Se vaaiga i ni isi o tagata faigaluega mai le Samoa Tuna Processors a o le i tapunia lana tautua i le fa’aiuga o le tausaga na te’a nei. [ata AF]
E su’ifefiloi finagalo fa’aalia mai ni isi o le mamalu o le atunu’u o lo o galulue i le kamupani i’a a le StarKist Samoa, ina ua fesiligia i latou e le Samoa News e fa’atatau i le tulafono taufa’ao
Ua i ai nisi o le aufaigaluega a le ASTCA po’o le Ofisa o Feso’otaiga a le malo ua maua tusi fa’ailo e malolo mai galuega o i ai.
Le afioga i le Komesina o Leoleo, tofa Le’i Sonny Thompson. [ata AF]
O le taeao ananafi na tu’uina atu ai e le afioga i le ali’i Fa’amasino ia Fiti Sunia se feau taua mo le Komesina o Leoleo, i auala e fa’atinoina ai e leoleo a latou tiute i lalo o le tulafono.
![Aspiring wrestlers from around the territory were at the DYWA Pago Pago Community Youth Center yesterday morning to take advantage of the free wrestling clinics being conducted by Alex Ramirez (back row far left), an educator and high school wrestling coach from southern California. [photo: Blue Chen-Fruean]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/future%20wrestlers.jpg?itok=NgFTJTAc "Aspiring wrestlers from around the territory were at the DYWA Pago Pago Community Youth Center yesterday morning to take advantage of the free wrestling clinics being conducted by Alex Ramirez (back row far left), an educator and high school wrestling coach from southern California. [photo: Blue Chen-Fruean]")
![Two of the youngest participants who showed up yesterday for the free wrestling clinics being held at the DYWA Pago Pago Youth Center and taught by visiting coach Alex Ramirez. [photo: Blue Chen-Fruean]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/little%20boys.jpg?itok=ryMtaZ6_ "Two of the youngest participants who showed up yesterday for the free wrestling clinics being held at the DYWA Pago Pago Youth Center and taught by visiting coach Alex Ramirez. [photo: Blue Chen-Fruean]")
![DYWA Deputy Director Pa'u Roy Ausage with Alex Ramirez, a volunteer wrestling coach from southern California who is in the territory conducting free wrestling clinics for locals at the Pago Pago Community Youth Center. [photo: Blue Chen-Fruean]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/DYWA%20Deputy%20and%20coach.jpg?itok=PYlZjZrK "DYWA Deputy Director Pa'u Roy Ausage with Alex Ramirez, a volunteer wrestling coach from southern California who is in the territory conducting free wrestling clinics for locals at the Pago Pago Community Youth Center. [photo: Blue Chen-Fruean]")
Alex Ramirez shares the same vision as American Samoa Wrestling Association (ASWA) President Irene Kane.
![Illegal dumping along the road to and from Fagasa, where households, contractors and others dump along the steep slopes everything from construction debris, auto parts, and kitchen trash. Yes everything including the kitchen sink. [Courtesy photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Illegal%20Dumpig%202%20Pic.jpg?itok=rkkLnwhS "Illegal dumping along the road to and from Fagasa, where households, contractors and others dump along the steep slopes everything from construction debris, auto parts, and kitchen trash. Yes everything including the kitchen sink. [Courtesy photo]")
Villages helping Villages is the motto of the American Samoa Illegal Dumping Task Force, a group established last year to combat the problem of illegal dumping.
The National Weather Service is advising of the KING TIDES expected arrival for all of American Samoa this Friday, June 23 and Saturday, June 24, 2017 around 06:00 a.m. and 07:30 a.m.
![[SN file photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/ASTCA_0.jpg?itok=seRVnAmb "[SN file photo]")
As reported in Samoa News yesterday, Chairman/Interim CEO of the American Samoa Tele Communications Authority, Hon. Pulelei’ite Li'a Tufele Jr.
![Commerce Department director Keniseli Lafaele [SN file photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Lafaele%206495_1.jpg?itok=lB00B9Mc "Commerce Department director Keniseli Lafaele [SN file photo]")
Another federally mandated minimum wage hike following last year’s closure of Samoa Tuna Processors (STP) Inc., would be a devastating blow to American Samoa’s economy an
![[SN file photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Pago%20Dist%20Court%20014_26.jpeg?itok=2MJFLEA2 "[SN file photo]")
![Staghorn corals killed by coral bleaching on Bourke Reef, on the Northern Great Barrier Reef, November 2016. [Photo: Greg Torda / ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/coral.jpg?itok=P_gKosJ- "Staghorn corals killed by coral bleaching on Bourke Reef, on the Northern Great Barrier Reef, November 2016. [Photo: Greg Torda / ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies]")