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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has instructed the Dept. of Health to start utilizing two government quarantine facilities behind the Tafuna Community Health Center instead of using other designated quarantine sites once the Tafuna buildings are inspected and equipped with all...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In a notice last week, the Health Department’s Environmental Health Services Division reminded Food Catering & Delivery, Bakeries, Baked Goods, Fast Food and Cooked Food Businesses about the required health permits as well as local labeling laws.
“For any baked goods...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The COVID 19 pandemic has brought much heartache and sadness to many and the NOAA/NWS Weather Service Office Pago Pago (WSO Pago) is not spared. One of the first and few flights leaving the territory since the lockdown, last Friday, July 17, saw one of their own...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Aumua Amata has cosponsored the bipartisan House Resolution honoring the upcoming centennial of Women’s Suffrage and the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
The Resolution highlights two upcoming dates of historic importance:...
WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross on Monday announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.5 million grant to the American Samoa Shipyard Services Authority, Pago Pago, American Samoa, to support the acquisition of equipment, machinery,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — During a Senate hearing with the Chairman of the Coronavirus Task Force Iulogologo Joseph Pereira last Friday, Senator Logooai Siaki was adamant that the repatriation flights from Samoa should only bring US citizens and US nationals and not anyone else, even permanent...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — House Speaker Savali Talavou Ale has requested an emergency hearing with the Coronavirus Task Force to discuss the issue about three people that were on a FEMA flight that arrived in the territory last Friday.
The hearing with the Task Force was originally scheduled for...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has instructed the Attorney General’s Office to develop policy for traffic in and out of Laufou Shopping Center, and has directed the Commerce Department to send an advisory to the shopping center owner to comply with local regulations on the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The High Court has scheduled another revocation hearing for inmate Sierra Isaia within the next three weeks in an effort to find out who was the Correctional Officer (C.O) who stopped two Probation Officers from conducting a drug test on Isaia in March of this year at...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The old communication building in Fagatogo where the American Samoa TeleCommunication Authority’s main office was housed for many years will be taken down to make room for the construction of a new court building, said Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga at last Friday’s cabinet...