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Posted on Jan 30 2001
Students found with drugs to be expelled
PAGO PAGO, American Samoa (PIR) — The education department will no longer tolerate drugs and other illegal substances on its school campuses, education director Dr. Sili Sataua has announced.
“If a student is caught by a school official on campus with illegal substances, that student will be expelled immediately,” Dr. Sataua said.
The new school policy is much tougher than last year’s “zero tolerance policy,” which stated that a student caught in possession of illegal substances on campus “shall be suspended until the incident has been thoroughly investigated.”
Now, school authorities will no longer wait for a police report before expelling a charged student. However, the matter will be turned over to the police for investigation.
Kiribati focuses on climate change fears
TARAWA, Kiribati (PIR) — A climate change workshop in Betio has concluded that Kiribati is one of the low-lying Pacific atoll nations likely to be submerged if sea level rise continues.
Other countries threatened are the Cook Islands, the Marshall Islands and Tuvalu Environment Secretary Karibwaiti Taoaba said workshop participants addressed ways to resolve the threat, including encouraging developed nations to reduce the production of “greenhouse gasses” that warm the earth, melt polar icecaps and cause an increase in sea level.
