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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Once again members of the local community, including some victims, have raised deep concerns regarding the fact that some inmates at the Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF) are able to access social media sites such as Facebook.
Samoa News reported on such concerns...
![[l-r] ASEPA director Faamao Asalele; director general of Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programs (SPREP) Kosi Latu; Miss American Samoa Magalita Johnson; DMWR director Vaamua Henry Sesepasara; head of the ASCC Land Grant, Aufa'i Areta; and director of the Climate Resilience Program, Tagaloa Cooper](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/sprep_asepa_n_dmwr_-land_grant.jpg?itok=nqCGrTbI)
[l-r] ASEPA director Faamao Asalele; director general of Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programs (SPREP) Kosi Latu; Miss American Samoa Magalita Johnson; DMWR director Vaamua Henry Sesepasara; head of the ASCC Land Grant, Aufa'i Areta; and director of the Climate Resilience Program...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Bail is set at $5,000 for Afasene Hunkin who is charged with child abuse and third degree assault for allegedly punching his 11-year-old nephew and then striking the boy with the flat end of a machete.
Hunkin, 29, made his initial appearance in District Court yesterday...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A woman who was scheduled to appear in High Court this week for a disposition hearing has allegedly fled the island. According to a verbal statement from the Chief Probation Officer (CPO) presented to the court this week, a movement profile from the Immigration Office...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Police Commissioner Le’i Sonny Thompson has confirmed that it's $40 for a driver’s license issued to a foreigner, who is legally allowed to reside in American Samoa, and the license is only valid — for example one year — based on the legal resident’s Immigration ID....
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Following a Senate committee hearing where the director was asked by Sen. Tuaolo Manaia Fruean about why ASDHS agents are present at the Pago Pago International Airport, Local Department of Homeland Security (ASDHS) director Samana Semo Ve’ave’a explained that ASDHS...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Aumua Amata welcomed a federal grant based on damage caused by Tropical Storm Gita. The grant totaling nearly $2 million ($1.925 million) is for the American Samoa Power Authority.
“I’m pleased to welcome these federal funds to our islands to continue to help...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Judge Elvis P. Patea has denied a motion filed by Assistant Attorney General Robert Morrison to continue the jury trial of former Executive Director of the American Samoa Government's Employees' Retirement Fund, Luatua Filisouaiga Ta’afua.
Trial will move forward as...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Rep. Kitara Vaiau is calling for the American Samoa Immigration Office to put in place a program called ‘suspense file’ to prevent the number of overstayers in the territory from growing every year.
The Saole faipule who worked for the American Samoa Immigration Office...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A demonstrator in American Samoa has been holding a one woman protest outside the temporary House of Representatives calling for better health care in the territory.
Moira Maiava said she wanted the parliament or Fono to devote the same spirit and energy it was using on...