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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Health Department and LBJ Medical Center are working on a protocol to prioritize who is to get coronavirus tested with the Abbott rapid testing machine and coronavirus test-kits that are now on island, according to ASG’s COVID-19 Task Force chairman Iulogologo Joseph...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 46-year-old man from Leone was taken into custody last week for the alleged sexual abuse of a 16-year-old girl. Nomineta Solomona, a.k.a Neta made his initial appearance in District Court last week. He is charged with first degree sexual abuse, a class D felony; and...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Government and the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have signed the service agreement that expedites activities aimed to empower ASG to quickly and effectively implement efforts to combat the deadly coronavirus pandemic.
This is according...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 53-year-old man who is on probation after being convicted of felony drug possession is now back in custody after police allegedly discovered a quantity of illegal drugs in his possession during a traffic stop two weeks ago.
Tau Ala is charged with one count of...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Aumua Amata on Monday welcomed $766,000 for American Samoa’s medical providers through the Health and Human Services (HHS) Department in another appropriation resulting from the CARES Act.
This HHS assistance is part of COVID-19 relief for hospitals and clinics...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Aumua Amata on Monday welcomed another vital CARES Act coronavirus relief grant, this time $1,617,855 through the U.S. Department of Education to aid the American Samoa Community College, with $808,943 (half of the total) specified as assistance for the students.
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga plans to extend for another 30-days his coronavirus emergency declaration, which is based on the Third Amended Declaration, dated Apr. 1st and lapsing May 1st.
Samoa News notes that the original declaration was issued Mar. 17th and was effective...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A Delta Air Lines charter aircraft landed yesterday around 11a.m. to pick up the 29 missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints who have remained on island since the closure of American Samoa’s borders.
Speaking at Sunday’s ASG COVID-19 Task Force...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has informed the ANZ Amerika Samoa Bank, Territorial Bank of American Samoa and the Development Bank of American Samoa, that he and his administration stand ready to provide any assistance with programs available to help local businesses through...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — With the American Samoa Government’s financial coffers overburdened from the measles outbreak, followed by three back-to-back storms in February, and now the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has requested a federal government waiver for American Samoa’s 25...