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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In its report, the governor’s appointed Minimum Wage Task Force provided criteria and further explanation on the three options for consideration to address — and among other things — sustainability and economic feasibility pertaining to the federally mandated minimum...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — An overstayer who is serving a 28-month jail term at the Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF) was in High Court last week for a probation review hearing.
Lafaele Tagaloa, 32, entered American Samoa on a 30-day visitor’s permit in 2017. He was in the territory...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa has turned away four travellers for not having proof of vaccination for measles.
The measure was introduced as part of a public health emergency recently declared, to try and prevent a measles outbreak, in the US territory.
The Director of Health Motusa...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Cost of chicken legs and price of eggs faced a major decline in average retail price in October, according to the Basic Food Index (BFI) October report released this week by the ASG Commerce Department.
Besides chicken legs and eggs, other foods items — rice, pork...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Census Office is on track with moving the 2020 census forward — hiring of staff for field work — with the actual count to begin next March, says Census Area Manager Meleisea Vai Filiga.
Samoa News has received public inquiries about the 2020 census...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — This Samoa News photo on Oct. 30, shows boat owners of the locally based US longline fleet being interviewed by the TV news crew of PBS Newshour weekend program, based out of New York City.
The crew of three — including one based in Los Angeles — was en route to the Rose...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — “There is currently no reliable measure of individual number of fishermen in the American Samoa bottom fish fishery,” wrote Kitty M. Simonds, executive director of the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council to the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS).
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A second bench warrant for Konelio Tinetali was issued last week by the court after he failed to appear for a pretrial conference. Tinetali is charged with unlawful possession of methamphetamine. He was scheduled to appear in court last Wednesday for a pretrial...
Washington, D.C.— Congresswoman Aumua Amata is welcoming House passage of a small business bill that also support veterans.
On Wednesday, the House passed the bipartisan Verification Alignment and Service-disabled Business Adjustment Act, better known as the VA-SBA Act, H.R. 1615. Congresswoman...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — According to the nonprofit organization Alofa Mo Meaola (AMM), since the departure of US certified veterinarian Dr. Kristen Jensen earlier this year in January, “the ASG Department of Agriculture has been unable to fulfill its legal mandate to provide animal control and...