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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A handful of local residents who hold active accounts at the Territorial Bank of American Samoa (TBAS) are confused — and frustrated — with what some of them have called ‘irresponsible” and “unprofessional” banking services.
Earlier this month, TBAS had issued a “bank...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The High Court has accepted a plea agreement between the government and Alesana Lafoga, 40, who was arrested and charged for hitting his friend on the head with a rock after a rugby game in Pavaivai.
Lafoga, who has been in custody since his arrest, unable to post a $15,...
Santa Ana, CA — A “settlement agreement” has been reached by the parties — plaintiffs and defendants — in the wrongful death lawsuit filed by the surviving family members of a fisherman, Michael Castaneda, who died when he fell overboard a US fishing vessel, Cape Ferrat, while it was docked in Pago...
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Honolulu, HA — The Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) of the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council concluded a three-day meeting last Thursday in Honolulu recommending bigeye tuna catch limits and allocation amounts for the US Participating Territories for the fishing years...
Honolulu, HAWAII — The Executive Leadership Development Program (ELDP) graduated 24 future Pacific leaders in Honolulu last week and 3 of them are Samoan. They are: Katrina Seumanutafa, Crystal Simanu and Pilivesburg Salanoa.
The ELDP is managed by the Graduate School USA's Pacific Islands Training...
Washington, D.C. — “Trafficking in person occurs in the U.S. insular areas, including American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI),” according to the US State Department’s 2019 Trafficking In Person (TIP) Report...
Orlando, FL — The American Samoa contingent to the HOSA International Leadership Conference, hosted this year in Orlando, Florida, June 19- 22 at Disney's Coronado Springs Resort.
Am Samoa’s representatives are: Perosiomelemaofeira Vaofanua (SHS); Alfred Aetonu Teo (SHS); Faith Fetoailagi Hunkin...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The two high school students convicted of stoning a police car while cops were driving to the Leone Substation from Malaeloa in March of this year were sentenced this past Thursday morning to two years probation.
Susi Fiso and Jeremiah Moe, both 18, appeared in High...
San Francisco, CA — In the latest revelation that came during the U.S. District Court of Northern California hearing to discuss StarKist’s fine for pleading guilty to fixing the prices of canned tuna it sold in the United States between 2011 and 2013, StarKist counsel Niall Lynch acknowledged the...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Aumua Amata believes that justice must be served in the court proceedings of StarKist, but that the people of American Samoa who rely on the cannery must be treated justly as well.
In a three-hour court hearing on June 17th, Department of Justice prosecutors...