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Overall winners in American Samoa History Day competition

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Students from public and private schools — high school and elementary — during last month’s Island Wide History Day competition. Education director Dr. Ruth Matagi-Tofiga said Tafuna High School is the overall winner for the Senior division, and Manumalo Baptist is the...

SBA approves just over $3 million in disaster low interest loans for American Samoa

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — As of Monday this week, the US Small Business Administration has approved 212 disaster loan applications for businesses and residents that were impacted by Tropical Storm Gita, says SBA public information officer, Yolanda Stokes. The approved low interest loan amount has...

Chinese fishing firm lands tuna for American Samoa canners

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A leading Chinese fishing company is offloading tuna catches in American Samoa in order to reduce the costs of transporting it back to China. The ‘Ping Tai Rong Cheng 2’ vessel called last month at American Samoa to unload tuna catches, according to an executive at the...

EMS Tafuna has new home

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — This photo on the Port Administration website shows the Airport Rescue Fire Fighter (ARFF) station at the American Samoa airport, which is the new home, starting today, May 2nd, for the EMS Tafuna unit, previously stationed at the Tafuna police substation but told last...

Project Te Aurake — The Return from American Samoa to New Zealand

The seven-member New Zealand Defense Force (NZDF) team yesterday surrounded the gravesite of Royal New Zealand Navy engineer 1st Class Russell Moore, who was buried at the Satala Cemetery, American Samoa in 1956. Moore died in an accident on the survey vessel HMNZS Lachlan in 1956 while on board...

Marty Tanielu has been sentenced to 5 years probation for two separate drug cases. He stole from his mother to buy drugs. [photo: AF]

Man who stole from his mother can't apologize — she passed away

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — An American Samoa man who stole his mother’s belongings, then sold them to get money to buy methamphetamine (ice) told the court he is truly remorseful for what he did, and he wishes he had a chance to apologize to his mother and have her forgive him. Marty Tanielu, who...

Police Commissioner Le’i Sonny Thompson [SN file photo]

Sexual harassment claims against American Samoa DPS now with the EEOC in Honolulu

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The recent cases involving the alleged sexual harassment of two female cops by a pair of senior DPS officers is moving up to the next level, as the matter has now reached the Office of the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in Honolulu. Samoa News...

Another overstayer faces American Samoa High Court

Pago Pago, American Samoa — An over-stayer who is serving a 28-month jail term at the Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF) was in High Court last week for a probation review hearing. Loimata Mika, 28, entered American Samoa on a 7-day visitor's permit in 2016. He was in the territory illegally...

Robert Ho Chee, the head of American Samoa’s new Office of Financial Institutio. [American Banker]

American Samoa finally gets a public bank. And U.S. states are watching

WASHINGTON — American Samoa is finally getting its own full-service bank — and successfully creating only the second public bank in the United States. The Federal Reserve is allowing the Territorial Bank of American Samoa access to the U.S. payments system nearly two years after the bank first...

NZ Defence Force begins repatriation of Navy engineer in American Samoa

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) will begin repatriating a Royal New Zealand Navy engineer from American Samoa, following a graveside blessing ceremony at Satala Cemetery in Pago Pago on May 2 (New Zealand time). Engineering Mechanic 1st Class Russell Moore died in...

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