3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (424+ words) A 70-year-old grandfather has been sentenced to 13 years and six months in prison for three sexual offences involving his three young granddaughters. The man’s identity has been suppressed by the Supreme Court because of the young age of the victims…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (589+ words) 9 September 2026 Apia Samoa. Police have identified drug-related offending across all eight urban districts of Upolu, with Vaimauga 4 recording the highest number of people arrested and prosecuted for drug offences. Updated figures provided by Police show 228 people have been arrested and…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago   (386+ words) 8 September 2026, Apia Samoa. Two prison corrections officers and one civilian employee of the Ministry of Police and Prisons have been terminated following multiple positive drug tests for marijuana and methamphetamine. Acting Police Commissioner, Leiataua Samuealu Afamasaga confirmed that the three…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (386+ words) 8 September 2026, Apia Samoa. Two prison corrections officers and one civilian employee of the Ministry of Police and Prisons have been terminated following multiple positive drug tests for marijuana and methamphetamine. Acting Police Commissioner, Leiataua Samuealu Afamasaga confirmed that the three…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (275+ words) 8 September 2026, Apia Samoa. Two prison corrections officers and one civilian employee of the Ministry of Police and Prisons have been terminated following multiple positive drug tests for marijuana and methamphetamine. Acting Police Commissioner, Leiataua Samuealu Afamasaga confirmed that the three…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (816+ words) A 44-year-old father and drug related suspect died on Friday afternoon following a police raid of his home in Sinamoga. Mateo Peseta Kofe affectionately known by his friends and family as “Maddy” was the target of a police drug bust…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (483+ words) A rape case is being heard before the Supreme Court of Samoa, where a young boy is accused of raping a girl with an intellectual disability in alleged incidents that occurred when the victim and the accused were both 13 years…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (677+ words) A 22 year-old male was heard yelling out a loud “K€£€” (se’i tulou) just after His Honour, Justice Leiataualesa Daryl Clarke had handed down a 10-year prison sentence for the rape and kidnapping of a 17-year-old girl in 2024. The Supreme Court…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (677+ words) A 22 year-old male was heard yelling out a loud “K€£€” (se’i tulou) just after His Honour, Justice Leiataualesa Daryl Clarke had handed down a 10-year prison sentence for the rape and kidnapping of a 17-year-old girl in 2024. The Supreme Court…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (453+ words) On August 21 1911, the Mona Lisa vanished under mysterious circumstances from the Louvre in Paris. Vincenzo Peruggia, an Italian artist who had been working at the gallery took the painting from the Salon Carré where it hung to a nearby service…...