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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Community College (ASCC) has hosted the Alpha Epsilon Mu chapter of the international Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) Honor Society since the 1980s. During the spring and fall semesters at ASCC, the PTK usually holds a public ceremony to celebrate the induction...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — As the number of coronavirus cases in the U.S. continues to grow as well as the number of fatalities due to this deadly virus, Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has issued a new directive, which implements new staffing levels for the ASG workforce, with the goal of preventing...
Pago Pago, AMAERICAN SAMOA — With allegations of bingo games and large family gatherings still occurring in the community, despite the governor’s COVID-19 emergency declaration, Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has implored Secretary of Samoan Affairs, Mauga T. Asuega, “to please lean on pulenu’u and fa’...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man who unlawfully entered a house at night and attempted to rape a 16-year-old girl last year was sentenced to 28 months in prison, as a condition of his 7-year probation sentence.
Ioapo Alema, 33, was initially charged with burglary in the second-degree and sexual...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — With the governor’s State of Emergency Declaration on the coronavirus in place, the ASG Treasury Department and Tax Office is extending the deadline for filing 2019 taxes for both individuals and companies.
April 15 is the usual date for filing your taxes, but because of...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The court has ordered Fina Filiva’a to immediately depart the territory and remain outside of its border for the duration of his probation term, which is five years, after the court found that Filiva’a failed to comply with conditions of his 2016 probation.
Filiva’a, who...
Washington, D.C. – Monday, Congresswoman Aumua Amata is welcoming the first federal funding from the new CARES Act, over $800,000 in COVID-19 assistance grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
As soon as the CARES Act was signed into law on Friday, HUD began moving $...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Coral reefs in American Samoa are in good condition according to NOAA’s National Coral Reef Monitoring Program. The U.S. Geological Survey determined that coral reefs in American Samoa protect over 1050 people and more than $46.5 million in infrastructure from flooding...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Chamber of Commerce learned some disturbing information after reaching out to local businesses for input on the business association’s COVID-19 economic response plan forwarded to ASG recently.
Some of the larger local businesses pointed out that...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In the Health Department coronavirus briefing late Sunday afternoon and aired later that evening on KVZK-TV, Health director Motusa Tuileama Nua explained that American Samoa, Samoa and Tonga in the Pacific have no confirm cases of the deadly virus but American Samoa has...