The government has asked Samoa’s four commercial banks for help in providing overdraft facilities to District Councils to cover the remaining 30 per cent of their $1.8 million District Development funds, in what one senior bank official described as an “interesting request.”The request, which is ...
By Sulamanaia Manaui Faulalo
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07 June 2026, 9:00AM
The government has asked Samoa’s four commercial banks for help in providing overdraft facilities to District Councils to cover the remaining 30 per cent of their $1.8 million District Development funds, in what one senior bank official described as an “interesting request.”
By Sulamanaia Manaui Faulalo
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Minister of Women, Community and Social Development (MWCSD) Moefaauouo Julius Tafunai, has responded in the Samoa Observer’s…
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