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![Faasao Marist High School Class of 2017 performed their Graduation song. [photo:EM]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/class%20some_0305.jpg?itok=TkbGin4k "Faasao Marist High School Class of 2017 performed their Graduation song. [photo:EM]")
“A sweet Ending to a New Beginning” was the theme the Cougars and Crusaders of Faasao Marist High School graduates chose for their special day last Saturday at Fatu-O-Aiga hall, which is a part of the Catholic cathedral compound.
Proud parents, relatives and close friends gathered at the hall to...
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ASG Deputy Treasury for Revenue, Keith Gebauer, has outlined for port users guidelines of standards of processing, inspection of incoming cargo including imported vehicles, scanning process for vehicles and request for after-hours customs agents. In a June 1 email to local port users, he said they...
Congresswoman Aumua Amata says she can understand the disappointment Pacific Islanders feel about the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Climate Change Pact.
Click here to link to statements by Pacific leaders.
However, she feels that this is an opportunity to come up with a better and more effective...
Federal investigators have identified the “probable cause” of a fire aboard the commercial fishing vessel Rafaello, while it was moored at the pierside of the Satala shipyard, and estimates of the damage caused by the fire was at $2 million, according to a brief report released early this month by...
![Mrs. Bella Asiata (second from left) and other Red Cross officials at the San Diego Chapter of the American Red Cross. [photo: Red Cross]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Bella%20n%20Red%20Cross.jpg?itok=rIFPJjhj "Mrs. Bella Asiata (second from left) and other Red Cross officials at the San Diego Chapter of the American Red Cross. [photo: Red Cross]")
Mrs. Bella Asiata is a proud wife, mother of 5 young children ranging from 2 to 10 years old, full time Support Specialist Seminaries and Institutes of Religion in American Samoa for the Church of Latter Day Saints and Volunteers for the American Red Cross in American Samoa, and with that one title...
With the Fono and many in the community complaining about the usefulness of the America Samoa Visitors Bureau, Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has called for the agency’s top leaders to conduct a thorough review of the agency’s mission as well as identify ways for improvements.
Lolo made the suggestion...
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Among the many comments supporting the keeping the national marine monument status of Rose Atoll, is one that points to the importance of the atoll to continued understanding of humpback whales.
The commenter, submitted late last week on federal portal, www.regulations.com, argued that Rose Atoll...
![Starkist products on display at Safeway, Seattle, US, September 2016. [photo: Undercurrent]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/starkist%20cans.jpeg?itok=Cb39YBHt "Starkist products on display at Safeway, Seattle, US, September 2016. [photo: Undercurrent]")
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) is accusing a former senior sales executive with Starkist of conspiring to fix prices for shelf stable seafood, the first non-Bumble Bee Foods executive to be formally charged.
Stephen Hodge, the former senior vice president of sales with Starkist, ultimately...
Movement of executives within the nation’s top three tuna producing companies has been cited as one of the examples, in which the canneries allegedly colluded in their price fixing conspiracy.
And former StarKist Samoa general manager, Brett Butler, as well as former StarKist Co., executive Chris...
RED CROSS AMERICAN SAMOA RESPONDS TO RECENT FLOODING
American Red Cross in American Samoa responded to calls for assistance from families on the Western side of Tutuila during last month’s heavy rain, that prompting flooding in some villages.
The local Red Cross responded to calls from its partners...