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Pago Pgo, AMERICAN SAMOA — All three men who were arrested after armed detectives of the DPS Vice & Narcotics Unit executed two search warrants last Thursday wanted to exercise their constitutional rights for a preliminary examination (PX).
The three men are Misi Siua, Sui Tago Jr and Henry O’...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man who is being accused of failure to comply with conditions of his release, where he was ordered to stay clean from illegal drugs and alcohol denied the allegation against him. The court has now set his case for a preliminary examination later on this month to...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Amalgamated Telecom Holdings Limited’s (ATH) acquisition of Bluesky Communication assets in American Samoa is progressing well with federal regulators, after several months of no activities, says Bluesky Pacific Group chief executive officer Toleafoa Tiafau Douglas...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — As of Tuesday this week, the US Small Business Administration (SBA) has approved more than $10 million in disaster loans for American Samoa businesses and residents impacted by Tropical Storm Gita in February this year.
This is according to SBA Disaster Field Operations...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The 55-year-old man from Samoa who has two different names in the court system, was ordered by Chief Justice Michael Kruse to depart the territory and remain outside of its borders upon release from the Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF), after being convicted of...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The High Court has suspended a period of detention for a 44-year-old man who claimed a package mailed through the Post Office on Oct. 13, 2016 in which crystal methamphetamine was found, and ordered him to attend and complete off-island drug counseling, which is a...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The third co-defendant in a case where police raided two homes in Pago in May of this year was re-arrested by police earlier this week, after the government re-filed the case against him.
Sio Godinet Jr., one of the three individuals arrested when police executed a...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 32-year-old woman who stole a fine mat (afuelo) from another woman and then sold it to a Tongan individual for $300 to buy food for her children, and later on tried to bribe a public servant with $200 in an effort to falsely change the ownership of a vehicle for her...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — “Learning has no limits. Knowledge is very powerful,” declared Trixy Taua-Petaia, during her keynote address Tuesday, the final day of the two-day Governor’s 2018 Youth Empowerment Summit at the Pago Pago Youth Center, where she also urged youth participants to remember...
![[-r] Dr. Laura Watts and her husband, Dr. John Watts, along with an LBJ Medical Center physician](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/doctors_watts_.jpg?itok=xXrDgE22 "[-r] Dr. Laura Watts and her husband, Dr. John Watts, along with an LBJ Medical Center physician on Tuesday at the Territorial Administration on Aging (TAOA) center in Pago Pago.")
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Dr. Laura Watts and her husband, Dr. John Watts are members of the US medical team of doctors, nurses, pastors and fathers of the Men of Promise Ministry that conducted free medical check ups on Tuesday, July 3, for senior citizens at the TAOA center.
Wednesday, the...