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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Tattoo artists from Samoa and the United States have had their tattoo kits confiscated by quarantine officers in American Samoa as part of a crackdown.
The Head of Environmental Health, John Fuimaono, said tattoo businesses would now have to undergo inspections to ensure...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Associate Justice Fiti Sunia has accepted a plea agreement between the government and Viliamu Sione, who is accused of stabbing a man during a drinking session on Oct. 21, 2018
Sione, who has been in custody since his arrest, unable to post a $10,000 cash bond, appeared...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A Samoa News archive photo of the Gov. H. Rex Lee Auditorium, for which upgrades and rehabilitation started earlier this month on August 5th, as part of an extensive — and much needed — makeover.
A total of three contractors — one has 2 of the contracts — have been...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The search for two cousins missing off Utumea beach has been called off.
It had been extended to midnight beyond the 72 hour search period which finished at 2pm Wednesday.
Senator Fai'ivae Iuli Alex Godinet said a big problem with the search had been the length of time...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has proposed legislation which will earmark and allocate revenues from bandwidth sale of the American Samoa branch of the Hawaiki Submarine cable, which is overseen by the American Samoa TeleCommunications Authority (ASTCA).
The Administration’s...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man who was arrested after armed detectives of the DPS Vice & Narcotics Unit executed a search warrant at his Fagaima home last October has entered into a plea agreement with the government.
Alatise Foma’i, who is out on a $3,000 cash bond, appeared in High Court...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Empowering Pacific Island Communities d.b.a. EPIC, a community-based nonprofit organization, and funded through the US Department of Justice’s Office on Violence against Women, has launched its Ta’iala o Alo (TOA) Tamai’ta’i Program to improve the outcomes of the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 29-year-old man convicted of punching his 11-year-old nephew and then striking the boy with the flat end of a machete was released from the Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF) Tuesday morning, under the condition that he find ways to address his anger problem....
Aunu'u, AMERICAN SAMOA — The rising sea level on the American Samoan island of Aunu'u has prompted residents to ask the territory's government to deal with inundation damaging homes and schools.
One resident, who did not want to be named said government leaders should come and see the damage for...
![[l-r] Territorial Bank of American Samoa president and CEO, Drew Roberts; Bank of Hawaii senior vice president Hobbs Lowson — who was also a former head of BoH operations in the territory, and Congresswoman Aumua Amata](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/img_3149.jpg?itok=22VPvbxR "[l-r] Territorial Bank of American Samoa president and CEO, Drew Roberts; Bank of Hawaii senior vice president Hobbs Lowson — who was also a former head of BoH operations in the territory — and Congresswoman Aumua Amata before the start of the government sponsored “Bank of Hawaii Exit Ceremony” at Utulei Beach on Tuesday. [photo: FS]")
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — After serving American Samoa for nearly five decades, Bank of Hawaii officially closed all its local operations at the close of business last Friday; and yesterday, the territory officially bid farewell to the bank, during the government-sponsored “Bank of Hawaii Exit...