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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — As of Tuesday this week, the US Small Business Administration (SBA) has approved more than $10 million in disaster loans for American Samoa businesses and residents impacted by Tropical Storm Gita in February this year.
This is according to SBA Disaster Field Operations...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The 55-year-old man from Samoa who has two different names in the court system, was ordered by Chief Justice Michael Kruse to depart the territory and remain outside of its borders upon release from the Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF), after being convicted of...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The High Court has suspended a period of detention for a 44-year-old man who claimed a package mailed through the Post Office on Oct. 13, 2016 in which crystal methamphetamine was found, and ordered him to attend and complete off-island drug counseling, which is a...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The third co-defendant in a case where police raided two homes in Pago in May of this year was re-arrested by police earlier this week, after the government re-filed the case against him.
Sio Godinet Jr., one of the three individuals arrested when police executed a...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 32-year-old woman who stole a fine mat (afuelo) from another woman and then sold it to a Tongan individual for $300 to buy food for her children, and later on tried to bribe a public servant with $200 in an effort to falsely change the ownership of a vehicle for her...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — “Learning has no limits. Knowledge is very powerful,” declared Trixy Taua-Petaia, during her keynote address Tuesday, the final day of the two-day Governor’s 2018 Youth Empowerment Summit at the Pago Pago Youth Center, where she also urged youth participants to remember...
![[-r] Dr. Laura Watts and her husband, Dr. John Watts, along with an LBJ Medical Center physician](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/doctors_watts_.jpg?itok=xXrDgE22 "[-r] Dr. Laura Watts and her husband, Dr. John Watts, along with an LBJ Medical Center physician on Tuesday at the Territorial Administration on Aging (TAOA) center in Pago Pago.")
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Dr. Laura Watts and her husband, Dr. John Watts are members of the US medical team of doctors, nurses, pastors and fathers of the Men of Promise Ministry that conducted free medical check ups on Tuesday, July 3, for senior citizens at the TAOA center.
Wednesday, the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Last week Friday, the Washington D.C. based non-profit, Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) sought permission from the federal court in Salt Lake City, Utah to be allowed to file an ‘Amicus Curiae’ or friends of the court, brief in the US citizenship lawsuit case, in...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Empty shelves at grocery stores have been restocked in American Samoa with the arrival of the first container ship in a month.
Over the weekend containers were hurriedly taken to stores from the ship the The Polynesia.
The supply shortage was caused by problems last...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Following an electrical fire that happened when an exhaust vent shorted on June 19th, the Retail Store, was the only Bluesky Communications operations that remained at Laufou Shopping Center.
The rest of the company’s operations that were on the second floor of Laufou...