Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has identified eleven ASG entities that will be part of the local task force when the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) conducts the next review of the Public Debt Outlook of the five US territories, which includes American Samoa. In a June 11 memo, the governor explains that the federal Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act, authorizes and designates GAO to conduct a review of public debts for each US territory every two years per Congressional Mandate. Among the agencies are Treasury Department, Office of Budget and Planning, Commerce Department, Attorney General’s Office, Territorial Audit Office, Office of Financial Institutions, American Samoa Power Authority, American Samoa TeleCommunications Authority, ASG Shipyard Service, Port Administration and the Governor’s Office.

A traditional war canoe, Tomoko, from Roviana in the Western Solomons participates in the Pacific flotilla at the opening of the 11th Festival of Pacific Arts in Honiara. June 2012. American Samoa hosted in 2008 and Hawaiʻi will be hosting in 2020.

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Besides allegedly assaulting his girlfriend, Lologa Galuega is also accused of assaulting a cousin who was trying to protect the victim, who ran towards the home of the defendant’s uncle. It’s also alleged in court filings that the defendant threw a chair at his uncle.The alleged assault stemmed from a dispute between Galuega and his girlfriend.