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Buckle up!
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office of highway safety
Oceanside “making
a name” for Samoa
in u.s. rugby… B1
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Judge declines to
dismiss all charges
against StarKist 3
World Tuna Day is May 2 — TODAY.
It recognizes the critical role tuna
plays in the marine ecosystems. It was
first celebrated in 2012, and is the brainchild of the PNA — the eight Pacific island
countries that are Parties to the Nauru
Agreement, which has jointed together to
manage shared tuna resources.
See story inside for PNA & Pew Charitable Trusts’ latest project using “fish
aggregating devices” (FADs) as a means
to monitor, control, and survey fishing in
the western and central Pacific ocean —
increasing accountability. [courtesy photo]
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PAGO PAGO, AMERICAN SAMOA
Friday, May 2, 2014
$1.00
Governor to USDOL: LBJ Hospital welcomes
OT will not be paid “local girl” home as CFO
until he sees report
by Joyetter Feagaimaali’i-Luamamu, Samoa News Reporter
by Joyetter Feagaimaali’i-Luamanu, Samoa News Reporter
“Until the DOL (United States Department of Labor) provides the Governor with a copy of its Investigation Report for
his review, the payment of overtime will be left in abeyance,”
was the explanation from the Governor’s Executive Assistant,
Iulogologo Joseph Pereira in response to Samoa News queries
late Wednesday evening.
As reported in yesterday’s front page article, while the
Treasurer says there is money available to pay the said overtime — which amounts to $144,000 — Governor Lolo Matalasi Moliga has not authorized the payment. Samoa News
understands Lolo has instructed the Department of Human
Resources not to act on anything, until he consults with the
USDOL’s main office in Honolulu, Hawai’i.
Iulogologo told Samoa News yesterday morning, “the Governor discussed with the DOL Director here in Hawai’i the
demand by a DOL official in American Samoa to our Department of Human Resources to pay overtime for employees
determined by DOL based on its investigation.”
Also Iu said, “The Governor informed the Director that he
should be given the chance to review the basis of the findings
of the DOL Investigation Report before the government agrees
to pay the overtime DOL claims must be paid.”
(Continued on page 15)
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“In general what made me come back is the desire to given
back to my community, that pretty much is the driver and we
have the other pieces in there. I am from here, my family is here,
but mostly you have to have that drive… I knew I could do something, and was willing to offer… that’s the main reason,” said the
newly hired Hospital Chief Financial Officer, Pauline Gebauer,
who has signed a 3-year contract with the LBJ Medical Center.
Ms Gebauer has been in the Health Finance field for over
20 years. She told Samoa News she grew up in the territory
and while she was away, her heart was set on coming back. The
LBJ CFO said back in the day when their store “Aiga Basket”
was open, she worked there, however with the increase of Asian
businesses in the territory, and a bad economy, their store was
forced to close. “So I left for vacation and that’s where I decided
to stay and restart my life. As a result, I ended up working in the
healthcare field,” Gebauer said.
She told Samoa News she first learned of the opening from
her eldest brother. “When I came to visit my mom, my brothers
and my sister last year May-June, there was an opening at the
hospital, and my brother Ryanny told me about the opening.
“I applied,” she said fighting back her tears, when she spoke
her brother’s name — Ryanny has since passed away.
“But when I had applied, I think it was the tail end of the
process and they (the hospital board) had already found an applicant. But I’m such a stickler, you know if you’re going to put
Newly hired LBJ hospital
Chief Financial Officer, Pauline Gebauer — returning to
American Samoa to give back
to her community. [photo: JL]
Pictured here are the four submissions made by Faga’itua High School senior students who are taking part in the local high school competition being spearheaded
[photo: BC]
by the DPS Office of Highway Safety. At far right is David Bird, OHS Occupant Safety Program Manager.Read story inside for full details.
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samoa news, Friday, May 2, 2014
LAND COMMISSION
NOTICE is hereby given that FONOTI TAFA’IFA AUFATA of TAFUNA, American Samoa, has
executed a LEASE AGREEMENT to a certain parcel of land commonly known as ALATUTUI which
is situated in the village of TAFUNA, in the County of TUALAUTA, WESTERN District, Island of
Tutuila, American Samoa. Said LEASE AGREEMENT is now on file with the Territorial Registrar
to be forwarded to the Governor respecting his approval or disapproval thereof according to
the laws of American Samoa. Said instrument names NAOMI F. ONEY, FA’ATAFUNA A. ONEY,
VILI D. ONEY and BEULAH ONEY as LESSEES.
Any person who wish, may file his objection in writing with the Secretary of the Land
Commission before the 23RD day of MAY, 2014. It should be noted that any objection must
clearly state the grounds therefor.
POSTED:
MARCH 24 thru MAY 23, 2013
SIGNED:
Taito S.B. White, Territorial Registrar
KOMISI O LAU’ELE’ELE
O LE FA’ASALALAUGA lenei ua faia ona o FONOTI TAFA’IFA AUFATA ole nu’u o TAFUNA,
Amerika Samoa, ua ia faia se FEAGAIGA LISI, i se fanua ua lauiloa o ALATUTUI, e i le nu’u o
TAFUNA i le itumalo o TUALAUTA, Falelima i SISIFO ole Motu o TUTUILA Amerika Samoa. O lea
FEAGAIGA LISI ua i ai nei i teuga pepa ale Resitara o Amerika Samoa e fia auina atu ile Kovana
Sili mo sana fa’amaoniga e tusa ai ma le Tulafono a Amerika Samoa. O lea mata’upu o lo’o
ta’ua ai NAOMI F. ONEY, FA’ATAFUNA A. ONEY, VILI D. ONEY and BEULAH ONEY.
A iai se tasi e fia fa’atu’i’ese i lea mata’upu, ia fa’aulufaleina mai sa na fa’atu’iesega tusitusia
ile Failautusi o lea Komisi ae le’i o’o ile aso 23 o ME, 2014. Ia manatua, o fa’atu’iesega uma
lava ia tusitusia manino mai ala uma e fa’atu’iese ai.
04/02 & 05/02/14
(all ANSWERs ON PAGE 14)
l oca l S eafoo d safe t y w orks h op
Fresh fish training courses
here… courtesy of WPFMC
by Fili Sagapolutele, Samoa News Correspondent
A seafood safety workshop set for next
week that will benefit local restaurant and store
owners is being sponsored jointly by the Honolulu-based Western Pacific Regional Fishery
Management Council (WPFMC) and the local
Commerce Department.
Scheduled for May 6-8, the workshop
training will be conducted by Dr. John Kaneko,
the Program Manager of the Hawaii Seafood
Council, a non-profit organization.
All 25 slots allocated for the training have
been filled and the attendees will receive certification in seafood safety, a certification which
usually costs around $5,000 or more when
taking the test in Hawai’i.
“This is something that is very beneficial to
the participating local businesses as the training
is being offered free of cost and having this type
of certification will be an important achievement that signifies to consumers that those businesses have been trained to provide the freshest,
highest quality seafood to their customers,”
Nate Ilaoa, local coordinator for WPFC, told
Samoa News yesterday.
Kaneko along with Nelson Aberilla of the
Hawai’i-based United Fishing Agency are conducting a fresh fish training workshop tomorrow
with local tuna processors and vessel owners
and operators at the Samoa Tuna Processors
site in Atu’u.
The seafood safety and fresh fish training
workshops were among the recommendations
approved during the WPFC’s 158th meeting
last October in Honolulu, where the Council
directed its staff to “assist the American Samoa
government to develop seafood safety and handling training programs and other marketing
strategies to promote local seafood markets,
which would benefit the local economy and
enhance food security.”
Ilaoa said the recommendation was made
by local Council members Taulapapa William
Sword (Vice Chairman), Port Administration
director Taimalelagi Dr. Claire T. Poumele, and
Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources
director Dr. Ruth Matagi-Tofiga.
He said the Council members from Hawaii,
Guam, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa voted unanimously to approve the recommendation. He
also said the fresh fish workshop with the processors and vessel owners and operators as well
as the seafood safety and handling certification
are all paid for by the Council in response to
recommendations from the local members.
Judge declines to dismiss all
charges against StarKist Inc.
samoa news, Friday, May 2, 2014 Page 3
Among the most serious: allegations of fraud
by Fili Sagapolutele
Samoa News Correspondent
StarKist Inc., has filed a
new amended motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed at the federal court in Oakland, Calif.,
against the Pittsburgh based
company over allegations of
fraud and negligent misrepresentation over the company’s
canned tuna products.
The latest action by the tuna
cannery giant followed a decision in late March this year
by U.S. District Court Judge
Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers,
presiding over the class action
suit, which was filed by California resident Patrick Hendricks
seeking
monetary
damages and injunctive relief
on the grounds that four of
StarKist’s canned tuna products are under-filled and, thus,
substantially underweight.
The four products at issue
are 5-ounce cans of StarKist:
Chunk Light Tuna in Water;
Chunk Light Tuna in Vegetable Oil; Solid White Albacore Tuna in Water; and Solid
White Albacore Tuna in Vegetable Oil. Originally filed early
last year, Hendricks accused
StarKist in a nine-count complaint, which included breach
of express warranty; breach of
Implied warranty of merchantability; breach of implied warranty of fitness for a particular
purpose; unjust enrichment;
negligent misrepresentation;
and fraud.
StarKist responded last
summer asking the court to
dismiss the case on several
grounds including Hendricks’
failure to sufficiently plead
claims; failure to plead fraud
with particularity; and lack of
standing. It also says that the
claim of unjust enrichment does
not constitute a claim for relief.
In her order/decision in
March, Rogers granted in part
and denied in part StarKist
motion to dismiss. She also
requested StarKist to file a new
amended motion to dismiss the
remaining standing counts that
were not dismissed.
FRAUD CLAIM
NOT DISMISSED
Perhaps the biggest issue
faced by StarKist is the allegation of fraud, which was not
dismissed by the court. (An
industry official, who asked not
be identified, told Samoa News
early this week that the ‘fraud’
allegation is a “very serious
one because it affects the cannery’s canned tuna products,
cited in the complaint)
In his complaint, Hendricks
alleges — under the fraud claim
— that among other things,
StarKist
“misrepresented
that its products contained an
adequate amount of tuna for a
5-ounce can and were legal for
sale in the United States.”
Additionally, the defendant’s conduct was false and
misleading because “StarKist
Tuna is under-filled and thus
substantially
underweight,
does not contain an adequate
amount of tuna for a 5-ounce
can, and is illegal for sale in the
United States.”
Further, plaintiff “relied on
StarKist’s false representations
in purchasing the product” and
plaintiff “was induced to pay
substantially more for StarKist
Tuna based on these false
representations.”
StarKist sought to dismiss
the fraud claim, arguing that all
of the fraud-based claims, fail
to plead the elements of fraud
insufficiently, as required by
provision of the Federal Rules
of Civil Procedure.
Rogers disagrees with
StarKist’s argument, saying
that these “allegations are
sufficient to meet the fraud
pleading standard.”
PREEMPTIONS
Another major argument for
dismissal by StarKist targets
the accusation (under counts:
five to seven) dealing with
violation of California’s “Consumer Legal Remedies Act”,
“Unfair Competition Law”,
and “False Advertising Law”.
StarKist argued that “under
the primary jurisdiction doctrine, the court should defer
to the Food and Drug Administration, which has unique
expertise and resources suited
to resolving the issues presented by Plaintiff’s claims,
and which is currently in the
process of considering a Citizens Petition addressing the
same issues raised by Plaintiff’s claims.”
According to StarKist, the
“complex [federal] regula(Continued on page 15)
The Dept. of Youth &
Women Affairs Presents…
“Dearest Mom
Competition”
In honor of Mother’s Day, the Dept. of Youth & Women Affairs- Youth Division, are asking the youth of American Samoa
to describe their mother in a letter. Write to tell us how has your mother influenced and supported you through the
milestones of your life. You must be11 – 17 yrs old to qualify for this competition. A typed, 2-page letter must be
submitted with your mother’s name, village, profession, and contact information.
Top 5 will WIN a Prize for MOM!
Submit to Lia Pelenato/Meke Lafaele 633-2835/258-2012 [email protected]
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Local students to
compete in Nat’l
Highway Safety
slogan campaign
by B. Chen, Samoa News Correspondent
The DPS Office of Highway Safety, as part of their community outreach program to the local schools, has big plans for
the territory’s youth. In addition to free presentations that are
offered year round on road safety issues including drunk driving
and occupant safety, OHS is also in the midst of carrying out
a brand new program, which brings local high school students
together to compete for a chance to create a new slogan for the
nationwide “Click it or Ticket” campaign.
According to OHS program coordinator Fred Scanlan, he,
along with OHS Occupant Safety Program Manager David
Bird, OHS Alcohol Enforcement Program Manager Penikila
Solomona, and Commander of the DPS East sub-station Moleli
Tavai were at Faga’itua High School this past Wednesday, to
witness presentations prepared by students from the senior class.
Bird told Samoa News that a total of five groups had initially
signed up to take the challenge but only four groups were able
to present their work that day.
Scanlan explained that since he came on board as head of
OHS, back in 2006, the Click it or Ticket slogan already existed
and has been used since. The Click it or Ticket slogan originated
out of South Carolina and was later approved by the National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to be used as
the official slogan for its nationwide campaign.
The local Office of Highway Safety wants to be part of that,
aiming to gather as many submissions as they can from high school
students this year, and selecting one winner whose work will most
likely be presented next year to the NHTSA to be considered as a
possible new national slogan for seat belt enforcement.
Every year, a national competition is held to introduce and
present new ideas on slogans for the seatbelt enforcement campaign. And if all goes as planned, 2015 will be the first time ever
that American Samoa will have an entry.
“We had a good turnout at Faga’itua High School,” Bird said
in an interview with Samoa News yesterday. “There were some
nice slogans that were presented.”
One of the entries was titled: “Pull it over or Game Over!” It
featured a picture of a person wearing a seatbelt and another picture of a tombstone. It was a very clever idea. And the wording
made absolute sense.
Another submission read: “Fusipa’u fa’amau po’o Tupe
Ma’imau?” meaning, would you rather fasten your seat belt or
throw money away? This particular presentation actually had real
money glued onto the billboard, creating a more realistic effect.
Another entry featured a picture of a sports car ramming
into a coconut tree while the last one had a picture of American
Samoa wrapped up in a seatbelt with the message: “E sili le
puipuia i lo’o le togafitia. Fusi lau fusi pa’u” or “It’s better to be
safe than sorry — Fasten your seatbelt”.
This month, the OHS will be contacting other local high
schools — public and private — to solicit their participation in
this “first ever” for American Samoa. “We are going straight to
the high schools because this is our target audience for our seatbelt usage campaign,” Scanlan said. “Our goal is to save lives.”
After witnessing the projects displayed by the Vikings earlier
this week, Scanlan said, “There is a lot of talent on this island.
These young people are very creative. Our hope is to get the
youth involved so we can all band together, both young and old,
to save lives on the road.”
As for suggestions that the territory submit the “E fusi, pe
tusi” slogan as an original creation, both Scanlan and Bird agree
that this can’t happen, because the slogan in question is not an
original idea but rather, a mere translation of “Click it or Ticket”.
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WORLD TUNA DAY — MAY 5
Satellite technologies to
keep eye on tuna fishing
(PRESS RELEASE) — The pristine waters
of the western and central Pacific Ocean are
dotted with thousands of small islands, ranging
from low-lying atolls to jungle-covered volcanoes. This diverse region is rich in marine
resources and biodiversity — wealth that feeds
local communities and drives their economies.
Scattered among these remote isles are tens
of thousands of objects floating on the ocean’s
surface. Unlike the natural landscape, these are
composed of manmade materials. Small rafts,
often made of plastic or bamboo with net or
rope hanging from them, drift with the currents. Tuna fishermen toss them in the water,
confident that the intrigue of something bobbing at the surface, along with dangling bits
below, will attract large schools of tuna. It
almost always works.
On April 29, The Pew Charitable Trusts
announced a new project, funded in part by
the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation,
designed to help local fishery managers track
and regulate these objects — and the fishing
that results from their use — by way of satellite technology already employed on fishing
vessels.
Lack of management
The western and central Pacific is home to
the world’s largest tuna fishery, with an annual
market value of over $7 billion. A significant
portion of this catch is in the waters of Parties
to the Nauru Agreement, or PNA, eight island
nations that have joined together to manage
shared tuna resources.
Tuna fishing within these countries’ waters
is often done in association with floating
objects called fish aggregating devices, or
FADs. Typically used by large-scale, commercial purse-seine vessels, FADs make catching
fish all but guaranteed because some tuna
species come together in large schools under
floating objects. What is also certain is that the
net encircling the FAD will similarly haul in
other marine life and vulnerable species, such
as small tuna, sharks, and billfish, that are
attracted to that same floating object.
Once snared, sharks and other fish —
including young tuna — are brought on board,
most barely alive. This wasteful by-catch
threatens the region’s tuna populations and
marine biodiversity.
“FADs are an extension of a fishing vessel.
They may not be physically connected, but
these large purse-seine vessels wouldn’t be
able to haul in the tons of tuna they do without
the floating object’s ability to attract fish,” said
Amanda Nickson, director of Pew’s global
tuna conservation work.
Still, FADs are largely unlicensed, unregulated, unreported, and untracked, despite
regional requirements to report their use.
Recent studies estimate that 30,000 to 50,000
FADs are introduced into the water each year
in the western and central Pacific. Although
fishing vessels must be registered and authorized, the same provision doesn’t apply to
FADs. Vessels are free to hurl an unlimited
number of the devices into the ocean. Many
are never recovered, leading to piles of plastic
and netting washing up on reefs and beaches
or just drifting in the sea and contributing to
marine litter.
Current management measures have done
nothing to reduce the by-catch of other species.
In fact, overfishing of the region’s bigeye tuna
population continues to be driven by uncontrolled FAD fishing.
An electronic tracking system
These floating objects, despite numbering
in the tens of thousands, can be monitored.
Nearly all of them have satellite buoys to help
fishermen keep track of them until they are
abandoned.
In 2012, Pew and the Parties to the Nauru
Agreement began a trial project to track FADs,
which showed that the satellite buoys fishermen attach to FADs could all be tracked by
the PNA and fishing vessels simultaneously.
The trial also enhanced the PNA management database, allowing it to automatically track
FADs in the same way it does fishing vessels.
An electronic tracking system offers significant benefits to fishery managers, including:
1. Daily location data: Electronic reporting
can provide near-real-time data on the location
of FADs so that states can develop limits on
deployment of the devices and suspend fishing
without delay once a threshold is reached.
2. Improved quantity of scientific data:
Oceanographic data collected and transmitted
electronically from the FAD buoys — water
temperature, current, and the number of fish
swimming below the floats, even their species and sizes—would provide valuable information regarding the potential impacts of the
devices on tuna species and the ecosystem. 3. Reliability and security of data: By
relaying the data without human intervention,
the electronic system provides greater assurances of data reliability and security than a
relatively inefficient paper-based system.
4. Reduced marine litter: Fishery managers
can identify the owners of abandoned FADs
and recover cleanup costs, creating an incentive for fishermen to retrieve their fishing gear.
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
Pago Pago American Samoa 96799
Proclamation
NATIONAL NURSES WEEK - 2014
WHEREAS, nearly 3.1 million registered nurses in the United States and approximately 150 licensed nurses in American
Samoa comprise the largest number of members of the health care profession and
WHEREAS, the broad diversity of the nursing profession meets the myriad and continually emerging healthcare demands of
American Samoa residents in a wide-ranging spectrum of settings, and
WHEREAS, the American Samoa Nurses Association, as the voice for all nurses of the territory, is working to chart a new
pathway promoting the aspiration for a healthy country which relies on increasing delivery of primary and preventative
healthcare services; and
WHEREAS, professional nursing has been demonstrated to be an indispensable element in the safety and quality of care of
hospitalized patients, and
WHEREAS, the future demand for licensed nursing services will be greater than ever because of the aging of our territory’s
cadre of nurses, continuing improvements of life-sustaining technology, and the explosive growth of home health care
services, and
WHEREAS, more qualified licensed nurses will be needed in the future to meet the progressively complex needs of
healthcare consumers in our community, and
WHEREAS, cost-effective, safe and quality healthcare services provided by licensed nurses will ever more important factors
of American Samoa’s healthcare delivery system in the future,
NOW THEREFORE, I, LEMANU P. MAUGA, Lieutenant Governor of the Territory of American Samoa, along with the
American Nurses Association and the American Samoa Nurses Association do hereby proclaim the week of May 4 - 9, 2014as
NATIONAL NURSES’ WEEK with the theme “Nurses Leading the Way”. I therefore ask that you all join me in paying
tribute to the Nurses of American Samoa for the many selfless ways in which the professional licensed nurses continually
strive to provide safe and high quality patient care, along with efforts to map out new strategies to improve our heathcare
system. Let us show our appreciation for the dedication and commitment by celebrating our nurses’ accomplishments not
just for this special week but throughout the year.
IN WITNESS THEREOF, I have hereunto affixed my signature and Seal of the Office of the Governor on this 28th day of
April, in the year of our Lord two thousand and fourteen.
LEMANU P. MAUGA
Acting Governor of American Samoa
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Hawaiian Airlines responds to Special
Olympics Amerika Samoa with aloha
Eight tickets to attend the Los Angeles Summer Games
by Samoa News staff
In March this year, the Special Olympics Amerika Samoa
(SOAS) received an invitation
to attend the Special Olympics Southern California 2014
Summer Games Invitational in
Los Angeles, California, to be
held June 5 - June 9 this year.
Over three days of competition
in six sports, more than 3,000
volunteers and 10,000 spectators will join together at the
University of Southern California to celebrate the accomplishments of 1,800 athletes
and coaches representing 20
countries around the globe.
It was Special Olympics
founder, Eunice Kennedy
Shriver who chose the motto
for these remarkable games.
Taken from the gladiators of
ancient Rome, the special athletes play under the oath, “Let
me win, but if I cannot win, let
me be brave in the attempt.”
According to Tafa Tua
Tupuola, SOAS chairperson,
they learned many lessons
from their participation in the
Asia Pacific Regional Games
in 2013; not the least of which,
is that our special athletes must
compete as often as they can,
and become more familiarized with competing. So they
accepted the invitation, taking
advantage of the opportunity,
and were given a quota of nine
delegate members to attend.
Of course, said Tupuola, the
need for funds began in earnest, and a corporate sponsor
was needed, along with more
fundraising efforts.
In their drive to make it possible for our special athletes to
attend the Los Angeles event,
Afimutasi Gus Hanneman and Mrs. Cynthia Moliga, who
is the governor’s wife, both worked to help American Samoa’s
Special Olympic athletes get to the 2014 Summer Games that
are being held in Los Angeles in June.
Because of their efforts, Hawaiian Air CEO Mark Dunkerley
has generously donated eight round trip tickets to send our
[courtesy photo]
special athletes to the Games.
SOAS turned to Afimutasi
“Gus” Hannemann, through
an official letter that was graciously hand carried to Honolulu by the SOAS patroness,
First Lady Cynthia Moliga.
Afimutasi, a longtime consultant to former leaders of
the Fono, including current
Governor Lolo Moliga, now
heads the Governor’s office in
Hawaii. Using his wide network of connections, Afimutasi sought airfare sponsorship
for the delegation.
“When I spoke with Afimutasi, he did not hesitate when
he found out it was for Special
Olympics in American Samoa
and was more than happy to
do it for the athletes and their
Patron, First Lady Cynthia
Moliga,” Tupuola told Samoa
News.
“Afimutasi said he will
do his best, and he knows
Hawaiian Air and other businesses are always supportive
of organizations such as Special Olympics”.
Upon her recent return to
the Territory, the First Lady
informed the SOAS Board
that Afimutasi had advised
her of the good news— that
CEO Mark Dunkerley and
Hawaiian Airlines had generously donated eight tickets to
American Samoa’s Special
Olympics for the June games.
Tupuola said, “This truly
meant a lot to the SOAS athletes and organization. We
were speechless at first when
we found out from the First
Lady, and just couldn’t thank
Afimutasi, Hawaiian Air
CEO Dunkerley, Governor’s
Office, and the ASG Hawaii
Office enough. Last year we
struggled to raise funds for
airfare, uniforms, accommodation, and meals just so our
athletes could experience the
Special Olympic spirit. Just
performing for their first time
in competition, the twelve ath-
letes were able to return home
with two gold, eight silver, and
two ribbons. We want to keep
the momentum going for them
because it has transformed the
athletes and the community is
such a positive way.”
The SOAS Chairperson,
speaking on behalf of Special
Olympics Amerika Samoa
Board and its Patroness Mrs.
Cynthia Moliga, extends sincerest appreciation and ‘Faafetai Tele’ to Afimutasi for
enabling the SOAS athletes to
compete at the USC games in
June. She said that they truly
appreciated Afimutasi placing
their concerns as a priority
despite his busy schedule and
official duties.
“To CEO Mark Dunkerley
and the Hawaiian Airlines
Family, Chairperson Tupuola
expressed another grateful Faafetai Tele Lava and God Bless
for Hawaiian Airlines’ generosity and continued support of
the people of American Samoa.
According to information
released on the 2014 Invitationals, “These Games will
provide the Special Olympic
World Games Los Angeles
2015 Organizing Committee
the opportunity to test critical
functions of the Games, such
as Delegation and Language
Services, as well as assess
venues that will be used during
the World Games in 2015.”
Accommodation at University of California (USC) and
meals are provided from the
Games Organizing Committee
(GOC) however, each country is
responsible for their own airfare.
In a press release on July
30, 2013 the Los Angeles
Mayor Eric Garcetti extended
his support for the 2015 Special Olympics World Games
and announced that President
Barack Obama and First Lady
Michelle Obama have committed to serving as Honorary
Chairs of the World Games.
CJ states serious issues CWO-5 JOHN T. NIKOLAO
occurring inside the jail
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Shocked to learn of cigarettes being sold by inmates
by Joyetter
Feagaimaali’i-Luamanu
Samoa News Reporter
Chief Justice Michael
Kruse said he’s “shocked”
with the ongoing “sale” of
cigarettes inside the Tafuna
Correctional
Facility.
Remarks were made by CJ
Kruse when he was handing
down sentencing for Keith
Talosaga who admitted to
assaulting another inmate,
Joe Togitogi.
The incident came to light
when the victim, Togitogi,
launched a complaint against
Talosaga with the Warden on
Sept. 16, 2013.
Talosaga was charged with
felony assault, second degree
and private peace disturbance.
In a plea agreement with
the government, he pled guilty
to third degree assault, which
was amended from the felony
assault, while the PPD charge
was dismissed as part of the
deal.
During sentencing earlier
this week, Kruse asked Talosaga if he ever was involved
in the sale of drugs inside
the jail, and the defendant
replied “no’’.
The Chief Justice then
asked the inmate, “What
about collecting the money”
from the selling of cigarettes
in jail, and Talosaga replied,
‘yes’.
The inmate was further
asked who was responsible for
selling cigarettes inside jail,
and Talosaga said “It’s Sam
Tupuola.”
(Samoa News should point
out that Tupuola is currently
serving time for drug related
charges.)
asked the prosecutor, Assistant Attorney General Tony
Graf about the selling of cigarettes in the TCF, and Graf
responded that this particular
incident happened during the
time of the previous warden
(Lumana’i Maifea).
Kruse then asked Talosaga
if the sale of cigarettes is still
on-going in jail and the inmate
said, “Yes, it is”.
pointed out there are serious
issues occurring inside the jail
that the government should
look into, as they need to be
addressed.
Talosaga was given the
opportunity to speak prior to
handing down sentencing.
The defendant apologized
for what happened inside the
jail and stated that he’s sorry.
He also apologized to the
victim in this case.
Court filings say that Talosaga and another inmate, Sam
Tupuola, went to the victim’s
cell regarding money that the
victim, Togitogi, owed.
The victim did not have the
money and this upset Talosaga who then punched the
victim in the face.
It was also alleged that
Talosaga had stabbed the
victim in the neck with a piece
of metal wire from the cell,
which was wrapped around
Talosaga’s fist.
Court filings say the victim
suffered a small puncture
wound that caused the victim
to experience blurry vision
and dizziness on the day of
the incident, and the victim
was taken to the hospital for
treatment.
Kruse sentenced the defendant to one year in jail, however the execution of the sentence was suspended and he’s
placed on probation for two
years on the conditions that he
remain a law abiding citizen,
pay a fine of $200 and never
contact the victim Togitogi,
directly or indirectly.
BACKGROUND
Talosaga is in jail serving
time on another case that
occurred on May 15, 2013 in
Amouli, where the defendant
had punched another man
in the face and removed $10
from the victim.
Samoa News notes Togitogi was the prisoner taken
to Manu’a for almost a
month, while the Department
of Public Safety’s Internal
Affairs investigated a separate assault case, in which a
police officer was accused of
police brutality after allegedly
assaulting Togitogi.
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NOTICE is hereby given that TAUFETE’E FAUMUINA of NUUULI, American Samoa, has
executed a LEASE AGREEMENT to a certain parcel of land commonly known as LEIFI which is
situated in the village of NUUULI, in the County of ITUAU, EASTERN District, Island of Tutuila,
American Samoa. Said LEASE AGREEMENT is now on file with the Territorial Registrar to be
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of American Samoa. Said instrument names MISI TAUFETE’E JR. as LESSEE.
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itumalo o ITUAU, Falelima i SASA’E ole Motu o TUTUILA Amerika Samoa. O lea FEAGAIGA LISI
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The Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources is providing assistance to our local ‘alia
fishermen, and a survey conducted by DMWR provided the basis on how to best assist them (i.e.
the engine repair workshop that was completed a month ago for Tutuila and Manu’a fishermen).
During a recent meeting with the local fishermen, fuel subsidies were provided. According to
DMWR Director Dr. Ruth Matagi-Tofiga, the criteria for receiving the subsidy are: the ‘alia must
be registered, and fishermen must have fishing licenses.
DMWR will collect all the necessary data after every fishing trip.
Upon receiving their subsidies, the local fishermen expressed their gratitude to the American
Samoa Government and DMWR for providing this much needed help.
As expressed by Eo Mokoma and Kitara Vaiau, throughout the many years they have fished,
this was the first time that such an assistance has been provided for them.
Matagi-Tofiga extends her gratitude to Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga and Lt. Gov. Lemanu Peleti
Mauga, for ensuring that “the local fishermen are being provided with much needed assistance,”
which also includes safety equipment.
More information can be obtained by contacting Maria Vaofanua at 633-4456. [courtesy photo]
Kentucky guardsman
sues over tattoo rules
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky
National Guard soldier with aspirations of
joining a U.S. Army special operations unit
wants a federal judge to overturn the military’s
new regulations concerning soldiers with tattoos.
Staff Sgt. Adam C. Thorogood of Nashville,
Tennessee, said the tattoos covering his left arm
from the elbow to the wrist aren’t harmful, but
the Army is using the body art against him and
stopping him from fulfilling a dream of joining
“The Nightstalkers,” the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment at Fort Campbell,
Kentucky. Thorogood’s attorneys said the new
rules are preventing their client from seeking
appointment as a warrant officer.
Thorogood, 28, sued Thursday in U.S. District Court in Paducah, Kentucky, seeking to
have the new rules declared unconstitutional.
He is seeking $100 million in damages.
The regulations went into effect in March
cover a variety of appearance-related issues
including hair styles, fingernails, glasses and
jewelry. The rules ban tattoos below the knee
or elbow. Soldiers who already have the ink are
grandfathered in. Under the new regulations,
any soldier with tattoos is barred from seeking a
promotion to warrant officer or commissioning
as an officer.
“You’ve got a soldier who is about as gung
ho as you get ... then you’ve got this regulation
you read about on Facebook and you don’t have
a career,” said Robin May, a Kentucky-based
attorney who represents Thorogood. “That
would be a blow.”
May said the new regulations violate a constitutional ban on laws that retroactively change
the legal consequences or status of actions that
were committed before the enactment of the
law. The ban also infringes upon Thorogood’s
free speech rights, May said.
An Army spokesman did not immediately return a message Thursday. In an online
video posted in March, Sgt. Maj. of the Army
Raymond F. Chandler III addressed why the
changes were made, saying appearance matters
and should “be a matter of personal pride” to
soldiers.
“The Army is a profession, and one of the
ways our leaders and the American public measure our professionalism is by our appearance,”
Chandler said. “Every soldier has the responsibility to understand and follow these standards.
Leaders at all levels also have a responsibility
to interpret and enforce these standards, which
begins by setting the example.”
Tattoos have long been a part of military
culture, but as they have become more popular,
and more prominently displayed on the body,
the various branches have been regulating them
in to try to maintain a professional look. The Air
Force bans tattoos covering more than a quarter
of an exposed body part, under regulations
revised in 2011. In 2006, the Navy announced
that forearm tattoos could be no wider than a
hand’s breadth.
The Marine Corps has been cracking down
on tattoos for years. In 2007, the Corps banned
sleeve tattoos and those covering the leg below
the knee.
Thorogood spent 10 years on active duty
in the Army as a decorated soldier and sniper
before switching to the reserves, a move that
allowed him to pursue a degree in aerospace at
Middle Tennessee State University and pursue
certifications in flying planes. Attorney Ken
Humphries said Thorogood’s goal was to submit
an application for an appointment as a warrant
officer, which are usually technical leaders and
specialists, and become a helicopter pilot.
Thorogood has 11 tattoos, including three
on his left arm featuring a three-member sniper
team, a second of skulls and the sniper logo of a
serpent and spear and an ambigram of the words
“Fear Is the Mind Killer.” Once the tattoo regulations took effect, body art that Thorogood had
before the regulations could get him charged
with a military offense if he even applied for
the position.
“It disqualifies a candidate for cosmetic reasons,” Humphries said.
Newly arrived virus gains
foothold in the Caribbean
by Joyetter Feagaimaali’i-Luamanu
Samoa News Reporter
TOFAEONO’S CASE CONTINUED
WITH NEGOTIATIONS ONGOING
The High Court heard earlier this week that
negotiations are on-going between the Attorney
General’s office and LBJ hospital’s former
Business Manager Jennifer Tofaeono, who’s
facing charges of tampering with evidence,
stealing and embezzlement.
Tofaeono was in High Court for her pretrial
conference, however the court was informed by
Deputy Attorney General Mitzie Jessop they
are going through the final stage of discovery
that needs to be taken over to the defense for
their review, while at the same time, they are
negotiating the matter.
Chief Justice Michael Kruse granted the
request for additional time and rescheduled this
matter to be called on May 30, 2014.
Tofaeono’s co-defendant in this case is
Felise “Leesha” Toilolo.
Court filings say that the hospital’s former
Finance Manager conducted an investigation in
May 2013 into reports over the course of previous years, from May 2009 through June 2011,
regarding credit cards that were being run on
the LBJ credit card machines, and the receipts
used to collect cash from LBJ cashiers.
The investigation found that receipts for certain credit cards belonging to different people
and entities were not transferred into LBJ
accounts but instead voided through the LBJ
merchant machine, and the underlying amounts
did not show up on the corresponding bank
statements.
However, the receipts were used to obtain
cash from LBJ cashiers by Tofaeono and codefendant Toilolo, despite their being voided.
ASSAULT CASE GOES
TO the HIGH COURT
Xui Peng, owner of a store in Atu’u, was
arraigned in the High Court this week on
charges of second degree assault and public
peace disturbance on allegations he assaulted
another Asian man late last month.
During the arraignment, the defendant
entered a plea of not guilty through his attorney,
Assistant Public Defender Joel Shiver who told
the court the defendant wishes for an expedited
jury trial.
According to the government’s case, the
incident began when one of his workers and
another Asian man from another store got into a
fight. It’s alleged this fight, as a result damaged
the cash register to the store in Atu’u where the
fight occurred.
The defendant was informed of the incident
and that’s when he fetched a knife and went after
the man who had fought with his employee.
According to the government’s case, Peng
found the man he was looking for and challenged him to a fight.
It’s alleged Peng broke the glass window to
the store and went into the store and swore at
the man who had fought with his employee.
Court filings say that the defendant was
swearing at the man, and swung the knife at
him, which caused a cut on the victim’s arm.
Peng was released on bail of $20,000. Prosecuting this matter is Assistant Attorney General, Tony Graf.
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — A recently arrived mosquitoborne virus that causes an abrupt onset of high fever and intense
joint pain is rapidly gaining a foothold in many spots of the
Caribbean, health experts said Thursday. There are more than
4,000 cases of the fast-spreading chikungunya virus in the Caribbean, most of them in the French Caribbean islands of Martinique, Guadeloupe and St. Martin. Another 31,000 suspected
cases have been reported across the region of scattered islands.
The often painful illness most commonly found in Asia and
Africa was first detected in December in tiny St. Martin. It was
the first time that local transmission of chikungunya had been
reported in the Americas. Since then, it has spread to nearly a
dozen other islands and French Guiana, an overseas department
of France on the north shoulder of South America.
It is rarely fatal and most chikungunya patients rebound
within a week, but some people experience joint pain for months
to years. There is no vaccine and it is spread by the pervasive
Aedes aegypti mosquito that transmits dengue fever, a similar
but often more serious illness with a deadly hemorrhagic form.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is
closely monitoring the uncontrolled spread of the new vectorborne virus in the Caribbean and has been advising travelers
about how best to protect themselves, such as applying mosquito repellant and sleeping in screened rooms. It is also closely
watching for any signs of chikungunya in the U.S.
In the Caribbean, concern about chikungunya is growing as
many countries enter their wettest months. The only way to stop
the virus is to contain the population of mosquitoes — a task
that commonly relies on individual efforts such as installing
screened windows and making sure mosquitoes are not breeding
in stagnant water. Experts say eradicating vector-borne diseases
like chikungunya once they become entrenched is an extremely
difficult task. Dr. James Hospedales, executive director of the
Trinidad-based Caribbean Public Health Agency, recently
described the virus as the “new kid on the block.”
In late April, St. Vincent & the Grenadines and Antigua & Barbuda became the latest countries to report confirmed cases. In the
Dominican Republic, there are 17 confirmed cases and over 3,000
suspected ones. This week, the virus was discussed by health
authorities at a two-day conference in the Dominican Republic
attended by representatives of Central American countries.
CONGRATULATIONS
Tafuna HS 2010 Co-Valedictorian
Second Lieutenant (2LT) Jonathan William Le’ele Lancaster
God Bless and Best Wishes in following your dreams to destiny.
Malo Tauivi! Malo Finau! Ua i’u manuia ou faiva fa’alea’oa’oga.
We are proud of you on a job well done.
With love and prayers,
Your parents; David & Rosie Tago Lancaster (Nu’uuli & Leone)
Grandma Fiapa’ipa’i Iose Tago (Nu’uuli)
Grandma Helen Lancaster (Erlanger, KY)
And ALL your family & friends here and abroad
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Homeland Sec. arrests
over 600 gang suspects
Protesters march during May Day activities Thursday, May 1, 2014 in Seattle.
Hundreds of people marched in Seattle in support of immigrant rights and a boost in the
minimum wage on Thursday. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
NEWS IN BRIEF
Seoul subway trains crash;
32 treated at the hospital
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A subway
train plowed into another train stopped at a station in South Korea’s capital on Friday, causing
minor injuries for scores of people, a city official said. The cause of the accident at Seoul’s
Sangwangshipri station wasn’t immediately
known, the official said.
About 170 people said they felt pain after
the accident and 32 were taken to a nearby hospital, but there were no serious injuries, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity
because she wasn’t authorized to speak to the
media on the matter. Hospital officials also said
there were no serious injuries.
The accident comes as South Koreans are
criticizing the government for lax safety practices that many feel contributed to a ferry
sinking April 16 that left more than 300 people,
mostly high school students, dead or missing.
Today’s advice to
graduates: No selfies
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Two schools’ seemingly simple advice to graduates is generating
headlines. The University of South Florida in
Tampa and Bryant University in Smithfield,
R.I., have asked the cap-and-gown set to refrain
from selfies as they collect their diplomas.
Administrators saw their directives as innocuous, but they’ve stood out for placing the
slightest curtailment on some students’ nonstop
use of social media. The schools say they’re
simply trying to keep already long ceremonies from dragging on even longer. But some
wonder if the bans might backfire and prompt
even more students to stop for self-portraits.
Experts question ice wall
at Japan nuclear plant
TOKYO (AP) — Experts say they’re skeptical about a plan to build a costly underground
frozen wall at Japan’s crippled nuclear plant.
The experts and Japanese nuclear regulatory officials said Friday that they weren’t convinced the project can resolve the contaminated
water problem at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant,
which suffered meltdowns following the 2011
earthquake and tsunami.
The frozen wall is a 32 billion yen ($320 million) government-funded project to surround
the plant’s four crippled reactors and their turbine buildings with an underground ice wall to
block groundwater from flowing into the buildings’ basements and mixing with highly radioactive water leaks from the melted cores.
Government officials say a feasibility test
has proved successful and they hope to start
construction in June, though the project could
be delayed because of the experts’ concerns.
Boat found in Washington
might be tsunami debris
OCEAN SHORES, Wash. (AP) — Washington authorities are working with the Japanese consulate to determine whether a small
boat found on a beach in the town of Ocean
Shores might have crossed the Pacific from the
March 2011 tsunami.
Ecology Department spokeswoman Linda
Kent said Thursday there’s a nameplate on the
boat, but it’s barely legible. The boat was found
Monday covered with barnacles and seaweed. It
was taken to a state parks maintenance facility
and tested for invasive species. Kent says another
boat found April 23 near Long Beach, also covered with marine life, had no marks that could
determine its origin. She says there has been no
confirmed tsunami debris since last year.
Countries searching for
jet to meet on next step
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) —
Senior officials from Malaysia, Australia and
China will meet in Canberra early next week
to decide on the next step in the search for the
Malaysia Airlines jet.
Malaysian Defense Minister Hishammuddin
Hussein said in Kuala Lumpur on Friday that
the challenges are huge and the search may take
another eight to 12 months. He told reporters:
“I believe we will find MH370 sooner or later.”
Hishammuddin says he will travel to Canberra for the meeting on Monday.
An unmanned sub is continuing to scan the
Indian Ocean floor while the aerial search for
surface debris ended this week.
Angus Houston, head of the search operation, says he is confident the wreckage is in that
area based on the most promising leads.
Texas school bus driver allegedly left vehicle
MISSOURI CITY, Texas (AP) — A
Houston-area school bus driver faces a review
after she allegedly became upset with the children, pulled over, threw the keys to a student
and called for a replacement driver.
KPRC-TV reports the Fort Bend Independent School District has removed the driver
amid the investigation of Tuesday’s incident.
School district officials said that the driver
became frustrated while hauling 12 students
home from Baines Middle School in Missouri
City, got off the bus and called a supervisor to
send a replacement. The students apparently were
being loud. Another driver completed the route.
Officials say the safety of students is the highest
priority and appropriate actions will be taken
upon completion of the investigation. The driver
has been with the district since August 2008.
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 600 suspected gang
members have been arrested in the Homeland Security Department’s largest crackdown on street gangs, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said Thursday. ICE agents, along
with local authorities in 179 cities, arrested 638 suspected gang
members over a monthlong period in March and April.
ICE said 78 suspected gang members were arrested on federal charges while 447 others currently face only state charges.
ICE arrested 113 others on administrative immigration charges.
More than 400 of those arrested had violent criminal histories,
including seven people wanted on murder charges. ICE did not
identify all those arrested or the charges they face. “These are bad
people with bad motives from bad organizations,” said Thomas
Winkowski, the principal deputy assistant secretary for ICE.
Arrests were made across the country, including in Dallas,
Los Angeles, San Francisco, Maryland and New Mexico.
The latest crackdown, dubbed “Project Southbound,” is part
of a larger initiative started in 2005 to target street gangs with
international ties. Since the effort, ICE says it has arrested more
than 33,000 suspected gang members.
Winkowski said nearly three-quarters of the suspected gang
members arrested in the latest operation belonged to the Surenos,
or Sur 13, street gangs. The Surenos, an umbrella group of street
gangs with ties to Latin America that includes gangs such as the
ultraviolent Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, originated in Southern
California and has members across the country. Its members and
affiliates are considered “foot soldiers” for the Mexican Mafia
criminal organization, Winkowski said.
In its 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment, the Justice
Department said the Sur 13 gangs are expanding faster than any
other national gang. The government said Sur 13 members are
responsible for crimes that include murder, extortion and drug
trafficking. The crackdown also included several members of
MS-13, the Salvadoran gang known for using machetes to hack
and stab victims. According to a 12-count racketeering indictment unsealed in March in federal court in Greenbelt, Maryland,
nine of the gang’s members are accused of crimes including
murder, extorting high school students, running brothels, witness tampering and obstructing justice. At least three MS-13
members charged in the indictment were already in jail during
the latest gang roundup.
Last year the Obama administration levied financial sanctions against six leaders of the gang, which the U.S. government
previously designated as an international criminal group.
MS-13 was founded more than two decades ago by immigrants fleeing El Salvador’s civil war. Its founders built a reputation as one of the most ruthless and sophisticated street gangs,
as they took lessons from the brutal war to the streets of Los
Angeles. MS-13 also has a strong presence in Southern California, Washington and Northern Virginia, all areas with substantial Salvadoran populations, and as many 10,000 members
in 46 states. The gang is also allied with several of Mexico’s
warring drug cartels.
High school senior class
prank leads to 62 arrests
TEANECK, N.J. (AP) — Sixty-two students were arrested
Thursday after police said they broke into their high school
overnight for a senior class prank, urinating in hallways,
greasing doorknobs with petroleum jelly and taping hot dogs
to lockers. Police said officers responding to a burglar alarm
at Teaneck High School shortly after 2 a.m. also found desks
flipped over, chairs broken, graffiti on the walls, silly string on
the floors and balloons throughout the building.
Even before they went inside, police said, officers could see
students through the building’s windows. Police from more than
a dozen neighboring towns plus county law enforcement officers
were called in to help. They used police dogs in their room-byroom roundup of students, some of whom were hiding.
He said the students told officers that it was a senior prank
— an annual tradition at the New Jersey school of 1,300 students, though it is usually not this involved. As they were
arrested, Carney said, some students were scared but others
were laughing.
“If this was a senior class prank, I just don’t believe that a
lot of them realize the seriousness of it as far as breaking into
the building,” Sgt. John Garland said. “That’s a burglary and
I don’t think they understand that. It’s a very serious offense.”
The 24 students who are 18 or older were charged with burglary and criminal mischief. The other 38 are juveniles and are
being released to their parents. Teaneck school superintendent
Barbara Pinsak said at a news conference that the district is
also considering disciplining students. Pinsak said the school
was cleaned up in time for classes on Thursday.
THANK YOU!
FA’AFETAI TELE LAVA!
The Nu’uuli Vocational Technical High School would like to thank all those that
helped made our TRADE FAIR 2014 a great success. GOD BLESS YOU ALL!
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Director of Education, Vaitinisa Dr. Salu Hunkin-Finau
Deputy Director, Fa’aui Vaitautolu
Assistant Director of Secondary, Samasoni Asaeli
Assistant Director of Vocational Education, Heidi Uele
Dee Ann Ringstead, Chairperson WASC
Craig Huseth, WASC Member
Lynn V. West, WASC Member
April F. Shigemoto, WASC Member
Fofoaga Club of Amerika Samoa
PE South West Pacific: Ruta Fou, Kristie Vili, & Joyce Fou
ACE American Industries
NVTHS Stakeholders: Hon. Rep. Fagasoaia Lealaitafea,
Hon. Rep. Taotasi Archie Soliai, Hon. Rep. Larry Sanitoa,
Hon. Rep. Timusa Lam Yuen, Fualaau Rosie Lancaster (ASCC),
Fred Suisala (ASCC), Galovale Galovale (ASPA),
Tapumanaia Galu Satele (ASYWA), Iusitino Williams (Tool Shop)
• NVTHS PTA Officers: Fiamatai Faatau, Aukusitino Falani, Selu
Toatelegese, Carol Baqui & all our parents
• NVTHS Administration, Teachers, Students & Support Services
• School-To-Work Program Worksites & Supervisors 2014
• Accord: Chris Banes
• ASPA: Auto Shop Division: Lago Lago Jr., Papu Tagoa’i, Carpentry
Division: Chad Moananu, Pole Line Division: Tau Maugalei, Aukuso
Talaeai, Vaa Sili and Sofeni Lualemaga
• ASCC Community & Natural Resources (Land Grant): Eirenei Tesimale
& Ionatana Fa’asavalu
• ASCO: Adam Sione
• ASTCA: Malae Pule Faulua, Tuatasi Malepeai, Paet Kee
• Department of Agriculture: Manu Tuionoula
• Haleck’s Motors: Savelio Liu-Key
• Hirata Hydrogarden: Larry Hirata
• Industrial Gas: Andy Wearing
• LBJ Hospital: Ianeta Ah Ping & Dianne Karoi
• McDonalds: Sa Satoa
• National Park of American Samoa: Dr. Tim Clark
• Public Works: Mikaele Alofaio
• NVTHS School Lunch: Malu, Leutu
• School Lunch Office: Lei, Accounting Supervisor
• Tool Shop: Rosie & Peletiso
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President Obama poses for a photo with 2014 National Teacher of the Year Sean McComb,
an English teacher from Patapsco High School and Center for the Arts near Baltimore, during a
ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 1, 2014, to honor
(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
the 2014 National Teacher of the Year and finalists. Baltimore English teacher is
honored at the White House
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Maryland high school teacher who helps push students toward
college was honored at the White House on Thursday as the National Teacher of the Year. The
educator, Sean McComb, said he himself benefited from an inspiring teacher during his childhood.
President Barack Obama presented an apple trophy to McComb, an English teacher from Patapsco High School and Center for the Arts near Baltimore where he works with students in a college readiness program. Among the past two graduating classes in the program, 98 percent were
admitted to a four-year college, Obama said.
“It’s a tribute to Sean that one of his students asked him, ‘What do you think about me becoming
a teacher?’” Obama said. “Sean asked him, ‘What subject do you want to teach?’ and the student
said, ‘It doesn’t matter. I just want to have as much fun as you do every day.’”
The Teacher of the Year designation means McComb, 30, will travel around the country next
year to advocate on behalf of teachers.
Obama joked that the award wasn’t even the best thing to happen to McComb this year. That’s
because he has a newborn son, who sat nuzzled into his mother’s lap in the audience.
Obama said McComb as a high school student “dealt with some pretty serious problems at
home and spent his days feeling apathetic and disengaged.” He credited an English teacher with
making McComb work harder and with giving him the strength, when McComb’s mother died,
to deliver her eulogy.
“So Sean himself saw the impact that a teacher could have in a child’s life,” Obama said.
McComb said he became a teacher “because I’ve had incredible teachers who have been able
to shine a light of hope and possibility into a dark time in my life.”
McComb cautioned policy makers to undertake changes in education judiciously.
“It must value the complexity of the work and it must be done with civil and critical conversations that respect the knowledge and experience of our classroom teachers,” he said.
➧ Satellites to keep an eye on tuna fishing…
Continued from page 4
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This year the project will scale-up to track the
tens of thousands of FADs drifting throughout
the PNA’s waters, including the prospect of
electronically monitoring each time a fishing
vessel sets its net on one of these objects.
“We have a responsibility to sustainably
manage the fishing of tuna in our waters, and
we must have transparency and cooperation
from fishing vessels we permit to fish,” said
Maurice Brownjohn, Commercial Director of
the PNA. “As fishery managers, we owe it to
our people to know where each and every FAD
in our region is, who put it there, what tuna is
caught on it, and what ultimately happens to it.
This project will help bring the data managers
and scientists need to improve assessments and
day-to-day management advice.”
Once the program is fully operational, the
PNA will control the first tuna fishery in the
world to record data on all of the fish aggregating devices in its waters, creating new
opportunities for scientists who are studying
their effects, as well as improving monitoring,
control, and surveillance, and increasing
industry accountability.
“The scientific data collected by the FAD
tracking system will be a game changer for the
biological and economic sustainability anal-
yses of tuna stocks in this region,” said John
Hampton, manager of the Oceanic Fisheries
Programme at the Secretariat of the Pacific
Community, which prepares the stock assessments for tuna in the western and central
Pacific. “The electronic monitoring of FADs will
provide the ability to understand how many
FADs are deployed and how often they are
fished,” he said. “Importantly, it will also provide information on the biomass aggregating
on FADs, which will improve our ability to
observe tuna and possibly other species, and to
estimate the impacts of fisheries on the pelagic
ecosystem.”
Pew also announced that it will continue
advocating for members of the regional fishery
management organization to adopt FAD management measures that complement the efforts
led by the parties to the Nauru Agreement.
“The PNA continues to demonstrate its role
as a leader in this region, and we hope that
neighboring states, as well as all members of
the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission, take note and commit to expanding
this FAD tracking throughout the region,” said
Nickson.
(Source: The Pew Charitable Trusts)
➧ Hospital welcomes CFO…
the effort in, may as well put your best effort and I put my whole
package in,” said Gebauer.
“Always wanted to come back, to give back something to the
community, that’s in essence why I came back.”
The new CFO said when the former CFO was hired, they
spoke and she had said “maybe it’s possible that we could
make a team”, but her son was starting school and so that
didn’t happen.
Gebauer said late last year she was contacted by the LBJ
Hospital CEO Joseph Davis Fleming informing her that the
position is open again.
“We spoke for two hours and I got the sense that the CEO
really knows what he’s talking about. From my background
I could sense that he had good vision for LBJ, he had good
Medicare, Medicaid background — enough to run an organization like this, and we seemed to connect which is very
important.
“If you’re going to work with someone, you have to be able
to be on the same page — and everything was positive with our
two hour talk. That’s when he said he was going to recommend
me to the board.”
According to the Hospital Board Chairman, Mase Akapo,
Gebauer was recently with the Kaiser Permanente Medical
Group in Santa Rosa, California, where she had been employed
for the last ten years as a Finance Manager.
According to the Chairman, Gebauer is a Faasao High School
graduate from the class of 1977, who was rewarded with an
ASG scholarship.
She holds a BA degree in accounting and recently completed
her Masters in Global Leadership from the Dominican University. The CFO said when she was working for Kaiser, who has
a multi-million dollar budget, she was responsible for all the
departments. She said that facility serviced a population of about
160,000 people and she was responsible for payroll for close to
300 physicians, aside from the supporting staff.
The hospital CFO position has been vacant since late last
year, when former CFO Leilua Stevenson, who was only on
board with the hospital for a few months, took another post in
another company.
Mase said, “On behalf of the LBJ Board of Directors, Management and our whole Family at LBJ Medical Center, I want
to welcome Ms. Pauline Gebauer to the LBJ Medical Center
and wish her the best in her new post as the Chief Financial
Officer of the only hospital in American Samoa. Welcome
home, Pauline.”
➧ Charges against StarKist…
tion” that provides the sole basis of the plaintiff’s complaint was
developed in 1957, at a time when tuna was customarily packed
in three-piece cans rather than in the two-piece cans used today.
StarKist contends that federal law preempts state statute;
but Rogers disagrees, saying that whether the FDA might
eventually change those standards is of no consequence to a
decision on whether the claims here are preempted or otherwise properly stated.
The Court therefore concludes that StarKist has not established that Plaintiff’s claims should be dismissed based upon
preemption, she said, and noted that “unless and until there is
some indication beyond mere speculation that the FDA may
change the regulation, the Court sees no need to defer under the
primary jurisdiction doctrine.”
Rogers denied StarKist’s request to dismiss counts five to
seven.
OTHER COUNTS
Rogers granted StarKist’s motion to dismiss “breach of
implied warranty of fitness for a particular purpose” count, but
denied to dismiss the counts on breach of express warranty and
breach of implied warrant of merchantability.
On the plaintiff’s claim of ‘unjust enrichment’, Rogers
said she agrees with StarKist that this claim and relief sought
is duplicative of plaintiff’s statutory claim under California’s
Legal Remedies Act and California’s Unfair Competition Law
(which is part of the complaint)
As to the claim of negligent misrepresentation and lack of
standing, Rogers denied a dismissal of these counts.
NEW AMENDED MOTION
Late last month, StarKist filed a new 16-page amended motion
to dismiss the charges that were left in the initial complaint and
not dismissed by the court. StarKist denied the allegations and
“demanded” a jury trial.
“StarKist denies each and every allegation alleged in the
Complaint and further denies that Plaintiff has suffered any
damages by reason of any act, omission, or conduct on the part
of StarKist and further denies that Plaintiff is entitled to the relief
sought in the Complaint, or to any relief at all, from StarKist,”
according to the motion.
StarKist Inc., and its local subsidiary StarKist Samoa, are
owned by South Korean based Dongwon industries.
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LAND COMMISSION
NOTICE is hereby given that AFOAFOUVALE L. LUTU of UTULEI, American Samoa, has
executed a LEASE AGREEMENT to a certain parcel of land commonly known as VAILOA which is
situated in the village of UTULEI, in the County of MAOPUTASI, EASTERN District, Island of
Tutuila, American Samoa. Said LEASE AGREEMENT is now on file with the Territorial Registrar
to be forwarded to the Governor respecting his approval or disapproval thereof according to
the laws of American Samoa. Said instrument names MOLLY TUKU SCHUSTER as LESSEE.
Commission before the 19TH day of MAY, 2014. It should be noted that any objection must
POSTED:
APRIL 20, 2014 thru MAY 19, 2014
SIGNED:
O LE FA’ASALALAUGA lenei ua faia ona o AFOAFOUVALE L. LUTU ole nu’u o UTULEI, Amerika
Samoa, ua ia faia se FEAGAIGA LISI, i se fanua ua lauiloa o VAILOA, e i le nu’u o UTULEI i le
itumalo o MAOPUTASI, Falelima i SASA’E ole Motu o TUTUILA Amerika Samoa. O lea FEAGAIGA
LISI ua i ai nei i teuga pepa ale Resitara o Amerika Samoa e fia auina atu ile Kovana Sili mo
sana fa’amaoniga e tusa ai ma le Tulafono a Amerika Samoa. O lea mata’upu o lo’o ta’ua ai
MOLLY TUKU SCHUSTER.
04/02 & 05/02/14
➧ USDOL…
Lolo also expressed concerns that the American
Samoa Government (ASG)
paid $914,000 in 2013 as
ordered by the DOL without
giving ASG the chance to
respond to the findings of the
DOL investigation.
Iulogologo further noted
the DHR has reported to
the governor that some of
the employees included in
USDOL’s prior investigation
prompting the 2013 payment
were ineligible based on federal and local laws.
“The same concerns have
been raised by DHR in this
new DOL Investigation Report,” said Iulogologo.
Iu said that Lolo informed
the Acting DHR Director
that the findings of the DOL
Investigation Report would
permit the development of
mitigation policies to preempt
replication of the problem in
the future.
In January 2014 a petition was signed by close to 30
Customs Officers regarding
their overtime and comp time
that was sent to the Equal
Employment
Opportunity
Officer, Sam Tinae.
Samoa News understands
this prompted the investigation
by the USDOL’s local office.
To date there is no official
comment from USDOL on this
matter, and as of press time, no
response to emails sent since
Wednesday.
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Lali
Le
Toe tolopo fono a Samoa
e lua i le masina o Iuni…
tusia Ausage Fausia
O le fonotaga a le Kapeneta i le vaiaso nei na fa’amaonia mai ai e le afioga i le kovana le
tumau ia Lemanu Peleti Mauga, le toe tolopo o le fonotaga i le va o Samoa e lua lea na fuafua e
faia i le masina lenei o Me mo le masina fou o Iuni.
O le vaiaso lona tolu o le masina o Me na fa’atulaga e usuia ai le fonotaga lenei i Apia, mo
le fa’amautuina o ni isi o fuafuaga mo le manuia o faigamalo aemaise ai tagatanuu o malo e lua,
peita’i o lea ua toe tolopo lea fonotaga e usuia i le aso 27 Iuni, e pei ona faamaonia e Lemanu i
luma o le kapeneta i le vaiaso nei.
E ui e le i faalauiloaina e Lemanu mafuaaga ua ala ai ona faia nei suiga, peitai sa ia fautuaina
sui o le kapeneta o lo o fuafua e tuuina atu a latou mataupu e talanoaina i le fonotaga o lo o
fuafuaina, ina ia fesootai ma le Fa’atonusili o le Matagaluega o Fefaatauaiga ma Alamanuia, le
susuga a Keniseli Lafaele mo le faamautuina o nei mataupu.
Afai ae mae’a ona feso’ota’i sui o le kapeneta ma Lafaele i mataupu e fia talanoaina, ona
faailoa lea e Lafaele nei mataupu i le alii kovana ia Lolo Matalasi Moliga ma le afioga a Lemanu,
ona fa’atoa fa’amautu mai ai loa lea iina mataupu e tatau ona talanoaina i le fonotaga, e pei ona
faailoa e Lemanu i le kapeneta.
O le masina o Fepuari o le tausaga nei na malaga ai le afioga i le alii kovana i Apia ma feiloa’i
ma le afioga i le alii Palemia o Samoa, susuga Tuilaepa Lupesoliai Sa’ilele Malielegaoi, mo le
fa’amautuina o ni isi o mataupu e ao ona iloiloina o lenei fonotaga.
O ni isi o mataupu sa fuafua e talanoaina e pei ona faalauiloa e Lolo i le au tusitala i Samoa
e aofia ai mataupu tau i Femalagaaiga i le va o motu e lua, tulaga o fefaatauaiga i oloa e aofia
ai ma le auina mai o le talo mai Samoa, o ni avanoa faigaluega fou i kamupani i’a i Satala,
aemaise ai o le mataupu e fa’atatau i le mana’omia o faiaoga mai Samoa e galulue i Amerika
Samoa nei.
E pei ona silafia, o le amataga o le masina na te’a nei na tali malo ai Amerika Samoa i se
fonotaga ma sui mai Samoa, i le talanoaina lea o mataupu e fa’atatau i fefa’atauaiga aemaise ai
auala e fesoasoani ai i le atina’e ma le fa’aleleia o pisinisi i le va o Samoa e lua.
O le afioga i le Sui Palemia o Samoa ia Fonotoe Pierre Laufo na taitaia maia le au malaga
mai Samoa, lea na aofia ai ni isi minisita ma faatonusili o ofisa o fefaatauaiga a Samoa, faapea
ai sui o pisinisi tumaoti.
O le fonotaga ua faatulaga i le masina fou o le a faamautuina ai loa ni isi o mataupu sa talanoaina i le ulua’i fonotaga lea sa faia i le masina na te’a nei.
Feso’ota’i mai i le tusitala ia [email protected]
Molia pasese o le
HAL i le umia faasolitulafono o mariuana
tusia Ausage Fausia
O le ali’i lea na malaga mai ma lona aiga i le va’alele o le
Hawaiian Airlines i le po o le aso Gafua na te’a nei, ua molia nei e
le malo o Amerika Samoa i le moliaga mamafa e tasi, o lona umia
fa’asolitulafono lea o ni vaega o le laau fa’asaina o le mariuana.
O ananafi na tula’i ai i luma o le fa’amasinoga fa’aitumalo le
susuga a Pulenu’utu Tafaoa po o Pulenuitu mo le taimi muamua, i
le mae’a ai lea ona faila e le malo o le moliaga fa’asaga ia te ia, ma
ua fa’atulaga ai loa e le fa’amasinoga le tupe e $20,000 e totogi ona
fa’atoa mafai lea ona tatala o ia i tua mai le toese i Tafuna.
O tu’uaiga fa’asaga ia Tafaoa na alia’e mai i le taimi ao tutu
ma le latou aiga i le laina mo le siakiina o a latou pepa malaga
ina ua taunu’u le Hawaiian Air, ae faailoa loa e le ta’ifau a le
Ofisa o le Tiute (K-9 Grace) se fa’ailo e ta’u atu ai, e i ai se
tagata ua masalomia o lo o ia umia vaega o fualaau fa’asaina.
Sa malaga fa’atasi mai le ua molia, o lona faletua faapea ai
o la alo e to’atolu, ma, i le taimi na fa’ailoa ai e K-5 Grace le
fa’ailo i sui o le Ofisa o Tiute sa tiute i le po lea, sa aga’i sa’o
atu ai lava le ta’ifau i le vaega o lo o tu ai le ua molia, ma mafai
ai loa e sui o le ofisa o Tiute ona latou taitaia atu le ua molia i
totonu o se potu mo le sailiina ai o lona tino aemaise ai a latou
ato sa malaga mai ma latou.
Ina ua su’e e sui o le Ofisa o Tiute le tino o le ua molia, sa
latou maua ai i le isi taga o lona ofuvae sa fai se tama’i container,
ma o totonu o lea tama’i container o lo o i ai ni lau lanu meamata
ua mae’a ona fa’amago. Sa faia se suega fa’apitoa i lau mamago
ma faamaonia le i ai o le vailaau o lo o maua i le mariuana.
Na saili le ato a le to’alua o le ali’i ua molia ma maua i ai ni
tama’i taga pepa iila se tolu, o lo o i ai fatu mariuana, sa maua
ai fo’i ma se tama’i ato sa i ai se paipa e masani ona fa’aaoga e
tagata e ula ai le mariuana faapea ai ma le pauta oona o le aisa.
Ina ua mae’a ona su’e e sui o le Ofisa o Tiute le ulugali’i
faapea ai a laua meatotino, sa tuuina atu loa i aao o le ali’i kapeteni ia Paulo Peau Leuma, o ia lea o lo o fa’auluulu i ai le vaega
e suesueina mataupu tau i fualaau fa’asaina a le Ofisa o Leoleo,
mo le fa’aauauina o le suesueina o lenei mataupu.
Ina ua fesiligia le ua molia e tusa ai o lenei mataupu, sa ia
faailoa ai i leoleo e faapea, sa ia tuuina taga pepa o lo o i ai fatu
mariuana i totonu o le ato a lona to’alua, e aunoa ma le iloa e
lona to’alua. Sa ia taua fo’i i leoleo e fa’apea, o latou ma lona
to’alua ma le la fanau ua malaga mai e nonofo mau i Amerika
Samoa nei, ma saili ai se isi lumana’i lelei mo lona aiga, ma o
fatu mariuana ia na sau ma aumai mo ia lava.
O mariuana sa maua ia te ia, o mea na ia aumaia mo ia lava,
ma sa ia faamoemoe na te faaaoga ina ia lele ai.
E 586 le aofa’i o fatu mariuana sa maua i totonu o taga pepa
iila e tolu, na maua i le ato a le to’alua a le ua molia, ma o ia fatu
mariuana ua taofia nei e leoleo.
Laufofoga fiafia o tama ma teine aoga o le aoga tulaga muamua a Peter Coleman i Pago Pago, i le mae’a ai o se latou asiasiga i le maota o le alii kovana i luga
[ata: AF]
o le Mauga o Ali’i i le aso Lua na te’a nei.
American Samoa Government
Department of Health
Situation Report-Epidemic Conjuctivitis, American Samoa - April 23, 2014
An outbreak of conjunctivitis appeared in Tutuila, American Samoa, in late March 2014, following a similar outbreak reported in Apia, Samoa in early March. To date 1049 cases
have been seen in Department of Health clinics, emergency room and Eye Clinic at LBJ Hospital in Tutuila. There have been many more cases are in the community with Department
of Education estimating that 2259 students and 130 teachers were affected, leading to closure of all public schools from April 1 to April 14. The outbreak is decreasing nicely in
Tutuila but 2 new cases in Tau this week are worrisome for its potential to set off a large-scale epidemic in Manu’a. No serious complications have been reported to date.
CONTROL MEASURES:
Public information campaigns emphasizing hygiene for prevention are ongoing. Hospital and clinic
infection control measures are in place. Airlines and ferry boats have been asked to discourage travel by
those affected. Coverage of ports of entry with info/sanitation stations will be operational this weekend
for the two visiting cruise ships. Daily visits are being made to homes of piney patients in Manu’a to be
sure they are isolated from the rest of the population. Surveillance will continue for another week at
which time a decision will be made by Department of Health to declare the epidemic over.
PINKEYE UPDATE (APR 25, 2014)
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The epidemic of pinkeye is decreasing (with 30 cases in past 7 days vs 303 cases at peak).
Pinkeye is still here in Tutuila and still a danger to those who don’t have it
It is even more of a danger in Manu’a which has just had its first few cases
You can prevent pinkeye:
a) Don’t touch your eyes unless you wash your hands first with soap and water or hand sanitizer
b) Stay away from others who have pinkeye
• People with pinkeye have red colored eyes, itching and discharge from the eyes. The illness usually
lasts about 7 days. Serious complications are rare.
• If you have pinkeye:
a) STAY AT HOME until your symptoms are clear.
b) Do not go to work, church, school or public places
c) DO NOT travel to Manu’a
d) Avoid touching or rubbing your eyes
e) Throw away tissues after use
f) Do not share washcloths, towels, blankets and pillows. Wash
with hot water and detergent before use by another person.
CHIKUNGUNYA ADVISORY
Another virus, Chikungunya, or “CHIK VIRUS” is in the area with over 10,000 cases reported in
Tonga this month. No cases have been reported in American Samoa, but our community is at risk.
The ‘CHIK VIRUS’ causes fever, rash, and body pains. Joint pain from CHIK VIRUS can be disabling
and last for many months.
The CHIK VIRUS is spread by Aedes mosquito bites.
You can prevent CHIK VIRUS by practicing the “Three Ds”:
• DRAIN - water in cans, trash, tires near your house where mosquitoes can breed
• DRESS - in long sleeves/pants to prevent mosquito bites
• DEET - mosquito sprays to prevent mosquito bites
If you develop a fever, rash and body aches, you need to go to the clinic or the hospital right away.
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May is Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month
This month and during the rest of the year drivers and all road users
are reminded to safely “SHARE THE ROAD” with motorcyclists, and to
be extra alert to help keep motorcyclists safe.
For more information, contact DPS Office of Highway Safety @ 633-7634,
or stop by the 2nd Floor Lumana’i Bldg., Fagatogo
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it’s at in
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Ni isi o faiaoga ma fanau aoga a le aoga maualuga a Nuuuli Vo-Tech i le taimi na tatala
aloaia ai le latou polokalame i le aso Lulu na te’a nei, e fa’alauiloa ai matata eseese o lo o a’oa’oina
[ata: AF]
ai fanau i totonu o le aoga.
tusia Ausage Fausia
NOFOVAAVAAIA LE ALII FAIAOGA MO LE 6 MASINA
O le ali’i faiaoga i le aoga maualuga a Fagaitua lea na tu’uaia e le malo i lona faia o ni gaioiga
e ono save’u ai le nonofo filemu i totonu o lona aiga, ua nofovaavaaia mo le 6 masina ina ua tali
ioe i le moliaga mama o le faatupu vevesi i totonu o lona aiga, i lalo o se maliliega na latou sainia
ma le malo ma talia e le faamasinoga faaitumalo.
O tu’uaiga faasaga i le alii faiaoga na aliae mai ina ua tula’i mai se vevesi i le lotoifale a lona
aiga, ma alu ai loa ma se agaese i lona afafine.
O le mataupu lenei na tula’i mai i le masina o Aperila na te’a nei, ina ua taofia le ua molia
i tuuaiga o le faatupu vevesi i totonu o lona aiga, mulimuli ane ai faila e le malo moliaga
mamafa faasaga ia te ia, ona o tuuaiga i lona faia lea o ni uiga mataga i se teineititi aoga i le
aoga lava a Fagaitua.
O le mataupu e faatatau i moliaga mamafa faasaga i le alii faiaoga, ua i luma nei o le faamasinoga maualuga, ma ua maea ona faailoa i faamaumauga a le faamasinoga le tali tete’e a
le alii faiaoga faasaga i nei tu’uaiga, ma ua toe tolopo lana mataupu e toe fofogaina i le masina
fou, ma o lo o tumau pea poloaiga o lo o tatala ai o ia i tua e fa’atali ai le aso e toe fofogaina
ai lana mataupu.
Ae i lana mataupu i luma o le faamasinoga faaitumalo, na faatoese le ua molia i lona aiga e tusa
ai o lana gaioiga sa faia, ma ia talosagaina ai se faamagaloga mo ia.
I le nofo vaavaaia ai la o le alii faiaoga mo le 6 masina, ua poloaina ai o ia e le alii faamasino
ia John L. Ward II ina ia auai i ni aoaoga e fesoasoani ai i le tulaga o le ita ma le ava malosi, ma
ia aua fo’i ne’i ona toe solia se tulafono a le malo.
JENNIFER TOFAEONO
O le aso 30 Me lea ua toe tolopo i ai le isi iloiloga o le mataupu i le va o le malo ma Jennifer
Tofaeono, ina ua talia e le fa’amasinoga maualuga talosaga a loia i le vaiaso nei, mo se avanoa toe
tolopo ai le iloiloga sa faatulaga, ona o lo o faagasolo pea feutanaiga ma talanoaga mo se faaiuga
mautu mo lenei mataupu.
O Tofaeono, lea o lo o tuuaia e le malo i moliaga e aofia ai le ave faagaoi o meatotino a le
falema’i o le LBJ, gaoi, atoa ai ma lona taumafai e fa’aleaga mea molimau a le malo, o lo o
faaauau pea ona tatala i tua i lalo o poloaiga mai le faamasinoga e tatau ona ia usitaia.
O tuuaiga faasaga ia Tofaeono na alia’e mai i le taimi a’o avea o ia ma pule o le vaega o
Pisinisi i le falema’i o le LBJ, lea na ia gaioiina ai se vaega tupe e silia i le $80,000 e pei ona
tuuaia ai o ia e le malo, mai le va o le 2009 e oo mai i le tausaga e 2011, e ala i le faaaogaina o
credit cards.
MICHAEL AGASIVA
O le aso 16 Me lea ua toe tolopo i ai le isi iloiloga o le mataupu a le ali’i pagota o Michael
Agasiva, ina ua talia e le fa’amasinoga faaitumalo i le taeao ananafi le talosaga a lana loia fautua
ia Sharron Rancourt, mo se avanoa e toe tolopo ai le iloiloina o lenei mataupu.
O lo o tuuaia e le malo Agasiva i le mataupu lea na ia fa’aoolima ai i se ali’i pagota a’o taofia ai
o ia i totonu o le toese i Tafuna, i le tuliina o lana fa’asalaga fa’a falepuipui mo le umi e 5 tausaga,
ina ua ta’usala o ia e le faamasinoga maualuga i le moliaga o le faaoolima i le tulaga lua, e mafua
mai i le faalavelave lea na ia faaoolima ai i se isi alii i se agaese.
O lo o taofia pe Agasiva i le toese i Tafuna i le taimi nei e faatali ai le aso lea ua faatulaga e toe
fofogaina ai lana mataupu.
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E ui o se tulaga muamua lea
faapea ua tulai mai i faigamalo
i le Pasefika, na faaalia e Aeau,
o le toe faatulagaina o tofiga o
sui o le Kapeneta ua atagia ai le
faaletonu o le tulaga tau tupe a
Samoa. Na ia faamatalaina o le
suiga o se gaioiga ua faia i se
taimi o faalavelave faafuasei,
ona o lo o silafia lelei e Tuilaepa
le ogaoga o le tulaga tau seleni
a le atunuu ona ua tele tupe ua
faamaumau ma o le mafuaaga
lea ua ia tauaveina ai lea tofiga.
“E leai se mea e leaga ai ia a’u
le tauaveina e le palemia o lea
tofiga,” o a Aeau lea.
“Ae e te le maua i se atunuu o
le Taupulega (Commonwealth)
MINISITA O TUPE
se palemia e minisita foi o
LE PALEMIA
Tupe. O le palemia o se tofi fai
“E le mafai i se faigamalo
tulafono, ae o le atinaeina o le
faatemokarasi faaonaponei ona
atunuu e le tatau ona limataitaia
avea se palemia ma se minisita
i le tulaga o i ai le itu tau seleni
o Tupe. O lea tatou te talanoa i
o le atunuu.”
tofiga e lua aupito i taua i so o se
FAATAUTO FAAfaigamalo. O se mea fou lenei
MASINO FOU
mo i tatou uma,” o le saunoaga
O le aso Lulu na te’a nei na
lea a le sui taitai o le Tautua
faatauto ai i luma o le FaamasiSamoa, le afioga Aeau Dr. Peninoga ia Faamasino fou e toalua
amina Leavai i le tauaveina e le
o le Faamasinoga o Fanua ma
alii palemia, le susuga Tuilaepa
Suafa. O i laua ua filifilia i ia
Lupesoliai Sailele Malielegaoi
tofiga iloga o le tofa Tiatia Faleo le tofiga minisita o Tupe.
upolu Tevita ma le afioga ia
Leaupepe Fatu Pula. O le tofa
ia Tiatia sa avea o le Ofisa Sili
Lagolago o le Matagaluega o
Faatoaga ma Faigafaiva i nai
tausaga ua tuanai, i le vaega o
atinae o lafu manu.
O le afioga ia Leaupepe, sa
avea ma Komesina Lagolago
o le Matagaluega o Leoleo ma
Falepuipui. O ia avanoa e lua, na
maua i le malolo litaea ma maea
ai o tautua a nisi o faamasino
se toalua ua loa foi le la tautua
i le faaiuga o le tausaga na sei
mavae atu. O le filifiliga o tofiga
nei, o lo o gafa ma le komisi o
galuega a le Faamasinoga, o lo
o i ai le afioga i le Faamasino
Sili, o le afioga i le Loia Sili a le
malo faapea le sui e toatasi mai
i le mamalu lautele o le atunuu.
O ia avanoa na faasalalau faalauaitele ma e silia ma le to’a 80
i latou sa tusi talosaga ae na o le
to’a 18 e sa faatalanoaina.
APILI LE ALII
AVE PASI
O le vaiaso nei o lo o faatautaia ai faamasinoga toe iloilo
i le Faamasinoga o Apili a le
atunuu. O se tasi o mataupu ua
fofogaina, o le apili lea a le alii
ave pasi lea na faafoeina le pasi
na maliliu ai ni teneiti se toalua i
le auala sima i Lano i Savaii i le
tausaga ua tuanai.
Na faamaonia moliaga o le
ave taavale faatamala ua mafua
ai le maliu o se isi faasaga ia Moe
P.O. Box 1417
Iosua mai afioaga o Fagaee ma
American Samoa 96799
Vaitele fou ma sa faasalaina o ia
Tel (684) 633-4665
i le falepuipui mo le 11 tausaga i
Fax (684) 633-4667
Enquiries:
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mavae atu.
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O se tasi lenei o mataupu o
Tauranga Auckland Lautoka
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Apia PAGO PAGO Rarotonga Vavau
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apili o loo faagasolo i le faamasinoga, ma o le itu a leoleo o lo
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10 May
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o tauaveina e le tamaitai loia ia
09 May
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sili a le malo.
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O le faasalaga o le alii o Iosua
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Fa’atalofa atu i lou alafa’i
mai i le manuia i lenei taeao fou,
i le alofa ma le agalelei o lo tatou
Tapa’au oi le lagi, e ao ai ona o
tatou fa’apea ifo, “Le Atua e, o
ou fa’alavalava matou te malolo
ai, mai ma’i o le tino ma faigata
e o’o mai, ae o le vi’iga e tumau
atu pea i Lau Afio e fa’avavau,
fa’avavau lava, Amene.”
Se i o tatou tulituliloaina pea
le fa’amatalaga a le ali’i tusi
tala i le ‘ese’esega o virusi e pei
ona i ai nei le virusi o le Ebola
Reston, lea ua fa’aopoopo e ali’i
ma tama’itai foma’i popoto i le
aiga o virusi e tolu, o le Marburg, Ebola Sudan, Ebola Zaire,
ma le Ebola Reston lea na alia’e
i Amerika, ma ua fa’aigoa o le
Ebola Reston, ona o Reston le
nofoaga na a’afia ai manuki.
Fai mai le fa’amatalaga,
atonu o le Ebola Reston na tupu
a’e i Aferika ona fa’aauau ai lea
i Filipaina e ala i femalaga’iga a
va’alele i se taimi e le i mamao
atu. i nisi fa’amatalaga, o lona
uiga ua leva ona i totonu le virusi
o le Ebola i le ta’amilosaga o le
lalolagi ae maise ai o Konitineta
o le lalolagi e pei o Aferika, o le
Atu Asia, ma o lea ua o’o ane i
Amerika. Atonu fo’i, o le Ebola
na mafua mai i Aferika ona
alu ane ai lea i le Atu Asia, i ni
tausaga ua mavae atu, ma ua na
o ni masalosaloga, ma ua mafai
ona fealua’i solo le virusi lenei,
ona o manuki lea na aumai mai
Aferika ma o’o atu i le Atu Asia.
O lo’o i ai fa’amatalaga e
fa’apea, o le au milionea o lo’o
nonofo i totonu o Filipaina,
ma o i latou fo’i ia e tele fanua
o lo’o latou umia, e i ai le vaomatua ma atumauga, o i latou ia
o lo’o fa’atauina mai manuki mai
Aferika ona fa’atata’a solo lea
i laufanua o Filipaina. Afai la e
alu se fanafanaga manu po’o le
➧ Tala mai…
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MOLIA I LE
FASIOTI TAGATA
Ua molia nei e leoleo se alii e
31 tausaga le matua o le afioaga
o Lotofaga, Safata i le moliaga o
le fasioti tagata faamoemoeina.
O lea mataupu ua faamautu mai
e le Matagaluega o Leoleo ma
Falepuiupui ma na saunoa le
afioga i le Komesina Lagolago,
le afioga ia Fauono Talalelei
Tapu, o le ua maliu, o se tama e
58 tausaga le matua o le afioaga
lava o Lotofaga, Safata. Na faaalia
i suesuega a leoleo e faapea, o
lea mataupu na mafua i se inuga
ava malosi a le ua maliu ma le
ua molia i le afiafi o le Aso Lulu
o le vaiaso na sei mavae atu i
Lotofaga, Safata lava. O lea inuga
ava sa faia i le maota o le ua molia,
peitai sa feeseesea’i faamatalaga i
lena afiafi ma faaoolima ai loa le
ua molia i le ua maliu, e faaoga ai
se laau. Sa tuga ni manua i foliga
ma isi vaega o le tino o le na maliu
lea na mafua ai ona maliu o ia.
tuliga manu a le au vaega lea, ona
toe au mai ai lea o manuki nei. O
le isi manatu ua tula’i mai, afai
o le sa’o lea, o lona uiga, o lo’o
nofo le virusi i totonu o manu, e
i ai elefane, o manuki, o liona o
pafalo ma le anoano o isi manu ua
i totonu o Filipaina, ma atonu o le
ala lea na o’o ai le virusi i totonu
o lea atunu’u.
E pei o le tele o isi fa’ama’i
ma virusi, e i ai lava le mea
na mafua mai ai, ma atonu ua
fa’apena fo’i le virusi lea o le
Ebola Reston, o lo’o i ai lava le
mea o lo’o nofonofo ai si ali’i
e fa’atalitali ai se isi taimi e
‘osofa’i ai manu atoa ma tagata.
E le taumate fo’i, o le alia’e o
le virusi o le Ebola Reston e pei
ona fa’aigoa ai e foma’i i totonu
o Amerika, ua mafua lea mai se
manuki e tasi, pe na a’afia mai
Aferika po’o Filipaina, e leai se
tasi o mautinoa lea tulaga.
Peita’i, o le manuki lava lea e
tasi, ua avea ma ala ua o’o ane ai
le virusi i totonu o le Malo Tele,
ae sa lagona le fa’afetai o ali’i
ma tama’ita’i foma’i, ona e leai
se ola na ma’imau i lenei virusi,
ae ua na o manu sa mama’i ma
mamate ai. Atonu fo’i, ua vave
gaoioiga a le Vaega a le Ami a
le Malo Tele, fa’apea ma le fesoasoani na tu’u ane e le Vaega
a le C.D.C mai Atlanta ma isi
Matagaluega a le Malo, lea ua
taofia ai le virusi mai le sosolo
atu ma a’afia ai le tagata soifua.
E fitu (7) ituaiga vaega
‘ese’ese e maua i totonu o so’o se
virusi, ae e fa (4), e le o iloa lelei i
le taimi nei. O le mea tonu lea na
tupu i totonu o Reston, ona ua na
o sina vaega o le virusi na a’afia
ai manuki, ma ua sefe mai ai fo’i
le ola o tagata soifua o lo’o alaala
ma papaa’ao i totonu o Amerika i
na vaitaimi. E faia pea…
Man pleads no contest
to sex assault on a bus
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A homeless parolee who was
charged with raping a woman in the back of a public bus as
it drove through Los Angeles has pleaded no contest to lesser
charges.
Kerry Trotter, 21, entered the plea Wednesday to felony
sexual battery and a misdemeanor charge of indecent exposure.
He initially faced rape and other charges that could have sent
him to prison for two decades.
The Los Angeles Times says it’s not immediately clear what
sentence he will face at a May 21 hearing.
Prosecutors said Trotter, a recently released parolee with a
long criminal history, attacked an 18-year-old developmentally
disabled woman in the back of a Los Angeles County Metro bus
in November 2012.
Authorities said the 10-minute attack went unnoticed by the
driver and several passengers as the bus made two stops on its
way to Culver City.
The victim, a special education student, had the mental
capacity of a 10-year-old, authorities said.
She was returning from school at the time and had only
recently been allowed to ride the bus on her own, the Times said.
She didn’t yell or scream during the attack because she
was afraid for her life and “she was shocked and didn’t know
what to do,” county Sheriff’s Sgt. Dan Scott said during the
investigation.
She notified the driver of the attack after Trotter left the bus.
He was later arrested after an anonymous tip by someone who
saw an image from a surveillance camera.
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This image made available by environmental organization Greenpeace shows the Greenpeace ship Esperanza, paragliders and Greenpeace inflatable boats
protest near the Mikhail Ulyanov oil tanker, left, in the harbor of Rotterdam, Netherlands, on Thursday, May 1, 2014. Greenpeace International activists are
attempting to prevent a Russian tanker carrying the first oil from a new offshore platform in the Arctic from mooring at Rotterdam Port.
The environmental group said Thursday it has sent two ships, Rainbow Warrior III and Esperanza, plus rubber rafts, paragliders and activists on shore, to meet
(AP Photo/Ruben Neugebauer, Greenpeace)
the Mikhail Ulyanov, a tanker chartered by Russia’s state-controlled oil company, Gazprom OAO.
➧ NEWS IN BRIEF…
Utah girl hit by school
bus in critical condition
SOUTH JORDAN, Utah (AP) — A 10-yearold girl remains in critical condition after she
was struck by a school bus in her suburban Salt
Lake City neighborhood.
South Jordan Police Sgt. Sam Winkler said
the girl was “still extremely critical” Thursday
afternoon, but he did not release further details.
He says the girl had just gotten off her bus
Wednesday afternoon and was crossing the
street when she was struck by a second bus.
She was taken to a nearby hospital then
flown to Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt
Lake City, where she underwent surgery and
remains in critical condition with head injuries.
Collapsed Baltimore
street to stay evacuated
BALTIMORE (AP) — Officials say people
who live in houses on a Baltimore city block
where the street collapsed during a rainstorm
may have to be kept out of their homes for up
to 40 days. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
spokesman Kevin Harris said Thursday he
did not know how many houses or people are
affected by the continued evacuation order in
Charles Village. He says city officials will meet
with residents Friday morning.
A sidewalk and retaining wall in Baltimore’s
Charles Village neighborhood buckled and caved
in Wednesday afternoon, swallowing a streetlight
and more than half a dozen cars. No one was
injured. Freight rail officials say cargo trains will
likely begin running again Thursday evening on
a section of track that was buried in the collapse.
California teacher gets
38 years in molestation
CLOVIS, Calif. (AP) — A Central California teacher has been sentenced to 38 years
to life in federal prison after admitting that he
molested a second-grade student in his classroom. Forty-six-year-old Neng Yang pleaded
guilty in March in U.S. District Court to two
counts of sexual exploitation of a child.
The Fresno Bee reports Yang still faces 45
felony counts of child molestation in Fresno
County Superior Court, where he could get a
life sentence.
Yang was a teacher in Clovis, a community near Fresno, where police say he locked
the classroom door, blindfolded the girl and
molested her. Investigators say they found
videos on Yang’s cellphone taken of the abuse
in December 2011 and January 2012.
Last year, the Clovis Unified School District
paid the girl’s family $2 million to settle a lawsuit stemming from the abuse.
Memphis mayor: the City is
ready if British royals visit
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — There’s nothing
confirmed, but Tennessee is abuzz with speculation whether Princes William and Harry will
travel to Memphis for the weekend wedding of
a friend.
A C Wharton Jr., mayor of this Tennessee
city famous for Blues music, says Memphis
is ready to host the British royals should they
decide to attend what he describes as a strictly
private affair. But he has given no official indication whether they actually planned to show
up at Saturday’s wedding.
A busy weekend looms in Memphis with
the start of the annual Memphis in May tourism
event and The Beale Street Music Festival
kicking off.
Wharton says any visit by British royals
would be good publicity for Memphis and
he’s been deluged by calls already about the
possibility.
the us-EPA helps extinguish
5-year-old Puerto Rico fire
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A fire that
burned for more than five years at a tire disposal
site in southern Puerto Rico has finally been
extinguished, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday.
EPA officials said Puerto Rico’s government
called them several weeks ago seeking help to
extinguish the fire at the Integrated Waste Management site in the southern coastal city of
Penuelas.
The pile of tires was 60 feet (18 meters)
high, 150 feet (46 meters) long and 60 feet (18
meters) wide. It first caught fire in August 2008
and kept smoldering even though local officials
had partially controlled the burn with dirt, the
EPA said.
“Certain types of industrial fires can smolder
for a long time,” EPA spokesman Elias Rodriguez said in a phone interview. “It was something that was persistent.”
The EPA said it began work on March 18
and extinguished the fire on April 24. Officials said they took more than 12,000 tires to a
recycling center and covered 8,000 cubic yards
(6,100 cubic meters) of non-hazardous material
with clean soil.
Fautuaina e Lemanu ia Fa’atonusili
tulaga o le Paketi
tusia Ausage Fausia
I se fonotaga faapitoa a le Kapeneta na valaauina e le afioga
i le alii kovana le tumau ia Lemanu Peleti Mauga i le vaiaso nei,
sa ia fautuaina ai fa’atonusili ina ia silasila toto’a i manaoga tau
tupe latou te manaomia mo a latou paketi o le tausaga tupe fou
2015, ina ia fa’ailoa atu ia manaoga i taimi o a latou fonotaga, ae
le o le fa’atali sei o o i luma o le Fono Faitulafono. Na fa’amanatu
e Lemanu i fa’atonusili e fa’apea, e le o le Fono Faitulafono le
nofoaga e talosaga ai mo ni isi tupe fa’aopoopo mo a latou paketi,
o le galuega lea e galulue ai le kovana ma le fa’atonusili.
“O le galuega a le Fa’atonusili e faia i luma o le Fono Faitulafono pe a valaau mai mo lana paketi, o le taumafai lea e puipui
lana paketi ua mae’a ona tuuina atu e faatino ai galuega a lona
ofisa mo le tausaga tupe atoa,” o le fautuaga lea a Lemanu.
O le fautuaga fo’i lea sa tu’uina atu e le afioga i le ali’i kovana
ia Lolo Matalasi Moliga i se tasi o fonotaga a le kapeneta i le
tausaga na te’a nei, ina ua sauni afioga i fa’atonusili e molimau i
luma o le fono mo le paketi o le tausaga tupe lenei.
I le talanoaina ai o le mataupu e faatatau i paketi a matagaluega
mo le tausaga tupe 2015, ua fautuaina ai loa le tatau lea ona faamuta
le tuuina atu o talosaga mo paketi a matagaluega ma ofisa taitasi i le
aso 2 o Me, 2014, o le aso Faraile lea o le vaiaso nei, a’o lumana’i ai
fonotaga a Lemanu ma fa’atonusili uma mo le talanoaina o a latou
paketi i le aso 5, Me. Sa fautuaina fo’i sui o le kapeneta ina ia tausisi
pea le maualuluga o a latou talosaga mo le paketi, i le maualuga o lo
o faatautaia ai le paketi o le tausaga tupe lenei 2014.
O le toe tauaofia ai o galuega a le Fono Faitulafono i le masina
o Iulai 2014, o se tasi o ana mataupu tupito o le a iloiloina ai, o le
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Workers carry a flag depicting a yellow ribbon as a sign of hope for the safe return of missing
passengers of the sunken ferry Sewol during a May Day rally to pay tribute to the victims of the
accident in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, May 1, 2014. An off-duty captain of the sunken South
Korean ferry has told investigators that the owners ignored his warning that the ship shouldn’t carry
too much cargo because it wasn’t very stable, a prosecutor said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
LBJ Tropical Medical Center
SECTION 00200 – ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS
REFERENCE NO: 004-14
PUBLICATION DATE: 4/8/14
1.
SOLICITATION
Sealed bids are solicited for: Renovate/Expand Surgical/LDR/Nursery Suites for LBJ Tropical
Medical Center in Fagaalu Territory of American Samoa.
2.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
The project is composed of one (1) bid package. Work shall include general construction,
site work, concrete work and fine finishing.
3.
RECEIPT AND OEPENING OF BIDS:
Sealed bids will be received by Chief Procurement Officer of LBJ Tropical Medical Center,
Pago Pago, American Samoa, 96799 until 2:00pm Tuesday, May 13th, 2014 at which time and
place the sealed bids will be publicly opened and read.
4.
PRE-BID MEETING:
A mandatory Pre-Bid meeting for this project is scheduled for April 23rd, 2014 at 1:00pm at
the LBJ Director of Plant Operation Service’s Office.
5.
BIDDING DOCUMENT:
CD which includes plans and specifications may be examined at LBJ Tropical Medical Center,
in the Village of Fagaalu, or maybe obtained upon payment of an non–refundable deposit of
two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) in U.S. currency or by check made payable to LBJ
Tropical Medical Center.
6.
BIDDERS REQUIREMENT
Five (5) years construction in commercial or similar type of projects. Federal and Territory
tax clearance certificates.
7.
BID SECURITY
A bid bond or cashiers check in the amount of 5% of the base bid will be required to
accompany all bids. Produce Power of Attorney authorizing signer of Bid Bond to issue bond.
Bidders may receive pre-approval of their bid bond from the LBJ Tropical Medical Center at
any time before bid opening.
8.
PERFORMANCE BOND/LABOR AND MATERIALS BOND
The Contractor shall provide a Performance Bond/Labor and Materials Payment Bond in the
amount of 100% of the total contract Sum. Performance Bond/Labor and Materials Payment
Bond shall be on the forms provided in the contract documents or similar forms satisfactory
to LBJ Tropical Medical Center. The Surety must be in US Government circular 570 Surety or
certified and approved by LBJ Tropical Medical Center.
9.
RIGHT OF REFUSAL
LBJ Tropical Medical Center reserves the right to refuse any bids.
10. LBJ Tropical Medical Center reserves the right to waive any lawful informalities in bidding and
awarding as it may be in the best interest of LBJ Tropical Medical Center.
APPROVED BY: Chief Procurement Officer
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Part-time british
judge found guilty
of lying to police
LONDON (AP) — A British
judge has been found guilty of
lying to police investigating a
politician’s speeding case. Constance Briscoe, a part-time judge
and an experienced lawyer, had
denied three counts of trying to
pervert the course of justice in
the case of disgraced ex-Cabinet minister Chris Huhne. The
politician tried to pin a speeding
penalty on his wife, Vicky
Pryce, in 2003, but a trial last
year resulted in both Huhne and
Pryce jailed for perverting the
course of justice.
The 56-year-old Briscoe, who
served as a witness in the probe,
was accused of lying to police
and falsifying documents to help
the case of Pryce, a friend and
neighbor. Briscoe has been suspended since her arrest in 2012.
A judge said Thursday she will
almost certainly face jail time.
Man charged in
Washington bomb
plot dead in cell
SEATAC,
Washington
(AP) — A Washington state
man charged this week with
plotting to blow up a Wal-Mart
and two gas stations as a diversion for a robbery spree has
been found dead in his cell.
The U.S. Bureau of Prisons
said Thursday that 52-year-old
Larry Ray Gillette was discovered unresponsive at the Federal Detention Center at SeaTac
on Wednesday and was taken
to a hospital, but could not be
revived. The FBI is investigating the death as an apparent
suicide, but no details were
released about the cause.
Prosecutors say Gillette was
arrested Monday as he tried to
ignite what he thought was a
car bomb. In reality, it was a
dud provided by investigators.
House lawmakers
vote to block
their pay raise
(AP) — House lawmakers
voted for the sixth year in
a row on Thursday to deny
themselves the cost-of-living
pay hike that they would otherwise automatically receive
next January. The move would
freeze congressional salaries at
$174,000 a year and is attached
to legislation to fund Congress’ budget, which passed
the House by a 402-14 vote.
Lawmakers haven’t received
a pay hike since January 2009.
Bipartisan reforms enacted
in 1989 gave lawmakers a big
pay increase in exchange for
dropping the much-criticized
practice of accepting money
from outside interest groups
for speeches. That legislation
awarded lawmakers annual
cost-of-living pay increases,
which also meant that lawmakers no longer had to cast
politically toxic votes to raise
their pay. Congress accepted the
annual COLA for some years in
the 1990s and for most of the
2000s but has voted to deny
itself the raise for five consecutive years. The scheduled 1.6
percent hike would give lawmakers a raise of about $2,800.
Hearing continues
for Ohio transgender inmate case
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP)
— A hearing is continuing into
a second day over a lawsuit by
a transgender prison inmate
who wants a judge to order
Ohio authorities to allow her
hormone treatments to continue permanently. Whitney
Lee says she suffered a medical setback including facial
hair growth and depression
when the treatments stopped.
Lee had undergone continuous hormone therapy
since 1999 until the correction
department abruptly halted the
treatments in February 2012.
Her legal name is still Antione
(AN’-twahn) Lee.
The state resumed the treatments last month after a federal judge temporarily ordered
the state to provide them. A
hearing that began Thursday
before Judge Algenon Marbley
continues Friday.
School stabbing
suspect in Conn.
due in court
MILFORD, Conn. (AP)
— A teenager charged in the
fatal stabbing of a Connecticut
high school student is expected
to make his first public court
appearance. The 16-year-old
defendant, Christopher Plaskon,
is due Friday in Milford Superior Court. Plaskon has been
charged with murder in the
slaying of Maren Sanchez, a
friend who was killed last week
in a hallway at Jonathan Law
High School in Milford.
Police have been investigating whether the attack was
related to Sanchez’s refusal to
be Plaskon’s prom date.
A wake for Sanchez
Thursday drew a large turnout.
Plaskon was arraigned
Tuesday at a medical facility,
where his attorneys say he’s
been undergoing psychiatric
evaluation. Plaskon’s family
said Tuesday it joins the community in mourning the loss
of life as it struggles to understand what led to the crime.
Illegal Colombia
mine collapse: 3
dead, 15 missing
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP)
— Rescuers were searching
for at least 15 people missing
after an illegal gold mine collapsed in southwest Colombia.
Authorities said three dead
bodies had been recovered.
Cauca province Gov. Temistocles Ortega said the collapse
occurred shortly before midnight Wednesday in a rural area
near Santander de Quilichao,
about 190 miles (315 kilometers) southwest of Bogota, the
capital. He said illegal miners
use machinery to open huge
holes to extract gold, and one of
the walls of a hole fell in.
By nightfall Thursday,
rescue workers had recovered
three bodies and three injured
people, but were still searching
for another 15 or so who were
still missing. Police, troops,
civil defense and the Red Cross
were aiding in rescue efforts.
Explosion kills 12
in Nigerian capital
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A
car bomb exploded on a busy
road in Nigeria’s capital late
Thursday, killing at least 12
people days before the city is to
host a major international economic forum.
The bomb exploded near
a checkpoint across the road
from a busy bus station where
a massive explosion on April
14 killed at least 75 people.
That blast was claimed by the
Islamic extremist Boko Hararm
terrorist network.
Thursday’s bomb comes
days before Abuja is to host
the World Economic Forum
on Africa, with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang as an honored guest. The government
is deploying 6,000 police to
protect the May 7-9 event,
which attracts world leaders,
policymakers, philanthropists
and business leaders to discuss
Africa’s economic growth
prospects.
3 on leave over
allegations on
Phoenix vet care
PHOENIX (AP) — Three
executives of the veterans
hospital in Phoenix have
been placed on administrative
leave amid an investigation
into allegations of corruption and unnecessary deaths
at the facility, federal officials
announced Thursday.
Phoenix VA Health Care
System
Director
Sharon
Helman and associate director
Lance Robinson would be
placed on leave “until further
notice,” U.S. Veterans Affairs
Secretary Eric K. Shinseki said.
The third employee was not
identified in a statement Shinseki issued from Washington.
The facility has been under
fire in recent weeks over allegations that up to 40 patients may
have died because of delays in
care and that the hospital kept
a secret list of patients waiting
for appointments to hide the
treatment delays.
Earlier Thursday, before the
announcement that she would
be placed on leave, Helman
and the hospital’s chief of
staff denied any knowledge of
a secret list and said they had
found no evidence of patient
deaths due to delayed care.
s. California wildfire
53 percent contained
RANCHO CUCAMONGA,
Calif. (AP) — A Southern
California wildfire that forced
more than 1,000 people from
their homes was only smoldering on Thursday as gusty
winds eased and fire crews
were able to halfway surround
it, fire officials said.
The blaze east of Los
Angeles in the foothills of the
San Bernardino National Forest
was 53 percent contained by
nighttime, and there was no
active flame, fire spokesman
Brian Grant said.
The blaze began Wednesday
morning and surged through
1,627 acres of grass and chaparral, but it didn’t move at all
overnight, Grant said.
Crews find damaged
stuff in nuke dump
CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) —
Crews searching for the source
of a radiation release from the
government’s
underground
nuclear waste dump in southeastern New Mexico have found
damaged bags of minerals in the
mine, but officials say they have
yet to identify what caused the
radiation leak. The U.S. Department of Energy said Thursday
that workers at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant found several huge bags of magnesium
chloride that are placed on top
of waste containers to absorb
moisture and carbon dioxide
have been “grossly disturbed.”
It’s not clear, however, what
damaged the bags. And officials say they haven’t found any
structural damage in the wastestorage area of the repository
near Carlsbad.
The dump has been shuttered since a Feb. 14 leak sent
low levels of radiation into the
air, contaminating 21 workers
with radiation.
As U.S. draws down,
Afghanistan’s opium
production thrives
MARJAH,
Afghanistan
(AP) — Pink-and-white poppy
blooms stretch toward the
horizon in this field in southern
Afghanistan as laborers slice
open the green bulbs swollen
with raw opium, the main
ingredient in heroin.
The opium from Marjah,
a district in southern Helmand province, likely will
make its way to drug addicts
in the region and the world.
Helmand’s harvest this year
is expected to be one of the
largest ever, mirroring trends
in the rest of Afghanistan.
This year’s bumper crop,
after the U.S. has spent $7.5 billion trying to eradicate opium
in Afghanistan, represents one
of the most tangible and visible failures as the Americanled military force prepares to
withdraw by the end of this
year. And with Afghanistan’s
emerging anti-narcotics forces
vastly outnumbered both by
Taliban brokers and corrupt
officials involved in the trade,
the opium trade likely will
only grow.
Gubernatorial
candidate to hand
out Klan hoods
MADISON, Wis. (AP)
— Democratic candidate for
governor Brett Hulsey plans
to hand out white Ku Klux
Klan-style hoods to Wisconsin
Republicans as they gather for
their annual convention Friday
to highlight what he says are
their racist policies.
Hulsey, a state representative from Madison who is
white, came into the state Capitol press room on Thursday
to show off a hood he says
he made with his daughter’s
sewing machine using curtain
material he purchased for $1.
When asked whether he was
serious, trying to be funny or
provocative, Hulsey answered:
“All of the above.”
Hulsey, a two-term state
representative, is running a
long-shot campaign for the
Democratic nomination against
the better-funded and more
broadly supported candidate
Mary Burke. She is a former
state commerce secretary and
Trek Bicycle Corp. executive.
Her campaign spokesman Joe
Zepecki called Hulsey’s latest
47
stunt “completely unacceptable and totally inappropriate.”
Hulsey has a history of outlandish behavior.
man questioned in
parents’ samurai
stabbing deaths
DECATUR, Ga. (AP) —
Authorities say a suburban
Atlanta man suspected of stabbing his parents to death with
a samurai sword has been
arrested and is being questioned by police.
DeKalb County Police
spokeswoman Mekka Parish
says the bodies of a 73-yearold woman and her 75-yearold husband were found by a
relative who visited their house
Thursday afternoon.
Parish says the couple’s
39-year-old son was identified
as a suspect and was found at
a nearby park less than two
hours after his parents’ deaths
were reported.
Parish says authorities have
not filed formal charges against
the man, and the victims’ identities haven’t been released.
Parish said investigators
were awaiting a warrant to
search the rest of the victims’
house Thursday evening.
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