The 43-year-old Lawless, a native New Zealander, is best known for her title role in “Xena: Warrior Princess.”
Samoans seek jobs in Guam
PAGO PAGO, American Samoa (AP) — Thirty American Samoa residents have left the U.S. territory with the hopes of landing jobs that come with thousands of military personnel being relocated from Japan to Guam.
They are participants of the National Emergency Grant program funded by the U.S. Department of Labor in response to the Sept. 29, 2009 earthquake and tsunami that killed 34 people in American Samoa.
The program has provided temporary jobs for workers left unemployed by the closure of the Chicken of the Sea Samoa Packing cannery that same year.
The group’s send-off on Thursday was part of an agreement between the local government and the government of Guam.
The participants needed to pass health tests and criminal background checks. Once in Guam, they’ll undergo job training and placement.
Actress joins protest on ship
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Actress Lucy Lawless is hunkering down for a second day of a protest aboard an oil-drilling ship in New Zealand to try to stop the vessel from setting off for the Arctic.
Lawless and six Greenpeace activists climbed the 174-foot drilling tower aboard the Noble Discoverer in Port Taranaki early Friday and camped overnight in hammocks.
The group is trying to prevent the ship, which is chartered by Shell oil company, from leaving port to drill five exploratory wells in the Arctic. The ship was due to leave port this weekend.
Police say the group is breaking the law by trespassing, but haven’t tried to physically remove the protesters.
The 43-year-old Lawless, a native New Zealander, is best known for her title role in “Xena: Warrior Princess.”