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RESTON, Va. - Jan. 10, 2018 — American Samoa is modernizing communications technology for its first responders.
Governor Lolo Matalasi Moliga accepted the First Responder Network Authority and AT&T plans to deliver a wireless broadband network to the territory's public safety community....
American Samoa is looking at tapping into the wedding market — a booming industry in the Pacific — by amending local laws, hence allowing foreigners to exchange vows in the territory.
Current local marriage laws are a “big deterrent” for American Samoa to be a potential destination for weddings,...
![Aoe’e Adolfo Montenegro [SN file photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/montenegro-000014843_1.jpeg?itok=YEE4pZ1M "Aoe’e Adolfo Montenegro [SN file photo]")
Based on a High Court ruling, local attorney Barry Rose and the law firm Mooney Wieland Smith & Rose PLLC (MWS Rose) can continue to represent Aoe’e Adolfo Montenegro, who is suing his former employer, Bluesky Communications.
The court’s decision was handed down last October, after AST Telecom...
![[SN file photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/AM%20Samoa%20HC_78.jpeg?itok=QdU-BIL5 "[SN file photo]")
Four drug cases were on high court’s calendar last Friday. One was granted a continuance, while three were heard by Chief Justice Michael Kruse.
GALU NOFOA AND IOSEFA ALO
One of the two defendants in a drug case that surfaced last year and led to two Tafuna High School students being taken into...
![Taimalelagi Dr. Claire Tuia Poumele [SN file photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Taimalelagi%206450_0.jpg?itok=nkFhWEWn "Taimalelagi Dr. Claire Tuia Poumele [SN file photo]")
Prior to the Lolo and Lemanu Administration, the cost of shipping a vehicle on the MV Sili from Tutuila to Manu’a was $250 one-way, says Port Administration director, Taimalelagi Dr. Claire Tuia Poumele, who acknowledged that shipping to Manu’a had been free between 2013 and 2016.
As reported by...
![Thomas S. Monson, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. [SN file photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Mormon%20president%20dies.jpeg?itok=3HsxYy_B "Thomas S. Monson, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. [SN file photo]")
Governor Lolo Matalasi Moliga and US Congresswoman Aumua Amata have released statements of condolences, calling the passing of Thomas S. Monson, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a sad day for American Samoa and the world.
THE GOVERNOR OF AMERICAN SAMOA
Press Release —...
![[photo: Leua Aiono Frost]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Rep%20Fialupe%20Lutu.jpg?itok=GEUpHAkv "[photo: Leua Aiono Frost]")
The newest faipule for the House of Representatives, Fialupe Felila Fiaui Lutu (middle), pictured with secretary to the House Speaker, Aliti Taliva’a, and the Senate’s chief of personnel, Ata Gaoteote on Monday afternoon following the closing of the Fono joint session for the 3rd regular session of...
![Governor Lolo Matalasi Moliga [SN file photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Gov%20Lolo%202833_7.jpg?itok=XkOu71ej "Governor Lolo Matalasi Moliga [SN file photo]")
The 3rd session of the 35th Legislature opened this past Monday at the Fale Laumei and pursuant to prevailing statute, Governor Lolo Matalasi Moliga reported on the "successes and failures with respect to the implementation of programs in 2017 to move the territory forward," during his State of the...
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The Samoan culture is alive and well, as witnessed last week when local master tufuga Su'a Wilson Fitiao completed a pair of 'malu' (traditional Samoan tattoo for females) in Poloa village for Fogafogaolealataua Liua Ta'ase Pisamoa Taifane and Ashley Taumua Mata'afa. Malo lava le onosa'i.
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![Months after demolition, the space where the Fono building was once located remains empty. [photo: BC]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/empty%20fono%20lot.jpg?itok=KiO57I-T "Months after demolition, the space where the Fono building was once located remains empty. [photo: BC]")
When is the new Fono Building going to be built, Samoa News asks, as the legislators take their seats in their temporary quarters at the Fale Laumei, the Gov. H. Rex Lee Auditorium?
The State of the Territory’s Address was delivered at the auditorium yesterday — which have made many wonder when, if...