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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga will be sending out this week his official response to the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), regarding concerns raised over the construction of the new Fono building, which the federal agency says does not comply with federal...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — An American Samoan man, who was facing misdemeanor charges at the District Court of American Samoa, was escorted by federal agents last Thursday night back to Hawai’i, where he is charged at the federal court in Honolulu in connection with a drug case.
Alapati Vaivai is...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Senate last Friday approved in final reading, the House version of the Administration’s bill, which increases by three cents the excise tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products.
Prior to its final vote, the Senate amended the measure, giving additional funding to...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Screen shot as of last Saturday morning of the updated American Samoa minimum wage poster on the US Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division website, indicating the new 40 cent per hour wage hike which became effective yesterday, Sept. 30, 2018.
The federally mandated...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The preliminary examination hearing of the owner of LE AUTE, Tumuatasi Lefatia, also known as Mama, on drug charges ended last Friday morning with District Court Judge Pro-Tem, Gwen Tauiliili-Langkilde finding probable cause to bind her case over to the High Court.
In...
![[l-r] Territorial Registrar, Taito S. White (who heads the Office of the Territorial Registrar); Assistant Attorney General, Andrew Sunia, who is the legal counsel for the TerritorialRegistrar’s Office, and Attorney General Talauega Eleasalo V. Ale](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/matai_registration.jpg?itok=juG8bL6Q "[l-r] Territorial Registrar, Taito S. White (who heads the Office of the Territorial Registrar); Assistant Attorney General, Andrew Sunia, who is the legal counsel for the Territorial Registrar’s Office, and Attorney General Talauega Eleasalo V. Ale during a Senate Government Operations Committee hearing last Friday morning. [photo: FS]")
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — E ui e le i aloaia fa’aletulafono fuafuaga a le Ofisa o le Lesitala mo le siitia lea o totogi o a latou tautua, aemaise lava i le lesitalaina o suafa matai, peita’i ua mae’a ona taoto atu i ai se fautuaga mai afioga i Senatoa i se iloiloga sa fa’ataunu’uina i le vaiaso...
![[l-r] Rotary Club of Pago Pago president Agnes Polu, Congresswoman Aumua Amata, Lt. Gov. Lemanu Palepoi Sialega Mauga, CCCAS Fagatogo Rev. Iasepi Ulu, Dept. of Human and Social Service official Lupe Sunia Fiso, a female guest, and Hawaiian Airlines representative Voloti Malietoa](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/group_1637.jpg?itok=kL0I7fwW "[l-r] Rotary Club of Pago Pago president Agnes Polu, Congresswoman Aumua Amata, Lt. Gov. Lemanu Palepoi Sialega Mauga, CCCAS Fagatogo Rev. Iasepi Ulu, Dept. of Human and Social Service official Lupe Sunia Fiso, a female guest, and Hawaiian Airlines representative Voloti Malietoa pose for a group photo following last Saturday’s Memorial Remembrance Service for the 34-victims of the Sept. 29, 2009 tsunami at the Tsunami Memorial Family Picnic Shelter at Lion’s Park. [photo: FS]")
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — “I bring a very simple message from our Crisis Counseling program. Three very important reminders for all of us because we all deal with trauma, we all deal with pain, we all deal with tragedy,” said Lupe Sunia Fiso of the Department of Human and Social Services in her...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The 25-year-old man who was convicted of stealing a laptop from a home in Vaitogi asked the court for a second chance so that he can go back home to serve his church, and care for his parents and sisters.
Tafilele Tei, who remains in custody under a $10,000 bond was...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Government was represented at the 1st United States Territorial Peer Exchange (USTPE) in Denver, Colorado last month by employees of the Department of Public Works.
The delegation was led by DPW director Faleosina Faiai Voigt. Those who attended...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Fono has officially endorsed an Administration bill which will amend local statute and establish the American Samoa REAL ID Act, bringing American Samoa into compliance with stringent requirements of the US federal READ ID Act.
The final approval was made this past...