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Apia, SAMOA — Returning Samoa residents on the repatriation flights between the two Samoas that began Wednesday are not required to go into quarantine once they reach Samoa.
Flights operated by Samoa Airways and the privately owned Talofa Airways are being coordinated by Samoa’s Ministry of Foreign...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Nu’uuli Vocational Technical High School Class of 2020 graduate, Malachi C. G Tipoti (middle) honored his late father, fire bureau Capt. Mike Tipoti, one of the two fire fighters who died April 30th during an accident on the road from Afono to Aua, with a poster he...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — It came “out of the blue”. The current rapid rise in sea levels causing water to reach their doorsteps, is why many villagers on the east coast of Tutuila are living in fear.
While others are confident that the rapid rise of the sea level is a natural phenomenon, the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — With the recent increase in the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Hawaii — surpassing the 700 mark — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga said during the government’s coronavirus task force meeting that he is not prepared, at this point, to re-open air service between Honolulu...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga is welcoming any village aumaga — or untitled men — who want to join the government’s village project where aumaga work with police to monitor and enforce not only current restrictions of the coronavirus declaration but also illegal drugs in the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A second $4 million lawsuit was filed Monday with the Trial Division of the High Court against Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga and the American Samoa Government in connection with the governor’s four COVID-19 emergency declarations since March.
The new claim is brought by...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 26-year-old man from Samoa is now in custody after he was arrested three weeks ago for allegedly burglarizing a store in Tafuna in order to buy drugs for himself and his friends. In addition, when police searched him, drugs were found in his possession.
The government...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Department of Human and Social Service (DHSS) is now accepting applications for food assistance for workers, self-employed individuals and small business owners who are experiencing an economic impact from COVID-19
Under the American Samoa COVID-19 Nutrition...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Aumua Amata on Monday welcomed a decision by the Small Business Administration (SBA) to broaden access to the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program, reopening the program to eligible small businesses and nonprofits affected by COVID-19 business losses....
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Graduates of Samoana High School Class of 2020 observed social distancing protocol during their graduation ceremony Monday morning at the school gym. This year, the graduating class of 2020 has five co-Valedictorians.
The high school graduated 187 seniors but two of them...