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FAGATOGO CENTRAL STATION
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Police raided a home at Fagatogo not far from the Central Station on Tuesday morning, July 11. According to the Chief of Police (CoP) Pouuamea Supapo in an exclusive interview with Samoa News, authorities are holding a 20-year old male and his mother along with another...
Two cases involve underage drinkers.
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — An underage individual was arrested on June 29, 2023 when the Fagatogo police station received a call about a male who allegedly assaulted his girlfriend in Alao by punching her in the mouth with a closed fist.  Responding officers arrived on the scene and were...
interior of super alia
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Construction of the first of the four “Super Alia” or “Alia Tele” by Armstrong Consolidated Inc. (ACI) the boat building facility in Washington state, is completed, with the vessel undergoing sea trials. The photos posted this week on the ASG’s Commerce Department...
Senate President Tuaolo Manaia Fruean
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — After the official opening of the Second Regular Session of the 38th Legislature on Monday, the Senate introduced a resolution, which recommends Governor Lemanu P. S. Mauga adopt the US Army Corps of Engineers’ recommendation to renovate and rehabilitate the existing LBJ...
Muavaefa'atasi John E. Suisala
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — With the decline in the number of children with Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), all Day Care Centers in American Samoa are allowed to re-open starting Wednesday, July 12. Human and Social Service Department director Muavaefa'atasi John E. Suisala announced the...
HOMELAND SECURITY LOGO
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A bill was introduced in first reading in the House of Representatives yesterday July 11, 2023 that calls for the creation of new provisions for the Director of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to designate their own employees as Homeland Security Police...
Lbj hospital sign
Pago Pago, AMERICN SAMOA — A local pediatrician  says the number of children getting the respiratory condition, RSV, is dropping. The increase in Respiratory Syncytial Virus or RSV cases among children had beeen noticeable since the beginning of June and resulted in daycare centres closing last...
Senator Satele Aliitai Lilio
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Senate confirmation vote yesterday morning of the governor’s nomination of Faipule Vailoata Amituanai to be a member of the Immigration Board, was the catalyst which brought to the fore the case of the increasing number of Asians in American Samoa. Before the vote...
ERC LOGO
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Employee Retention Credit (ERC) Group will be arriving in American Samoa this week, July 13 and will be here through July 24, 2023. In recent emails to Samoa News, ERC Mission ERC co-founder Kristal Tabangay-Barnhill and one of the group’s team members — Ms Tina...
FONO SEAL
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Senate yesterday, July 11, 2023, passed a Concurrent Resolution offering its condolences to the family of former Senator Gaea Perefoti Failautusi, who passed away last month. He served one four-year term as a Senator for the Tualauta District; and he is also a former...

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