![US President Donald Trump with Congresswoman Aumua Amata. [SN file photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/trump%20n%20amata_1.jpg?itok=kkuju5Lb "US President Donald Trump with Congresswoman Aumua Amata. [SN file photo]")
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — With US President Donald Trump’s signing of a major disaster declaration for American Samoa, the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) plans to announce
![Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sa’ilele Malielegaoi [SN file photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/samoaPM_30.jpg?itok=29BIGltW "Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sa’ilele Malielegaoi [SN file photo]")
Prime Minister Tuilaepa Dr. Sa’ilele Malielegaoi is a man brimming with confidence.
![Nearly six years on the family claim they've been let down by Natasha and Nicholas Dalton, with lawyer Olinda Woodruffe (centre), hope to get justice for their brother Hans who died in police custody in Samoa in 2012. [Photo / Peter Meecham]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Dalton%20family.jpg?itok=u1ev-vS_ "Nearly six years on the family claim they've been let down by Natasha and Nicholas Dalton, with lawyer Olinda Woodruffe (centre), hope to get justice for their brother Hans who died in police custody in Samoa in 2012. [Photo / Peter Meecham]")
Family of a mentally ill man killed in a Samoan prison are begging the Government to intervene in the long-running case when Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern travels
The island nation of Samoa has declared its waters a shark sanctuary, joining a string of other Pacific countries in protecting the marine predators.
![The Hawaiki cable. [Photo: RNZ / Jesse Chiang]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/hawaiki_-_cableweb.jpg?itok=vNM24lqL "The Hawaiki cable. [Photo: RNZ / Jesse Chiang]")
A ship laying the Hawaiki submarine cable linking the US and the Pacific is expected to arrive in American Samoa in April.
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga announced Friday that US President Donald J.
![Susan Godinet of the Fa’asao-Marist Cougars in action against the Leone Lions’ during an ASHSAA varsity girls’ soccer game on Saturday, Feb. 24, 2018 at Pago Park Soccer Stadium. [FFAS MEDIA/Brian Vitolio]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Cougars%20Lions%20V_9539.jpg?itok=SfvvcvfY "Susan Godinet of the Fa’asao-Marist Cougars in action against the Leone Lions’ during an ASHSAA varsity girls’ soccer game on Saturday, Feb. 24, 2018 at Pago Park Soccer Stadium. [FFAS MEDIA/Brian Vitolio]")
![Samoana’s Deidra Steffany defends against a Tafuna Warrior opponent during an ASHSAA varsity girls’ soccer game on Saturday, Feb. 24, 2018 at Pago Park Soccer Stadium. [FFAS MEDIA/Brian Vitolio]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Sharks%20Warriors%20V_9564.jpg?itok=_hjARjXk "Samoana’s Deidra Steffany defends against a Tafuna Warrior opponent during an ASHSAA varsity girls’ soccer game on Saturday, Feb. 24, 2018 at Pago Park Soccer Stadium. [FFAS MEDIA/Brian Vitolio]")
![Ama Faleao of Leone tries to dribble away from Maricar Parungo of the Fa’asao Cougars during an ASHSAA varsity girls’ soccer game on Saturday, Feb. 24, 2018 at Pago Park Soccer Stadium. [FFAS MEDIA/Brian Vitolio]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Lion%20Cougars%20V_9534.jpg?itok=Z5Z6-dqC "Ama Faleao of Leone tries to dribble away from Maricar Parungo of the Fa’asao Cougars during an ASHSAA varsity girls’ soccer game on Saturday, Feb. 24, 2018 at Pago Park Soccer Stadium. [FFAS MEDIA/Brian Vitolio]")
![Oloataua Tofaeono of the Leone Lions dribbles the ball while being defended by the Fa’asao-Marist Cougars’ Jordynn Liu-Kuey during an ASHSAA varsity girls’ soccer game on Saturday, Feb. 24, 2018 at Pago Park Soccer Stadium. [FFAS MEDIA/Brian Vitolio]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Lions%20Cougars%20V_9469.jpg?itok=Cr06_0v3 "Oloataua Tofaeono of the Leone Lions dribbles the ball while being defended by the Fa’asao-Marist Cougars’ Jordynn Liu-Kuey during an ASHSAA varsity girls’ soccer game on Saturday, Feb. 24, 2018 at Pago Park Soccer Stadium. [FFAS MEDIA/Brian Vitolio]")
![Destiny Kapisi of Tafuna (left) in action against the Samoana Sharks during an ASHSAA J-V girls’ soccer game on Saturday, Feb. 24, 2018 at Pago Park Soccer Stadium. [FFAS MEDIA/Brian Vitolio]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Warriors%20Sharks%20JV_9485.jpg?itok=LaoPwQ1h "Destiny Kapisi of Tafuna (left) in action against the Samoana Sharks during an ASHSAA J-V girls’ soccer game on Saturday, Feb. 24, 2018 at Pago Park Soccer Stadium. [FFAS MEDIA/Brian Vitolio]")
Girls’ high school soccer has resumed after a nearly two-week postponement due to the arrival of Tropical Cyclone Gita on Feb. 9 and a monsoonal trough from Feb.
![2015 scholarship recipient Faasalafa Kitiona (right) is now employed at the America Samoa Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources under Director Henry Sesapasara (left). [courtesy photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/kitionaweb.jpg?itok=Mdbd1M2z "2015 scholarship recipient Faasalafa Kitiona (right) is now employed at the America Samoa Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources under Director Henry Sesapasara (left). [courtesy photo]")
