Press Releases

(GOVT. PRESS SECRETARIAT); The $200,000 allocation approved in the Legislative Assembly’s Fiscal Year Budget 2020-2021 for the Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP) has been reabsorbed back in the budget to assist the country in its collective response to the COVID-19.  This was approved in a Cabinet directive FK (20)30 on 29th July 2020,  almost a […]

Date : 28 AUGUST 2020 The UN Secretary General in December 2018 established the Digital Financing Task Force to recommend and catalyse ways to harness digitalization in accelerating financing of the SDGs. On the 26th August 2020 (NY time), the Task Force report “People’s Money: Harnessing Digitalization to Finance a Sustainable Future” was officially launched. […]

MULINU’U, 28 AUGUST 2020—- Terrestrial Analogue TV Broadcast in Samoa will be completely switched- off on 31 August 2020. With this, the entire country will transition fully to the Digital TV Transmission. The Digital TV transmission provides sharper image, high quality sound and interactive TV services that will spur future economic, social and educational needs […]

JOINT PRESS RELEASE; 27th August 2020 Apia, Samoa – Students from eight schools around the country will be able to access educational materials online, minimizing disruptions to their studies in times of disaster, thanks to a new project by the Samoa Information Technology Association (SITA), in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The […]

(GOVT. PRESS SECRETARIAT); Cabinet has directed the National Emergency Operation Center, (NEOC) to explore options on how best to repatriate Samoan scholarship students who have completed their studies overseas. Paramount to the Cabinet’s directive is the safety of student’s but most importantly for the students to satisfy all the necessary COVID Tests mandatory requirements for […]