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![[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...
Lawmakers reconvened yesterday after a mid session recess of one and half weeks with the current 4th Regular Session of the 34th Legislature to officially close tomorrow, Friday, with the dedication of the newly renovated Samoan Guest Fale on the Fono compound.
At yesterday’s Senate session...
![In this Nov. 2010 Samoa News file photo, Tri Marine Managing Director, Joe Hanby, Luen Thai President & COO, Sam H.T. Chou, STP Chief Executive, Ian Boatwood, STP Facility Manager, Craig Double, and Luen Thai Special Projects Executive, Joe Murphy, discuss the rehabilitation of the old SamPac Chicken of the Sea Cannery now Samoa Tuna Processors, on the busy STP dock. Now STP will close indecently in Dec. Read story on left. [Photo: Barry Markowitz]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/STP%20Execs%20Banner.jpg?itok=PG3CzGFF "In this Nov. 2010 Samoa News file photo, Tri Marine Managing Director, Joe Hanby, Luen Thai President & COO, Sam H.T. Chou, STP Chief Executive, Ian Boatwood, STP Facility Manager, Craig Double, and Luen Thai Special Projects Executive, Joe Murphy, discuss the rehabilitation of the old SamPac Chicken of the Sea Cannery now Samoa Tuna Processors, on the busy STP dock. Now STP will close indecently in Dec. Read story on left. [Photo: Barry Markowitz]")
Tri Marine, owner of American Samoa based, Samoa Tuna Processors (STP), has announced today that canning operations will be indefinitely suspended effective December 11, 2016.
Renato Curto, CEO of the entire Tri Marine Group said, “This is an incredibly difficult decision and one we make with a...
Over 17,000 electors are now on the voter registration roll for the November 8th general election, when voters go to the poll for the gubernatorial, congressional and the local House of Representatives races.
Voter registration closed at 4:30p.m. Oct. 11 (Tuesday) but around 3p.m. that day,...
A man from Samoa who has pled guilty to the felony crime of sodomy has been sentenced to serve 12 months imprisonment and upon release from the Territorial Correctional Facility is to depart American Samoa as soon as possible.
Mata’igaga Simona was initially charged with two felony counts of first...
SOLOMONA TEOFILO
A man accused by the government of assaulting his sister-in-law by hitting her in the face, putting a small knife to her throat and threatening her with a hammer is now charged with felony second-degree assault.
The charges against 55-year old Solomona Teofilo occurred recently...
Plaintiffs in a federal voting rights lawsuit have asked for a summary judgment in their favor because of an absentee voting law in the state of Illinois, where that state’s former residents, who are US citizens, are allowed to vote in federal elections — while residing in American Samoa — but not...