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Feb 4, 2024 | 
samoaobserver.ws | Reginald Singh |Daniel Flitton |Henrietta McNeill |Grant Walton
I refer to your recent press release referring to “a stakeholder consultation held in December 2023” on the issue of paraquat use in Samoa and the ‘Pesticide Management Group Analysis, a joint report thereon in collaboration with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
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Aug 8, 2023 | 
devpolicy.org | Sinclair Dinnen |Grant Walton
Australia is generally considered a beacon of law, order and stability. It certainly outperforms its Pacific neighbours across a range of governance indicators, which suggest that it – along with New Zealand (which usually does better than its trans-Tasman neighbour) – is one of the region’s best governed nations.
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Mar 14, 2023 | 
samoaobserver.ws | Grant Walton |Walter Vermeulen |Eliana Viali
The Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland has raised the Commonwealth Flag for Peace at a ceremony in London on Commonwealth Day. The Secretary-General was joined by Commonwealth leaders, Ministers and youth representatives to raise the specially-designed flag, created as part of efforts to promote 2023 as the Commonwealth Year of Peace across the family of nations.
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Mar 11, 2023 | 
samoaobserver.ws | Grant Walton |Enid Westerlund |Stephen Howes
Home / Columns / By Eliana Viali • 12 March 2023, 1:00PM Talofa Samoa and welcome back to your weekly Physiotherapy column! Today’s column comes to you from PHYX Physio & Pilates in Australia and covers Achilles’ tendon ruptures. If your Achilles tendon ruptures, you may hear a ‘pop’ sound and feel an immediate sharp pain in the back of your heel and lower leg which is likely to affect your ability to walk.
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Mar 11, 2023 | 
samoaobserver.ws | Grant Walton |Enid Westerlund |Stephen Howes
A well-informed Public is the cornerstone of a successful Primary Health Care approach to non-communicable diseases (NCD). This is why we have, in these columns, tried our best to make as reader-friendly our presentations on –at times- very complex medical concepts. In our previous Column, we mentioned that cells ‘talk’ to each other through chemical signals leading to a ‘signalling pathway’, in this way allowing information from outside or inside the cell to affect a particular cell function.
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Mar 10, 2023 | 
samoaobserver.ws | Grant Walton |Walter Vermeulen |Stephen Howes
In the early hours of Monday 6 February 2023, more than 50,000 people were crushed to death across Türkiye and Syria following two devastating earthquakes and numerous aftershocks. The ancient cities of Antakya/Hatay, Kahramanmaras, Sanliurfa and many others now lie under rubble. The earthquakes have displaced 2.7 million people, and more than a million people are now without homes in freezing winter conditions.
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Mar 10, 2023 | 
samoaobserver.ws | Grant Walton |Walter Vermeulen |Eliana Viali
As the global “polycrisis” continues apace – deepening poverty, hunger and misery in its wake – efforts to scale up global development finance in response have, sadly but unsurprisingly, taken a much slower course.
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Mar 9, 2023 | 
samoaobserver.ws | Grant Walton |Walter Vermeulen |Eliana Viali |Enid Westerlund
On Tuesday (7th March) in Australia's Parliament the Opposition decided to oppose the supporting legislation to implement the Pacific Engagement Visa (PEV), an election commitment of the new government to provide permanent residency to 3,000 Pacific islanders per year through a lottery. Shadow Minister for Immigration Dan Tehan gave a lengthy speech prosecuting the Opposition’s case.
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Mar 4, 2023 | 
samoaobserver.ws | Grant Walton |Walter Vermeulen
What is your plan for parenting? The wish or expectation to be perfect and never make mistakes? That doesn’t exist. What does exist? Growth. The ability to pause, reflect, learn and change. You’re raising your children but you’re also raising yourself along the way. Constantly walking the fine line between your needs and your children’s needs and wants. We make mistakes and they feel awful but the learning is good. Regrets, the could haves, should haves, no doubt set us back .
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Mar 4, 2023 | 
samoaobserver.ws | Grant Walton |Walter Vermeulen |Enid Westerlund
Talofa Samoa and welcome back to your Sunday Physiotherapy Column. Today’s column is by Barefoot Physiotherapy in Australia, enjoy!Pain and injury in the shoulder can have a variety of causes. One of the most common issues we see is shoulder impingement. Shoulder impingement refers to a condition where poor coordination causes certain structures within the shoulder to get squashed or compressed when moving.
