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![The first New Year baby, David Tausagafou Paaga, was born at 6a.m. [photo LAF]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/1st%20baby%20David.jpg?itok=13s2fLSP "The first New Year baby, David Tausagafou Paaga, was born at 6a.m. [photo LAF]")
All of them are male.
The owners of Pacific Independent Distributors, Inc. Fritz and Helen Gaisoa, in partnership with Kimberly-Clark®, for the second year in a row donated Kimberly-Clark® products gift packs for the First Baby of the Year and New Year babies.
As the sole distributors of the...
![[file photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/TCF.jpg?itok=6AVFob4k "[file photo]")
The top three crimes committed in the territory during fiscal year 2016 — Oct. 1, 2015 to Sept. 30, 2016 — are burglary, larceny and assault, according to law enforcement statistics included in the American Samoa Statistical Yearbook 2016, which was officially released late last week by the...
![Meleagi Suitonu Chapman [SN file photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Meleagi.jpg?itok=7Uw_f-Y0 "Meleagi Suitonu Chapman [SN file photo]")
A petition is to be presented to the US Secretary of Defence in a bid to reinstate military airlift command flights to American Samoa.
The woman behind it the campaign, a military dependent and former congressional candidate Meleagi Chapman, says she hopes to gain 5,000 signatures.
She said...
US Treasurer Steven T. Mnuchin has objected to the European Union including American Samoa and Guam in its “non-cooperative tax jurisdictions” blacklist, with a recommendation to remove the two territories from the list, which names entities considered as tax havens.
The Council of the EU released...
![This photo provided by ASPA, shows the “first smoke” of engine number 3 on March 3, 2017 — considered an important milestone for the new Satala Power Plant after the original plant was destroyed in the 2009 earthquake and tsunami. The power plant continued to be put through its paces, and was dedicated May 25, 2017. [2017 file photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/ASPA%20engine%209246web.jpg?itok=oKbbyxGu "This photo provided by ASPA, shows the “first smoke” of engine number 3 on March 3, 2017 — considered an important milestone for the new Satala Power Plant after the original plant was destroyed in the 2009 earthquake and tsunami. The power plant continued to be put through its paces, and was dedicated May 25, 2017. [2017 file photo]")
In 2017 the Twitter handle #MeToo went viral and ASG prosecuted more and more sex abuse cases, but unlike the U.S. — the economic outlook in the territories, and most especially American Samoa — is not rosy.
Starkist — the largest private employer in the territory is still suffering from fish...
An American Samoan woman accused of filing false tax returns with the US Internal Revenue Service for local residents is required to surrender her passport to the American Samoa Attorney General’s Office upon arrival in Pago Pago for her 30-day holiday visit with family in the territory, according...
![A new day on Dec. 28 with three more days before the New Year 2018, with great weather in sunny American Samoa, as the sun rose from coastline off Faganeanea village on Tutuila island around 8a.m. [photo:Leua Aiono Frost]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Untitled%20Extract%20Pages_Page_1_Image_0002_1.jpg?itok=dS2e72bz "A new day on Dec. 28 with three more days before the New Year 2018, with great weather in sunny American Samoa, as the sun rose from coastline off Faganeanea village on Tutuila island around 8a.m. [photo:Leua Aiono Frost]")
Church services and parties top the list of activities when American Samoa welcomes in 2018 at the stroke of 12 midnight Sunday night, the last in the U.S. “family” to do so. Guam will be the first U.S. possession to welcome in the New Year.
“...may the New Year bring our territory prosperity and...
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Thursday in court, District Court Judge Fiti Sunia raised his voice to a defendant, who is an overstayer, and who has allegedly caused a person to end up in the hospital. While specific details of the incident or charges against Sapi Osana were not immediately available, Samoa News understands that...
Utulei, AMERICAN SAMOA —The American Samoa delegation to the 14th annual Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission meeting in Manila returned to the territory after working with the United States delegation to successfully secure 100 extra high seas fishing days for American Samoa. The...
After two full days of waiting in frustration, passengers from Monday night’s flight finally left for Honolulu on Wednesday night’s flight — one of the three extra flights the airline scheduled between Honolulu and Pago Pago for the busy holiday season.
Some passengers as well as family members...