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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The House Health Committee met and discussed the status of the only two out of the 21 nurses from Fiji who passed the NCLEX (National Council Licensing Examination) to be certified as registered nurses. Three others who sat the exam last week did not pass and will make a...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In his fiscal year 2024 Budget Plan Executive Summary letter to Fono leaders, Gov. Lemanu P. S. Mauga informed lawmakers that the government’s proposed revenue streams for the new fiscal year indicates the local economy is vibrant, but he also cited risk factors for...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A woman called the Tafuna Police Substation (TPS) on the evening of July 6, 2023 claiming a family member had physically abused her 3-year old daughter, who had just been discharged from LBJ on that same day.
When the woman and her child arrived at TPS, officers observed...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Territory of American Samoa will be advertised and promoted in the three biggest cities of Australia, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney when the American Samoa Visitors Bureau (ASVB) takes advantage of an invitation from the Samoa Tourism Authority’s (STA) “Tri Cities...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa is now home to a well-known Bible school in the Pacific — the RHEMA Bible Training Center Center Pago Pago (RHEMA BTPP), which will open its doors Tuesday, next week, August 1, 2023. It will be based on the second floor of the GHC Reid building at Fagatogo...
Washington, D.C. — Uifa’atali Amata took part in examination of a bill she sponsored, with Congressman Ed Case (D-HI) as the original cosponsor, the South Pacific Tuna Treaty Act, H.R. 1792, a bipartisan effort to congressionally direct full implementation of the South Pacific Tuna Treaty, as...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A former auditor of the ASG’s Territorial Audit Office, Micheal A. Edmonds, has been appointed by Gov. Lemanu P. S. Mauga to fill the long-vacant post of Territorial Auditor, who also oversees this independent government agency.
The governor’s nomination of Edmonds — who...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Of the total projected government local revenues of $143 million, an estimated $103.2 million will come from taxes, according to data provided by Gov. Lemanu P.S. Mauga in his 26-page Executive Budget summary booklet for the proposed FY 2024 budget submitted to the Fono...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The special provisions clause of the Immigration law was under scrutiny in a hearing of the Senate’s Immigration Committee, which convened as a committee-of-the-whole yesterday morning, and all 15 members present were given an opportunity to comment on the issue....
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Fa’asao High School Alumni Association spent quality time with the treasured residents (elderly, disabled, and adult day care) at Hope House on Saturday, July 22, 2023.
Alumni engaged in activities that both the residents and Association enjoyed, including elei-...