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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Department of Public Safety remains mum over queries regarding the prisoner that escaped from jail and attempted to break into the Territorial Bank of American Samoa (TBAS) in November last year.
Three months later this case remains pending with the Criminal...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Governor Lemanu P. S Mauga is making his way to Washington, D.C. for the National Governors Association and the Interagency Group on Insular Areas meetings.
While in Hawaii this week, the Governor had back-to -back meetings.
A statement issued by his office said, Lemanu...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Juliet Kristi Thaxton has been appointed as the new Chief Legal Counsel for the Office of the Governor. She replaces Jason Mitchell.
This was confirmed in a statement issued by the Governor’s Office on Monday. “Thaxton began practicing law in 1997 after graduating from...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Requiem Mass and celebration of life for the late Bishop Emeritus John Quinn Weitzel — the first Bishop of the Diocese of Samoa Pago Pago — is scheduled for early next week in Chicago, Illinois, according to a Diocese statement.
The funeral mass to be presided over...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Visitors Bureau (ASVB) announced this week that all interested cruise ship tour operators, retailers, food sellers and service industry providers must sign up by Jan. 17 at the ASVB office, to be registered into its system.
“Only vendors who sign up at...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Governor Lemanu P. S Mauga confirmed during his State of the Territory’s Address that one of the four super-Alia boats is currently being built, and the Department of Commerce (DOC) aims to deliver it in time for Flag Day 2023.
“There will be a small fleet of 4 modern...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — An Administration bill proposing to limit the amount of time that land and title disputes may languish before the Office of the Samoa Affairs was introduced in the House of Representatives yesterday.
According to the proposed measure this bill limits the amount of time...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — After a slight decline 0.4% in November, the Basic Food Index (BFI) recorded a 1.1% increase in December 2022 in food prices tracked on Tutuila, according to the report released this week by the ASG Commerce Department’s Statistics Division.
The BFI reports that twelve...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Manu’a High School represented American Samoa at the National History Day Summer Institute in Hawaii this week.
The student, Lama Petelo was escorted by his teacher, Lio Alofaituli who is American Samoa’s Teacher of the Year 2022.
American Samoa was among the 16 schools...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Tualatua faipule, Samuel Ioka Ale Meleisea continues to fight for a law to protect enforcement animals in the territory.
In doing so he has sponsored a bill that criminalizes harming of law enforcement animals. An identical bill was introduced during the 37th Legislature...