June 2017
![[SN file photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/AM%20Samoa%20HC_29.jpeg?itok=NK9bcaOQ "[SN file photo]")
Summer Youth Employment Program opens with 800 participants, the highest number to date
![An estimated 800 young people will be taking part in this year's Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP), the highest number of participants to date. [photo: Blue Chen-Fruean]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/summer%20program%20kids.jpg?itok=EmmcoTYC "An estimated 800 young people will be taking part in this year's Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP), the highest number of participants to date. [photo: Blue Chen-Fruean]")
The DYWA Pago Pago Youth Community Center was jam packed yesterday morning, as hundreds of local youth, parents, Gov.
Fate of longline dock project still up in the air
![At the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council’s Fishers Forum on data collection programs held Wednesday night in Honolulu: (l-r) American Samoa Council Member Archie Soliai, Council Executive Director Kitty M. Simonds, American Samoa Council Member Christinna Lutu-Sanchez and Council Chair Edwin A. Ebisui Jr. [photo: WestPac Council]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Council%20members%200007.jpg?itok=458B9OLc "At the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council’s Fishers Forum on data collection programs held Wednesday night in Honolulu: (l-r) American Samoa Council Member Archie Soliai, Council Executive Director Kitty M. Simonds, American Samoa Council Member Christinna Lutu-Sanchez and Council Chair Edwin A. Ebisui Jr. [photo: WestPac Council]")
An advisory panel, along with US longline vessel owners are concerned that a new dock for longliners at the Pago Pago Harbor is not among the projects listed in the Depa
![Artist photographer Pati Solomona Tyrell's work focusses on the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Pacific communities in New Zealand. [photo: Pati Solomona Tyrell]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Wai-Fagogo-2016.jpg?itok=r88ijfOO "Artist photographer Pati Solomona Tyrell's work focusses on the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Pacific communities in New Zealand. [photo: Pati Solomona Tyrell]")
Hydroponics Gardening Program
![A look at some of the beautiful lettuce that was produced during the six-week hydroponics gardening course hosted by the American Samoa Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence (ASCADSV). [photo: courtesy]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/hydroponics%20project.jpg?itok=ySiTriZd "A look at some of the beautiful lettuce that was produced during the six-week hydroponics gardening course hosted by the American Samoa Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence (ASCADSV). [photo: courtesy]")
![Over 20 men and women successfully completed a six-week hydroponics gardening course, hosted by the American Samoa Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence (ASCADSV), and funded through the Community Service Block Grant (CSBG) program under the Department of Commerce. See yesterday's Samoa News for full details. [photo: courtesy]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/hydroponics%20class.jpg?itok=XULktvkm "Over 20 men and women successfully completed a six-week hydroponics gardening course, hosted by the American Samoa Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence (ASCADSV), and funded through the Community Service Block Grant (CSBG) program under the Department of Commerce. See yesterday's Samoa News for full details. [photo: courtesy]")
“This is one of the best programs that has been offered in the territory and everyone should be taking advantage of it.” Collectively, this is what the participants of the Hydroponics Gardening Pro
Court rules for CCCAS in case against former General Secretary
![Some of the CCCAS elders, with Chairman Rev. Elder Mamoe Eveni Jr. (right) during court proceedings between the CCCAS and Secretary General Rev. Amaama Tofaeono. The Court has ruled in favor of CCCAS, to take possession of the home Rev. Amaama and his wife occupy inside the Kanana Fou compound. [photo AF]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/CCCAS%20ministers.jpg?itok=Omv9S2C8 "Some of the CCCAS elders, with Chairman Rev. Elder Mamoe Eveni Jr. (right) during court proceedings between the CCCAS and Secretary General Rev. Amaama Tofaeono. The Court has ruled in favor of CCCAS, to take possession of the home Rev. Amaama and his wife occupy inside the Kanana Fou compound. [photo AF]")
The Trial Division of the High Court, in a decision issued last Friday, June 23, has ruled in favor of the Congregational Christian Church of American Samoa (CCCAS), sayi
Summer Youth Employment Program 2017
The Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) officially opened Monday morning with a ceremony held at the DYWA Pago Pago Youth Community Center.
Talia talosaga EFKAS e fa’atula’i ese Amaama ma le maota Ekalesia
Ni isi o Faifeau sa auai i le iloiloga o le mataupu i le va o le Ekalesia EFKAS ma le Failautusi Aoao ia Rev. Amaama Tofaeono i le masina na te’a nei i luma o le Fa’amasinoga Maualuga. [ata AF]
I le silia ai i ni nai vaiaso o fa’atali le Ekalesia Faapotopotoga Kerisiano i Amerika Samoa (EFKAS) i se fa’aiuga o le latou tagi sa tu’uina atu i le Fa’amasinoga Maualuga, o le vaiaso na te’a nei
800 fanau aoga ua auai i le polokalame o le SYEP i lenei tausaga
Ni isi o fanau aoga o lo o auai i le polokalame o le Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) ina ua tatala aloaiaina i le taeao ananafi. [ata AF]
E 800 fanau aoga mai aoga eseese a le malo ua auai i le polokalame lea e galulue ai fanau aoga i galuega a le malo ma kamupani tua (Summer Youth Employment Program-SYEP), lea na tatalaina i le taea