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A local businessman is questioning the way the Vice & Narcotics Unit is carrying out their duties, after District Court Judge Fiti Sunia last week dismissed two traffic citations issued to him by police officers from the Unit.
The two citations issued to Apelu Jr Milo and dismissed by the court...
![Amata chairs hearing last week in Congress. [courtesy photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Amata%20Chairs%20Hearing%20This%20Week%20in%20Congress.jpg?itok=7NvY6lVi "Amata chairs hearing last week in Congress. [courtesy photo]")
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Aumua Amata released a Public Comment letter to the U.S. Department of Justice and the overseeing judge, to urge them to strongly consider legal precedents potentially allowing parties to the DOJ-Starkist Consent Decree to agree to set aside funds to the benefit of...
While ASG retirees are still awaiting news of any possible increase in the cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in the near future, the US Social Security Administration (SSA) announced a 2% COLA hike for its recipients last Friday morning.
“Such great news, great news,” said one local beneficiary,...
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Audrey English, who was born at the LBJ Medical Center in Fagaalu, discovered her love of music at a young age. While living in Maui, HI, she started writing and recording music in her bedroom. She and her family have since relocated to Las Vegas, NV.
Audrey's mother Ane, told Samoa News last week...
![In this Oct. 10, 2017 file photo Ernie Haleck (middle) - the lead instructor in Firearms and Tactics for the National Tactical Officers Association (NTOA) and DPS in American Samoa - briefing local police officers, on the last day of a 2-week training course that certifies them to carry weapons. [photo: AF]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/cops%20n%20guns_0933_0.jpg?itok=2WNnN8to "In this Oct. 10, 2017 file photo Ernie Haleck (middle) - the lead instructor in Firearms and Tactics for the National Tactical Officers Association (NTOA) and DPS in American Samoa - briefing local police officers, on the last day of a 2-week training course that certifies them to carry weapons. [photo: AF]")
There are a lot of concerns from Fono members — and also complaints from the community — in seeing some police officers, including the Police Commissioner, carrying weapons while performing their duties; but Senator Fa’amausili Mau Jr. supports the move by Le'i to arm police.
“It’s in the law,” Fa’...
![Unutoa Auelua Fonoti [Photo: supplied via RNZI]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/eight_col_Unutoa_Fonoti.jpg?itok=OKsbCipE "Unutoa Auelua Fonoti [Photo: supplied via RNZI]")
Samoa's telecommunications regulator is meeting with mobile phone service providers from American Samoa this weekend to try to fix signal interference on the eastern side of Samoa's Upolu island.
The regulator Unutoa Auelua Fonoti said the interference has been causing problems since May.
She said...
![Luki Te'etai Tuitasi and the crew from Public Works are preparing the area in front of the Jean P. Hayden Museum, for the construction of a new 2-story structure that will provide more storage, office and display space for the Jean P. Hayden Museum. See story for details. [photo: Blue Chen-Fruean]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/museum.jpg?itok=Xq8UVAAu "Luki Te'etai Tuitasi and the crew from Public Works are preparing the area in front of the Jean P. Hayden Museum, for the construction of a new 2-story structure that will provide more storage, office and display space for the Jean P. Hayden Museum. See story for details. [photo: Blue Chen-Fruean]")
The Jean P. Hayden Museum will be getting a much-needed facelift.
While the original building will remain intact, a new extension that will feature a two-story structure will be built on the side where the old restrooms, a carving area, and storage rooms were housed many years ago.
Governor Lolo...
![A Taro plant [Photo: RNZI/Autagavaia Tipi Autagavaia]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/eight_col_Talo_crop.JPG?itok=FSwtnvrj "A Taro plant [Photo: RNZI/Autagavaia Tipi Autagavaia]")
Only farmers, and not middlemen, will be able to export taro from Samoa to American Samoa under new requirements.
American Samoa's director of agriculture Filifa'atali Mike Fuiava said met with counterparts in Samoa to explain the new rules, but needed more time to explain the requirements to...
![A screenshot of the registry website [Photo: americansamoa.nsopw.gov/]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/eight_col_sex_offender.jpg?itok=agOAJnPf "A screenshot of the registry website [Photo: americansamoa.nsopw.gov/]")
American Samoa's Governor Lolo Moliga has signed into law a bill amending the American Samoa Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, or SORNA.
The changes allow American Samoa to be in substantial compliance with requirements of the US Sex Offender Registration Act.
Under current law, Tier...
![Rendering of the proposed new Fono Building. [SN file photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/fono%20bldg%20rendering_16.jpg?itok=tbBnR7JW "Rendering of the proposed new Fono Building. [SN file photo]")
Due to the many concerns from members of the House Agriculture, Marine & Wildlife and Forestry Committee, on the issues of Federal regulations that affect fisheries in American Samoa, the director of the Department of Marine Wildlife Resource, Va’amua Henry Sesepasara, asked House members to...