On Thursday (23 April 2015) morning, the Prime Minister and Cabinet officially opened the new hospital at Sataua.
The “Best Proposal Award”, was presented by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in recognition of addressing Non Communicable Diseases (NCD) for Pacific Island Countries. Samoa submitted its proposal showcasing one of its community-based effort titled “Non-communicable diseases: early detection and management through community participation”.
THE SAME-Australia Buy Samoa Made Trade Show and Permanent Exhibition Launch in Liverpool, Sydney Australia was an overwhelming success –far exceeding the expectations of SAME and the organizers of the Export Drive Project. The Trade Show was well attended by the Samoan/Pacific and Australian business community; Importers & Distributors; the media as well as the Government & Trade and Investment officials.
A new wind project supplying an additional 25 megawatt to the electricity grid was finalised for implementation on Monday 13th April, with the signing of the Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) between the Electric Power Corporation and the locally registered private company, Pacific Renewable Energy Ltd.
“I now provide the following responses to your letter of 24 January in the hope of clarifying the Government’s response to the OPC report and providing you and the OPC with a better understanding as to the reasons for the Government responses to these issues.”
Following the advice from the Fund that it proposed to lower the entitlement level from 50% of total contributions to 45% in the hopes of reducing member loans whilst increasing member’s savings for retirement, a lot of the feed-back received indicated that our members and the general public did not feel that sufficient time had been given to them to prepare for this change.
The Prime Minister of Samoa, Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi, made the following statement regarding media queries on news reports that New Zealand is spying on Pacific neighbours.
Samoa’s Hon. Minister of Health Tuitama Dr. Leao Talalelei Tuitama accepted the World Health Organization’s invitation to participate in a first meeting of the Global Coordination Mechanism/Non Communicable Disease (GCM/NCD) Working Group on “how to realise government’s commitments to engage with the private sector for the prevention and control of NCDs.”
Part of Dr. Lameko’s agenda is for OUM to conduct research that will improve the health of people in Samoa and in other countries where the University’s faculty and students live.
Eight staff from the National Health Service and Ministry of Health have been selected for sponsorship to continue their studies through online distance-learning.
