Samoa

A Samoan law lecturer says the suspension of two of Samoa's opposition party members is a ploy by the government to have them completely removed from Parliament.

Samoa's Cabinet is set to resume sending off workers to the Recognised Seasonal Employment (RSE) scheme, which was suspended for all of January.

The Samoa Farmers Association is concerned with the decline in the country's agriculture sector outlined in a new government report.

Samoa's Ministry of Health has started investigating how a disused district hospital in Maasina village in the Fagaloa area came to be used as an animal farm.

Samoa's Acting Prime Minister has expressed concern at Australia offering up to 3000 visas for Pacific migrants, saying it will further drain Samoa's already strained labour workforce.

Former Samoan Prime Minister, Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi, has requested the Ministry of Police and Prisons to assign police officers as his security detail, following an alleged assault last week.