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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — “Jobs matter,” declared US Secretary of Interior, Ryan Zinke during brief remarks last week Thursday to a cheering crowd of more than 600 workers and management staff of StarKist Samoa and Talofa System Inc. can plant — both companies owned by South Korean based Dongwon...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Chief Election Officer, Dr. Lealofi Uiagalelei has issued the “official certification” of the three candidates for the US Delegate’s seat and fifty-five for the local House of Representatives race, for the Nov. 6th mid term election.
With the certification process...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Changes made to a provision of the law in Dec. 2008 authorizing the government to borrow $20 million from the ASG Employees Retirement Fund, eliminated the sunset clause, which was meant to roll back local investment from 17% to 10% after the loan was paid off.
This...
Geneva, SWITZERLAND — A quarter of the world’s adults are not getting enough exercise, putting them at risk of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, dementia, and some cancers – and there has been no improvement over the past 15 years.
This is according to a global study conducted by the World...
WASHINGTON—With funding support from the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs, 4 American Samoans and 24 other U.S. affilated Pacific Island residents were welcomed by the Executive Leadership Development Program held in Guam last month.
The ELDP participants were...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Power Authority’s fiscal year 2019 budget hearing last week revealed that the ASG Treasury Department pays for costs of installing street lights on the main road.
The revelation surfaced when Rep. Fialupe Felila Fiaui Lutu told ASPA witnesses that she...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The 28-year-old man who was convicted of breaking into a house has been sentenced by Acting Associate Justice, Elvis P Patea to 12 months in jail as a condition of a 5-year probation term.
Ron Albert Mauga, who has been in custody since he was arrested last year, was...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Fono approved on Wednesday a House Concurrent Resolution conveying the deepest condolences of the Legislature and the people of American Samoa to widow Dr. Rosevonne L. Makaiwi Pato and the entire Pato family on the passing of American Samoa Environmental Protection...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Legislature took one-day off yesterday as Fono leaders and several lawmakers joined the Executive and Judicial branches in welcoming to the territory the US Secretary of Interior, Ryan Zinke, who made a stopover in the territory before returning to Washington D.C....
Pago Papgo, AMERICAN SAMOA — U.S Secretary of Interior, Ryan Zinke promised to “deal with your hospital” — referring to LBJ Medical Center — during his special remarks yesterday at the Suigaula o le Atuvasa Park, where it was also revealed that local leaders had bestowed on him, the chiefly title “...