Alan Ah Mu APIA: WEDNESDAY 24 APRIL: A shipment of the drug methamphetamine or ice discovered in cargo from overseas at Apia Wharf has sparked an investigation by the authorities. News of the discovery has circulated amongst agents and others in the shipping industry. “The investigation is not completed,” Commissioner of Police, Lilomaiava Fou Taioalo, [...]

APIA: WEDNESDAY 24 APRIL 2013: Tokelau Police have joined forces with New Zealand Police under the Partnership for Pacific Policing Programme to enhance Policing within the region. This programme aims at building a safer and more secured Pacific Island Countries. The programme targets to develop 3 main key activities for Tokelau Police. These are to [...]

  By Lagi Keresoma APIA: FRIDAY 12 APRIL 2013: The Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organisation, José Graziano da Silva was bestowed a chiefly title reserved for a warrior today. He was bestowed the title of Tagaloaletoaolemalaeoletoto (translated Tagaloa the warrior of the battleground of the blood) in a dawn ceremony surrounded by [...]

APIA: FRIDAY 15 MARCH 2013: Tokelau is closer to getting a new ship that meets the transport needs of their three islands. The go-ahead for the tender for such a vessel to be declared has been given. “Applications for tender will be closed on the 7th of April,” a release from the Tokelau Apia Liaison [...]

Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina has been elected pope and chose the name Francis, becoming the first pontiff from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in more than a millennium. Looking stunned, Francis shyly waved to the crowd of tens of thousands of people who gathered in St Peter’s Square, marveling that the cardinals [...]