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23 January – Samoa and China sign a new visa exemption agreement. [ 4 ] 29 January – Authorities seize 10 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine from a shipping container that arrived from the United States and arrest three people in what is reported as the "largest known drug smuggling operation" in the country.
In addition to holidays with fixed dates, polling day and the day before polling day is a public holiday in any year when an election is held. In addition, the O le Ao o le Malo can declare public holidays in accordance with the Act.
5-6 October - The Royal New Zealand Navy specialist dive and hydrographic vessel HMNZS Manawanui sinks after running aground and catching fire near Siumu in Upolu island. All 75 people on board are evacuated.
Here are the dates of 2025 federal holidays, according to the Office of Personnel Management: Wednesday, Jan. 1: New Year’s Day Monday, Jan. 20: Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Some believe White Sunday to be a Christian adaptation of an indigenous pre-contact celebration of certain planting and harvesting seasons. Others assert that the holiday coincides with a family celebration that became widespread in the 1920s in commemoration of Samoans who succumbed to the influenza epidemic of 1919; this epidemic, introduced through the ambivalence of the New Zealand ...
APIA (Reuters) -The leaders of the Commonwealth group of nations will meet at a welcome banquet in Samoa in the South Pacific on Thursday, with climate change and reparations for Britain's role in ...
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Ongoing – COVID-19 pandemic in Samoa 24 February – 2023 Vaimauga 3 by-election [1] 23 March – 2019 Samoa assassination plot: Two men are found guilty of conspiring to kill the former Prime Minister TuilaŹ»epa SaŹ»ilele Malielegaoi after a trial before the country's Supreme Court.