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Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga is looking at appointing a task force to assess and make recommendations as to how best to address some of the “education challenges” in the public school system faced by American Samoa.
The governor made the revelation at last week’s cabinet meeting held at the...
Public Defender Douglas Fiaui told the House Judiciary Committee during a hearing held last week, the problem that he sees with local stringent drug laws, is they do not give an offender parole or probation and suggested that the Fono revisit the local statute under Title 13 Chapter 10 — titled...
The American Samoa Environmental Protection Agency (ASEPA) has been awarded a grant of over $2.7 million by the US Environmental Protection Agency for ASEPA’s environmental protection programs.
In a news release on Wednesday, the federal agency says ASEPA will use the funds to support air, water,...
Senators have called for pulenu’u and employees of government entities that will be enforcing a proposed overhaul of current litter law to undergo thorough training with the support of the Public Safety Department.
Current law gives police the authority to issue litter citations, but the...
As has become customary during election season, the Student Government Association (SGA) at the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) will host two forums to familiarize students and the general public with the candidates running for Governor and Lieutenant Governor, and Congressional Delegate of...
The American Samoa Government vessel, MV Sili, will be out of commission for another 6 weeks, according to the deputy director of Port Administration Christopher King.
The ship has been in the drydock at the government slipway and needs much more attention than earlier thought.
Mr King said that...
Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga says the overtime issue is a problem inherited by his administration from the previous one and urged directors to make sure overtime is controlled, and suggested hiring more people instead of incurring overtime.
Speaking at Tuesday’s cabinet meeting, the governor first...
American Samoa Government could receive more than $3 million in restitution from Native Hawaiian Holding Corporation (NHHC) official, Quin Ngoc Rudin, whose “selfishness and greed has a negative” and lasting impact on ASG and the people of American Samoa, according to court documents filed by the...
American Samoa’s name has again surfaced in a federal court case and this time, its a labor trafficking lawsuit with court documents citing the territory as the transit point for two fishermen from Indonesia heading to Honolulu to work on a fishing boat, where they ended up allegedly living in...
![Level seven students at Tafuna Elementary School sent 80+ “Hope” full letters to inmates at the Tafuna Correctional Facility in a project initiated by American Samoa’s Territorial Teacher of the Year 2016, Mrs. Rosita Esene Sola, who says “TCF is not a dark place at all. It is a better place to shine the light of Christ into these people’s lives.” [courtesy photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/WIN_20160916_13_52_10_Pro_0.jpg?itok=OKVa4gua "Level seven students at Tafuna Elementary School sent 80+ “Hope” full letters to inmates at the Tafuna Correctional Facility in a project initiated by American Samoa’s Territorial Teacher of the Year 2016, Mrs. Rosita Esene Sola, who says “TCF is not a dark place at all. It is a better place to shine the light of Christ into these people’s lives.” [courtesy photo]")
“Hope” is the motto behind a project that American Samoa’s Territorial Teacher of the Year 2016 Mrs. Rosita Esene Sola worked on with her students who wrote letters sending messages of encouragement and bible verses to the inmates at the Tafuna Correctional Facility.
In an email to Samoa News, Mrs...