Test results… Continued from page 6 safety reasons. the fence during holidays and He said the decision to the weekend, is because a lot Meet A Spelling Champ! impose the ban was to avoid of people come into the area another epidemic like the and he’s only trying to protect BIOGRAPHY OF A 2018 one that struck the islands in the government property inside The student at the right SPELLING BEE FINALIST 1993-1994. the compound. He said it will will represent What is your name? The ban, Filifa’atali said, cost the government if someone Manumalo School in Amber Leota was recently lifted based on takes those things away. What is your school name? satisfactory test results pro- Filifa’atali acknowledged the American Samoa Manumalo Baptist Academy vided by the Samoa Ministry of the great job that Dr. Jensen has Spelling Bee to be held What grade are you in? Agriculture. done for American Samoa ever March 07, 2018. Grade 8 Veterinary CliniC since her arrival. “She’s doing a The winner of that Bee Who is your English Teacher? One of the issues discussed tremendous job for our country, will represent American Rosa Temese during last Friday’s House trying to control the population hearing had to do with the of dogs in American Samoa,” Samoa in the 90th Who are your parents? Chuck & Leute Leota relationship between the Dept. Filifa’atali said. annual Scripps Howard What village are you from? of Agriculture and the Veteri- future of taro in Spelling Bee to be held Vailoatai nary Clinic, which is under its manu’a in Washington, D.C. What was your winning word? umbrella. The future of taro in Manu’a TCHOTCHKE Manu’a faipule, Rep. is heading in the right direction, C M Toeaina Faufano Autele ques- Filifa’atali said, adding his staff Y K tioned Filifa’atali about the in Manu’a is doing a great job Spelling Bee Winners, if you’ve not filled out your biography and had your picture taken, please come in to Samoa News. many changes at the Veterinary by planting different types of Clinic, including the closing of taro in both the Luanu’u (Ofu the fence that separates the Vet- and Olosega/ Sili) and also the erinary Clinic from the Agricul- Faletolu (Ta’u, Faleasao and ture premises. Fitiuta). Toeaina said it seems to him He told faipule that taro Territorial Spelling Bee that Filifa’atali and his staff are planting in Manu’a continues trying to separate the Clinic to grow and hopefully by the from them, and the changes middle of this year, people in Major Sponsor gives the Veterinary Clinic Tutuila will witness more taro staff a hard time in fulfi lling being imported from Manu’a. their daily work. He also asked He said ever since the taro McDonald’s Filifa’atali to consider the ser- exports from Samoa were sus- vice of Dr. Kristen Jensen who pended last year, they have in conjunction with heads the Veterinary Clinic, noticed a lot of taro in Tutuila. and to allow her to continue her Filifa’atali said this is a good service for American Samoa by sign for our country, because it Department of renewing her contract. proves the point that our local Filifa’atali explained that farmers are able to provide taro EDUCATION American Samoa the reason why his staff locks when there is a need.

C M Y K samoa news, Tuesday, January 23, 2018 Page 13 LeL eLaliLali Tatala le Ta’elega mo le Lautele - Le “Pala Lagoon Swimming Pool” tusia: Leua Aiono Frost lisia, ma ua iloga ai loa ona lava O le ulua’i ta’elega mo le le seleni e amata ma fa’amae’a mamalu lautele o le atunu’u ua ai le galuega i le lua tausaga tatala aloa’ia ina ia fa’aaogaina mulimuli o le taimi ua ta’ua.” i le aso Faraile ua te’a i le Paka “O le tau aofa’i o le galuega Liona, ma o se mata’aga fo’i $US1.31 miliona fa’atasi ai ma C M lea galuega tele e $1.31 miliona le tele mafaufauga fefaaalia’i Y K lona tauaofa’i i le Rotary Club ma aikia eseese na fa’aalia ma ma ana pa’aga e aofi a ai ma le toe soloia ae fa’aaogaina nisi, Malo o Amerika Samoa, faapea fa’afetai aua o se galuega ua fo’i se vaega tupe mai le CDBG to’atele sui na tofusao i ona a le feterale mo galuega atina’e fausaga, ma i’u ane o se mea o le atunu’u. lelei ua tula’i mai. Fa’afetai O pa’aga na foa’i mo le gal- Rotary ma au pa’aga uma, ae O i latou na tofu sao i le taeao na tatala ai le Ta’elega o le Pala Lagoon i Tafuna, ma sa tapenaina uega lea sa fa’amatu’u e fausia maise i latou na matua galulue le nofoaga fa’atasi ai ma le tausamiga matagofi e ina ia aluga lelei lea fo’i fa’atasiga. O i la’ua o Flo- e le Rotary Club of Pago Pago malosi i le fausaga o lenei rina, Sandra ma Nancy sa latou tutua’ai mo lea fa’amoemoe. Fa’afetai fa’ato’ato’a. na lisia mai i vaega e tolu, Plat- [ata: Leua Aiono Frost] inum, Auro ma le Siliva ina ia (Faaauau itulau 14) tino mai le Ta’elega o le “Pala Lagoon Swimming Pool.” Sa faia foi se ta’amilosaga Tapolo sa fa’atautaia mai le 15 tausaga mo lenei fa’amoemoe. “Ua tusia i latou nei, a’o e fa’amalu ma le fi afi a ma lou aiga i lea ta’elega, tau ina e fa’afetaia le agalelei ma le lima mafola i ala na latou foa’i ai. Peita’i, ia lalamua i lou agaga fa’afetai, ia tausia lelei lenei aseta aoga mo tagata uma o le teritori e fi a fa’amalu ma fi afi a fa’atasi ma aiga i lea nofoaga,” o se tasi lea o saunoaga sa fa’afofogaina e le mamalu sa auai i le tatalaga aloaia o le Swimming Pool. O le sauniga mamalu sa si’itia e le Fa’afeagaiga Iasepi Ulu mai le EFKAS i Fagatogo ma vi’iga fo’i sa fofogaina e lana aufaipese fa’apitoa a tama’ita’i i lea taeao. Ona soso’o lea ma saunoaga fa’apitoa sa fa’asolo mai e le fofoga o le polokalame na taoto mo le fa’amoemoe, le tofa Tofa Su’a Sualauvi. Na mua’i maua le avanoa o le afi oga le Sa’o Utu Abe Malae mo lana folasaga e tusa o le galuega ma lona tau, ma ua tolaulauina mai ai i latou na togi ma’a i lenei fa’amoemoe. “Sefulumalelima tausaga ua te’a, na ofo ai le ali’i sa avea ma C M Peresetene o le Rotary o Pago Y K Pago, William Sword e fausia e le Rotary le Vaita’ele lenei, ona e iloga mai e to’atele alo o le atunu’u e fefefe i le sami ma le iloa atu ai ona a’au. E ui ina tuai mai, ae o se galuega e tuai ona mae’a, ua fausia lelei fo’i, ma e fa’afi afi aina fo’i tagata, ona ua mafai ona mae’a ma latou fa’aaogaina,” o se tautalaga lea a Utu e tusa o lea galuega. Sa ia fa’ailoa mai ala sa saili ai le Rotary mo le fa’amoemoe. “O le umi o nei tausaga, o le umi lena sa fa’aaoga e le Rotary e faia ai latou ta’amilosaga tapolo ina ia maua le seleni ma fa’aputu mo le fa’amoemoe. Soso’o loa ma le fesoasoani mai o le DOC e talosagaina le tupe toina mai le CDBG, fa’atasi ma foa’i na talia mai pa’aga uma ua Page 14 samoa news, Tuesday, January 23, 2018 ➧ Tatala… Mai itulau 13 ta’elega.” lo’o i le lotoifale. O ana toe upu na ia fa’apea Na ia toe fa’atepa le lautele ai, “Ua uma le vaita’ele i Pala i le fuaitau o le Tusi Paia sa Lagoon, e le pulea e le Rotary, si’itia mai e Rev. Iasepi i lana ae o le a pulea lava e le mamalu tautalaga, “E sili le to’alua pe lautele o le atunu’u, ia outou to’atolu nai lo le to’atasi i mea tausia lelei, ma ia tumama i ai, uma...aua a to’atele ona mama ia umi fo’i ona aoga ma tatou lea o se avega po’o se galuega fa’aaogaina!” o lo’o faia!” Ina ua tula’i le ali’i Ini- Fa’afetaia fo’i e ia le CEO sinia sa nafa ma le fausaga lea, Utu Abe Malae o le ASPA, Joe Weilenman, sa na’o na ia aua o se tasi lea o galuega e le fa’ailoa lava, “Ona o a’u lea sa tu’umamaina e ia lona va’ai fa’ao’o mai i ai le seleni fa’asoa toto’a i lona fa’atautaiga po’o mo le galuega, aua o a’u lea o aluga lelei mea uma. E o’o mai se sui totino o le Rotary, ou te fo’i i le aso atofa mo le tatalaina fia fa’ailoa atu, mai le to’atele o aloa’ia, e tele lava lona sao, e le e na tofu sao i lenei galuega, ae gata i lenei galuega, a’o isi mea ou te le iloa po’o ai le ulugali’i uma o tautua ai o ia i le atunu’u. na o mai lava taua’ao mai le Ona o le Rotary e matele i O le afioga le Faipule o le Tualauta Vui Florence Saulo, se tasi o ta’ita’i o le Rotary Club ma le $50,000 mo le fa’amoemoe e le aufaipisinisi o lo’o tutula’i peresetene o le Lion’s Club a Pago Pago Lisa Tuato’o, lea ua latou fiafia fa’atasi ina ua mae’a se tasi o fausia ai le Pala Lagoon Swim- mai ai ma tautua e pei o le galuega iloga i le atunu’u, sa alofaiva i ai fa’alapotopotoga tumaoti i le atunu’u, le Rotary Club ma ming Pool, toe tulioso i le la’ua latou auau, “Fa’amuamua Lau ta’avale, o ese atu. Mo oulua Tautua”, o lea sa ia fa’ailoa atu ana pa’aga sa foa’i. [ata: Leua Aiono Frost] fa’afetai pe afai ua oulua va’aia ai lona agaga fa’afetai tele mo se galuega ua tino mai ona o le i latou uma na foa’i ma tofu lua foa’i fo’i sa aoga mo lona sao i le galuega o le a aoga e fausaga!” fa’afiafiaina ai so’o se aiga e Tele lu’itau na feagai ma le Saunoa le peresetene o le pa’au ane i ai ma fa’aaoga. Rotary i lenei tausaga, John “O lenei se galuega, ua faam- Raynar ma ia fa’afetaia tagata auina atili ai le galulue fa’atasi o uma na galulue ia tino le le aufaipisinisi, tagata lautele na ta’elega, ae maise i pa’aga sa foa’i ae maise o le Malo. O le a malo i le tausaga ua mavae latou foa’i ma sui totino fo’i o fo’i se sao o le Malo mo le gal- tusia Ausage Fausia ina ia fa’atonutonu le tulaga i lana pito laau,” o se vaega lea le Rotary i le galulue fa’atasi, ua uega, fa’afetai mo le tou lagola- E tele naua lu’itau i le itu tau tupe fa’aalu ma tupe maua, ina o le saunoaga a le ali’i kovana. ausia ai lenei aso iloga mo aiga gosua ma tatou atina’e fa’atasi tupe na fetaia’i ma le faigamalo ia mautinoa e le toe sili atu tupe O se tasi o taumafaiga o lo uma o Amerika Samoa, latou te le tatou atunu’u i mea e manuia a Lolo ma Lemanu i le tausaga fa’aalu nai lo tupe o lo o maua o galue malosi i ai le malo i le fa’aaogaina. “E ui ina fa’aletonu ai le aotelega o i tatou uma.” ua mavae, e pei ona fa’amanino mai e le malo e fa’atino ai lana taimi nei, o le sailia lea o auala e le tamaoaiga o le tatou malo, ae O le lipine e tatala aloa’ia ai e le afioga i le ali’i Kovana i auaunaga i le atunu’u. fa’amalosia ai le tutumau pea o o lo’o una’ia pea galuega lelei, e le ta’elega sa o’otia e le tina o lana saunoaga, e tatala aloaia O ni isi o itu sa manatu le kamupani i’a i le atunu’u. fa’ailoa atu ai, pe vaivai pe itiiti le atunu’u Cynthia Moliga, ma ai le Tauaofiaga lona 3 o le malo e fa’amalosia ai pea lana E pei ona silafia, o le tula- se galuega e fai ma mae’a, ae o ulufale atu loa i latou uma aofia Nofoaiga 35 a le Fono Faitula- fa’amuamua i tulaga o fesoa- fono e pei ona fa’atoa pasia mai lo’o tau atina’e lava le atunu’u. mo le maimoaga ao le’i tatala fono i le masina nei. soani ma atina’e, o le ave lea o e le Konekeresi i tulaga o le pili E le o tatou fa’avaivai, ae o lo’o aloaia mo ta’elega a le lautele i E ui i le tele o nei lu’itau le fa’amuamua i le sailia o auala o lafoga, e le o aofia ai i totonu tatou fa’amalolosi fa’atasi!” le itula e 1:00pm i le aoauli lava e pei ona taua e le tofa Lolo e fa’aleleia ai aoaoga mo fanau, le vaega lea e fa’aagafua ai O le sao o le afioga le o le aso Faraile. Matalasi Moliga, ae na mafai tausiaina o le soifua maloloina, lafoga. Lona uiga, o le tausaga Kovana Sili Lolo Moliga, sa ia O le ulufale mo tagata uma lava ona aga’i i luma galuega atina’e mo le fa’aleleia o le lenei o le a toe siitia ai le isi fa’afetaia ai le Rotary i le gal- e $5.00 i le tagata, ae o lo’o ua fa’ataoto a le malo, e ala i le puipuiga o le saogalemu lautele, faaopoopoga o totogi amata e uega ua mae’a nei. Fa’afetaia mae’a fa’apipi’ia fo’i le seti lagolagosua atu a le Fono Faitu- atoa ai ma le fausiaina o fale ma pei ona pasia mai e le feterale pa’aga uma ua fa’ailo, ae maise o tulafono e ao ina usita’ia e i lafono, atoa ai ma le sao a tagata atina’e e tautua ai tagata, faapea i tausaga ua mavae, ma o se isi o tagata uma sa tofu sao i so’o latou uma o le a fa’aaogaina. Ua faigaluega i le taumafai lea ina ai taumafaiga ina ia fa’aleleia lea aafiaga tele i kamupani i’a se ala ia mafai ona mae’a le lomia nei tulafono i le gagana ia fa’atino gaioiga uma e mafai auala, atoa ai ma isi lana tautua aemaise ai lava o lea ua tapunia Vaita’ele o le a fa’aaogaina e le peretania ma le fa’asamoa, ua ai ona fa’ataunu’u le auaunaga a e sapaia ai le sao a tagata mat- le kamupani a le Samoa Tuna atunu’u atoa, ma avea fo’i o se leai la se ‘alofaga o se tasi, ina le malo mo le atunu’u. utua, tupulaga faapea ai tagata Processing. isi nofoaga e fiafia i ai tagata e nei le malamalama. O se tasi o itu taua na faama- faigaluega uma i le malo ma le Na faailoa e Lolo i ta’ita’i malaga mai, ae maise o i tatou o mafa e le faigamalo i ana tau- atunu’u. o le Fono i lana saunoaga e mafaiga ina ia faapaleni pea le “O lo o tele pea le galuega e fa’apea, e matua manaomia lava malosi o lona tamaoaiga, o le toe moomia le fa’amae’aina i lenei le galulue fa’atasi o le Fono vaavaai lea i auala e faamalosia tausaga fou 2018, e ui o lo o i ai Faitulafono ma le faigamalo, i ai ana tulafono tupe o lo o mafai pea lu’itau o lo o tau fa’amata’u le sailia lea o auala e fesoasoani ona maua mai ai tupe maua mo mai i le tamaoaiga o le atunu’u, ai i le fa’aleleia atili o le auau- le malo, atoa ai ma le taumafai ae galulue pea le malo e fa’atino naga a le malo i tagata.

O se va’aiga i le ta’elega atoa, mai le isi itu o lo’o fa’aaogaina e le vasega o fanau talavou e lelei a latou a’au se’ia o’o i le isi itu e ta’e’ele ai fanauiti ma le vasega o tagata matutua. O le taimi lea ua O’otia le Lipine o le Pala Lagoon Swimming Pool e Cynthia o’otia ai le lipine e tatala aloa’ia ai le Pala Lagoon Swimming Pool” e le tina o le atunu’u Cynthia Moliga ae o lo’o taga’i toto’a i ai le afioga Utu Abe Malae ma le Moliga ma le susuga Utu Abe Malae. [ata: Leua Aiono Frost] to’atele sa auai i lea sauniga mamalu Aso Faraile Ianuari 19, 2018. [ata: Leua Aiono Frost] samoa news, Tuesday, January 23, 2018 Page 15 Taunu’u pili a le faiga- malo i le maota o sui tusia Ausage Fausia i le tausagatupe fou lenei 2018. O le vaiaso na te’a nei na Mo le pili e sui a ai le fua o le taunu’u ai i luma o le maota lafoga o oloa mo le pia ma oloa o sui o le Fono Faitulafono a e maua mai i le molo, o lo o le atunu’u pili tupe a le faiga- taua ai e le faigamalo e fa’apea, malo a Lolo ma Lemanu, mo le o le lafoga o oloa mo le pia ma fa’amoemoe e saili mai ai ni isi le molo o loo i ai nei, e faigofie alagatupe fou e faatupe ai gal- lava ona faa togafiti lona faia ina uega fa’atino a le malo. ia faaitiitia ai le lafoga e totogi O ia pili tupe e 2 e aofia ai atu i le malo o Amerika Samoa. le pili e sii ai le fua o lafoga mo O lenei faiga ua le mafai ai oloa eseese, atoa ai ma le pili e ona maua e le malo tupe maua o suia ai le fua o le lafoga o oloa loo matua manaomia e faagaioi mo le ‘ava malosi ma oloa mai ai ma tuuina mai ai auaunaga le maolo. mo le lautele e pei o galuega tau O ia pili e pei ona taua e falema’i ma leoleo. le afioga i le Fofoga Fetalai Ina ia taofia ai le tula’i soo ia Savali Talavou Ale i luma mai pea o lenei faaletonu, o le Le susuga le Alii faipisinisi Faufale ma Alatele, lea ua mae’a se tasi o galuega na atofa ia te ia ma o le maota o sui i le vaiaso na a suia ai le lafoga o oloa o le lana kamupani Fletcher Construction - Dean Hudson ma le afioga le Ma’oputasi Mauga Tasiaeafe te’a nei, o ni isi nei o pili na pia ma le meainu e fai mai i le Asuega, Failautusi o le Mataupu Tau Samoa, ua fiafia i le mae’a ai o le ta’elega i le Paka Liona. fa’aulufale e le faigamalo a molo, ma aiaia ai se fua tutusa e [ata: Leua Aiono Frost] Lolo ma Lemanu i le tausaga ua faavae mai i luga o le aofa’i ma mavae. le tele o oloa o lo o auina mai Ae talu ai o ni isi o tulaga sa fafo. faia i ai suiga atoa ai ma fua- Ua aveesea nei le lafoga e After girl’s killing, Pakistani fuaga fa’ataoto a le Fono Faitu- 190% sa i ai mo le pia, ae ua lafono, ua mafua ai ona faia le suia i le lafoga fou e .35 sene i faaiuga ina ia toe tuuina mai nei le ta’i 12 aunese o se vai poo se tulafono i luma o le Fono mo sa vaega fo’i. O lenei lafoga o le women speak out on abuse latou fa’aiuga. a laina tutusa uma ai tagata fai KASUR, Pakistan (AP) — a pink barrette holding back impoverished neighborhood of Mo le pili e sii ai lafoga o pisinisi o lo o totogiina le lafoga The brutal rape and killing of her hair. TV channels aired the narrow lanes on the outskirts of oloa eseese e ulufale mai i le mo le pia o lo o fa’aulufale mai Zainab Ansari, a 7-year-old photo alongside pictures of her the city. atunu’u, ua taua ai e le faiga- i le atunu’u. girl whose body was left in a lifeless body abandoned on a “I told Zainab often to be malo a Lolo ma Lemanu e O le agaga atoa o lenei tula- garbage dump, has unleashed a heap of garbage in her home careful,” her mother, Nusrat fa’apea, o le lafoga e 5% o oloa fono e pei ona taua e le faiga- wave of revulsion around Paki- city of Kasur. Ansari, said. Wrapped in a large o loo i ai, ua fa’amoemoe le malo, ina ia mafai ai ona maua stan, revealing a string of child Across Pakistan, thousands shawl obscuring her face, she malo e siitia i le 8% e pei ona se isi auala e faasao mai ai tupe abductions and killings by a protested, condemning police held Zainab’s photo, describing taua i le gagana o le tulafono. e tatau ona maua e le malo, suspected serial predator and inaction and blaming the gov- how she loved to play games O le 75% o le tupe e maua e fesoasoani ai i le atina’eina generating outrage at a culture ernment for failing to protect with her cousins. Her favorite mai i lenei lafoga o le a teuina i atoa ai ma le fa’atinoina o lana of silence surrounding sexual children. was hide and seek. le teugatupe lotoifale a le malo, tautua mo le atunu’u atoa. abuse. “Whenever anybody saw Her father, Mohammed o le $1 miliona ua faamoemoe O le komiti a le afioga i le Zainab’s death has even her picture on social media or Amin Ansari, denounced police e tuuina atu i le polokalame o ali’i faipule ia Lavea Fatule- given birth to a nascent Paki- on electronic media everybody for failing to warn residents Sikolasipi a fanau aoga, a o le gaee Palepoi Mauga, le Komiti stani version of #me_too started weeping,” said Waqas about a serial killer in the city. vaega e totoe ai o le a faailoga o le Sailiga o le Tamaoaiga o movement. Abid, a lawyer in Kasur who “People don’t talk about sexual mo le lipeaina, faaleleia atoa ai le malo ua taoto atu nei i ai nei A number of prominent Pak- heads an activist group called abuse,” he said. ma le faafouina o faleaoga a le tulafono mo lona iloiloina. istani women have come for- the Good Thinkers Organiza- It was only after the shock malo ma meafaigaluega e amata ward with their own stories of tion. “Everybody was self- over Zainab that news emerged sexual assault, saying they want motivated to come out from his of other children abducted to change traditions that con- or her house and ask for justice and raped in Kasur. Amid the S. Korean advance team goes to sider abuse as a mark of shame for Zainab.” uproar, police did testing on for the victim. Those traditions, The Senate’s Standing Com- the victims and found the same they say, help predators get mittee on the Interior, which DNA on eight of the children, North for pre-Olympic events away with abuse and encourage oversees policing, launched an all but one of whom was killed. SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A team of South Korean offi- an already corrupt police force inquiry this week into the sexual Police now say they are hunting cials travelled to North Korea on Tuesday to check logistics for to ignore such crimes. assaults in Kasur, as well as into for a serial rapist-killer. joint events ahead of next month’s Winter Olympics in the South, Maheen Khan, a legendary another recent attack in another Among the eight victims as the rivals exchanged rare visits to each other amid signs of Pakistani fashion designer, part of the country — the rape was 5-year-old Ayesha. Her warming ties. tweeted that she had been sexu- and killing of a 4-year-old father, Mohammed Asif, said he The head of the North’s popular girl band triggered a media ally abused as a child by an named Asma, whose body was pleaded with the police to find frenzy during her two-day visit to South Korea this week to check Islamic cleric who taught her left in a field near her home in her after her abduction last year. potential venues for North Korean artistic performances during the Quran. “I froze in fear day Kyhber Pukhtunkhwa, in north- “They had no interest. They the Olympics, and another delegation from the North is coming after day,” she tweeted. At 73, western Pakistan. were more interested in keeping this week to see accommodation facilities and the Olympic main Khan has spoken publicly only Kasur is a congested district it quiet,” he told The Associ- stadium. once before of the abuse. of around 2.5 million people in ated Press. Her body, showing The Koreas are pressing ahead with a flurry of reconciliation “We are now saying enough eastern Pakistan, near the border signs of rape and torture, efforts after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un abruptly expressed is enough. We should have with India. The city of Kasur is was found two days after her his wiliness to send an Olympic delegation. While some see Kim’s woken up long ago,” she said surrounded by brick kilns and disappearance. outreach as a ploy to weaken U.S.-led international pressure and in a telephone interview from tanneries and has hundreds of The sole survivor among sanctions, Seoul wants better inter-Korean ties and sees improved her home in the southern city of small factories making shoes the eight was a 6-year-old girl ties as a path toward talks to help ease the North Korean nuclear Karachi. “I am ashamed to say and embroideries, all of which found by a homeless man rum- standoff. it has taken this one little girl’s employ children — making maging through a garbage bin South Korea’s presidential office called for national unity for death.” them vulnerable to abuse. In outside a vegetable market. the success of the first Winter Olympics on South Korean soil and “What disturbs me the most 2015, an extensive child por- She had been kidnapped for 15 criticized conservatives who have said the government is making is the silence when a little girl nography ring was uncovered hours, during which she was too many concessions to North Korea to help it steal the show at gets raped,” she said. “It has in the city; it had been flour- tortured. Cigarettes were put the Games. to do with the honor of family. ishing for nearly a decade and out on her feet and legs, and she “We don’t understand why they label the Games as the ‘Pyong- Parents tell their daughters: involved nearly 250 children, suffered a serious head injury. yang Olympics,’” spokesman Park Su-hyun said in a televised ‘Don’t talk about it. Don’t tell some of whom were forced at Now at a hospital in the nearby statement. “The Pyeongchang Olympics is the Pyonghwa (peace) anyone.’ Our silence is saying it gunpoint to have sex. city of Lahore, she can’t sit, Olympics.” Under a deal approved by the International Olympic is all right to sexually molest a Zainab was snatched in early hold up her head or speak, and Committee, the Koreas will field its first unified Olympic team, in child.” January as she walked to a Quran her father Mohammad Ahsan, women’s hockey, and have their athletes parade together under a The horror of Zainab’s class. Her parents were away says all she does is cry. single flag during the Feb. 9 opening ceremony. The two Koreas killing was brought home for on pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, Ahsan said his daughter’s also reached their own agreements to hold joint cultural events Pakistanis by a photo of her and the girl and her two sisters attack was ignored in the media at the North’s Diamond Mountain and have their non-Olympic that went viral on social media, and brother were watched over until Zainab’s killing. skiers practice together at the North’s Masik ski resort before the showing the smiling girl in her by her aunts and uncles who Abid, the lawyer, said there Pyeongchang Games. favorite bright pink coat, with all live in the same house in an (Continued on page 20) Page 16 samoa news, Tuesday, January 23, 2018 Gun industry gathers just a few miles from mass shooting The gun industry is holding The Texas-based company its biggest annual trade show hasn’t said why it’s not on this week just a few miles from the roster of more than 1,700 where a gunman slaughtered 58 exhibitors, although it was concertgoers outside his high- last year. It didn’t return mes- rise Las Vegas hotel room in sages seeking comment. The October using a display case company also isn’t on the list worth of weapons, many of of those attending this year’s them fi tted with bump stocks National Rifl e Association that enabled them to mimic annual meeting or other promi- fully automatic fi re. nent gun trade shows. What exactly will be among In the aftermath of the Las the thousands of products Vegas massacre Oct. 1, Slide crammed into the exhibition Fire had so much trouble spaces at the National Shooting keeping up with demand it tem- Sports Foundation’s SHOT porarily stopped taking orders Show convention, running from for the product. It has since Tuesday through Friday, will resumed. be a bit of a mystery, shielded “From purely from a public from the public and, this year, relations standpoint, it wouldn’t members of the general-interest be a surprise at all if bump media. stocks just sort of disappeared One thing is known: Slide this year,” said Robert Spitzer, Fire, the leading manufacturer chairman of political science of bump stocks, a once-obscure at the State University of New product that attracted intense York at Cortland and an expert FILE--In this Jan. 19, 2016 fi le photo, Nolan Hammer looks at a gun at the Heckler & Koch booth attention in the aftermath of on fi rearms and the Second at the Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade Show in Las Vegas. Th e largest gun industry trade the deadliest mass shooting in Amendment. “That’s a PR show will be taking place in Las Vegas Jan. 23-26 just a few miles from where a gunman carried out modern U.S. history, won’t be no-brainer.” the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. (AP Photo/John Locher, File) among the exhibitors. Still, the convention fl oor is likely to have plenty of other devices that gun-control advo- cates have taken aim at in recent years: accessories that make it easier to carry a fi rearm, shoot it or reduce the noise it makes. On the list of products they oppose are “trigger cranks,” which, like bump stocks, make it easier to fi re a long gun rap- idly, and “assault pistols,” which look remarkably like short-barreled AR- and AK- style fi rearms but skirt certain federal restrictions because they aren’t designed to be shot from the shoulder. “For a person from the gen- eral public, I think the thing that would startle them the most about the SHOT Show ... is just the sheer scope and the vast- ness of this show,” said David Chipman, a former agent with the federal agency that regu- lates fi rearms and now a senior policy adviser with the gun safety organization founded by former Rep. Gabby Giffords, who was gravely wounded in a shooting in 2012. SHOT Show has been held for 40 years, half that time in Las Vegas, and this year’s gathering was scheduled well before the bloodshed last fall. It will have some 13 miles of aisles featuring products from more than 1,700 companies. More than 65,000 visitors are expected at the gathering, a place where connections are made and deals worth millions are struck.The general public is not allowed to roam the aisles; the only people who can attend are those with direct ties to the industry: manufacturers and dealers of fi rearms or associ- ated products. Although a few reporters from general-interest news organizations attended in recent years, NSSF this year restricted access to about 2,500 journalists from trade publica- tions and media.The show’s location and timing 3½ months after Stephen Paddock’s mur- derous attack have heightened awareness of the event. samoa news, Tuesday, January 23, 2018 Page 17 Victims of sports doctor’s abuse draw strength from others LANSING, Mich. (AP) — minors — have opted to make Clasina Syrovy would change their names public. Some have the subject whenever someone had others read statements on asked if she knew former their behalf. sports doctor Larry Nassar or On Friday, Olympians Aly mentioned news coverage of Raisman and Jordyn Wieber the unfolding scandal over made a surprise appearance in his sexual abuse of young court, allowing their names to gymnasts. be used. She didn’t want to be “My dream is that one day, “another Jane Doe on the list,” everyone will know what the said Syrovy, who competed for words ‘Me too’ signify, but 15 years. She certainly didn’t they will be educated and able want to reveal herself publicly to protect themselves from as a victim. predators like Larry,” Raisman, “But as everything unfolded 23, said. before my eyes like a really bad On Monday, physical thera- ‘Lifetime’ original movie based pist and former gymnast Marta on true events, I gained some Stern said she originally wanted courage,” Syrovy said in court to remain anonymous “out of Monday, confronting Nassar at fear of how it would affect my his sentencing hearing. “After life, my loved ones and my watching a few of my former career.” teammates step up and say that “However, I will no longer this had happened to them also, let you have control over me. I I gained a little more.” will not let you win,” she told In an extraordinary scene Nassar. unfolding in a Michigan court- Ingham County Circuit room, more than 140 women Judge Rosemarie Aquilina and girls are coming forward addresses each victim after — far more than originally she speaks, serving almost as expected — to confront the man a therapist. She calls the group who molested them when they of victims an “army,” and the were vulnerable girls told to courtroom often breaks into trust the doctor who could help applause. them achieve their dreams. “You’re sister survivors and Nassar, 54, has admitted you are going through incom- sexually assaulting athletes prehensible lengths, emotions under the guise of medical treat- and soul-searching to put your ment when he was employed words together ... to make by Michigan State University people listen,” the judge told and USA Gymnastics, which as Syrovy. “He’s the one that the sport’s national governing needs to be ashamed. Release organization trains Olympians. the shame, embarrassment, He already has been sentenced guilt that you said you have to 60 years in prison for child here and now.” pornography. The case has triggered calls Under a plea bargain, he for the resignation of Michigan faces a minimum of 25 to 40 State University President Lou years behind bars in the moles- Anna Simon, while the state’s tation case. The ultimate sen- attorney general has agreed to tence imposed could be much review how the university han- higher. dled complaints against Nassar. The sentencing has taken on And three key members of the a #MeToo momentum, though board that oversees USA Gym- the case predates the uproar over nastics resigned Monday, 10 Hollywood producer Harvey months after former President Weinstein. It began with a 2016 Steve Penny quit after critics Indianapolis Star investigation said the organization failed to of how USA Gymnastics han- protect gymnasts from abu- dled sexual abuse allegations sive coaches and Nassar. USA against coaches. That prompted Gymnastics also announced the former gymnast Rachael Den- suspension of former women’s hollander to alert the newspaper national team coach John Ged- to Nassar’s abuse. dert, the owner of a gymnas- “I knew this was the time,” tics club where Nassar sexu- Denhollander said. “One anon- ally abused girls near Lansing, ymous, quiet voice was not Michigan. going to be enough. I was 100 Longtime Detroit defense percent confi dent there were attorney David Steingold, who other victims speaking up and isn’t involved in the case, sup- being silenced.” ports the judge’s decision to let From there, the number of so many victims testify, even if victims coming forward con- the crimes for which he is being tinued to grow, getting another sentenced involve only seven. jolt with the sentencing that “It’s the least we can do for began last week. Originally, these women,” said Steingold, fewer than 90 women and noting that women often are girls were expected to give afraid of being made to feel statements. responsible for allowing abuse Although they can choose to happen. to remain anonymous, many of Harvard psychiatry pro- the accusers — some of them (Continued on page 23) Page 18 samoa news, Tuesday, January 23, 2018 PACIFIC YOUTH & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

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In this Monday Jan. 22, 2018, photo, two tents sit in piles of garbage covering the shore days aft er an extended storm battered the Mediterranean country at the Zouq Mosbeh costal town north of Beirut, Lebanon. Environmentalists say a winter storm has pushed a wave of trash onto the Lebanese shore outside Beirut, stirring outrage over a waste management crisis that has choked the country since 2015. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) Garbage on the beach: Flood of waste stirs uproar in Lebanon ZOUQ MOSBEH, Lebanon on shady deals for landfi lls and plastic waste towered over 30 (AP) — Lebanon’s festering incinerators, at the public’s meters (100 feet) high on the trash crisis came crashing expense. They say, too, that the beach. ashore this week, after residents government is using trash to “The sea is regurgitating woke up to fi nd a powerful fi ll in land along the coast — a our trash,” said Joslin Kehdy, winter storm had laid a mantle bonanza for politically con- who heads Recycle Lebanon, of waste at a beach just a min- nected developers who can cash an NGO that has organized a utes’ drive north of the capital, in on the property that’s been clean-up of Zouq Mosbeh beach Beirut. raised, quite literally, from the each year since 2015. The coun- The scenes were a national sea. try’s offi cial waste management embarrassment for a country A fl eet of heavy machinery plan provides scant support to that once prided itself on its has been working the coast- recycling initiatives. sparkling Mediterranean coast- line east of Beirut since 2017, Abi Rached said this time, line but appears unable to wean pouring trash into the sea at a rough waves broke down a itself off the convenience of land reclamation site at Dbayeh. faulty retaining wall around a throwing its trash into the sea. Offi cials say they are doing coastal dump just east of Beirut, “Somebody needs to pay for nothing untoward, and that the spilling the trash into the sea. this,” said Paul Abi Rached, landfi lls they operate are done The garbage saga is likely to a local environmentalist who to technical specifi cations. spill into campaigns ahead of spearheaded a campaign to But the stench is impossible parliamentary elections in May. overhaul the government’s to deny. Lawmaker Sami Gemayel, waste policies three years ago. Travelers arriving to Bei- who leads the country’s Kataeb Few issues have driven a rut’s Rafi q Hariri International party, said he would take the wedge between the Lebanese Airport are greeted with a waft government to international and their leaders like garbage of odors from an expanding court over the pollution. — the most conspicuous of the landfi ll at the end of one of the Prime Minister Hariri said he government’s many failings runways. After years of being ordered authorities to clean the to provide basic services to its unused, offi cials reopened the Zouq Mosbeh beach immedi- constituents. Costa Brava landfi ll to absorb ately but those efforts may have Lebanon has long been the trash left out in 2015. to wait for another storm to pass plagued by daily water and In December, Prime Minister through — and bring even more electricity outages, but it was Saad Hariri ordered offi cials to waste ashore. not until the trash started going close a waste-sorting plant in Meanwhile, Human Rights uncollected in Beirut that the city of Tripoli, built with Watch launched a campaign last despair erupted into a wave of $1.6 million from the European Friday against burning waste protests in 2015. Union, just six months after it at over 150 open-air dumps Demonstrators rallied under was inaugurated. Locals said around Lebanon. the banner “You Stink” — a the odors from the plant and the The New York-based reference not only to the stench nearby fi ll were suffocating. watchdog says the Lebanese accompanying the summer The scandal at Zouq Mosbeh government is in violation of heat, but to the corruption and beach led Lebanon’s nightly international human rights law favoritism that has defi ned poli- news broadcasts on Monday, for failing to deal seriously tics and paralyzed administra- but environmentalists say they with the pollution from burning tive services in the country. were not surprised by the scene waste. Civil society groups say — a pile of cattle bones, foot- offi cials are making fortunes wear, tires and vast amounts of Page 22 samoa news, Tuesday, January 23, 2018 Notice for Proposed Registration of Matai Title NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Section 6.0105 of the Revised Code of American Samoa that a claim of succession which has been filed with the Territorial Registrar’s office for the registration of the Matai Title SAGAPOLUTELE of the village of ILIILI by AIGAFE- ALOFANI TUPUTALA FA’ATAFUNA SAGAPOLUTELE of the village of ILIILI, county of TUALAUTA, WESTERN District. THE TERRITORIAL REGISTRAR is satisfied that the claim, petition by the family and certifi- cate of the village chiefs are in proper form. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that anyone so desiring must file his counterclaim, or objection to the registration of this matai title with the Territorial Registrar Office before the expiration of 60 days from the date of posting. If no counterclaim, nor any objection is filed by the expiration of said 60 days, the matai title SAGAPOLUTELE shall be registered in the name of AIGAFEALOFANI TUPUTALA FA’ATAFUNA SAGAPOLUTELE in accordance with the laws of American Samoa. POSTED: DECEMBER 19, 2017 thru FEBRUARY 20, 2018 SIGNED: Taito S.B. White, Territorial Registra Fa’aaliga o le Fa’amauina o se Suafa Matai O le fa’aaliga lenei ua faasalalauina e tusa ma le Maga 6.0105 o le tusi tulafono a Amerika Samoa, e pei ona suia, ona o le talosaga ua faaulufaleina mai i le Ofisa o le Resitara o Amerika Samoa, mo le fia faamauina o le suafa matai o SAGAPOLUTELE o le nu’u o ILIILI e AIGA- FEALOFANI TUPUTALA FA’ATAFUNA SAGAPOLUTELE o ILIILI faalupega o TUALAUTA, falelima i SISIFO. Ua taliaina e le Resitara lea talosaga, faatasi ma le talosaga a le aiga faapea ma le tusi faamaonia mai matai o lea nu’u, ma ua i ai nei i teuga pepa a lea ofisa. 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Bids will not be accepted from bidders answered the fourth annual only 26 percent of Democrats who are not present at the pre-bid meeting. survey named for Thomas and 5 percent of Republican Menino, a longtime Democratic mayors were eager to slap any 4. CONTRACT DOCUMENTS mayor of Boston who founded costly new regulations on the Electronic copies of contract documents, including Plans and Scope of Work can be examined the university program before private sector. his death in 2014. The survey The survey found that atti- or obtained from the Office of Procurement during regular business hours free of charge. was sponsored in part by The tudes about climate change 5. The American Samoa Government reserves the right not to accept the lowest or any bid. Rockefeller Foundation and differed geographically as well Citigroup. as politically. For example, 90 6. The American Samoa Government reserves the right to waive any informality in bidding as may Organizers of the survey percent of all Eastern mayors be in the best interest of the American Samoa Government. declined to release a list of the and 97 percent from the Mid- 115 mayors who responded, west blamed human activities citing confi dentially agree- for climate change, compared to ments. According to the report, 70 percent from Southern cities. nearly two-thirds of the mayors DR. ORETA MAPU CRICHTON were Democrats and the cities Equal Opportunity Employer / Affirmative Action Chief Procurement Officer samoa news, Tuesday, January 23, 2018 Page 23 Asian shares rise on global growth hopes, US shutdown’s end HONG KONG (AP) — tive trend in play.” Asian stock markets posted BANK OF JAPAN: Market strong gains on Tuesday, as an watchers are awaiting the Japa- upbeat forecast for global eco- nese central bank’s latest policy nomic growth and the end of statement. No big changes are the U.S. government shutdown expected but investors will be helped lift sentiment. on the watch for any comments KEEPING SCORE: from policymakers on infl ation Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 or hints about when they plan index jumped 0.9 percent to to scale back a monetary easing 24,037.86 and South Korea’s program aimed at stimulating Kospi advanced 1.1 percent Asia’s second biggest economy to 2,522.68. Hong Kong’s through huge central bank pur- Hang Seng rose 0.7 percent to chases of government bonds. 32,749.79 and the Shanghai TARIFFS: Trump approved Composite in mainland China tariffs on imported solar-energy climbed 0.8 percent to 3,528.55. components and large washing Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 machines, in a move aimed at gained 0.7 percent to 6,033.90. helping U.S. manufacturers. GLOBAL GROWTH: The The tariffs, aimed at cheaper International Monetary Fund imports from rival makers in upgraded its outlook for the places like China and South world economy, estimating that Korea, raise the threat of a the world economy expanded trade war between the U.S. 3.7 percent last year, the fastest and Asia. The companies that pace since 2011. It forecast sought the tariffs said 30 U.S. that the pace will accelerate solar-manufacturing facilities to 3.9 percent in 2018-19. The had shut in the past fi ve years as IMF noted surprisingly strong China plotted to fl ood the global growth in Europe and Asia and market with cheap products to predicted that U.S. tax cuts will weaken U.S. manufacturing. give the American economy a WALL STREET: Major short-term boost. U.S. benchmarks had a strong $120 $80 SHUTDOWN: President fi nish. The Standard & Poor’s Daily Rate 2013 Toyota Sienna Daily Rate 2016 Toyota Corolla Donald Trump signed a bill 500 index picked up 0.8 percent Automatic (White Mini Van) Automatic (White Car) ending the U.S. federal gov- to close at 2,832.97. The Dow ernment shutdown after nearly Jones industrial average rose ‘’WE ARE NOW three days. Democrats agreed 0.6 percent to 26,214.60. The ACCEPTING ORDERS FOR ANY CAR PARTS’’ to a stopgap funding measure in Nasdaq composite added 1 per- WITH AFFORDABLE PRICE exchange for Republican prom- cent to 7,408.03. ises to resume debates on immi- CURRENCIES: The dollar SPECIAL for weekly rate gration and other issues. The slipped to 110.69 yen from $130 1 day FREE for every 7 days rental! Daily Rate 2013 FORD F150 agreement helped boost Wall 110.93 yen in late trading Automatic (Green Truck) Street though its effect on the Thursday. The euro weakened dollar was minimal. to $1.2261 from $1.2263. 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2017 international Visitor surVey rePort released C M A group photo of those who attended yesterday’s release of the 2017 International Visitor Survey Report, commissioned by the American Samoa Visitors Bureau (ASVB) and delivered by the South Pacifi c Tourism Organization (SPTO) Y K SPTO chief executive offi cer, Christopher Cocker (fourth from right) along with three other STPO offi cials are on island not only for the presentation, but workshops this week with local vendors. Also in attendance were ASVB executive director, David Vaeafe (far left ) along with Miss Pacifi c Islands Matauaina Toomalatai, who also holds the Miss American Samoa title and is employed by the Visitors Bureau during her reign. According to ASVB, the report, which is the fi rst intensive study on visitors for American Samoa, provides a quantitative and qualitative assessment of visitors, which in turn provides key stakeholders with comprehensive and accurate information on characteristics, behavior and expenditure of visitors to the territory. A key fi nding highlighted during a presentation yesterday by SPTO, and hosted by ASVB, is that Pacifi c islands and U.S. visitations continue to dominate the local tourism landscape, accounting for more than half of all visitors — 69% — with visiting friends and relatives (VFR) representing 54.9% of the overall annual total. Th e most popular activities and attractions cited for visiting the territory remains, cafes/ restaurants at 60.4% and shopping at 46.4%. Th e survey also found that while water-based activities including swimming and snor- keling are high on the visitors’ wish lists, sightseeing, walking/ hiking, visiting friends and relatives, visiting a village, relaxing, bars/ nightclubs remain among the top reasons for visiting. However, one of the ter- ritory’s biggest draw-cards remains the friendliness of its people, an attribute Cocker describes as “compelling”, according to a news release from the ASVB. More details from the survey report will be published in tomorrow’s Samoa News. [photo: Leua Aiono Frost] Jury selected in police cor- ruption trial in Baltimore BALTIMORE (AP) — Twelve jurors and four alter- nates have been selected in the trial of two offi cers charged in one of the largest scandals in the Baltimore police depart- ment’s history. C M The jury was picked from a Y K statewide pool on Monday, the trial’s opening day. Opening statements are expected Tuesday. Detectives Daniel Hersl and Marcus Taylor are two of eight indicted members of a disbanded police unit called the Gun Trace Task Force. They have pleaded not guilty to racketeering and robbery charges. Six other indicted Baltimore offi cers have pleaded guilty. Four of them may testify as witnesses for the government. The members of the rogue gun recovery unit are accused of falsifying evidence, shaking down citizens and defrauding their department.