The American Samoa Multiple School Units Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) concluded their Command Formal Inspection (CFI) on February 29, with four schools, Tafuna, Samoana, Faga’itua and Manu’a High School achieving, Honor Unit with Distinction (HUD), the highest recognition a school can achieve and with it, the authority to wear the HUD Gold...
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Birds falling from the sky
It has been reported recently that here in the territory, Myna birds, an invasive species, have been falling from the sky to their deaths. Around 20 have been found in the Nu’uuli area, with some of them being sent off island to Hawaii to the US Geological Survey, by the local Department of Marine...
Church, Church, Church
I was walking to work last weekend (Sunday) and as I was passing by this church, one of its members that was standing outside of the front door waived to me and asked me to come over to him. Being respectful to this older gentleman, I walked over to him to find out what...
Gates of Hell
if there was a line leading to the gates of hell im pretty sure samoans would be cutting in line to get ahead. i have no clue as to why its so hard for people in samoa to stand in line without trying to skip. it happens practically everywhere; at the banks, in the...
…kick me in the pants too.
not a month into the new year and the powers that be are trying to find a new way in our pockets. so they wanna add another 2% wage tax, after getting us last year with the other 2% that off set what obama was giving us, by the way it looks like that...
Leadership in the territory.
It’s that time again, that comes around once every four years, when the politicians and those who think that they can lead this unique island nation of ours, into the future. There are three candidates at this time, that have made it clear that they are going to run for the office of governor...
Zombies and Aliens
youre being chased by zombies and theyre hot on your heals. you come to a door that will allow you to escape, on the other side of the door are those who are trying to avoid the zombies too. you have the code to unlock the door and get to other side, the problem...
Getting American Samoa Back in the Water.
A big thank you has to go out to marathon/open water swimmer Bruckner Chase, who created the ‘Bruckner Chase Toa o’le Tai’ (Oceans Heroes) program, that was implemented into the Department of Education, with Samoana high school being the pilot school for this first year program, billed as the Ocean Swimming/Ocean Science physical education...
Lazy Samoans?
earlier this week listening to monica on the sunrise show, i heard a news item from apia where a samoan business woman commented on samoans poor work ethic. saying she would rather hire filipinos and fijians than samoans because of this. my first thought was she was totally right, but after thinking about it...
Tafuna Death Sentence?
so whats fair for tafuna high sports? should tafuna high school athletic sports for the 2012 spring be punished for the actions of idiots during the last semesters football season? it was different when people could make excuses like “its not tafuna students, its kids that are out of school”, or “its those lauasa...
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