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![Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga [SN file photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/GovLolo_0766_4.jpg?itok=XJ7tjJwt "Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga [SN file photo]")
With an estimated 7% loss in local revenues for the government due to the upcoming five-week closure of StarKist Samoa cannery operations, Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has advised directors of all ASG departments and agencies to “practice diligence in expending local funds”.
Pittsburgh-based StarKist...
COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) — An eight-year-old girl is very far from her American Samoa home as she undergoes what will be a life-altering operation.
Lourdes Iputi is from American Samoa. She has cataracts in both her eyes and can't see.
She's getting them removed for free - thanks to the Spring Valley...
![ASG Task Force chairman, Attorney General Talauega Eleasalo Ale, is pushing for the passage of an administration bill that updates the local tax table, saying it will benefit local taxpayers. [photo: AF]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/AG_0529.jpg?itok=kFZIK_an "ASG Task Force chairman, Attorney General Talauega Eleasalo Ale, is pushing for the passage of an administration bill that updates the local tax table, saying it will benefit local taxpayers. [photo: AF]")
ASG Task Force chairman, Attorney General Talauega Eleasalo Ale has asked House members to seriously consider the Administration's bill that updates the local tax table, because if the Fono approves it, taxpayers will benefit.
He said many discussions on the issue were held amongst task force...
![Rendering of the proposed new Fono Building. [SN file photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/fono%20bldg%20rendering_3.jpg?itok=NAbdrTeJ "Rendering of the proposed new Fono Building. [SN file photo]")
DBAS BOARD MEMBER GETS SENATE ENDORSEMENT
In a unanimous 13-0 vote, the Senate on Monday confirmed the governor’s nomination of Talalemotu Mauga to the Development Bank of American Samoa board of directors.
Mauga, who has served as Legislative Financial Officer for many years, is the last DBAS...
The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued five violations, four of which are considered “serious” - and fines totaling more than $35,000 - following the deaths of three men who were electrocuted earlier this year at the Manu'a Store compound at the Tafuna Industrial...
![[SN file photos]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/speaker%20n%20car.jpg?itok=7bsM4hpW "[SN file photos]")
House Speaker Savali Talavou Ale says he can vouch for the effectiveness of the multi-million-dollar scanner system at Port, because the machine was able to detect items that were hidden inside a vehicle that was shipped from off island, under his name.
Savali's comments were made yesterday during...
StarKist Co. and its American Samoa based subsidiary StarKist Samoa Inc., will pay $6.3 million in civil penalties, under an agreement reached with the federal government, over alleged violations relating to wastewater treatment and compliance matters at the cannery plant in Atu’u.
This is...
![Rendering of the proposed new Fono Building. [SN file photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/fono%20bldg%20rendering_2.jpg?itok=o3xYNsBQ "Rendering of the proposed new Fono Building. [SN file photo]")
Local general manager of South Pacific Distributors (SoPac), Mike Tolmie has made a public claim that the Lolo Administration’s proposal to change the way tax is imposed on beer will result in more taxes being paid by SoPac, and less by its competitors.
The statement, made during a Senate Budget...
![Commerce Department director Keniseli Lafaele [SN file photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Lafaele%206495_3.jpg?itok=BXCzCtVa "Commerce Department director Keniseli Lafaele [SN file photo]")
The federal State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI) program, administered locally by the Commerce Department, will cease at the end of this month but American Samoa still has the rest of the year to utilize the more than $3 million it has drawn down.
American Samoa was awarded $10.5 million...
StarKist Co., has confirmed that its cannery operations in American Samoa will shut down for at least five weeks, beginning in the later part of next month.
Samoa News received reports late last month from industry sources and some cannery workers that the StarKist Samoa plant will shut down soon...