AGP Executive Report
Last update: 6 hours agoEnergy Workforce: A World Bank-backed programme is helping Samoa and six other Pacific utilities recruit and retain women; women currently hold fewer than 7% of technical roles across the sector. Commonwealth Investment: Samoa has handed the Commonwealth chair to Antigua and Barbuda as leaders seek investment in member-country projects. The Secretariat says proposals worth US$52 billion have been submitted, with investors to be connected to projects. Climate Finance: Samoa urged leaders to provide predictable, grant-based climate funding, warning vulnerable nations should not have to borrow to recover from climate damage. Samoa Telecoms: Digicel Samoa paid a WST 2.17 million dividend to CSL Mobile, whose shareholder is the Samoa National Provident Fund. Public Finance: Samoa’s Revenue Ministry collected WST 83.5 million in the first quarter of the 2026/27 financial year, while the SNPF has welcomed new CEO Lealali Faletoese Asaua to lead the fund, which manages more than WST 1.2 billion in members’ savings.
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