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The government has charged Isaako Talosaga with first degree burglary and stealing, for allegedly breaking into a store in the Tafuna area in March this year and stealing goods worth more than $100.
According to court information the defendant’s alleged crime only came to light after he gave a pair...
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Attorney General Talauega Eleasalo V. Ale has joined thirty-one attorneys general in the states and territories calling on the US Congress to provide funding to the Legal Service Corporation, an independent federal agency, which allocates funds to legal aid entities in the nation including the...
The former owner of the Satala-based can manufacturing plant has been identified as a co-conspirator in the price fixing civil lawsuit against the nation’s three major canned tuna producer, including StarKist Co., according to the latest amended lawsuit by country’s major retailer, Walmart Inc....
![Bluesky Communications former chief executive officer Adolfo Montenegro, who is being sued by AST Telecom LLC, dba Bluesky Communications, has filed suit, this week, against Amper S.A. and its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Jaime Espinosa de los Monteros. Montenegro’s lawsuit does not reference Bluesky’s lawsuit against him, filed last week Thursday in the High court. [Courtesy photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Adolfo%20copy.jpg?itok=POF5_HOd "Bluesky Communications former chief executive officer Adolfo Montenegro, who is being sued by AST Telecom LLC, dba Bluesky Communications, has filed suit, this week, against Amper S.A. and its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Jaime Espinosa de los Monteros. Montenegro’s lawsuit does not reference Bluesky’s lawsuit against him, filed last week Thursday in the High court. [Courtesy photo]")
Amper S.A. and its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Jaime Espinosa de los Monteros, have been accused of fraud, bad faith, breach of contract, and other misconduct in a $20 million lawsuit filed this week in the High Court of American Samoa by Adolfo Montenegro. Montenegro was the Chief...
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Based on a recommendation from Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga, StarKist Co., has been informed that the ASG land at the shipyard in Satala cannot be leased to the cannery, which has instead been offered another parcel of land at the old Satala power plant site.
For more than a decade now, StarKist has...
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This week, everyone is invited to join the celebration of 100 years of local coral reef surveys in American Samoa.
The festivities culminate this Friday, May 26th with a Marine Science Student Mini-Symposium has set to be held at the Tauese P.F. Sunia Ocean Center from 8:30 a.m. - 12noon with...
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Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga (right) shakes hands with Rep. Pulele’iite Liamatua Tufele, the new chairman of the American Samoa TeleCommunications Authority, before the start yesterday morning of the cabinet meeting, where the governor officially introduced Pulele’iite, not only as the new board...
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In this recent photo provided by the American Samoa Power Authority (ASPA) is an aerial view of ASPA’s new Satala Power Plant, which replaced the one that was completely destroyed by the September 2009 tsunami. The previous power plant was located yards away from the new power plant, that ASPA...
In moving forward, the ASG Department of Human Resources is requiring the assistance of all department directors and heads of agencies in evaluating the status of short-term contract employees within each ASG entity.
In a May 22nd memo to cabinet directors, Human Resources director Eseneiaso J. Liu...
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American Samoa is to receive a slight increase in federal funding for capital improvement projects, while funding for operations will face a decrease of just over $1 million, according to the US Interior Department’s Office of Insular fiscal year 2018 budget justification documents submitted to the...