Se vaaiga i container o lo o auala mai ai uta o oloa ma ta’avale mai fafo o lo o fa’aputu i luga o le uafu tele a le malo i Fagatogo. [ata AF]
O le amataga o le masina lenei o Iuni 2017 na tu’uina mai ai e le Ofisa o Tiute a le malo sa latou fa’asilasila fa’alaua’itele, e fa’ailoa mai ai i le atunu’u ni isi o ta’iala e mana’omia le fa’ati
“Talofa si o’u to’alua pele”, o le tala muamua lava lea a Lucy ma oso atu ua fusi mai si ona to’alua o Meki, lea fo’i na tali fiafia mai i ai le tamaloa e ala i lona fusi ma feiloa’i atu isi ona to
![[photo: courtesy]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Fautua%20Maiava%20Jr.jpg?itok=eSp-DETF "[photo: courtesy]")
Fautua Maiava Jr. will be departing the territory on July 7 on his way to Colorado Mesa University to play football, thanks to a $19,000 (per semester) athletic scholarship.
![Office of Program Planning and Budget director Catherine D. Saelua. [SN file photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Catherine%20Saelua%206467_0.jpg?itok=ZKR29eEJ "Office of Program Planning and Budget director Catherine D. Saelua. [SN file photo]")
With major challenges impacting American Samoa Government’s revenue collection, ASG cabinet directors have been informed that their new fiscal year 2018 budget threshold is set at 90% of the FY 201
![The American Samoa small-boat alia longline fleet included around 40 active vessels in 2002; a single vessel remains active today. [courtesy photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/alia.jpg?itok=BZxK2Nxt "The American Samoa small-boat alia longline fleet included around 40 active vessels in 2002; a single vessel remains active today. [courtesy photo]")
(BASED ON PRESS RELEASE) — Scientists from throughout the Pacific will convene in Honolulu June 13 to 15 to provide recommendations on managing fisheries in Hawai'i, American Samoa, Guam,
![Interior Acting Assistant Secretary for Insular Areas Nikolao Pula [SN file photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/nikolao-pula_2.jpeg?itok=N90tjPWF "Interior Acting Assistant Secretary for Insular Areas Nikolao Pula [SN file photo]")
(BASED ON PRESS RELEASES) —Interior Acting Assistant Secretary for Insular Areas Nikolao Pula this week announced in a media release that Interior has made available $380,447 in maintenance assista
![P.M. Tuilaepa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi and A.G. Lemalu Hermann Retzlaff. [Samoa Observer]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/PM%20and%20Samoa%20AG.jpeg?itok=9EFLt-77 "P.M. Tuilaepa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi and A.G. Lemalu Hermann Retzlaff. [Samoa Observer]")
It’s official. Samoa is now a Christian state.
I le fiu ai o le Vaega Su’esu’e (CID) a le Matagaluega o le Puipuiga o le Saogalemu Lautele e tauanau le ripoti mai le Falema’i, fa’asaga i tamati aoga se to’alua lea o lo o tu’uaia sa faia i ai e
![Proud Samoana graduates pose for the Samoa News camera before heading into their graduation ceremony to receive their high school diplomas. Congratulations graduates! [Photo:EM]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/SHS_0740.jpg?itok=R8NtIsf0 "Proud Samoana graduates pose for the Samoa News camera before heading into their graduation ceremony to receive their high school diplomas. Congratulations graduates! [Photo:EM]")
![Valedictorian Brie-A’Nah Fruean
[photo:EM]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/SHS%20Valedictorian.jpg?itok=2azTJkXX "Valedictorian Brie-A’Nah Fruean
[photo:EM]")
![Salutatorian Grace-Damona Tuato’o [photo:EM]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/SHS%20Salutatorian.jpg?itok=Ucd3jJnL "Salutatorian Grace-Damona Tuato’o [photo:EM]")
![Female graduates of Samoana High School’s class of 2017 get ready to bid farewell to the “Home of the Mighty Sharks.” [photo:EM]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/SHS_0742.jpg?itok=KGOB187V "Female graduates of Samoana High School’s class of 2017 get ready to bid farewell to the “Home of the Mighty Sharks.” [photo:EM]")
![Some of the faculty & staff of the “Home of the Mighty Sharks” at the 2017 Samoana Class of 2017 graduation ceremony held yesterday. [photo:EM]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/SHS_0748.jpg?itok=nWgqe2VH "Some of the faculty & staff of the “Home of the Mighty Sharks” at the 2017 Samoana Class of 2017 graduation ceremony held yesterday. [photo:EM]")
![Congratulations to Susanna Lee Class of 2017, Home of the Sharks who is the only one of yesterday’s grads enlisting in the U.S. Marine Corps and is a recipient of Saint Martin’s University’s $64,000 President’s scholarship. Job well done! [photo:EM]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/SHS_0777.jpg?itok=VAhH56AC "Congratulations to Susanna Lee Class of 2017, Home of the Sharks who is the only one of yesterday’s grads enlisting in the U.S. Marine Corps and is a recipient of Saint Martin’s University’s $64,000 President’s scholarship. Job well done! [photo:EM]")
![Very proud mothers of Simone Sanitoa and Sina Kulberg who graduated with honors at the Home of the Mighty Sharks yesterday morning in the school gymnasium in Utulei. [photo:EM]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/SHS_0795.jpg?itok=p2zuB559 "Very proud mothers of Simone Sanitoa and Sina Kulberg who graduated with honors at the Home of the Mighty Sharks yesterday morning in the school gymnasium in Utulei. [photo:EM]")
![Shark Jerold Papu and his proud parents from Fagatogo at his graduation yesterday morning for the Class of 2017 — Home of the Mighty Sharks. [photo:EM]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/SHS_0801.jpg?itok=DQ3ZchA3 "Shark Jerold Papu and his proud parents from Fagatogo at his graduation yesterday morning for the Class of 2017 — Home of the Mighty Sharks. [photo:EM]")
