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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man in his thirties was admitted to the LBJ Hospital early Sunday morning after he sustained a gunshot wound from an incident that allegedly occurred in Leone village.
A reliable source confirmed to Samoa News that there was a shooting in Leone and as a result, a young...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — While the Football Federation of American Samoa (FFAS) Women's National Soccer Team is scheduled to depart this morning to compete in the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) Women’s Championship in Fiji next week, the parents of several local players who were dropped...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The proposed new two-story Fono Building will be constructed by Paramount Builders with groundbreaking set for Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018. The structure will be erected at the site of the old Fono Building, which was demolished last year.
Only two companies placed bids for...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Government's final budget proposal for the new fiscal year 2019 is just over $439 million, an increase of 11% from the current fiscal year, due to special events or activities planned for FY 2019, says Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga in his cover letter to...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa’s mid-year 2018 population, is estimated at 59,600 — a loss of 700 persons compared to July 1, 2017, according to data release yesterday by the Commerce Department’s Statistical Division.
Based on DOC data, Samoa News reported last year that the 2017 mid-...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Of the nine projects to be funded for fiscal year 2019 with Capital Improvement Project money from the federal government, one of the them is funding for the Hawaiki submarine cable. The American Samoa branching unit is owned and operated by the American Samoa...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — ASG Office of Program Planning and Budget director Catherine D. Saelua has informed senators that her office has always processed expenditures requested by the Senate, including Travel Authorization (TA) requests, but only held such requests following Tropical Cyclone...
Apia, SAMOA — The debt owed by the Samoa Government to the American Samoa government for the American Samoa Hawaii Cable (A.S.H.) contract that was signed in 2009 remains unknown with officials refusing to divulge more information.
Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sa’ilele Malielegaoi recently said the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A look at the new Hawaiian Airlines cargo facility at the Pago Pago International Airport that will be dedicated on Thursday. Hawaiian’s new chief executive officer and president, Peter Ingram, is leading the airline’s delegation from Honolulu for the ceremony, which...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Senate yesterday approved in final reading an administration bill, which outlines the distribution of the more than $2 million of American Samoa’s share of the $6.5 million settlement between the federal government and StarKist Co., and its local operations StarKist...