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INMATE ESCAPE STILL BEING INVESTIGATED
Police Commissioner Save Liuato Tuitele has confirmed that a police investigation is on going as a result of an Asian inmate, Tao Liu, who allegedly escaped from the Territorial Correctional Facility two weekends ago.
Save also told Samoa News last week that...
American Samoa will soon release the design of the new “super alia”, which the government has been working on for sometime to replace the current existing alia fleet and the price of a ready-built super alia is estimated at $200,000.
For a couple of years, the government has been working on the...
Logistical challenges, lack of adequate space and difficulty in recruiting as well as retaining qualified employees are some of the issues faced by the Honolulu-based Veterans Administration Pacific Islands Health Care System (VAPIHCS), which provides medical and mental health care across the...
![2016 - 2017 Teacher of the Year: Dana Love Ili – from the ‘Home of the Wildcats’ — Nu’uuli Vocational Technical High School. [photo: TG]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/TOY_9685.jpg?itok=2EyU9u-a "2016 - 2017 Teacher of the Year: Dana Love Ili – from the ‘Home of the Wildcats’ — Nu’uuli Vocational Technical High School. [photo: TG]")
Announced yesterday afternoon at the local Department Of Education’s office in Utulei, was the 2016- 17 Teacher of the Year, Dana Love Ili, a secondary teacher who specializes in Special Education, and teaches at the Nu’uuli Vocational Technical High School, ‘Home of the Wildcats’.
The Teacher of...
“Due to adverse business conditions,” Tri Marine International says it will “indefinitely suspend” canning operations on Dec. 11 at Samoa Tuna Processors (STP) facility, which was opened in January 2015 following a $70 million investment with plans to hire up to 1,500 workers once the facility was...
Benny, the four-legged Customs agent responsible for ‘sniffing’ out illegal drugs coming into the territory, made a another bust this past Monday, when a man from Pago Pago who was disembarking the Hawaiian Airlines flight claimed a suitcase containing a dozen ‘nuggets’ of marijuana.
(A ‘nugget’ is...
![[photo: TG]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/TOY-2016_9684.jpg?itok=QzB34jVJ "[photo: TG]")
Announced yesterday afternoon at the Department Of Education’s main office in Utulei, was the 2017 Teacher of the Year: Dana Love Ili (2nd from left), a Secondary teacher specializing in Special Education at the Nu’uuli Vocational Technical High School ‘Home of the Wildcats’.
Pictured (left to...
![A still image from ‘Sons of Halawa’, a documentary that looks at the challenges of carrying on cultural traditions in Molokai’s Halawa Valley in Hawai’i. [photo: PIC]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/SonsofHalawa1.jpg?itok=8oD4PJuR "A still image from ‘Sons of Halawa’, a documentary that looks at the challenges of carrying on cultural traditions in Molokai’s Halawa Valley in Hawai’i. [photo: PIC]")
The public is invited to enjoy two recent examples of regional filmmaking at its finest when the American Samoa segment of the “Deep Waters” Pacific Film Showcase takes place today, Thursday, from 12:30 to 2 p.m. in the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) Lecture Hall.
This free event will...
INMATE ESCAPE STILL BEING INVESTIGATED
Police Commissioner Save Liuato Tuitele has confirmed that a police investigation is on going as a result of an Asian inmate, Tao Liu, who allegedly escaped from the Territorial Correctional Facility two weekends ago.
Save also told Samoa News last week that...
The Fish Market, under the jurisdiction of the Commerce Department, will soon have a new manager, who is reported to be a local businessman, and it will operate as a private business, according to the American Samoa Community Activities and Issues Report, presented at this week’s 168th meeting of...