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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man convicted of violating local drug laws was sentenced to 5 years probation by the Court last week.
During Filemoni Aleki’s sentencing, the court said the only option in cases like this, is to send the culprits back to their countries, to save local resources.
Aleki...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Government employees working from home under the current Code-Blue work schedule format, are prohibited from working in the private sector or another workplace other than from home, according to Human Resource director Eseneiaso J. Liu in a memo outlining guidance for...
Washington, D.C. – Wednesday, Congresswoman Aumua Amata was able to bring up the need to reopen fishing access as a matter of national food security during a call with Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt.
Congresswoman Amata brought up directly two aspects of American Samoa’s fishing industry...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man accused of breaking into a family’s property and stealing a vehicle has entered into a plea agreement with the government last week, during a Change of Plea (COP) hearing before Associate Justice Fiti Sunia. Mealeaga Ale, who has been in custody since his arrest...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Two pilots and two engineers from Apia are currently posted in Pago Pago American Samoa to undertake an important daily air service to the islands of Manu’a during the covid-19 lockdown period.
Just before Samoa closed its borders and many rushed to catch the last...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — To ensure transparency and accountability in the processing of payments relating to coronavirus activities, Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has implemented a process, which all ASG entities must follow instead of each agency submitting their own request to the federal...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Honolulu Star-Advertiser is reporting six crew members of the Pride of America cruise ship, which is docked at Honolulu Harbor, have tested positive for coronavirus, according to state transportation officials.
Two of the crewmembers have been hospitalized and four...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man convicted of possession of an unlicensed arm was sentenced to serve 90 days at the Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF) as a condition of his 24-month probation.
Johnny Vou appeared before Associate Justice Fiti Sunia this week for sentencing. He was represented...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Aumua Amata welcomed an in-depth briefing provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Region 9 Director Robert Fenton on the agency’s action plan to assist in coronavirus efforts in American Samoa and other island territories, and she supports...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA —ASTCA services to Ofu and Olosega islands were restored Tuesday after a 10-day outage caused by two unrelated breaks to two different submarine fiber optic cables.
ASTCA anticipates no further outages, but there is more work needed to fully stabilize service to Ofu/...