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First Lady Cynthia Moliga
doing the honors of cutting
the ribbon for the “Limua’a
Building”, one of the two new
2-story buildings at Leone High
School that were blessed yesterday. The Moso’oipala Building
was also dedicated and officially
opened yesterday as well. (See
full story in tomorrow’s Samoa
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PAGO PAGO, AMERICAN SAMOA
Fo’isia to be leased by
Swain Is. Community
Group for boat service
by Fili Sagapolutele, Samoa News Correspondent
Port Administration is negotiating with the Swain Island
Community Group to lease the government vessel, Fo’isia to
operate boat service to the remote atoll, which has long been
faced with an inconsistent schedule of ocean transportation.
The Fo’isia, purchased by the previous administration,
was to have been put up for sale last year, but in his address
to the Fono last month, Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga said plans
to auction off the Fo’isia did not materialize last year.
“It appears that many of the engine parts have been stolen,
thus rendering the vessel less attractive to any buyer,” he
said, adding a proposal was being prepared for the utilization of the Fo’isia for the territory’s Exclusive Economic
Zone (EEZ) enforcement purposes given the “proliferation
of encroachment into our EEZ by foreign fishing vessels.
“An additional caveat of this proposal is the use of the
Fo’isia to serve Swains Island. The proposal is predicated on
whether the engine is salvageable,” Lolo said.
Asked for an update on the Fo’isia, the governor’s executive assistant Iulogologo Joseph Pereria said late Monday
afternoon that Swains Island Rep. Alexander Eli Jennings has
been informed to work with Port Administration on details of
the assignment of the vessel for Swains Island service.
Iulogologo also said the proposed use of the Fo’isia would
include the monitoring of the local EEZ as well as serving the
needs of Swains Island.
“Rep. Jennings has devised ways to obtain the necessary
funds to repair the vessel and get it sea worthy and approved
by [U.S.] Coast Guard,” he told Samoa News.
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local Rotarians donate dictionaries
The Rotary Club of Pago Pago has begun its distribution of
the Children’s Scholastic Dictionary to all 3rd graders in the Am.
Samoa Public Schools. There are over 1,111 dictionaries being
given to 22 public schools. The dictionary is a gift to the student
and the student will take it home to use for his or her studies.
This is the second year that the Rotary Club of Pago Pago
has distributed the dictionaries to the public schools and it will
be an annual project for the club.
First Lady Cynthia Moliga will help distribute dictionaries
at Leone-Midkiff Elementary School this week. The schools
that received dictionaries were Tafuna, Manulele, Lupelele,
Matafao, Coleman (Pago Pago), and Le’atele Fagasa.
The project is to improve literacy in the elementary level and
track these students as they enter high school in order to validate that the dictionary project has helped to improve literacy
in the public schools. Rotary Club President Dennis Wellborn
with members Jim Mahoney, Jackie Young, Marge Tafiti, Leni
Pritchard, Peter Crispin, Roy Hall, Jr., Bill Maxey, and Mike
Benson delivered and presented the first dictionaries to several
[courtesy photo]
elementary schools last week.
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Dongwon accused in alleged
tuna fishing license scheme
Alleges company used “U.S. citizen straw-people”
by Fili Sagapolutele
Samoa News Correspondent
South Korean based Dongwon Industries,
owner of StarKist Inc., and StarKist Samoa
cannery, has asked a federal court to dismiss a
lawsuit, which alleges the company used “U.S.
citizen straw-people” to fraudulently obtain
U.S. fishing vessel documentation and tuna
fishing licenses to fish in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of Pacific Island Nations for
two vessels, that are actually Korean owned.
Details of the lawsuit are surfacing at a time
that StarKist is in contention with Bumble Bee
Foods and Chicken of the Sea for the lucrative
school lunch tuna contract. StarKist claims
Bumble Bee and Chicken of the Sea supporters
are attempting to weaken the ‘Buy American’
provision that is part of the USDA School
Lunch Program specifications. Currently
StarKist is the only supplier of canned tuna for
the school lunch program.
The lawsuit was originally filed, under seal,
in November 2012 by Moore & Company, a
Florida based law firm and included the U.S.
government, as plaintiff.
Defendants in the suit include Dongwon,
Majestic Blue Fisheries LLC, Pacific Breeze
Fisheries LLC, Jayne Songmi Kim and her
sister Joyce Jungmi Kim and their father Jaewoong Kim.
The two sisters listed as owning the two
fisheries companies, i.e. fishing vessels, are the
nieces of the Chairman of Dongwon Industries,
Jae-Chul Kim, as Jaewoong Kim is his brother,
according to Undercurrent News, a fishing
industry publication.
Court documents note that Jaewoong Kim
used to be an executive of the South Korean
based Dongwon Industries.
According to the plaintiffs, the suit was
brought before the federal court in Wilmington, Delaware pursuant to federal False
Claims Act (FCA) to recover all damages,
penalties and other remedies established by
federal law.
Court records show the lawsuit was sealed
until last May after the federal government
declined to intervene, although it requests that
Moore & Company maintain the suit in the
name of the U.S. government, provided, however, that the “action may be dismissed only if
the court and the [U.S.] Attorney General give
written consent to the dismissal and their reasons for consenting.”
The government says it reserves the right to
order any deposition transcripts, to intervene in
this action, for good cause, at a later date, and
to seek the dismissal of the Moore & Company’s action or claim.
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samoa news, Wednesday, February 5, 2014
by B. Chen & Joyetter Feagaimaali’i-Luamanu, Samoa News Reporters
REGISTRATION OPEN FOR FLAG DAY 2014 PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL
Registration is now open for all interested groups wanting to be part of the 41st Annual Flag
Day Performing Arts Festival, sponsored by the American Samoa Council on Arts, Culture, and
Humanities (ASCACH). Registration is open for any and all performers, including organizations
from different ethnic backgrounds and church groups.
A total of 15 slots are open and criteria includes: obeying the set time limit, gracefulness of
the performers, and uniformity, among other things.
Performers will be judged by a panel made up of Arts Council board members who will
decide which groups will be performing on stage this year in April.
The Performing Arts Festival will be held at the Suigaula ole Atuvasa Beach Park from April
14-16, leading up to the territory’s Flag Day celebrations set for April 17.
All interested groups need to stop by the Jean P. Haydon Museum compound in Fagatogo on
or before Friday, Feb. 7 at 11:30 a.m. which is the deadline to register.
A general meeting for all registrants will follow at 12 noon that same day at the Museum.
This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. More
information can be obtained by contacting Rexx Yandall or Tasi Sunia at 633-4347/4490/5613.
PAVILION & FALE SAMOA IN UTULEI NOW UNDER DEPT. OF PARKS & REC
Governor Lolo Matalasi Moliga has placed the Pavilion at the Malae o Letalu and all the
Samoan fales and huts at the Su’igaula Beach under the administrative care and maintenance of
the Department of Parks and Recreation. In a memorandum issued last week, Lolo noted that
it’s imperative that all public facilities— especially those utilized by the community— be maintained and kept clean at all times, and protected from vandalism.
The Pavilion was under the care of the Sports Complex in the past. Lolo noted that the desire
is made difficult by the absence of clear designation of the agency responsible for its maintenance because of joint custody or presumed administrative purview without official designation.
The governor noted that use of the Pavilion along with the field (malae) and all uses of the
facilities must be coordinated with the Department of Parks and Recreation.
The also applies to the Samoan fale and all the huts along the Su’iga’ula Beach, encompassing the parking lot in front of the Rex Lee Auditorium.
The office of Samoan Affairs still has access to the use of the Fale Samoa, but use must first
be coordinated with Parks and Recreation.
The Department of Commerce will continue to be responsible for the maintenance of the Rex
Lee Auditorium with the surrounding area, except the parking lot in front. “All agencies of the
American Samoa government will pay a fee to the Department of Parks and Rec for the use of
these public facilities.”
The governor pointed out that these fees will be the same as those charged to the public, and
Parks and Rec will be responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of these public facilities in a
manner that is esthetically pleasing and sanitary.
NMSAS PROMOTES “ONE NOAA”
The National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa (NMSAS) is on a new mission this year.
That is, to continue to promote ONE NOAA, which, with the Sanctuary’s help, brings representatives from all NOAA offices in American Samoa together once a month, in an effort to carry
out the following:
• Keep all NOAA offices informed of what each one is doing
• Collaborate on missions and outreach events
• Connect people and offices to ensure that the most number of American Samoa citizens are
being reached with the services provided.
NOAA is a science-based agency whose work touches over 300 million people every day.
NOAA’s products and services are the result of the hard work of dedicated staff members and
line offices. “The American Samoa ONE NOAA team will strive to offer these products and
services in the most efficient way possible,” says the NMSAS.
The ONE NOAA team includes the NMSAS, the National Weather Service, the Pacific
Islands Regional Office, the NOAA Office of Law Enforcement, the Pacific Islands Fisheries
Science Center, and the Global Monitoring Division Observatory.
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Tri Marine a strong
advocate of need to
manage tuna stock
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by Fili Sagapolutele, Samoa News Correspondent
Tri Marine International maintains it’s a strong and continued advocate of managing the region’s tuna stock, which is an
important resource to the survival of the tuna canning industry in
American Samoa, according to Joe Hamby, the company’s chief
executive officer.
Additionally, the company continues to support in every way
possible the locally based fishing fleet, which is currently faced
with various challenges, such as the low price of tuna and stiff
competition from Chinese fishing boats.
TUNA STOCK
At last Friday’s news conference, Hamby cited among the
challenges faced by Tri Marine— in order to be competitive
in this global industry— the low price of tuna, adding that the
“number one concern is the status of the tuna stock”.
He called for better management of tuna resources in the
region. “If we don’t manage the capacity of the fishing effort, the
tuna stocks will be in jeopardy, because there will be more boats
trying to catch more fish, because the price is lower, and they
need to catch more just to ‘pay their bills’,” the CEO said.
“Instead, if there is a limited capacity of fishing effort, it’s
going to be easier to manage the resource, according to what the
scientists say,” Hamby said. “So the number one concern in my
mind, and I’m speaking personally and also for our company,
is [that] we need to control capacity.” He added, “…this tuna
resource has to be well managed, otherwise... this tuna industry in
American Samoa is not going to survive.”
Asked by the media on how to control and manage tuna
resources, Hamby responded, “You have to advocate”.
“Unfortunately, the regional fishery management organization,
manage by consensus,” he said, adding there are some countries,
whose members — for example some with the Western and Central
Pacific Fishery Commission — they “don’t think there is a problem”.
“Or a country like China — putting their short term economic
interests first,” he said and pointed out for example the WCPFC
conference held early December last year in Cairns, Australia,
where China didn’t agree with a measure that was going to control the amount of albacore tuna caught in the region.
In a statement to Samoa News last December concerning the
plight of the local longline fleet, the Honolulu-based Western
Pacific Fishery Management Council said, it strongly supported
the measure proposed by the Forum Fisheries Agency in Cairns
that would have capped albacore catches within exclusive economic zones (EEZs) and high seas.
This measure was proposed in order to stave off the economic
collapse of South Pacific longline fisheries and unfortunately was
not adopted by the Commission due to objections from China and
Taiwan, the statement said.
American Samoa had also advocated support of the measure
during the Cairns meeting.
At last Friday’s news conference, Tri Marine chief executive
officer and chairman, Renato Curto emphasized that his company
is not in any way getting into any political issues with countries
when it comes to these types of issues. He said,“…we try to do
the best we can with what we have” and “follow the rules and we
hope that everybody else follows the rules.”
LOCAL BOATS
Hamby said Tri Marine is continuing to work with the local
fishing fleet, to help them to find better markets. However, “we
can’t subsidize them, like some countries do,” he said, and noted
there has been a lot of attention given by the local media, to how
the local fleet is “suffering from unfair competition, from subsidized fleets around the world, especially the Chinese fleet.”
However, he says, “China is doing what they think is the right
thing to do, by creating jobs, building boats, creating the jobs that
are on those boats, creating jobs back in China when fish goes back
to China to be processed, and even addressing their food security
by bringing the tuna back to China, so they can consume it.”
The United States, on the other hand, does not have the same
policy as when it comes to subsiding fishing boat, so the local
boats in American Samoa have to “fend for themselves”.
Hamby explained, “We hope that our efforts to make a better
market for higher quality fish [for export] will help them and we
will work closely with the local fleet to make sure they remain
viable, because we will depend upon them, not only for the fresh
and frozen business, which opens next month, but also for the
tuna that will be canned.”
Increase of Chinese fishing boats in the region was among the
serious concerns raised by the local Tautai o Samoa Longline &
Fishing Association, as their members tied up their boats and put
them up for sale, last month pointing to the economic difficulties
they are facing.
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Author L. Filloon to speak
at AS Community College
By James Kneubuhl, ASCC Press Officer
Dead turtle washes ashore
by B. Chen, Samoa News Correspondent
Employees of the Department of Marine and Wildlife
Resources (DMWR) discovered a female green turtle this past
Monday afternoon in Atu’u waters, next to the canneries.
According to DMWR wildlife biologist Mark McDonald,
the turtle, which was of breeding age, weighed 250 lbs., and was
discovered by he and his crew: Wildlife Tech Ailao Tualaulelei
and Sa Tuvalu. The turtle was already dead when it was found
— “it had probably been dead for a few weeks,” McDonald
explained via email to Samoa News yesterday.
A necropsy performed in the DMWR wet lab revealed no
signs of trauma and a skin sample will be sent to Hawaii for
DNA analysis “to find out where the turtle came from”.
In addition, the shell will be analyzed using isotope analysis
which will reveal information on the turtle’s diet and habitat. A
plastic bag was found in the turtle’s stomach and according to
McDonald, the turtle probably ate it by mistake, thinking it was
jellyfish or seaweed, “which is their normal diet”.
DMWR Director Dr. Ruth Matagi-Tofiga said, “We urge the
public — please don’t throw plastic bags or any type of plastic
into the ocean, because it harms our marine life.”
Scientists visiting to set
up oceanographic buoy to
measure enviro conditions
By B. Chen, Samoa News Correspondent
Two scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration’s (NOAA) Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory in Miami, Florida will be visiting the territory during the week of Feb. 17 to conduct a site survey.
This was made known during the first ever Media Coffee
Chat hosted by the National Marine Sanctuary of American
Samoa (NMSAS) last Wednesday at the Tauese P.F. Sunia
Ocean Center. The survey is to find an appropriate spot for the
deployment of an oceanographic buoy that will measure local
environmental conditions. According to the NMSAS, the scientists will need to scuba dive for 2-3 days at coral reef sites
around the islands of Tutuila and Aunu’u. During these dives,
the scientists will make measurements of depth and bottom type
to determine potential sites to anchor the buoy.
Lt. Charlene Felkley, Marine Operations Coordinator for the
National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa (NMSAS), said
yesterday the scientists are paying for the boat but since there are
only two of them coming, there will be extra space on the vessel.
Therefore, NMSAS is coordinating with the Department of
Marine and Wildlife Resources (DMWR) about getting local
divers on the boat to dive alongside the scientists, to help monitor, assess, and eradicate the Crown of Thorns.
Over 2,000 Crown of Thorn (COT) starfish were killed in
the territory last year during a collaborative effort between the
National Park of American Samoa, DMWR, and the NMSAS.
Crown of Thorns pose a threat to coral reefs because they
prey on coral tissue. Several years ago, COT starfish had infested
waters within the local Sanctuary, but the problem was later
resolved. However, the threat has once again raised its ugly head
and currently efforts are being made to eradicate the infestation.
“The scientists were gracious enough to let us put some local
divers on the boat with them — free of charge — to address the
local issue we are having with the Crown of Thorns and we are
very appreciative of that,” Felkley said. “It’s just a matter of
everyone working together for the good of the territory and its
people.” The oceanographic buoy is not expected to be deployed
until 2015, at the earliest. The project is part of the NMSAS’s
February Science Operations agenda.
A new voice in fantasy fiction appeared on shelves in the nation’s bookstores in 2011
in the form of a book titled “The Binding” by an author going by the name of L. Filloon.
What few knew at the time was that the “L” stands for Logo, short for Fa’alologo, and
that “L. Filloon” is a Samoan in fact born here in the Territory, although she grew up in
Hawaii and San Diego.
Filloon has not returned to American Samoa since her early childhood, but she will be
in town this week to talk about her life, her craft, and the successful novels that make up
The Velesi Trilogy, a series that takes place in a fantasy realm and has made the author
something of a sensation among fans of the fantasy genre.
Filloon will speak at the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) this Friday
from 10 to 11:30 a.m. in the College’s Lecture Hall. Her talk is open to the public,
although seating may be limited.
Speaking from her home in Las Vegas, Filloon shared her thoughts about encouraging
young people who may have an interest in becoming writers.
“Self doubt is one of the biggest adversaries a young writer faces,” she reflected. “I
can’t tell you how many emails and letters I receive from young writers looking for guidance, searching for approval on following their dreams and words of encouragement to
brave the onslaught of ‘what if’s?’”
She believes that a mentor can make a big difference in encouraging fledgling writers
to stick with the craft.
“I’ve been fortunate enough and blessed to have several mentors in my life, because
mentors are not meant to live your life with you but to guide you in the direction you
wish to go in life. Great examples of early mentors for young writers are their parents
and teachers. A mentor can walk a young person through that gauntlet to a place of
strength and courage so they can make their dreams a reality.”
Filloon also has strong opinions on the role education plays in building literary skills.
“English classes don’t just teach you how to write a sentence, they open you to a
world of writing that transcends beyond your classroom walls,” she emphasized. “English was the major I had to get an ‘A’ in. No matter how I was doing in my other classes,
I could not fail English. I knew at a young age I wanted to be a writer, but before I could
start I needed to know the basics. Like any other art form you commit yourself to, you
need the proper tools and the guidance to start.”
With that proper guidance, Filloon believes, language opens the door to extraordinary
levels of self-expression.
“Being exposed to the works of Hemingway, Frost, Poe, Hawthorne and many more,
you learn not only how they write but also why. You learn how words are used, manipulated and construed to create beautiful stories, poetry and lyrics by some of our greatest
authors, musicians, and poets. Look how politicians use provoking oratories that rile and
build within the listener a sense of patriotic brotherhood, all from putting one word in
front of another. As a writer, you learn how to bring your thoughts together in written
words to solidify and communicate them, and how relate what you see, hear and feel to
others and make “them” see, hear and feel how “you’ want them to.”
Asked how she chose to write in the fantasy genre, she explained, “I believe story
lines are limited to the author’s reality. Real-life stories are limited to a universal truth
that is our reality, a reality that most can anchor to and relate to. Fantasy story lines break
those boundaries and take a reader away from the mundane and the norm. When writing
fantasy, the sky is the limit. Within your story you can create your own realms filled
with your own being and creatures. You give them breath and soul, intent and purpose.
You bring to life something strange and beautiful and you are able to share it with likeminded readers all over the world. It’s awesome when your creations are looked upon
and spoken about as if they actually exist.”
Filloon’s “creations” reflect her multi-cultural upbringing, and even echo her Samoan
origins. “The course of my life has been influenced by the mythology of many cultures
because I was fascinated by the mystical and fantastic and still am,” she said. “I grew up
in the states and although I remember some of the Samoan mythology mentioned when
I was a young girl, it seldom influences how I write today. However, that doesn’t mean I
am without the influences of my culture. It is part of my creative core, part of what continues to provoke new and exciting worlds I can create within my writing. It is the foundation of my creativity.”
The author sometimes fields questions about the surname she writes under, and Filloon shared how the name has a “stranger than fiction” story to go with it.
“My first husband was Irish, French and American Indian,” she explained. “When his
great, great, great grandfather migrated to Ellis Island from Ireland, he changed his last
name from O’Fallon to Filloon because his brother was a horse thief and he didn’t want
to be associated with such a criminal. And, as you know, Logo is short for Fa’alologo,
hence… Logo Filloon.”
For more information on Filloon’s talk at the College, contact the ASCC Library at
699-9155, extension 418.
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Construction work on the Development Bank of American Samoa (DBAS) is nearing completion and if all goes well, the modern new office building will be ready
for move-in sometime next month. The new structure is being built in exactly the same location as the previous bank, before it was completely damaged by the 2009
earthquake and tsunami. Yesterday, a crew from the Dept. of Public Works were on site to carry out routine inspections. The project is being funded by the Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and carried out by Paramount Builders at a cost of $3.1 million.
Danny Delara, Operations Manager for Paramount Builders told Samoa News yesterday that the original contract for the project was $2.6 million but change
orders, including the relocation of water and sewer lines — which were not part of the original work plan — not only caused a delay in the completion date, but also
increased the price tag. About 15 Paramount employees are on site everyday carrying out the work which Delara says is about 85% complete. The final phase of the
project includes finishing work like laying out small garden areas in the driveway and the installation of an elevator, in addition to an overall paint job.
The new DBAS building is a two-story structure that is elevated because the area is prone to flooding. The ground floor (with an elevation of nearly seven feet)
will be open and used for parking while the top floor will house the bank’s operations and employees.
Besides the concrete, all the materials for the project are shipped in from off-island, based on the specifications called for in the project plan.
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Following the 2009 tsunami, DBAS relocated to their current location on the second floor of the Lumana’i Building in Fagatogo.
by Joyetter Feagaimaali’i-Luamanu
Samoa News Reporter
VILITONI TUIA CHARGED FOR
ALLEGEDLY STEALING A PHONE
A Tafuna man accused of stealing a cell phone
from Bluesky’s display case last December made
his initial appearance in District Court yesterday.
Vilitoni Tuia also known as “Sony” has been
charged with one count of stealing, a class C felony
which is punishable with up to seven years in jail,
a fine of up to $5,000 or both. According to the
government’s case, on Dec. 13, 2013 an employee
of Bluesky Communication contacted the police
upon reviewing security camera footage of the
defendant stealing a Nexus 5LG touchscreen cell
phone valued at $499 from the display case in the
Bluesky store at Laufou Shopping Center.
The police report was prepared and forwarded
to the CID office and Detective John Seumanutafa was assigned to investigate the case. Court
filings say the defendant allegedly walked behind
the counter and removed the cell phone from the
display case, came back and sat next to a woman
and told her that he works for Bluesky and he was
the one doing the Roadshow for Bluesky.
The company employees confirmed with
police the defendant is not an employee with
Bluesky. In a written statement to police, the
woman stated the defendant removed the cell
phone and left with the phone the same day.
According to the government’s case, police
spoke to the defendant, who confirmed he was
present at Bluesky on the day in question, however
he did not remember taking a cell phone from the
store. Court filings also state there is a similar case
pending in which the defendant is a suspect.
BARLOW ASKS FOR BENCH TRIAL
Former ASCC instructor James Barlow, who
is facing several criminal charges, including
Driving Under the Influence (DUI), careless
driving, driving without a driver’s license, endangering the welfare of a child, and aiding minors
to break the law, has requested the High Court
for a Bench Trial. The case began as a traffic case
and later became a felony case back in 2012. It
had been set for a Jury Trial, however, during the
status hearing, Barlow fired his attorney, Mark
Ude, and asked for a continuance.
According to the government’s case, the defendant had a party with the three juveniles at his resi-
dence before heading onto the road. It’s alleged
the defendant’s vehicle was pulled over by police
early in November 2012 in Fogagogo, while the
three students were present and allegedly intoxicated. Barlow has denied the allegations against
him and his next court hearing is set for January
24. It’s not clear whether the defendant will have
come to a plea agreement with the government by
then, or if the matter is going to trial. (The college
terminated Barlow’s employment not long after he
was facing criminal charges.) Kruse has yet to rule
on the defendant’s request for a bench trial.
SEFO LEGA PLEADS FOR LENIENCY
A Malaeimi man who stabbed another man
with a knife was in court last week for sentencing, after he pled guilty to the assault charge.
Sefo Lega, who has been custody since last year
October, pled guilty to second degree assault. The
assault charge is a class D felony, punishable by
up to five years in prison, and/ or a fine of $5,000.
During the hearing, the defendant apologized for
his actions and told the court he’s full of remorse.
Sefo asked the court to release him from jail to he can
care for his mother, as he was the only one working
in his family prior to the incident. He also sought
forgiveness from the victim whom he stabbed. Asst.
Public Defender Mike White noted the defendant
has alcohol problems and recommended appropriate alcohol counseling. The prosecutor concurred
with the defense attorney, noting that the defendant
does have an alcohol problem. The court recessed
to determine the sentence, however upon returning
to the bench they moved to postpone sentencing
for two weeks. Associate Justice Lyle L Richmond
noted that on the new sentencing day, the government must have the defendant’s sponsor and the
Chief Immigration officer present to determine the
defendant’s immigration status.
According to the government’s case, on Oct. 13,
2013 police responded to a call and upon arriving
at the scene in Malaeimi, they were informed by
the victim that Lega, who was intoxicated, had
slashed him three times using a pocket knife. The
victim, who was taken to the hospital, sustained
three stitches on each shoulder and three stitches
on his neck as a result of the incident. Court filings say that during interrogation the defendant
stated “the victim tried to stop a fight between
him and other people and that’s when he took out
the knife and slashed the victim.”
Australian court
rules ANZ Bank
late fees too high
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — One of Australia’s largest
banks faces a multimillion dollar payout to thousands of customers after a judge ruled on Wednesday that late payment fees
it charged on credit cards were exorbitant.
ANZ Banking Group Ltd. partially lost a class action law suit
in the Australian Federal Court brought by more than 43,000
customers who claimed they had been charged excessive fees
for years. In some cases the fees were 70 times the cost to the
bank of administering late payments.
Justice Michelle Gordon ruled that the bank had been illegally imposing penalties for late payments on credit cards.
She agreed with lead plaintiff Lucio Paciocco’s argument
that the fees were “extravagant, exorbitant and unconscionable,”
and represented a breach of contract.
But she also ruled in ANZ’s favor by dismissing claims that
other types of bank fees were illegal penalties.
It was not clear how much the bank would have to pay back
customers who had been charged too much over six years.
Lawyers for the bank and customers have until next week to
agree on a proposal for repaying customers that the court can
rule on.
ANZ chief executive Philip Chronican said he was still
reviewing the judgment, and its implications were unclear.
“We felt it was a fair fee at the time,” Chronican told reporters.
“We are now getting a different perspective on that as a result of
what the courts have determined.”
He said that in 2009 his bank reduced a number of fees it
charged and abolished another 27 fees.
While the credit card fees were illegal, Chronican welcomed
the court’s ruling that another four fee types that had been challenged by the suit were legal. Maurice Blackburn, the law firm
representing the customers, had claimed 57 million Australian
dollars ($51 million) in damages from all five fee types.
Maurice Blackburn said the ruling changed the banking landscape in Australia.
The case was the first of eight planned class action law suits
involving 185,300 customers of Australian banks, claiming
AU$243 million ($216 million) in damages.
The court found ANZ late fees on credit cards ranged from
AU$20 to AU$35.
The actual cost of administering such late payments was
mostly 50 AU cents and sometimes up to AU$5.50.
James Middleweek, investment manager at Bentham IMF
which funded the class action, said ANZ will have to repay customers the difference plus interest.
The Australian Banking Association, which represents the
banking industry, declined to comment.
NEWS IN BRIEF
2nd office shooting in 2
days in Vancouver, Wash.
VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say a 45-year-old man has been shot and
wounded inside a public health building in southwest Washington state and a woman taken into
custody also is injured. It’s the second workplace
shooting in Vancouver, Wash., in two days.
Clark County sheriff’s Sgt. Fred Neiman
says the shooting happened just before 4 p.m.
Tuesday at the Center for Community Health on
the Department of Veterans Affairs campus.
A spokesman for the VA Medical Center
in Portland, Ore., says the injured man is a
VA employee. Spokesman Daniel Herrigstad
describes the man’s injuries as “non-life-threatening.” Neiman calls the man’s injuries “significant.” He says the man and the 46-year-old
woman taken into custody were transported to
hospitals. He refused to discuss the nature of
the woman’s injury. Neiman says officers aren’t
looking for other suspects.
On Monday, a paint company driver fatally
shot a company manager and then killed himself
at a Vancouver business park.
Queen Elizabeth II to visit
Pope Francis in Rome
LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace says
that Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince
Philip will visit Pope Francis in Rome. The
palace said Tuesday the royals would have an
audience with the pope at the Vatican in April.
The palace said Monday the couple also
plans to attend the 70th anniversary of D-Day
ceremonies during a state visit to France in June.
The high profile trips to continental Europe
come as the 87-year-old queen is greatly
reducing her overseas travel. She has increasingly sent her eldest son Prince Charles to represent her outside the United Kingdom.
Notice for Proposed Registration of Matai Title
NY couple charged after
toddler calls 911 15 times
LOWVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities have
charged a northern New York woman and her
boyfriend because the woman’s 2-year-old
daughter used their cellphones to dial 911 a
total of 15 times last month. Village of Lowville
(LOW’-vihl) Police Officer Matthew Martin
says the 23-year-old mother and her 33-yearold boyfriend told him they tried to keep their
phones away from the persistent toddler, but the
girl kept getting them and dialing 911.
Martin spoke to the couple Wednesday after
Lewis County 911 dispatchers reported that a
child had called 14 times in January. Martin says
the child called 911 a 15th time later that night.
He charged the couple the next day with
obstructing governmental administration. Martin
says the girl called 911 three more times Friday
but hasn’t made an emergency call since then.
Cops: NY man bites brother’s
ear off during fottball party
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a
Rochester man bit off part of his brother’s ear after
they began fighting during a Super Bowl party.
The Democrat and Chronicle of Rochester reports
that police say 27-year-old Sean Fallon-Nebbia
was hosting the party Sunday at his apartment.
A roommate told police the brothers had been
drinking before they started roughhousing after
the game, and the tussle turned violent. Police
say Fallon-Nebbia bit off part of 26-year-old
Frank Fallon-Nebbia’s right ear and punched
him several times in the face, knocking him out.
The younger brother was treated at a Rochester hospital. The older brother is being held in
Monroe County Jail on $15,000 bail after pleading
not guilty Monday to first-degree assault, a felony.
It couldn’t be determined if he has a lawyer.
Lolo appeals to Army Corps
of Engineers to “fast-track”
extra dock space for StarKist
by Joyetter Feagaimaali’i-Luamanu, Samoa News Reporter
Governor Lolo Matalasi Moliga is seeking assistance from
LTC Thomas Asbery, U.S. Army District Engineer with the Army
Corps of Engineers to identify a suitable site within the harbor for
the construction of additional docking space for StarKist Samoa.
In his letter to LTC Asbery last week, Lolo pointed out the
new year has brought on new challenges as the American Samoa
Government struggles to improve its local economic infra structure system to harvest all the “inherent economic potentials” of
our natural assets such as ports and harbors; and he has “pressing
issues” on his plate that require Asbery’s assistance.
“I have already brought to your attention the situation involving
the financial plight being faced by our local fishing fleet compelling 18 fishing vessels to be put up for sale, and one of the cited
operating disincentives is the lack of docking space.”
The governor asked LTC Asbery to identify a suitable site
for the additional docking space. Lolo noted that with the debate
waging in Washington DC among the canneries, StarKist Samoa
has indicated its need for more land to accommodate its proposed
expansion plans along with the need to extend its current dock to
accommodate more fishing vessels and improve efficiency of its
canning process operation.
In a letter sent to LTC Asbery last year on the matter, Lolo said
a one acre land parcel is immediately available to StarKist for its
expansion needs, and it is located on the west side of the old StarKist
cold storage, as confirmed by ASPA CEO Utu Abe Malae.
Samoa News understands the acre of land is where the old
ASPA office building was located in Satala before it was destroyed
by the tsunami in September 2009. The new ASPA plant is to be
located where the old StarKist Samoa cold storage used to be.
In his letter to LTC Asbery, last week, Lolo noted China’s
aggressive encroachment into the fishing industry in the Pacific,
through subsidization of all of its fishing vessels, and that it poses
a real threat to our local canneries. “I know that you are fully
aware of the importance of this project to the territory given the
significant contribution of StarKist to our local economy.”
Lolo stated that improving the canneries competitive advantage is the best way to counter this foreign threat.
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 LELE’A of the village of ONENOA by LEE A. LELE’A of the village of
ONENOA, county of VAIFANUA, EASTERN District.
THE TERRITORIAL REGISTRAR is satisfied that the claim, petition by the family and certificate 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 LELE’A shall be registered in the name of LEE A. LELE’A in accordance with the
laws of American Samoa.
POSTED:
JANUARY 29, 2014 thru MARCH 31, 2014
SIGNED:
Taito S.B. White, Territorial Registrar
Fa’aaliga o le Fia 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 LELE’A o le nu’u o ONENOA e LEE A. LELE’A o
ONENOA faalupega o VAIFANUA, falelima i SASA’E.
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.
A i ai se tasi e faafinagaloina, ia faaulufaleina sana talosaga tete’e, po o sana faalavelave tusitusia i
le Ofisa o Resitara i totonu o aso e 60 mai le aso na faalauiloa ai lenei fa’aaliga. Afai o lea leai se
talosaga tete’e, po’o se faalavelave foi e faaulufaleina mai i aso e 60 e pei ona taua i luga, o lea
faamauina loa lea suafa matai i le igoa o LEE A. LELE’A e tusa ai ma aiaiga o le tulafono a Amerika
Samoa.
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OFFICE OF PROCUREMENT
REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ)
RFQ No: 032-2014
Issuance Date: February 05, 2014
Closing Date: February 12, 2014
No Later than 2:00pm local time
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envelope marked: “RFQ: Tafuna Correctional Facility Construction” Submissions are to be
sent to the following address and will be received until 2:00 p.m. (local time), Wednesday,
February 12, 2014:
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Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799
attn: Tiaotalaga J.E. Kruse, CPO
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accepted under any circumstances. Late submissions will not be opened or considered and
will be determined as being non-responsive.
Document
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Maria Alvarenga, the mother of Jose Salvador Alvarenga, is
comforted by a relative during an interview inside her home, in
the village of Garita Palmera, El Salvador, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014.
The account of her son’s survival after more than 13 months in
an open boat has proven a double miracle for his family, who lost
touch with him years ago and thought he was dead. Jose Salvador
Alvarenga left Mexico in December 2012 for a day of shark fishing
and ended up on the remote Marshall Islands. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Survivor’s family rejoices
to regain long lost son…
GARITA PALMERA, El
Salvador (AP) — The family
of a Salvadoran fisherman who
says he survived at least 13
months at sea in an open boat
had thought he was dead after
losing touch with him eight
years ago and are calling his
astonishing story of survival a
miracle.
While authorities said
questions remained about his
tale, relatives provided details
that might help explain how
Jose Salvador Alvarenga
could survive floating across
6,500 miles of the Pacific in a
small boat. They said he was
always unusually strong and
resilient and was an experienced sailor.
“The sea was his thing,”
Alvarenga’s
father,
Jose
Ricardo Orellana, 65, said
Tuesday. Orellana, who owns
a store and flour mill in the
seaside Salvadoran town of
Garita Palmera, said his son
first went off to work at sea as
a stocky 14-year-old.
Alvarenga’s family reacted
with joy after two phone calls
from their long lost son, who
told them he was getting medical treatment and food in the
Marshall Islands.
He later got a shave and a
haircut.
He also confessed to his
mother he didn’t really know
where he was.
Recounting their talks, his
59-year-old mother, Maria
Julia Alvarenga, broke into
tears.
“We hadn’t heard from him
for eight years; we thought
he was dead already. This is
a miracle, glory to God,” she
said.
The fisherman’s 14-yearold daughter, Fatima, said she
didn’t remember her father,
who left El Salvador when she
was just over a year old.
“I’m so very happy to know
he’s alive,” said Fatima.
“He’s alive and I’m going
to see him.”
Gee Bing, the Marshall
Islands’ acting secretary of
foreign affairs, said Alvarenga also spoke by phone on
Tuesday to his brother in Maryland for the first time in years:
“He got very emotional.”
Bing helped relocate Alvarenga from the hospital to a
hotel in Majuro, the capital
of the Marshall Islands, on
Tuesday.
“He requested that we give
him some time to rest. I don’t
think he got enough sleep at
the hospital, and he wanted
to rest and also get a haircut,”
Bing said. “When we dropped
him off at the hotel, there was
someone there to take him to
the barber.”
Bing said a constant stream
of journalists and well-wishers
had flowed into the hospital
wanting to talk to Alvarenga
and bringing him blankets,
pillows, clothes and fruit. He
said the hotel had increased its
security to try to provide Alvarenga with some privacy.
The official said medical
tests indicated Alvarenga was
doing well. He was taking
vitamins, and Tylenol to ease
joint pain.
Bing said that he expected
it to take one to two weeks for
authorities to finalize Alvarenga’s repatriation, and that the
Marshall Islands government
would likely pay the cost of
his stay.
He said questions remained
about Alvarenga’s story of an
ordeal that began with him setting out to fish from a coastal
village in southern Mexico,
but added that authorities were
focusing on getting him back
to El Salvador.
Alvarenga’s parents said he
was known in his hometown
as “Cirilo,” a nickname that
coincides with the first name
of a man registered as missing
with civil defense officials in
the southern Mexico state of
Chiapas.
The civil defense office said
a small fishing boat carrying
two men, named Cirilo Vargas
and Ezequiel Cordoba, disappeared during bad weather on
Nov. 17, 2012, and no trace
of them or the craft was found
during an intense two-week
search.
Alvarenga said his fellow
fisherman, who he identified
only with the first name of
Ezequiel, died after about a
month at sea and he threw the
body overboard.
Alvarenga said he survived
on raw fish, birds, bird blood
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TOKYO (AP) — A government panel will urge Japan to
allow its military to help allies
that come under attack, in a
major reversal of the country’s ban on collective defense
under its pacifist constitution.
The panel on Tuesday discussed ways that Japan can
improve its defense capability
and said it will present its nearfinal draft recommendation in
coming weeks, before its final
report is expected after April.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
wants Japan to play a greater
role in international peacekeeping and step up its defense
posture, mainly because of
potential military threats that
Japan sees from China and
North Korea. As China’s influence rises and that of the United
States fades in the region,
Japan is trying to expand its
defense alliance outside of its
“cornerstone” ties with Washington and has signed defense
agreements with several other
countries, including Britain
and Australia.
The 14-member panel,
headed by former Ambassador to the U.S. Shunji Yanai,
says the revision is possible
if the government alters its
current interpretation of the
war-renouncing constitution.
Formal constitutional change
involves high hurdles, though
Abe eventually hopes to
achieve that.
The constitution, written
under U.S. direction after
World War II, says the Japanese people “forever renounce
war as a sovereign right of the
nation” and that “land, sea and
air forces, as well as other war
potential, will never be maintained.” The government has
interpreted those clauses as
meaning that Japan cannot
possess offensive military
weapons such as ICBMs or
long-range strategic bombers.
Abe and other supporters of
the change believe that restrictions should be removed from
the military, and that Japan’s
current
self-defense-only
policy is inadequate as the
region’s security environment
becomes more challenging.
They say U.S. warships may
come under attack while in or
near Japan, or there may be
instances in which Japanese
troops have to fight for allies
during international peacekeeping missions, even when
Japan is not attacked directly.
“Japan’s preparation for
national security threats in
the region is not sufficient,”
Abe said during Tuesday’s
meeting. “We must cover all
the bases to protect the people’s lives and safety in any
possible scenario.”
Japan has repeatedly loosened restrictions on its military
over time as it tried to raise its
international profile and meet
expectations from the U.S. and
other countries. But its peacekeeping missions have been
limited to noncombat roles
because of its pacifist rules,
and a change would allow its
troops to do more.
The draft report is also
expected to urge Japan to relax
its restrictions on arms exports,
participate more actively in
U.N.-led security operations,
and prepare a legal framework
for its military to counter intrusions on remote Japanese-held
islands, apparently including
territory in the East China
Sea also claimed by China.
It would also urge Japan to
strengthen its defense ties with
its allies, most importantly the
United States.
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Seen here is Intervention Specialist for the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) Community Natural Resources (CNR) Childhood Healthy
Living (CHL) Project, Agnes M. Vargo during the 2nd
National ‘Pace e Bene’ teleconference that took place
at the ASCC/CNR Wellness Center last Thursday. The
Pace e Bene is a new movement campaign against violence that invites people everywhere to practice and
study nonviolence, connect with others and take public,
nonviolent action for a more peaceful and just world.
According to their website, paceenene.org, Pace e
Bene Nonviolence Service is an independent, nondenominational 501 (c) organization with offices in Oakland, Chicago, Montreal and Las Vegas. Its mission is
to foster a just and peaceful world through nonviolence
education, community-building and action. Pace e
Bene means, “peace and all good” in Italian.
Vargo, who is the local organizer of the movement,
spoke with people from over 20 states in the US during
the teleconference sharing their ideas, thoughts and
plans for campaigning against nonviolence.
For more information, you can contact Vargo at her
[photo: Jeff Hayner]
email: [email protected].
➧ NEWS IN BRIEF…
Brazilian nominates Snowden
for the Nobel Peace Prize
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — A Brazilian senator has nominated National Security Agency
contractor Edward Snowden for the 2014 Nobel
Peace Prize. Sen. Vanessa Grazziotin heads the
Senate panel investigating U.S. espionage in
Brazil. She says in a statement that Snowden’s revelations contribute to a more “stable and peaceful
world.” Grazziotin says when governments “work
secretly against citizens and states, global peace
and stability are more difficult to achieve.”
Two Norwegian politicians have also jointly
nominated Snowden for the prize. Anyone
can be nominated for the prestigious honor.
Snowden’s revelations showed that Brazil was
the top NSA target in Latin America, with
spying that included the monitoring of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s cellphone and
hacking into the internal network of the staterun oil company Petrobras.
US intel: Sense of destiny
drives China aggression
WASHINGTON (AP) — The chief of U.S.
intelligence says China’s aggressive pursuit
of territorial claims in the seas of East Asia is
driven by a sense of historical destiny and is
causing great concern among countries in the
region.
Director of National Intelligence James
Clapper said China has pursued a very impressive military modernization that is designed to
address America’s own military strengths.
Clapper was responding to a question on China’s recent actions in the East and South China
Seas posed at a House Intelligence Committee
hearing on worldwide threats.
He said China has been greatly concerned by
the increased U.S. attention to Asia, viewing it
as an attempt at containment.
Clapper said China has been “quite aggressive in asserting in what they see as their manifest destiny.”
Boy charged in sister’s
death to remain in custody
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A 14-year-old
California boy charged as a juvenile in the fatal
shooting of his 17-year-old sister after an argument must remain in custody.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports an
Alameda County commissioner agreed with
prosecutors who called the boy a flight risk,
noting that he fled the scene of the shooting
before surrendering to police six days later.
The boy appeared at the hearing Monday at
the Juvenile Justice Center in San Leandro.
Prosecutors have charged the boy with
murder and three weapons allegations, all felonies, in the slaying of Justice Toliver on Jan.
23. Relatives have said the shooting occurred
after the two siblings got into an argument over
laundry at the family’s apartment in Oakland’s
Chinatown.
The commissioner said he would allow the
boy to attend his sister’s funeral while accompanied by a probation officer.
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2 out of 3 adults in England
are overweight or obese
LONDON (AP) — More than 60 percent
of adults in England are overweight or obese,
according to new figures by the national public
health agency.
The figures were released Tuesday. Experts
have previously predicted England’s increasing
obesity epidemic could mean half its population
will be obese by 2030. People who are heavy
have a higher risk of Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and some cancers.
To fight bulging waistlines in Stoke-on-Trent
in the West Midlands, authorities are trying a
new approach. Overweight people can sign up to
get frequent text messages encouraging them to
move more and eat less. One text says “Maybe
walk to the shops or use the stairs more often.”
Officials described it as a “cheap and effective
nudge” to take action before obese people need
expensive medical attention.
Utah district hears why
school lunches were taken
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A preliminary
report presented to the Salt Lake City School
District blames breakdowns in communication
over a new payment system for up to 40 students’ school lunches being taken away.
The Salt Lake Tribune reports that board members heard from Kelly Orton, district child nutrition department director, Tuesday night about
why 30 to 40 children at Uintah Elementary who
were trying to buy lunch last week had their meals
thrown away in an incident that angered parents
and prompted the district to put two employees
on leave. The children, who had overdue food
accounts, were given milk and fruit. Under questioning, Orton says his department didn’t properly
tell parents about the new system and promised
efforts so meals aren’t tossed again. He says the
investigation is ongoing.
Pot petition has enough
signatures to make ballot
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Enough
petition signatures have been verified to place
an initiative seeking to legalize marijuana on the
ballot this summer in Alaska, election officials
said Tuesday. The petition has met all the thresholds necessary to appear on the Aug. 19 primary
ballot, the Alaska Division of Elections said.
The lieutenant governor’s office said it had
verified the signatures from registered voters as
of Monday evening. The total of 31,500 was a
thousand more than needed, with about 6,000
signatures remaining to be checked.
The office has not yet certified the question for the ballot, but it’s expected to do so in
the coming weeks. “It’s good news,” said Bill
Parker, an Anchorage man who was one of the
initial sponsors of the initiative.
No formal opposition to the initiative has
formed. Voters in Colorado and Washington
state legalized marijuana last year, and the language of the Alaska initiative is similar to the
Colorado measure.
Branson hosting renewable
energy summit in Caribbean
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Caribbean politicians and
renewable power experts gathered Tuesday on British billionaire
Richard Branson’s private isle to discuss ways of transitioning
to clean energy in an effort to spur small island nations to slash
their dependence on fossil fuels and prepare for the impacts of
climate change. Branson, the CEO and founder of the Virgin
Group of companies, is hosting a three-day meeting of political
and business leaders at Necker Island, his home in the British
Virgin Islands where he has developed an exclusive eco-resort
showcasing renewable energy technology.
The event is organized by the Carbon War Room, a nonprofit
company Branson co-founded to promote cutbacks in greenhousegas emissions through smart private enterprise. It hopes to help
small islands become carbon-neutral by accelerating commercial
investment. Political delegations from 13 countries and territories,
including several heads of state, are attending along with representatives from dozens of companies and multinational organizations.
Branson said he believes the sun-splashed, wind-swept
Caribbean can set a global example by embracing renewable
power and energy self-reliance. The region with deep renewable
resources and scant energy security now derives nearly all of its
electricity from plants that burn imported oil and diesel.
“We’re hoping to get a number of islands to sign up to get
as carbon-neutral as they can over the next few years,” Branson
said in a phone interview from Necker, a 74-acre getaway for
jetsetters that is also home to over 200 flamingoes.
Soaring power costs and the lack of energy security are major
regional concerns. Jose Maria Figueres, a former Costa Rican
president who is now the president of the Carbon War Room,
said most import-dependent Caribbean islands pay 35 to 55
cents per kilowatt hour. Miami-area households pay an average
of 11.5 cents per kilowatt hour.
Regional governments have long recognized that pricey oilgenerated power from utilities with a virtual monopoly on electricity makes their fragile economies even less competitive but
most have made little progress with solar, wind and geothermal
power. But proven renewable energy technologies offer islands
the chance to reduce this significant burden for their economies
and consumers, Figueres said.
Jamaican Energy Minister Philip Paulwell recently said his
country must reduce power costs from 42 cents per kilowatt hour
to between 15-18 cents to be more competitive. Loan funding
and removing taxes on solar energy equipment “will enable our
people to participate in generating their own electricity and to
sell it back to the grid.”
Since cash-strapped Caribbean governments don’t have the
money to introduce new public generating assets, independent
power producer models are used on the islands, said Lynn Tabernacki, managing director of renewable energy programs at the
U.S. government’s Overseas Private Investment Corporation.
In an email, Tabernacki said Caribbean island states present
an opportunity, contrary to most markets where there is a struggle
for renewables to achieve grid parity and considerable commercial and political risks if it’s not achieved. Because in the Caribbean renewables would compete with the high cost of diesel and
imported oil, she said there’s a “strong commercial argument for
making the switch as quickly and efficiently as possible.”
“The islands of the Caribbean have a significant opportunity
to implement renewable energy and energy efficiency projects
that could have dramatic economic, social, and environmental
impacts,” she said.
On Necker, attendees are participating in renewable energy
workshops across five areas: schools, hospitals, transport, tourism
and utility scale renewable energy distribution for small islands.
Twice the awww: Marmoset
twins make their NYC debut
NEW YORK (AP) — Here’s a sight that will melt hearts in
the midst of a brutal winter. The Wildlife Conservation Society
is celebrating the public debut of twin Geoffroy’s marmosets.
The adorable duo reside with their parents at Brooklyn’s Prospect Park Zoo. The big-eyed babies are also known as “whitefronted marmosets.” They were born in November.
They’re native to small parts of the Atlantic rainforest in
eastern Brazil. While the species is not endangered, the creatures
live in areas that are susceptible to deforestation.
police investigating screams find happy pig
CHINA, Maine (AP) — Police responding to reports of
screaming coming from a home in Maine didn’t find a victim of
domestic violence as they feared. Instead, they found an amorous
pig. State police say a woman called last week after hearing what
she believed to be a fight coming from a neighbor’s home in the
town of China. The caller said she heard screaming and thought
there was a domestic assault. The Morning Sentinel reports that
four state troopers responded and talked to the neighbor.
The neighbor explained that she raises pigs and the screaming
was coming from an overjoyed male pig that had been placed in
a pen with five sows in heat. Police say there was no assault and
no disturbance “other than the screaming male pig.”
Paul Walker’s estate
estimated at $25 million
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — Paul Walker’s teenage
daughter is the sole beneficiary of the actor’s estate, which is
valued at an estimated $25 million, court records show.
The star’s final will and testament was filed Jan. 28 in Santa
Barbara and calls for his father to serve as executor of the estate
and for his mother to serve as guardian of the actor’s 15-yearold daughter. The will was prepared and signed in 2001, the
same year Walker starred in the first “Fast & Furious” film that
launched the successful film franchise and will continue generating millions for the actor’s estate.
Walker, 40, died Nov. 30 in a fiery car crash in Los Angeles
County. He was a passenger in a specialty Porsche driven by
friend and financial adviser Roger Rodas that burst into flames
after colliding with a light pole and tree. A coroner’s report said
investigators found no mechanical problems with the Porsche,
which may have been going 100 mph or more before it crashed.
Teen given probation for
fatal wreck due in court
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A North Texas teenager sentenced to probation for a drunken-driving crash that left four people
dead is expected back in court. A Wednesday hearing is scheduled
in the case of Ethan Couch, who was given 10 years’ probation for
the wreck last year that also severely injured two people.
The sentence has stirred fierce debate, as has a defense expert
who said Couch’s wealthy parents coddled him into a sense of
irresponsibility. The expert termed the condition “affluenza.”
Judge Jean Boyd issued the original sentence, but she has not
ruled on a prosecution request to give Couch jail time on charges
related to the two people who were injured.
She also hasn’t decided whether to send Couch to a pricey
California rehab facility, as his attorneys have requested.
Canadian man killed in NZ minivan crash
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A minivan carrying
foreign tourists has plunged off a narrow New Zealand bridge,
killing the 59-year-old Canadian driver and injuring the vehicle’s
nine passengers. Police say the group of Canadian and Chinese
family and friends were in New Zealand to attend a wedding.
They left Queenstown on Tuesday morning to visit Milford
Sound when their van appeared to clip the edge of a single-lane
bridge and crashed into the Mataura River.
Police said Wednesday that the driver was from Toronto, but
did not immediately release his name.
They said his 52-year-old wife suffered neck injuries and
that four others, including the couple’s two children, were also
admitted to nearby hospitals before later being released. The four
other passengers were treated for minor injuries at the scene.
Man dies after fight over
jukebox music at bar
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas man is accused of killing
another man in a fistfight after arguing with him about jukebox
music at a bar. Police arrested Luis Miguel Chavarin, 31, after the
fight happened around 4 a.m. Monday at the Loose Caboose on
West Flamingo Road. Chavarin told officers he was at the tavern
with his friend when he started arguing with another man about
the music on the jukebox, according to a police report. When the
man started swearing at him, “pushing his buttons” and getting
close, Chavarin said he feared a “sucker punch” and hit him.
When the victim hit the ground and went unconscious, Chavarin tried to help him, witnesses said. Chavarin told police he
didn’t intend to seriously hurt the man, and stayed at the scene to
take responsibility for the incident, according to the report.
The man was taken to University Medical Center, where he
was pronounced dead a short time later. Clark County coroner’s
officials have not yet released the man’s name or cause of death.
In this Jan. 16, 2014 photo provided by the Wildlife Conservation Society, twin, juvenile Geoffroy’s marmosets cling to a branch at the Prospect Park Zoo in New York. Also known as “whitefronted marmosets,” Geoffroy’s marmosets are native to small parts of the Atlantic rainforest in
(AP Photo/Wildlife Conservation Society, Julie Larsen Maher)
eastern Brazil. American Samoa TeleCommunications Authority (ASTCA)
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
Position Title: ADVERTISING&
PROMOTIONSS PECIALIST
Position Type: Career Service
Job Opening: One (1)
Report to:
Marketing Manager
Posting Date:
Deadline:
Annual Salary:
February 05, 2014
February 12, 2014
Commensurate with Experience
The Advertising and Promotions Specialist is responsible for increasing revenue through
Job
the execution of advertising and promotional campaigns that support ASTCA. Promotions
Scope/Summery include, but are not limited to: creative layout, design, field implementation and ad/print
production and measurement.
Incumbent will assist in developing, monitoring and implementing marketing projects.
Major
with the marketing manager in analyzing product information to provide
Responsibilities Work
appropriate marketing assistance. Assist in developing strategies for project management
and execution. Determine proper advertising medium including direct mail, newspapers
advertisements, online banners and email marketing initiatives. Prepare sample
advertisement program for review and approval by management. Work closely with the
sales team to develop product promotions. Ability to take direction from the Director,
Sales & Marketing and follow the lead in the execution of various components of
marketing programs. Plans and prepares advertising and promotional materials to
increase sales. Directs out-sourced creative staff/designers. Develops and maintains
promotions calendar. Ensures all promotions are visible in all external and internal
platforms. Participates in creative sessions with marketing and IT team to generate original
ideas. Ensures store management and team members are aware of promotions. Ensures
adherence of branding & design principles to the creation of e-marketing templates, in
store signage, brochure templates, digital/print advertisements and internal documents.
Prepares cost estimates for campaigns along with length and timing promotions. Develop
and implement advertising policies and procedures to achieve sales objectives. Manage
and execute advertising projects within approved budget and timelines.
Minimum Requirements & Qualifications
Job
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing or related field preferred from an accredited university or
college and a minimum of 3 years of applicable experience in marketing and advertising.
Skills
Ability to use word processing, spreadsheet and database software programs for market
research and tracking. Ability to operate a computer to retrieve, review or update market
development data. Ability to handle multiple tasks and changing priorities. Ability to
accurately quote projects and deliver assets on time. Capable of working independently or
with a team. High aptitude in problem solving and developing creative solutions.
Qualified
Applicants
Apply
To:
Human Resources Division
American Samoa Telecommunications Authority
(A.S.T.C.A.)
P.O. Box M
Tel: (684) 699-1121 ext 408
Fax: (684) 699-9026
An Equal Opportunity Employer
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Molly Kirkman, 9, and her brother, Butch Kirkman, 7, pose for a photo with their pet pot-bellied
pig named Buttercup in Molly’s bedroom on Feb. 1, 2014 in East Hill, Fla. The Kirkmans of Pensacola
are facing a deadline in deciding what to do about their pet. The pig is in violation of the city of Pensacola’s ordinance banning “livestock” within city limits. They’ve given the family until May to move,
get rid of Buttercup or convince the city council to change the ordinance. David Kirkman, his wife
Laura and their children, Molly, 9, and Butch, 7, say Buttercup isn’t livestock. They say the 2-year-old
(AP Photo/The Pensacola News Journal, Bruce Graner )
pig is a pet they’ve raised since she was 5 weeks old.
US Army probing 100s in
recruiting fraud scheme
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of soldiers and others are under criminal investigation
in what the military describes as a widespread
scheme to take fraudulent payments and kickbacks from a National Guard recruiting program. The fraud cost the U.S. at least $29 million and possibly tens of millions dollars more,
officials said Tuesday.
Two army generals revealed to a Senate panel
on Tuesday new details of an ongoing investigation into a recruiting program put in place
in 2005 to boost flagging enlistment during a
crucial period of the Iraq War. As many as 200
officers, including two generals, are suspected
of participating in schemes to take advantage
of a referral program that paid out cash bonuses
ranging from $2,000 to $7,500 per recruit.
Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., called the
investigation “one of the largest that the Army
has ever conducted, both in terms of the sheer
volume of fraud and the number of participants.”
“These are criminals that have dishonored
the uniform we are all so proud of,” she said
at a hearing by the Senate Homeland Security
subcommittee on financial and contracting oversight, which she leads.
Lt. Gen. William T. Grisoli, director of Army
Staff, said there was a “fundamental breakdown”
in establishing and executing the program.
The extent of the fraud is believed to be
widespread: Officials said Tuesday they may
not complete their investigation until as late as
2016 because of the number of potential cases.
In total, Army criminal investigators are
examining more than 1,200 people, a mix of
civilians with military ties and men and women
in uniform. At least 60 investigators are working
full time on it.
The Army National Guard created the
Recruiting Assistance Program in 2005 in an
effort to boost enlistment at a time when wars
in Iraq and Afghanistan had left the military
below recruitment goals, officials said Tuesday.
The program offered cash bonuses to civilian
recruiting assistants for referrals.
Uniformed recruiters were supposedly prohibited from receiving the cash payments. But
investigators have since found they worked
around that prohibition by any number of means,
and for several years did so virtually undetected.
Some recruiting assistants eligible for the
payments were coerced into splitting their
bonuses with military recruiters. Other military
recruiters didn’t inform civilian assistants about
the bonuses but registered them for the program. The military recruiters would then substitute their own bank information for that of the
civilian assistants.
In one of the largest cases, five people split
roughly $1 million, said Maj. Gen. David E.
Quantock, head of the Army’s Criminal Investigation and Corrections commands.
Quantock said investigators had clearly identified $29 million in fraudulent bonus payments
and were investigating another $66 million in
potential cases.
Officials said the program succeeded in
boosting recruiting, so much so that they were
furious about allegations of fraud that threatened it.
Auditors shut down the program in 2012 after
watchdogs found evidence of widespread abuse.
In all, the Army National Guard paid upward
of $300 million for roughly 130,000 enlistments.
“I told them: We gotta catch the first peckerwoods to get out here and mess this thing up
for everybody, and we gotta prosecute them
quickly,” said Lt. Gen. Clyde A. Vaughn, former
director of the Army National Guard.
Vaughn said the program was very effective
but clearly had flaws and abuses he was unaware
of at the time.
McCaskill said she understood the rationale
for the program: “We needed recruits. We were
in a very stressful situation for command.”
Nonetheless, she said, the abuse is clear and
more hearings will be held.
“The worst thing that could happen is for
senior leadership to go quietly into the night,”
McCaskill said.
Authorities didn’t say whether they think the beating or the fall
to the ground might have caused his death. Chavarin was arrested
on suspicion of “open murder,” which means prosecutors can
amend the charges once they have more information.
Migrants sent less money back to Mexico
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s central bank says the
amount of money Mexican migrant workers sent home to their
families fell by 3.75 percent in 2013, as compared to the previous
year. The remittances are mainly sent from workers living in the
United States. The Bank of Mexico said Tuesday remittances fell
from $22.44 billion in 2012 to $21.60 in 2013.
Remittances rose in December, but it was not enough to compensate for drops in previous months, and they still have not
recovered to their peak levels of 2008.
Experts attribute the decline to continued weakness in industries that employ migrants in the United States.
NSA spied on Merkel’s predecessor too
BERLIN (AP) — German media are reporting that U.S. intelligence began spying on current Chancellor Angela Merkel’s
predecessor in 2002 because of his opposition to the U.S.-led
invasion of Iraq. Previous reports based on documents provided
to German media by NSA leaker Edward Snowden indicated that
Merkel’s cell phone was targeted. She took office in 2005.
Munich daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung and public broadcaster
NDR reported Tuesday that Merkel’s predecessor Gerhard
Schroeder was added to the NSA’s National Sigint Requirement
List as number 388 in 2002.
Citing unnamed U.S. government officials and “NSA insiders”
who were shown the Snowden documents the newspaper says
Schroeder’s confrontational stance on Iraq and concerns for the
NATO alliance led to the move.
Parliament passes gay marriage bill
LONDON (AP) — The Scottish Parliament has overwhelmingly voted in favor of a same-sex marriage bill, allowing the
first such ceremonies to take place by the end of the year.
Scottish Health Secretary Alex Neil called the bill’s approval
“one of the great historic days of the parliament.” But some religious leaders criticized it as an assault on tradition.
The bill was passed Tuesday by 105 votes to 18. Under the
bill, religious bodies in Scotland that wish to perform gay marriages can “opt in” to do so. Groups opposed to same-sex marriage cannot be forced to solemnize such unions. Legislation to
allow gay marriage in England and Wales was passed in July last
year. The change does not apply to Northern Ireland.
Man allegedly shoots at
deputy during traffic stop
VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) — San Bernardino County Sheriff’s officials have arrested a man who allegedly opened fire on a
deputy conducting a traffic stop. The Los Angeles Times reports
31-year-old Shawn Munoz was arrested late Sunday in Victorville
on suspicion of attempted murder. Department officials say the
deputy had pulled over a vehicle when he noticed a new Chrysler
300 driving toward him. Officials say the deputy saw muzzle
flashes and heard four gunshots coming from the Chrysler.
The deputy fired back, and the Chrysler drove away. Officials
say investigators found the car at a home several blocks away
and obtained a search warrant for the residence. The Times says
investigators seized a .45 caliber handgun, ammunition, gang
paraphernalia and a mini-14 rifle with two 30-round magazines.
Obama meets with top US
commander in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has met
at the White House with his top commander in Afghanistan and
other high-ranking Pentagon officials.
White House spokeswoman Laura Magnuson says the
meeting was useful but no decision has been made about a possible U.S. presence in Afghanistan after the NATO-led combat
mission formally concludes. She says Obama is continuing to
weigh input from military, intelligence and diplomatic officials.
The military has been pushing to keep up to 10,000 U.S. troops
in Afghanistan after 2014. But the White House says Obama
won’t leave any American forces in Afghanistan unless Afghan
President Hamid Karzai signs a bilateral security agreement.
Among the officials Obama met with were Gen. Joseph Dunford, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan; Defense Secretary
Chuck Hagel; and Joint Chiefs Chairman Martin Dempsey.
EU gives $431 million for
children in 15 countries
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The European Union has allocated 320 million euros ($431 million) to the U.N. children’s
agency to help 15 vulnerable countries tackle infectious diseases
and the lack of food, which are key causes of child deaths.
EU Development Commissioner Andris Piebalgs announced
the new funding Tuesday, standing beside UNICEF Executive
Director Anthony Lake who praised the way “the EU has put
children at the heart of its development agenda.”
While child mortality rates have declined from an estimated
12.6 million in 1990 to approximately 6.6 million in 2012,
UNICEF said around 18,000 children still die of preventable diseases every day.
The EU funding is going
to East Timor and 14 African
countries — Burundi, Congo,
Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory
Coast, Madagascar, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger,
Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Somalia,
Zambia and Zimbabwe.
RI college threat
suspect surrenders
DARTMOUTH,
Mass.
(AP) — A man suspected of
sending a threatening email
to faculty and staff at Rhode
Island’s Roger Williams University Law School has peacefully surrendered to police after
a six-hour standoff at his Massachusetts home.
Dartmouth, Mass., police
Chief Timothy Lee says the
36-year-old man surrendered
Tuesday evening after police
told him they were going to cut
off power to the house.
The university says it
received the email from a
former law school student
Tuesday morning. Police say
the email included threats to
“shoot up” campuses in Bristol
and Providence, R.I.
Police say the man is being
evaluated at a hospital and is
expected to face charges.
Some relatives say the man
had been depressed and they
didn’t think he was armed.
Electricity fails
in parts of 11
Brazilian states
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) —
Power failed in parts of 11 Brazilian states Tuesday, affecting
more than 2 million people in
a blackout that lasted about 40
minutes.
Officials said the power
failure was caused by a short
circuit in a transmission line in
the state of Tocantins, but they
did not yet know what caused
that line to fail.
The failure hit southeastern
states and parts of Brazil’s two
biggest cities, Sao Paulo and
Rio de Janeiro.
Power outages used to be
more frequent in Brazil and
energy rationing was imposed
for a time a decade ago.
Improvements in infrastructure
have been made in the energy
sector, but major power outages still happen a few times a
year.
Obama and French
president to tour
Monticello estate
CHARLOTTESVILLE,
Va. (AP) — President Barack
Obama plans to visit Thomas
Jefferson’s Monticello estate
next week with French President Francois Hollande.
The White House said
Tuesday that Obama will mark
the partnership between the
U.S. and France with a tour
next Monday of Jefferson’s
Charlottesville residence.
Jefferson, the third U.S.
president, served as U.S.
ambassador to France from
1785-1789.
The White House says
Monticello reflects Jefferson’s
affection for the people of
France and the longstanding
relations between the two
nations.
Prince Charles visits
flood victims in uk
LONDON (AP) — Prince
Charles has visited flood-hit
areas of southwest England,
riding by boat and tractor to
survey the damage and showing
support for the locals.
The royal pledged a 50,000pound ($81,000) donation
to help flood victims in the
Somerset Levels area, where
thousands of acres dotted with
farmland and villages have
been under water for a month.
Charles braved rain and
flooded roads to meet locals
at a reception, telling those
attending
Tuesday:
“The
tragedy is that nothing happened for so long.” Many residents have expressed anger at
the way the government coped
with the disaster, saying its
response is too slow. The royal
rode on a boat to visit a village
cut off by flood waters, and
later climbed aboard a tractortowed trailer to visit a farm.
Surgeon General
nominee pledges
focus on obesity
WASHINGTON (AP) —
The Obama administration’s
nominee for surgeon general
says his top priorities will be
fighting obesity and helping
communities promote healthier
living. Dr. Vivek Murthy, a
Harvard Medical School physician, told a Senate committee
Tuesday that obesity is the
defining public health challenge of our time.
Conservatives questioned
if Murthy’s main credential
is a political one, because he
founded a doctors’ organization that has advocated for the
Affordable Care Act and he has
tweeted about gun control.
But Murthy said if he is confirmed as the nation’s doctor,
he won’t use the job as a bully
pulpit for gun control. Murthy
also said the surgeon general
is an educator who should
help find common ground in
improving public health. Senators haven’t yet scheduled a
vote on Murthy’s nomination.
CHP patrol shoots
suspect on highway
DIXON, Calif. (AP) — The
California Highway Patrol says
a suspect is hospitalized after
one of its officers shot him on
a Northern California highway
during a traffic stop.
CHP spokesman Officer
Chris Parker says the incident
occurred shortly before 8 p.m.
Monday in Dixon. Officers had
been told to be on the lookout
for a stolen truck that was being
driven by a man suspected of
an assault in Sacramento.
Parker says when the
officers saw the pickup on
eastbound Interstate 80 and
attempted a traffic stop, the
driver came charging at one
of them. The second officer
then opened fire. Parker says
the unnamed suspect was shot
once and remained combative
as he was taken to a hospital.
His condition was not known.
The highway was shut down
for more than two hours after
the shooting.
NOTICE FOR SEPARATION AGREEMENT
Secretary of
state sued over
criminals’ voting
SACRAMENTO,
Calif.
(AP) — Voting and civil liberties groups sued Secretary
of State Debra Bowen on
Tuesday over a decision she
made in 2011 that said tens of
thousands of criminals who are
serving their sentences under
community supervision are
ineligible to vote.
The American Civil Liberties Union, League of Women
Voters, Lawyers’ Committee
for Civil Rights and other
groups filed the lawsuit in
Alameda County Superior
Court on behalf of nearly
60,000 convicts who are sentenced either to mandatory
supervision or post-release
community supervision.
It’s the second lawsuit challenging Bowen’s interpretation of the 2011 criminal justice realignment law, which is
designed to ease overcrowding
in state prisons by sentencing
those convicted of less serious
crimes to county jails or alternative treatment programs.
The first lawsuit included
those serving time in county
jails and sought an expedited
hearing from the 1st District
Court of Appeal in San Francisco. It would have allowed
locally incarcerated felons to
vote in the June 2012 primary
election.
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that MILI LEONG, MICHAEL LEONG, DEBORAH ASATO, DONNA
SCHLIZKUS & DANA PADILLA of LEONE has offered for recording in this office an instrument in
writing which seeks to separate a certain structure which is or to be erected, on land VAITAGUTU,
allegedly belonging to ATIGA FAMILY of the village of LEONE. Said land VAITAGUTU is situated in
or near the village of LEONE in the County of FOFO, Island of TUTUILA, American Samoa.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that any interested person may object to the recording of such
instrument by filing in the Territorial Registar’s Office in Fagatogo, a written objection to the
recording of said instrument. Any objections thereto must be filed with in 30 days from the date
of posting of this notice.
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the instrument will be recorded and shall be valid and binding on all persons. The said
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SIGNED: Taito S.B. White, Territorial Registrar
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I tagata o le aiga sa ATIGA, ma i latou uma e silasila ma lauiloaina lenei fa’aaliga!
O le fa’aaliga lenei ona o MILI LEONG, MICHAEL LEONG, DEBORAH ASATO, DONNA
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tusitusi e fa’ailoa ai se mana’oga fia tu’u’eseina o se fale ua/po o le a, fa’atuina i luga o le fanua o
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i le nu’u o LEONE, itumalo o FOFO, ile motu o TUTUILA, Amerika Samoa.
O le fa’aaliga fo’i e fa’apea, so o se tasi e iai sona aia i lenei mata’upu e mafai ona fa’atu’i’iese
ile fa’amauina o lenei feagaiga pe a auina mai i le ofisa ole Resitara o le Teritori of Amerika Samoa
i Fagatogo, sana fa’atu’ese tusitusia. O fa’atu’iesega uma lava e ao ona fa’aulufaleina mai i totonu
o aso e 30 faitauina mai i le aso na faíaalia ai lenei fa’aaliga.
Afai ole a leai se fa’atu’i’esega e fa’aulufaleina i totonu o aso 30 e pei ona ta’ua i luga, o le a
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OFFICE OF PROCUREMENT
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (RFP)
RFP No: RFP-031-2014
RFP No:
RFP-031-2014
Issuance Date: January 31, 2014
Date & Time Due: March 03, 2014
No later than 2:00 p.m. local time
The American Samoa Government (ASG) issues a Request For Proposals (RFP) from
qualified individuals and firms to provide:
“E-Rate Year 17 Basic Maintenance of Servers for DOE”
Submission:
Original and five copies of the Proposal must be submitted in a sealed envelope marked: “ERate Year 17 Basic Maintenance of Servers for DOE.” Submissions are to be sent to the
following address and will be received until 2:00 p.m. (local time), Monday, March 3, 2014:
Office of Procurement
attn: Tiaotalaga J.E. Kruse, CPO
Any proposal received after the aforementioned date and time will not be accepted under any
circumstances. Late submissions will not be opened or considered and will be determined as
beingn on-responsive.
Document:
The RFP Scope of Work outlining the proposal requirements is available at The Office of
Procurement, Tafuna, American Samoa, during normal working hours.
Review:
Request for Proposal data will be thoroughly reviewed by an appointed Source Evaluation
Board under the auspices of the Chief Procurement Officer, Office of Procurement, ASG.
Right of Rejection:
The American Samoa Government reserves the right to reject any and/or all proposals and to
waive any irregularities and/or informalities in the submitted proposals that are not in the best
interests of the American Samoa Government or the public.
“Equal Opportunity Employer / Affirmative Action”
TIAOTALAGA J.E. KRUSE
Chief Procurement Officer
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➧ Alleged tuna fishing license scheme…
➧ Regains long lost son…
PLAINTIFFS COMPLAINT
In it’s amended complaint filed Jan. 10 this
year, the plaintiff claims that the suit arises
from false and fraudulent statements made by
defendants to the government for the purpose
of obtaining U.S. vessel documentation and
tuna fishing licenses for two Korean owned and
operated purse seiner tuna fishing vessels.
The vessels, owned by the Kim sisters, who
are both Korean born but later naturalized U.S.
citizens, are registered in Delaware as limited
liability corporations (LLC). The vessels —
MV Majestic Blue and MV Pacific Breeze —
operate out of Guam.
Plaintiffs allege the defendants “set up sham
ownership structures using U.S. citizen strawpeople, and fraudulently certified the vessels
would be controlled by U.S. citizens. This
fraudulent certification allowed defendants to
obtain” U.S. certificates, which allowed them
to obtain fishing licenses under the South
Pacific Tuna Treaty (SPTT).
The SPTT establishes procedures to request
licenses and establishes a system to allocate a
limited number of licenses to the United States
and other treaty nations to fish the waters of
certain Pacific Island Nations, according to the
lawsuit.
The suit explains in order to promote the
U.S. fisheries industry, the federal government pays $18 million annually to the Foreign
Fisheries Association (FFA) in return for a
limited number of licenses which allow U.S.
registered vessels to fish for tuna in the exclusive economic zones of certain Pacific Island
Nations.
Plaintiffs claim that Majestic Blue and
Pacific Breeze are actually owned by Dongwon,
a South Korean company.
Moore & Company also alleges the complaint arises from defendants’ fraudulent concealment and intentional failure to report oil
discharge and dumping at sea in order to conceal, avoid, or decrease the civil fines defendants would be subject to under the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (APPS).
Plaintiff’s original complaint was 31 pages
while the amended one — which incorporates a
lot of information and allegations from the first
complaint — has a total of 50 pages.
and turtles before washing ashore on the remote Marshall
Islands atoll of Ebon, 6,500 miles across the Pacific from the
fishing hamlet of Costa Azul, where he set out.
There was no immediate explanation of the discrepancy in
dates given by Alvarenga and Mexican authorities or the survivor’s different names. Alvarenga said he set sail on Dec. 21,
2012, but fisherman in Costa Azul said an overweight Central
American man known as “La Chancha,” or “the Pig,” had been
lost since November 2012. Alvarenga may have used multiple
nicknames, and he has seemed fuzzy about details of his voyage.
Jose Manuel Aragon, spokesman for the Chiapas state civil
defense office, said two weeks of searches were fruitless and his
comments reflected the widespread incredulity at Alvarenga’s tale.
“It was probably something that was planned beforehand,
something we had no knowledge of,” Aragon said. “Our only
duty was to carry out search and rescue operations.”
Villermino Rodriguez, a young fishing boat owner in Costa
Azul known as “Willie,” described Alvarenga as a heavy set,
quiet man. Alvarenga has said he worked for Willie.
Rodriguez said the two men set out despite warnings that
day about heavy rains and high winds.
He, too, wondered about the survival story.
“You can imagine a lot of things, but that is something he
should explain,” Rodriguez said. “There are things that don’t
match up. I knew him, but I have a lot of doubts.”
Alvarenga did not appear badly sunburned, despite his account
of spending such a long time adrift. “It’s hard for me to imagine
someone surviving 13 months at sea,” U.S. Ambassador Tom
Armbruster said in Majuro, capital of the Marshall Islands, after
speaking with Alvarenga. “But it’s also hard to imagine how
someone might arrive on Ebon out of the blue. Certainly this guy
has had an ordeal, and has been at sea for some time.”
Armbruster, who speaks Spanish, said Alvarenga told him he
was working for Willie, catching sharks for 25 pesos ($1.90) a
pound, when a storm blew his 23-foot (7-meter) fiberglass boat
off course. Photos from the Marshall Islands published by Britain’s Telegraph newspaper show the boat he purportedly arrived
in. It bore the hand-lettered name of a Chiapas fishing cooperative, Camaroneros de la Costa, that Alvarenga said he worked for.
The photos also showed an enormous plastic cooler that Alvarenga
purportedly used to shelter himself from the sun and sea.
Alvarenga’s story mirrors the tale of three Mexican fishermen
rescued by a trawler near the Marshall Islands in 2006 after nine
months at sea. Despite many doubters, Lucio Rendon, Salvador
Ordonez and Jesus Vidana stuck to their story, saying they left
Mexico’s Pacific port of San Blas on Oct. 28, 2005, and they
were rescued Aug. 9, 2006, by a Taiwanese fishing ship 5,000
miles away. The trio, who were also on a shark-fishing expedition in an open boat similar in size to Alvarenga’s, said they
survived by taking shelter from the sun under a blanket, eating
raw fish and birds and drinking rain water and their urine.
DEFENDANTS RESPONSE
In seeking to dismiss the complaint “with
prejudice” (or forbidden from filing another
lawsuit based on the same arguments), the
defendants first pointed out that Moore &
Company has represented a client for several
years in an ongoing, related litigation against
some of the defendants in the current action.
In June of 2010, the Majestic Blue sank
in western Pacific waters with 24 people on
board. The bodies of the captain and chief engineer were never found. A wrongful death lawsuit was then filed in October 2010 in Guam
by the captain’s widow against Dongwon and
Majestic Blue Fisheries, the defendants said in
its 44 page reply filed last November.
Additionally, Moore & Company “instituted” the wrongful death suit, representing the
captain’s widow.
After obtaining, through its representation,
secondhand knowledge of purported information and allegations outlined in the complaint,
Moore & Company now brings this action before
the court claiming “it has information of fraud
against the government”, the defense argued.
However, the defendants assert the lawsuit
does not even profess to have any firsthand,
inside information of fraud, but instead filed
the suit based upon publicly available information and allegations and therefore the complaint should be dismissed under the FCA’s
public disclosure bar.
Regarding Moore & Company’s allegations that the defendants set up a sham ownership structure to obtaining fishing licenses, the
defendants argued that the fishing licenses “do
not constitute money or property interests of
the U.S. Government” as required under FCA.
Court records show the plaintiffs have until
Feb. 11 to respond to the motion to dismiss the
case.
Dongwon “believes the allegations made
by the Moore law firm are meritless, and
intends to vigorously defend itself in this
matter, including seeking a full dismissal of the
action”, according to a company statement carried by Undercurrent News.
See future edition of Samoa News for more
details about the suit and response from the
defendants filed in court.
➧ Fo’isia to be leased…
“We are awaiting the specifics of the exchange between
Port and Rep. Jennings.”
Responding to Samoa New inquiries, Port Administration
director Taimalelagi Dr. Claire Tuia Poumele said that as of
Monday this week, the Fo’isia “is being assigned to the Swains
Island Community Group” and Rep. Jennings is the lead person
in this transaction.
“Once we transfer the Fo’isia to this organization it will
be their responsibility to outfit the vessel to meet their needs,”
she said yesterday morning, noting a proposed lease agreement for use of the vessel by the Swains Island group is being
worked on.
Jennings couldn’t be immediately reached for comments
yesterday and his cell phone didn’t accept a voice mail message. However, Samoa News should point out Jennings has
long urged more government support for economic development of Swains, saying the lack of ocean transport is one of the
major issues, noting especially there is no consistent schedule
of sailing to the tiny atoll.
ASG last year moved to auction the Fo’isia after it was
found that repairing it would be “uneconomical” due to high
maintenance costs.
The vessel, which was to sail between the Manu’a islands
— was bought with a portion of the $1 million allocated to the
Manu’a District as part of the $20 million loan from the ASG
Employees Retirement Fund.
As previously reported by Samoa News, the government
more than three years ago allocated $450,000 for the boat purchase. The final purchase price of the vessel, including shipping costs, etc. was:
Cost of the vessel $320,000.
$3,000
Satellite phone
Shipping costs
$33,000
Shipping cradle
$11,000
Grand total:
$367,000.00
The initial attempt died when both the state appellate court
and the California Supreme Court declined to hear the case,
without comment.
As a result, “the Secretary of State’s reading of the law
stands,” Bowen spokeswoman Nicole Winger said in an email.
Winger said she could not comment on pending litigation.
Both lawsuits argue that state law prohibits voting only by
people who are in state prison or on parole. California already
allows voting by those on county-supervised probation.
The latest lawsuit contends that the two new forms of community supervision were intended “as innovative communitybased alternatives to parole,” with alternatives emphasized in
italics. Felons under those programs are supervised by county
employees, not state parole agents.
teen gets 27 years in man’s beating death
CHICAGO (AP) — The second of three Chicago teenagers
accused in the 2012 beating death of a man collecting cans has
been sentenced to 27 years in prison.
Delfino Mora, a 62-year-old father of 12, was punched by one
of the teens and hit his head on the concrete as the others filmed
the attack with a cellphone. The teens then robbed Mora of $60.
Authorities were led to the teens after a video of the attack
turned up on Facebook. The Cook County state’s attorney says
18-year-old Nicholas Ayala pleaded guilty Tuesday to firstdegree murder and robbery in the case. One co-defendant was
convicted of murder and robbery and was sentenced to 30 years
in prison. A third co-defendant is awaiting trial.
Navy supercarrier leaves
Pa. on trip to scrap heap
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Navy’s first post-World War
II supercarrier has left Philadelphia on a final trip to a scrapping
facility in Texas. The Philadelphia Inquirer says the massive aircraft carrier USS Forrestal left under tow early Tuesday to begin
its 17- or 18-day trip.
The 60-year-old ship is being taken to a Brownsville, Texas,
recycling facility owned by All Star Metals, which was paid 1
cent to haul away and dismantle it.
The USS Forrestal was decommissioned in September 1993,
after more than 38 years of service.
It’s best known for a 1967 fire on its flight deck that killed 132
crewmen and injured 62 others. The Navy made the USS Forrestal available for donation as a museum or memorial but says it
received no feasible applications for reuse.
Biden urges compromise
to resolve Ukraine crisis
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden is urging
Ukraine’s president to accept international support and take
immediate steps to resolve the nation’s political crisis.
Biden spoke by phone Tuesday with President Viktor Yanukovych (yah-noo-KOH’-vich). It’s at least the fourth time this
year that the two leaders have spoken.
The White House says Biden encouraged Yanukovych to
remove riot police, release detainees and hold those responsible
for attacking journalists and protesters accountable. Biden says
only more dialogue and compromise can lead to a new government that will have the Ukrainian people’s confidence.
Over two months of intense protests have put Yanukovych
under substantial pressure. But he has made no moves to work
with the opposition since last week, when he pushed parliament
to pass a measure providing amnesty to many arrested protesters.
6 killed in shootouts with
Rio de Janeiro police
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Police in Rio de Janeiro say at
least six people have been killed during shootouts between officers and suspected drug gang members. Rio police are carrying
out operations in several slums, hunting for those responsible for
the weekend shooting death of an officer.
A police spokesman says the six killed Tuesday were suspected drug gang members. Two other suspects were shot and
two police were also wounded in the clashes.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity, saying he wasn’t
yet authorized to discuss the details of the police operations.
Since 2008, police in Rio have been entering slums long held
by drug gangs and setting up a permanent presence. Police say
it’s a key strategy for securing the city ahead of this year’s World
Cup and the 2016 Olympics.
DC mayor urges caution
on pot decriminalization
WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington’s mayor and police
chief are concerned that a bill decriminalizing possession of
small amounts of marijuana will lead to widespread pot smoking
in public. Mayor Vincent Gray said in a letter to the D.C. Council
that a bill up for an initial vote Tuesday doesn’t establish enough
deterrents to public smoking.
The bill would make possession of less than one ounce of
marijuana a civil offense. Smoking in public would incur a $100
fine that the mayor says people can easily ignore. He says he
doesn’t want to make smoking pot the equivalent of littering and
that children shouldn’t have to breathe marijuana smoke while
they walk to school.
People walk through a snow-covered Central Park in New York, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014.
The National Weather Service said Monday’s storm, which brought 8 inches of snow to New
(AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
York City, will be followed by a new storm in the Midwest on Tuesday.
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Le afioga i le Lutena Kovana, Lemanu Peleti Mauga, faatasi ai ma le susuga ia Alonso Pete
Galeai - sui ia o le malo, o lo’o pu’e le latou ata ma sui o le kamupani Tri Marine International i
le aso Faraile ua te’a. [ata: Tri Marine]
Tatala tautua a le Tri
Marine i le tausaga nei
faaliliu Ausage Fausia
O le vaiaso na te’a nei na faalauiloa mai ai e
le pulega a le kamupani o le Tri Marine International ni isi o a latou fuafuaga e tusa ai o le latou
auaunaga i le atunuu, e pei o le tatalaina lea o le
vaega lua o le latou Fale Tuuaisa ua faaigoaina
o le (fresh and frozen facility) i le lala o le latou
kamupani, le Samoa Tuna Processors (STP) i le
masina fou, atoa ai ma le tatalaina aloaiaina o
lana auaunaga mo le atunuu i le fale tuuapa ‘ia i
le masina o Setema 2014, ae le o le tausaga fou.
O sui o le kamupani na malaga mai ma feiloa’i
ma sui o le malo i le vaiaso na te’a nei e aofia
ai le Pulesili, ia Renato Curto, o ia fo’i lea o le
ta’ita’ifono a le kamupani, susuga ia Joe Hamby
lea o lo o faauluulu i ai gaioiga a le kamupani
atoa ai ma ni isi o sui sinia, lea na feiloa’i ma le
Lutena Kovana ia Lemanu Peleti Mauga ma isi
sui o le malo i le aso Faraile na te’a nei.
Na taua e le sui faapitoa o le alii kovana ia
Iulogologo Joseph Pereira i le Samoa News
e faapea, o le taimi o le asiasiga i totonu o le
nofoaga lea ua faamoemoe e faatino ai galuega
a le kamupani, na faailoa aloaia ai loa e Curto ia
Lemanu, o le masina o Setema o le tausaga nei e
tatala aloaia ai galuega a le kamupani i le tulaga
o le tuuapa ina o ‘ia, ae le o le tausaga fou e pei
ona ulua’i faalauiloa mai.
Na taua atili e Iulogologo e faapea, e le gata
na faamalulu Lemanu ia Curto ina ua le auai atu
le afioga i le kovana ia Lolo Matalasi Moliga i
lea feiloaiga, ona o ni isi o tuatuagia le ma’alofia,
peita’i ua sauni le faigamalo e ofoina atu lana fesoasoani i soo se vaega, e lagolago ai taumafaiga a
le STP, lea fo’i o le a mafai ai ona maua le silia i
le afe galuega mo tagata Amerika Samoa.
I lea feiloaiga, e le gata na faafetaia ai e
Lemanu le naunau atu o le kamupani e vave
tatala la latou auaunaga mo Amerika Samoa, ae
sa faalauiloa ai fo’i e Curto le sauni o le kamupani e galulue faatasi ma le malo, atoa ai ma le
faalauiloaina o le latou aisa fou lea o le a tatalaina i le masina fou, lea e 4,400 tane (tons) o i’a
e mafai ona teuina ai i totonu.
Sa faailoa fo’i e Curto ia Lemanu e faapea,
talu ai o le naunau o le alii kovana ina ia faatelevave gaioiga a le kamupani ina ia maua ai ni
galuega mo le atunuu, ua ia manatu ai loa o le
a una’i fuafuaga uma ina ia tatala ia Setema o
le tausaga nei, ma o lea tala na matua lagona ai
e Lemanu le fiafia ma ia faafetaia ai le susuga
Curto ma lana pulega, i lo latou lagolagoina o
taumafaiga a le faigamalo e faaleleia galuega
ma fesoasoani i le tamaoaiga o le atunuu.
I se feiloaiga a tusitala ma le susuga Curto, sa ia
faaalia ai lona agaga fiafia ina ua maua le avanoa e
toe taliu mai ai i le teritori, le nofoaga e pele i lona
loto, faatasi ai ma le faanaunauga e faanatinati fuafuaga mo le tatalaina o le tautua a le STP.
O se tasi o mafuaaga o le toe malaga mai o
Curto ma nisi o lana pulega i Amerika Samoa
nei, o le fia vaai lea i le tulaga ua i ai le toe
faaleleia o fale o le a avea ma nofoaga autu a
le kamupani i Atu’u, atoa ai ma le taumafai e
faanatinati tapenaga ina ia tatala galuega uma ia
Setema o le tausaga nei.
Sa ia taua fo’i e faapea, i le atoa ai lona 69
tausaga ia Tesema 2013, ua ia manatu ai e fia
vaai ua tulaga lelei ma mautu fuafuaga uma a le
kamupani a’o le i atoa lona 70 i le tausaga nei.
O le masina o Aperila o le tausaga na te’a nei
na tatala ai le fale tuu aisa a le kamupani (Cold
Storage) ma le faamoemoe o le isi laasaga lona
lua o lea galuega ua fuafua e tatalaina i le masina
fou, e pei ona faamaonia mai e Curto, atoa ai ma
se tasi o fuafuaga a le kamupani, o le faatauina
mai lea o i’a fou mai tagata fai va’a fagota i le
atunuu, mo le faamoemoe e faamama le aano o
le i’a ona auina atu lea i maketi i fafo e faatau ai.
O lea tautua e pei ona taua e Curto, o se mea
fou toe ese mai fo’i i auaunaga o lo o i ai, ma o se
auala ua manatu ai le pulega e fesoasoani ai i le itu
tau tupe a le kamupani, e le gata o le a galulue i le
tuu apaina o le i’a, ae o le a latou auina atu fo’i le
aano mata o le i’a i maketi i fafo e faatau ai.
Feso’ota’i mai i le tusitala ia
[email protected]
Avea ovataimi ma
amataga faafitauli
tamaoaiga o le malo
tusia Ausage Fausia
Na manino i le saunoaga a le afioga i le alii kovana ia Lolo
Matalasi Moliga e faapea, ua avea ovataimi ma ‘compensatory time’ o lo o faaopoopo atu i tagata faigaluega a le malo,
o le amataga lea o tulaga faafitauli i le tamaoaiga o le malo o
Amerika Samoa.
I le taumafai ai o le alii kovana e puipui tupe a le malo ma
lona tamaoaiga mai le aafia ona o tulaga i ova taimi ma ‘comp
time’ a le malo, sa ia fautuaina ai loa Faatonusili uma o matagaluega ma ofisa a le malo, e ala i lana tusi i le aso 27 Ianuari 2014,
ina ia latou sailia auala e faatonutonu ai tulaga e pei ona ia taua.
Na taua e Lolo i lana tusi e faapea, i le taumafai ai e taofiofi
tulaga o ova taimi ma ‘comp time’, o le mafuaaga lea na ia faatulaga ai ta’iala i le ulua’i taimi ua mavae e taofia ai le toe i ai o
ni ova taimi, ae tatala ai loa le avanoa e faa faigaluega ai ni isi
tagata faigaluega fou mo le malo, ae foliga mai lava e i ai ni isi
o faatonusili ma faauluuluga o ofisa ma matagaluega a le malo e
le o manatu mamafa i lea tulaga.
“Ua tuuina atu le tusi lenei e faatonuina ai ina ia faia se
auala e faaitiitia ai itula ova taimi ma ‘comp time’ i totonu o lau
matagaluega ina ia tusa ai ma ala o le tulafono,” o se vaega lea o
le tusi a Lolo i Faatonusili.
O se tasi o itu na taua e Lolo, e tatau i Faatonusili ona ave aso
malolo mo tagata faigaluega i a latou matagaluega, ina ia sui mai
ai le tulaga o lo o faia o le totogiina atu lea e le malo o o tupe mo
ova taimi atoa ai ma ‘comp time’ a tagata faiglauega.
Sa toe faamanatu e Lolo i lana kapineta, e manaomia le pasia
muamua o ova taimi ma ‘comp time’ ona faatoa tuuina atu ai lea
i le tagata faigaluega.
Talu ai o faiga faavae a le malo ua maea ona taoto e faatatau
i le mataupu lenei, o le a gafa ai le Faatonusili ma le totogiina o
tulaga tau tupe pe afai e le amanaia faiga faavae ua mae’a ona
faataoto.
“I le tapunia ai o le tausaga tupe lenei 2014, e na o ova taimi
ma ‘comp time’ ua maea ona aloaia faaletulafono e mafai ona
faaauau i totonu o faamaumauga a le malo mo le isi tausaga tupe
fou o lo o sosoo ai nei,” o se vaega lea o le saunoaga a Lolo.
Na taua e le alii kovana e faapea, o lo o to’atele isi tagata
Amerika Samoa o lo o tau saili ni a latou galuega, ae atili ai ona
le maua nei avanoa pe afai e galulue ova taimi tagata faigaluega
a le malo o lo o i ai, po o le ofoina atu fo’i i ai o ‘comp time’.
O le agaga maualuga o le ali’i kovana e pei ona ia faaalia i
soo se taimi e fono ai lana kapeneta, ia maua uma e le toatele o
tagata Amerika Samoa le avanoa e galulue ai i galuega, ina ia
maua ai tupe e fesoasoani ai i le tausiga o a latou aiga.
Pulea ofisa Paka ma Malae
Taalo meatotino a le malo
tusia Ausage Fausia
Ua taoto atu nei le puleaina ma le vaavaaia o meatotino a le
malo e pei o le Malae o le Talu i Fagatogo atoa ai ma le malae
o le Su’igaula a le Atuvasa lea o lo o fausia ai le Fale Samoa a
le malo, i lalo o le ta’ita’iga a le Matagaluega o Paka ma Malae
Taalo a le malo, e pei ona taua e le afioga i le kovana sili ia
Lolo Matalasi Moliga, i sana tusi sa tuuina atu i fa’atonusili o
ofisa ma matagaluega uma a le malo.
Na taua e Lolo i lana tusi i le aso 27 Ianuari 2014 e faapea,
ua mafua lenei tulaga ona o le tulaga faigata o lo o tula’i mai
pea i le taimi nei, i le le mautinoa lea po o ai le vaega o le malo
e gafa ma le toe faafouina o meatotino ma fale a le malo pe a o
o ina mana’omia le toe faaleleia.
Mo le Malae o le Talu i Fagatogo lea fo’i o lo o i ai le
Pavilion, ua tuuina atu nei i lalo o le vaavaaiga a le Paka ma
Malae Ta’aalo. Soo se tasi e fia faaaogaina lea meatotino a
le malo, e ao ona latou faafesootaia muamua lea ofisa mo se
faatanaga.
Mo le malae o le Si’ugaula a le Atuvasa i Utulei, lea o lo
o i ai le Fale Samoa faapea ai ma tama’i faleoo o lo o si’omia
ai lona atufalega, ma faasolo atu ai seia oo i le vaega e paka ai
ta’avale i le maota o H. Rex Lee Auditorium, o le a i lalo uma
fo’i o le vaavaaiga a lea Ofisa a le malo.
E ui o lo o tumau pea le faaaoga a le Ofisa o Mataupu Tau
Samoa o le Fale Samoa i Utulei, ae tatau lava ona fesoota’i
muamua ma le ofisa o Paka ma Malae Taalo mo lona
faaaogaina.
Ae mo le faafouina o le maota o H. Rex Lee Auditorium
i Utulei faapea ai lona siomiaga, o lo o i ai pea lea i lalo o
(Faaauau itulau 22)
US child traffic deaths
Ioe le ali’i pagota i drop
43% over decade
tu’uaiga a le malo
tusia Ausage Fausia
O le ali’i e 19 tausaga le matua lea na sola i
tua mai le toese i Tafuna, ina ua taofia faapagota
o ia e le malo i le tausaga na te’a nei, e mafua
mai i le fa’alavelave lea na ia tau ta tipiina ai
se tamaloa i se naifi tipi povi, ua ia ta’utino i le
fa’amasinoga maualuga e fa’amaonia tu’uaiga
uma faasaga ia te ia.
I le taliaina ai e le fa’amasinoga o le tali
ioe a le ali’i o Joe Togitogi i moliaga e tolu e
pei ona ta’usala ai o ia e le fa’amasinoga, ua
fa’atulaga ai loa le lauina o lona faasalaga i le
aso 21 Mati.
E lua mataupu tau solitulafono mamafa
na tuuaia ai e le malo le ali’i o Togitogi. O le
mataupu muamua na tula’i mai i Nuuuli i le aso
21-22 o Iulai 2013, lea na tuuaia ai o ia e le malo
i moliaga e fa, e aofia ai le moliaga mamafa o
le faomea i le tulaga muamua, ma isi moliaga
mamafa e lua o le fa’aaoga faasolitulafono o se
a’upega, atoa ai ma le moliaga mama e tasi o le
fa’aoolima i le tulaga tolu.
Ae i lalo o se maliliega na sainia e Togitogi
ma le malo, sa ia tali ioe ai i le moliaga e tasi
o lona fa’aaoga fa’asolitulafono o se a’upega,
faapea ai ma le moliaga mama o le faaoolima
i le tulaga tolu, ae solofua e le fa’amasinoga isi
moliaga o lo o totoe ai.
A’o taofia ai Togitogi i le toese, sa sola ese
ai o ia i tua mai le toese i le aso 27 Novema
2013, ma tuuaia ai fo’i o ia e le malo i le moliaga
mamafa e tasi o le sola i tua mai le toese, faapea
ai ma le moliaga mama o le faatupu vevesi i
nofoaga faitele.
Ae i lalo o le maliliega lea na saini e le ua
molia ma ua talia fo’i e le faamasinoga, ua ia tali
ioe ai i le moliaga o le faatupu vevesi i nofoaga
faitele ae solofua e le faamasinoga le isi moliaga.
I le tali ioe ai o Togitogi i le mataupu lea na
ia taumafai ai e faafefe se tamaloa i se agaese,
sa ia tautino ai e faapea, i se taimi o le aso 21-22
o Iulai i Nuuuli, sa ia alu ai ma se naifi tipi povi
lapo’a i le faleie sa nofo ai le tamaloa na aafia,
ma taumafai e faafefe o ia.
O ana gaioiga tau faafefe e aofia ai lona folafola i le tamaloa na aafia, o le a ia tago e tatipi
ese uma ona tamatama’i lima. Na ta’utino Togitogi e faapea, ina ua uma ona ia faia upu tau
faamata’u nei, sa ia tago loa ua sasau le naifi
tipi povi e pei lava o le a ia tipiina le tamaloa na
aafia, ina ia faafefe ai o ia. Na ia toe folafola fo’i
i ai e faapea, afai na te fasiotia o ia, o le a tu’ua’i
le fasiotiina o ia i luga o lona uso matua.
Na ta’utino Togitogi i luma o le faamasinoga
e faapea, o lana gaioiga sa faia i lea aso ua le
tusa lea ma ala o le tulafono, sa ia tautino fo’i e
faapea, o ana gaioiga sa faia na mafua ai ona oo
le fefe ma le mata’u i le tamaloa na aafia.
Sa ia ta’utino fo’i e faapea, a’o taofia ai o ia
i le toese e faatali ai le taimi e faamaea ai lona
faamasinoga i le mataupu e pei ona ia ioeina,
sa sola ese ai i tua mai le toese ma aga’i atu i
se faleoloa i Kokoland, ma ia faia ai ni uiga e
ono save’u ai le nonofo filemu o tagata e pei o
le palau vale ma leo tele solo, atoa ai ma lona
taumafai e sola ese ina ua ia vaaia leoleo ua
aga’i atu e pu’e mai o ia. Na ta’utino Togitogi e
faapea, o ana gaioiga sa faia i lea aso i luma o le
faleoloa i Kokoland, sa le tusa ai ma le tulafono.
Ua malilie loia a itu e lua, o le a la finau i le
faamasinoga mo se faasalaga mama mo Togitogi. O lo o taofia pea Togitogi i le toese e faatali
ai le aso lea ua faatulaga e lau ai lona faasalaga.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Children are dying less often in traffic
accidents: Over a decade, the number who died in crashes
dropped by 43 percent, according to a new government report.
Health officials say the increased use of car seats and booster
seats drove the decline. Still, one-third of the children 12 and under
who died in 2011 were not buckled up. “The first step is buckling
up. Every child, of every age, on every trip,” said Dr. Tom Frieden,
director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC report focused on crash deaths of children 12 and
under and covered 2002 through 2011, when traffic fatalities
overall declined to levels not seen since the 1940s.
Young children traditionally have been only a small fraction of total traffic deaths. In the last year of the study, children
accounted for 650 of the 21,000 deaths of drivers and passengers.
Preliminary CDC figures for 2012 show child deaths continued
to fall, to 637. “Children aren’t going drinking, and they’re not
typically out at night,” said Jonathan Adkins, deputy director of
the Governors Highway Safety Association.
Teens and young adults account for the largest share of deaths,
he added.
The CDC study was not designed to answer why the deaths of
younger children declined. But experts credited a large growth in
state laws requiring car seats and booster seats, and in programs
that promote buckling kids up.
But there’s been a racial disparity in how well that’s worked.
Almost half of the black and Hispanic children who died in crashes
in 2009 and 2010 were not in safety seats or wearing seat belts,
compared to a quarter of white deaths, according to the CDC.
That may be related to income, experts said. Car seats can run
well over $100 and be challenging to install. Larger proportions
of minority families may have trouble getting the money or help
to put them in. Frieden noted there are community programs that
provide help and subsidies for car seats.
Health officials urge parents to keep all children 12 and under
in the back seat, and use car seats and booster seats until seat belts
fit properly. They recommend that car seats should face the rear
up to age 2.
Last month, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration proposed new regulations to better protect kids in car seats
from side-impact crashes.
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OFA KOMITI
Ua i luma nei o le
fa’amasinoga le mataupu
faasaga ia Ofa Komiti, ona o
tuuaiga i lona ave faagaoi lea o
se vaega tupe e silia i le $25,000
mai le kamupani o le O&O
Company i Nuuuli sa galue
muamua ai. O lo o tuuaia faatasi e le malo ia Komiti ma Lisi
Kwon i lenei mataupu, peitai e
le o i ai Know i le taimi nei i
le teritori, se’i vagana ai Komiti
lea ua molia i moliaga mamafa
e lua, le moliaga o le gaoi
faapea ai ma le moliaga o lona
ave faagaoi o ni tupe sa tuuina
atu i lalo o lana vaavaaiga.
E tusa ai o faamaumauga a
le faamasinoga o lo o taua ai e
faapea, o le masina o Novema
2012 na faailoa ai e se sui o le
kamupani i leoleo lenei mataupu,
ma tofia ai loa le alii leoleo ia
Elden Ane na te suesueina faamatalaga uma e uiga i le mea sa tupu.
Na taua e le sui o le kamupani i leoleo e faapea, o le tiute
a Komiti ma Kwon, o le galulue
lea e faapaleni tupe a le kamupani ma teu uma ana faamaumauga, ae ina ua siaki atu i le
masina o Novema 2012 faamaumauga, sa maua ai le aofaiga
o le tupe ua leiloa e $25,820.58.
Na taua i faamaumauga a le
faamasinoga e faapea, sa i ai se
sui o le kamupani na fesootai i
ni isi o pisinisi o lo o aitalafu
i le kamupani, ma faailoa i ai
tulaga o a latou aitalafu, peitai
sa faailoa ane e sui o ia pisinisi
i le sui o le kamupani, ua maea
ona totogi a latou aitalafu, ae
ina ua sailia e le sui o le kamupani a latou faamaumauga, sa
iloa ai e le o faamauina i totonu
o a latou faamaumauga aitalafu
a pisinisi e pei ona taua.
Na taua e le sui o le kamupani i leoleo e faapea, ina ua
ia fesiligia Kwon i le aso 25
Oketopa 2012 e uiga i lenei
mataupu, sa ia ioeina ai lona
ave faagaoi o le tupe e $3,561.
Sa tuuaia e Kwon ia Komiti,
o ia lea ua mafua ai ona ia faia
lenei solitulafono, ona ua tele
tausaga o gaoi e Komiti tupe mai
le kamupani, ae le i faia lava i ai
e le kamupani se faaiuga, o lo
o tuuaia foi le faailoa e Komiti
ia Kwon lo latou faia o lenei
gaioia ma isi tagata faigaluega
sa galulue muamua i le kamupani i tausaga ua mavae.
Ae ina ua fesiligia e leoleo
ia Komiti, sa ia tuuaia ai Kwon
o ia lea ua mafua ai ona ia faia
lenei solitulafono, ina ua ia fautuaina o ia na te gaoiina mai
tupe mai le kamupani.
Na taua fo’i e Komiti i
leoleo e faapea, e le i tuana’i ni
nai aso talu ona alu atu Kwon
ma talanoa atu ia te ia e faatatau
i le ave faagaoi o tupe mai teugatupe a le kamupani, ae te’i
ina ua oo atu i le fale sa ia maua
ai le $1,000 i totonu o lana ato,
ae i le isi vaiaso e sosoo ai, sa
ia maua ai fo’i le $700 i totonu
o lana ato, o le isi vaiaso sa ia
maua ai le $800, ma le masina o
Novema 2012 sa ia maua ai fo’i
le $1,000 i totonu o lana ato.
E tusa ai ma faamaumauga
a le faamasinoga, e 15 faleoloa
sa misi a latou faamaumauga o
aitalafu mai api a le kamupani a
le O&O, o lo o maua fo’i i faamaumauga a le kamupani, o le
aso 25 Oketopa e o o atu i le aso
15 Novema 2012 na faatinoina
ai e i laua ua molia nei gaioiga.
JAMES BARLOW
O le ali’i lea sa avea ma
faiaoga o le Kolisi Tuufaatasi a
Amerika Samoa, lea o lo o tuuaia
i lona faia o amioga mataga i ni
ali’i aoga se to’atolu, ua ia talosaga i le fa’amasinoga maualuga
e faatulaga loa se aso e faia ai
lana faamasinoga iloilo i luma o
ali’i fa’amasino (Bench Trial).
O tuuaiga faasaga ia Barlow
na alia’e mai i le tausaga na te’a
nei, ina ua taofi e leoleo lana
taavale ona o tu’uaiga i le ave
ta’avale ‘ona, ae maua atu ai e
leoleo ma ni alii talavou i totonu
o le ta’avale a le ua molia, o lo o
‘onana uma fo’i.
O le taimi na fesiligia ai e
leoleo ali’i talavou i le mafuaaga
o le latou i ai i totonu o le ta’avale
a Barlow, na fa’amatala ai loa e
i latou mea uma sa tutupu i le va
o i latou ma le ua molia, e aofia
ai le faia e le ua molia o ni uiga
mataga ia te i latou i lona fale,
a’o lumana’i ai le taimi na taofia
ai i latou e leoleo.
O lo o taofia pea Barlow i le
toese i Tafuna i le taimi nei, ina
ua le mafai ona ia totogi le tupe
e $100,000 sa faatulaga e tatala
ai o ia i tua.
[email protected]
Azira with two of her three white cubs that were born last
week in a private zoo in central Poland, on Tuesday, Feb. 4,
2014. White lions often have defects the prevent giving birth, or
the mother rejects her cubs, but two and a half-year-old Azira
(AP Photo)
has been feeding and caring for her little ones.
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Opposition supporters in military uniforms and carrying sticks as weapons, line up in front of
the city council building before marching in central Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014.
Ukraine’s parliament convenes amid tensions as the country’s political crisis persists into its
third month. Opposition lawmakers seek to push through a measure for broad amnesty for people
arrested in the protests that have gripped the capital, but prospects of passage appear unprom(AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
ising. ➧ NEWS IN BRIEF…
SD teen arrested after
being caught with gun
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A 15-year-old high
school student has been arrested after confessing
to San Diego officers that he was carrying an
unloaded gun and planned to confront a bully
with it. U-T San Diego reported Monday that
the Serra High School freshman was stopped by
officers last week for skipping class but immediately told them about the .45-caliber semi-automatic handgun in his backpack.
Police Lt. Steve Behrendt says the gun was
not loaded and the boy did not have any ammunition. The teen told officers that a fellow student had bullied him for weeks and then threatened his life. Behrendt says the boy decided to
steal the weapon that belonged to his late father
and was kept in a lockbox.
The teen was booked into juvenile hall on a
charge of carrying a firearm on a school campus.
Man rejects plea offer
in NYC speaker stabbing
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City man
has turned down a plea offer after his murder
conviction was overturned in a stabbing he calls
an assisted suicide. Kenneth Minor’s lawyer told
a judge Tuesday that Minor was rejecting prosecutors’ offer to plead guilty to manslaughter and
accept a 14-year sentence. He’s been serving
20 years to life in motivational speaker Jeffrey
Locker’s 2009 death.
Minor has said he would admit to a manslaughter charge that involves aiding a suicide. But his lawyer, Daniel Gotlin, said the
14-year sentence was too long. The maximum
for that charge is 15 years. Minor says Locker
approached him for help staging what would
look like a deadly robbery, so Locker’s family
could collect his life insurance. Investigators
found evidence Locker planned his death.
Mich. fugitive sought
since 1977 found in Calif.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Authorities say a
woman who escaped from a Michigan prison
nearly 37 years ago has been found living under
an alias in San Diego. San Diego police Lt. Kevin
Mayer says 60-year-old Judy Lynn Hayman was
in a local jail Tuesday awaiting extradition to
Michigan. He didn’t know if she’d retained an
attorney, and no court date has been set.
Mayer says police acting on a tip from Michigan prison officials went to a home Monday
and found a woman fitting Hayman’s description. She identified herself as Jamie Lewis
and produced government documents with the
name. But Mayer says officers were suspicious
and took her to a station, where she admitted
being Hayman. She escaped from a prison in
Ypsilanti, Mich., in 1977 while serving time for
attempted larceny.
Gunmen rob patients
in Brazilian hospital
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian police say
heavily armed gunmen barged into a Rio de
Janeiro hospital and held up at least 20 patients
and staff members. Citing testimony given by
some of the victims, a police officer says at
least three gunmen entered the Hospital Norte
D’ Or in the coastal city and robbed cellphones,
money, watches and jewelry. He would not provide further details. He declined to be identified
because he was not authorized to speak to the
news media. No one was hurt during the robbery that occurred Monday night. Police say no
arrests have been made.
Part of NY LaGuardia cleared;
bag found harmless
NEW YORK (AP) — The Port Authority
says part of Terminal C at LaGuardia Airport
was briefly evacuated as a precaution while
law enforcement investigated a report of smoke
coming from a bag. Spokesman Joe Pentangelo
(pehn-TAN’-juh-loh) said some ramp workers
reported the issue shortly before noon Tuesday
as Delta Flight 5208 to Richmond, Va., was preparing for departure.
Pentangelo said the bag was moved to a
remote location, X-rayed and declared harmless.
Man fatally shoots 2,
kills himself in Indiana
FRANKLIN, Ind. (AP) — A man fatally shot
his ex-girlfriend’s roommate and a neighbor
who came to help inside an Indiana home, then
killed himself a few miles away as deputies
approached his car, authorities said Tuesday.
The shootings, which occurred Monday and
left two others wounded, started with a fight
between 21-year-old Andrew Parish and his
19-year-old ex-girlfriend in a subdivision in the
southern Indianapolis suburb of Franklin, Police
Chief Tim O’Sullivan said during a news conference Tuesday. When neighbor Ernest Jasper
and his two sons, ages 21 and 18, rushed to
the home to help, Parish opened fire on Jasper
and the man’s oldest son before also shooting
19-year-old Sara Davidson and the ex-girlfriend’s mother, O’Sullivan said.
Davidson died at the scene and Jasper, 46,
died at a hospital. Jasper’s wounded son was
listed in stable condition at a hospital Tuesday,
while the ex-girlfriend’s mother was treated and
released, O’Sullivan said.
The ex-girlfriend was not injured.
Johnson County Sheriff Doug Cox said Parish’s car was spotted in a rural area outside
Franklin and that he shot himself with a rifle as
deputies approached his vehicle.
O’Sullivan said Parish wrote a suicide note
that he left at another home before going to his
ex-girlfriend’s house.
Vaega: 89
Fa’atalofa atu i le mamalu o le atunu’u, i le alafa’i mai i
le manuia i lenei taeao fou i le alofa ma le agalelei o le Atua
Soifua. E ao ai ona o tatou fa’apea ifo, “Le Atua e, o Oe o
le papa o lo matou olataga, o lo matou ‘olo maualuga matou
te malu ai i faigata ma puapuaga o le soifuaga nei, fa’afetaia
ma vi’ia pea Oe lo matou Atua e fa’avavau, fa’avavau lava,
Amene.”
Ua amata nei ona feagai le Vaega ‘Au a le Ami i le tapenaina o le galuega o le a feagai nei ma i latou, ae o lo’o taumafai pea Colonel C.J Peters ia toe maua lava se avanoa e va’ai
ai Nancy Jaxx i manuki nei ona fa’amautu ai lea o mea uma.
O le taimi lava na uma ai le talanoaga a Dan Dalgard ma C.J.
Peters, o le taimi lea na manatua ai loa e Dan, le ali’i pule o Bill
Volt, lea o lo’o pulea le Kamupani ma le fale o lo’o i ai manuki
i totonu o Reston.
Na toe manatu nei Dan Dalgard e fa’apea, afai o le mea lea
ua tupu mai nei o le a i ai uma Matagaluega ma Vaega a le
Malo Tele, o lona uiga e le o se mea la’ititi le mea lea ua tupu
mai. Na lagona le popole o le ali’i o Dan, ona ua i ai nei lona
manatu, afai o le Ebola e pei ona fa’ailoa ane ia te ia e C.J.
Peters, o lona uiga e tele le a’afiaga o le fale o lo’o i ai manuki
ae maise o le Kamupani lea o lo’o galue ai.
Na fai lava si fa’afeufeu o le mea, ona o lea o le a au ai
Matagaluega a le Malo Tele, o le isi fo’i itu, o lea o le a i ai
ma le C.D.C, ma o lenei mea ua tula’i mai o se tulaga e ao ona
fa’afoefoe lelei i ona itu uma. Na vala’au nei Dan Dalgard i a
Bill Volt lea e pulea le nofoaga lea ma fa’ailoa i ai le mea ua
tupu e pei ona logo ane ai ia e C.J. Peters mai le USAMRIID.
E le i uma atu tala a Dan ae ta’u ane loa e Bill Volt, ua i ai le
tagata faigaluega i totonu o le kamupani ua ave i le falema’i,
ona ua oso lona ma’i fatu, ma ua tigaina.
Ua atili ai ona ta ta vale le fatu o Dan Dalgard, ma ua ia iloa
nei, o le virusi o le Ebola lea ua mafua ai ona ma’i le tagata
faigaluega lea. O le ma’i fatu e mafua, ona ua poloka ala toto e
aga’i atu i le fatu o le tagata. Na tonu nei i le mafaufau o Dan,
o le a tapunia uma galuega i totonu o le fale o lo’o i ai manuki,
ae se i vagana ai i latou o lo’o gafa ma le fafagaina o manuki,
e tatau ona faigaluega.
Na toe fa’ailoa ane e Dan i a Bill, e le taumate afai e iloa
e fale fa’asalalau po’o uaealesi, o lona uiga o le a tele lava le
a’afiaga o le a o’o i ai le kamupani. Na toe vala’au nei Dan i
le falema’i o lo’o i ai le tagata faigaluega ma talanoa ma le
foma’i o lo’o va’aia, ma na fa’ailoa i ai e Dan i le foma’i lea,
afai ae i ai nisi tulaga e ono o’o i ai, ona logo lea o Colonel C.J.
Peters i Fort Detrick. E leai lava se ta’ua o le upu Ebola, ona ua
fa’aitete Dan, ina ne’i i ai se mea e tupu mai.
Ua taunu’u le malaga a C.J. Peters, o Nancy Jaxx ma Eugene
Johnson i Virginia lea o lo’o i ai le fale o lo’o i ai manuki. Na
fa’afeiloa’i e Dan Dalgard le malaga lenei ma alu loa le latou
solo i totonu o le potu o lo’o tui ma teu ai toto.
Ua amata le galuega a Nancy Jaxx, e ala lea i lana su’esu’ega
i a’ano o manuki. O se va’aiga mata’utia na iloa nei e Nancy i
lea taimi, ona e foliga mai ua matua’i fa’atama’ia lava ma ma,
o fatu ma sela (cells), o manuki. Na manatua nei e Nancy Jaxx,
o le virusi o le Ebola e ‘ese’ese ona foliga va’aia, e pei o tama’i
anufe, o se tulaga vae o le solofanua, o fulafula, ae e ‘ese lava
le mea lea ua ia va’aia nei.
E faia pea….
➧ Pulea ofisa Paka…
Mai itulau 18
le vaavaaiga a le Matagaluega o Fefaatauaiga, sei vagana ai le
vaega e paka ai taavale i le pito i luma ua i lalo nei o le vaavaaiga
a le ofisa o Paka ma Malae Taalo.
O matagaluega uma a le malo latou te fia faaaogaina meatotino a le malo i soo se vaega o le atunuu, e ao ona latou totogiina
muamua le tau mo le faaaogaina o ia meatotino a le malo i le
ofisa o Paka ma Malae Taalo, ma o lea totogi o le a tutusa lava
ma le tupe o lo o totogi e le atunuu lautele mo le faaaogaina o
nei mea totino.
O le tiute tauave a le ofisa o Paka ma Malae Taaalo e pei ona
taua e Lolo i lana tusi lea, o le gafa lea ma le faaleleia atoa ai ma
le tausia lelei o mea totino uma a le malo, ina ia tumau lo latou
tulaga lelei mo le faaaogaina e le atunuu atoa.
O se tasi o mafuaaga autu ua naunau ai le ta’ita’i o le atunuu
e faamautu le ofisa e vaaia meatotino a le malo, ina ia taofia ai
le toe tula’i mai o tulaga faaletonu i le faaleagaina lea e tagata o
meatotino a le malo, ae le iloa po o ai tonu le vaega o le malo e
gafa ma le vaavaaia o nei mea totino.
Feso’ota’i mai i le tusitala ia [email protected]
Eight LAPD officers violated
policy in manhunt shooting
LOS ANGELES (AP) —
Eight Los Angeles police
officers violated department
policy when they mistakenly
riddled a pickup truck with
bullets, injuring two women,
during a manhunt last year for
cop-turned-killer Christopher
Dorner, a civilian oversight
board announced Tuesday.
Police
Chief
Charlie
Beck and Alex Bustamante,
inspector general for the Los
Angeles Police Commission,
independently recommended
that the shooting be ruled out
of policy, commission President Steve Soboroff said. He
did not provide further details.
Beck will decide disciplinary
measures for the officers, who
were assigned to non-field
duties during an LAPD investigation. Possible measures could
include extensive retraining,
suspensions or even firings.
At a news conference,
Beck said he couldn’t comment on what discipline the
officers may receive because
their information is private
under state law. He said “these
officers will all and have all
received extensive training as
had the whole Los Angeles
Police Department relative to
these types of issues.”
Los Angeles Police Protective League spokesman Eric
Rose said the union’s president, Tyler Izen, was waiting to
review the commission’s report
before providing comment.
Last year, the city paid the
women $4.2 million to settle a
claim. That was in addition to
a separate $40,000 settlement
for the loss of their truck.
The Police Commission’s
determination didn’t surprise
the women’s attorney, Glen
Jonas.
“There (are) 4.2 million reasons I have to believe it’s out
of policy,” he said. “Anyone
with any common sense would
agree it’s out of policy.”
Dorner, a fired Los Angeles
police officer, claimed he was
unfairly dismissed and vowed
revenge against law enforcement officers in a rambling
online manifesto.
He killed the daughter of a
former LAPD police official
along with her fiance and two
law enforcement officers over
10 days before being cornered
and killing himself in a burning
mountain cabin in San Bernardino County.
On Feb. 7, 2013, Los
Angeles police guarding the
Torrance home of a high-profile target named in Dorner’s
manifesto opened fire on a
pickup truck they thought was
Dorner’s.
It actually contained the two
women delivering newspapers.
“This was a tragic cascade
of circumstances that led to an
inaccurate conclusion by the
officers,” the police chief said.
The officers had earlier
learned that the target’s wife
recently had seen Dorner in
the neighborhood appearing to
case the location, and just prior
to the shooting officers heard
over police radio that Dorner
was getting off the freeway
nearby, Beck said. In the
early morning hours, officers
said they saw the blue Toyota
pickup “creeping” down the
road, according to the chief’s
report, with its high beams and
flashers on.
In his report to the commission, the chief said he expected
that officers “make every effort
that they determine that the
truck was in fact Dorner’s.”
He wrote, “While there
were similarities, the truck that
approached was a different
make and model, different
color, had no ski racks and no
over-sized tires.”
Beck said officers opened
fire immediately after one
woman threw a newspaper and
an officer mistook the sound
of it hitting the pavement for
gunfire.
“There is no evidence to
support that they were holding
an object that could be reasonably perceived to be an imminent deadly threat,” Beck wrote
in his report. He said an officer
with similar training and experience would not reasonably
perceive a deadly threat in the
same situation.
“I sympathize with the officers, but I have a very high
standard for the application of
deadly force, and the shooting
did not meet that standard,” he
said Tuesday.
Officers fired 103 rounds,
and up to 40 of the shots hit the
walls, windows and garages of
nearby homes, Jonas said.
Emma Hernandez, who
was 71 at the time, was shot
in the back, and her daughter,
Margie Carranza, then 47,
suffered minor injuries. Hernandez recovered except for
some slight shoulder problems
but neither woman returned to
work, Jonas said, adding that
Carranza tried but “it was too
traumatic for her.”
“The emotional and mental
trauma is still there and they’re
still dealing with that,” he said.
The shooting occurred
hours after Dorner opened fire
with an assault rifle on two
Los Angeles police officers
who had stopped his pickup in
the Riverside County city of
Corona.
During the resulting gun
battle, one officer was grazed
and the other was sprayed
with shattered glass. Donner
fled and a short time later shot
two Riverside police officers,
killing one.
“Both of these incidents
were tragic for all involved, the
officers who were injured in
the first incident and the innocent women injured in the incident in the City of Torrance,”
Soboroff said in a statement.
“As in all use of force inci-
dents, the department has completed a thorough review and
will adopt the lessons learned,
both good and bad from these
incidents.”
Soboroff said the Police
Commission followed Beck’s
recommendation that the
lethal use of force in Torrance
was out of policy, making
its determination after nearly
three hours of discussion and
months of investigation by the
Police Department.
The same day that the women’s pickup was shot up in Torrance, a police officer in that
Los Angeles suburb opened
fire on another pickup truck.
Torrance police Officer
Brian McGee believed Dorner
was in the truck when he
rammed it and opened fire,
according to Los Angeles
County prosecutors who determined that his use of force was
reasonable and declined to file
criminal charges. McGee has
not been disciplined by his
agency.
David Perdue, of Redondo
Beach, who was on his way
to surf, wasn’t shot but he suffered head and spinal injuries.
The city of Torrance paid him
$20,000 for the damage to his
truck and he has filed a federal
lawsuit.
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