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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Tafuna High School Health Occupations Students of America Chapter will host a wave in front of McDonald’s early Monday morning to raise awareness of their EXPO program.
The group is inviting organizations to participate in the HOSA EXPO that will be held at the THS...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Sens. Fai’ivae Iuli Godinet and Soliai Tuipine Fuimaono are recommending the government look at having the land and matai title matters resolved with a final decision by the Office of Samoan Affairs, instead of the current process where it is addressed by the Land and...
Pago Pago, AMEIRCAN SAMOA — Secretary of Samoan Affairs Mauga T. Asuega and Attorney General Falefatu Fainuulelei Alailima-Utu testified yesterday before a Senate committee on an administration bill.
The bill limits the amount of time that land and title disputes can be before the Office of Samoan...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — All government employees are required to use direct deposit by the beginning of March this year, according to a Jan. 23 memorandum issued by acting governor Talauega E. V Ale, who directed that employees must be enrolled in direct deposit by Feb. 28 to receive payments...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — For the first three quarters of calendar year 2022, “inflation in American Samoa has been in the double digits, peaking in the 3rd [quarter] at 13.5%,” according to the Fourth Quarter 2022 Consumer Price Index (CPI) report released this week by the Commerce Department’s...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The citations issued recently by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over un-permitted construction work in Tula and at the Amaile Stream in Nuuuli, and seawall projects were at the center of a House hearing held last week with Director of Public Works Faleosina Voigt....
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Assistant Attorney General, Lynne Blankenbeker, who is also the acting director for the Consumer Protection Bureau of the Department of Legal Affairs told senators that there were no “price gouging” prosecutions during the COVID-19 Emergency Declarations.
Blankenbeker...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — LBJ hospital is taking advantage of the latest technologies available with its "virtual visit" program where a healthcare provider and a specialist physician from off-island connect with an LBJ patient via video cameras in real time to provide vital health care consult...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Department of Public Safety officers were called to evacuate schools when a U.S. Coast Guard plane was “experiencing” problems in air and opted for an emergency landing at the Pago Pago International Airport.
At 10a.m yesterday morning Tafuna High School, Tafuna...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Governor Lemanu P. S. Mauga says the “effects of climate change knows no limitations and no boundaries” hence infrastructure projects were implemented under “emergency declaration”.
The comments by the governor were outlined in a statement following his meeting with the...