Video 1 Transcript
As you all may know, Samoa is actually the first Pacific island to gain its independence. We got independent in 1962 in January, however because of the severe weather around January time, like the month of January, we've actually moved our independent day from January to June, so we're now celebrating the middle of the year. So Samoa was administered by New Zealand at the time, and we granted independent, and from then on we have our own head of state, we have our prime minister, members of cabinet, and members of parliament, and we have a lot of ministries, or as they call it in the States, agencies. So we have Ministry of Education, Ministry of Women, Tourism, Finance, and all of them. So our history, I would say our ancestors, they paved the way.