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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Local high school budding poets faced-off last Friday in the 4th Annual Territorial Competition of Poetry Out Loud — American Samoa 2024, held at the Jean P. Haydon Museum, where last year's winner Hazel Leo of Iakina Adventist Academy, emerged victorious once again....
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The overall winners of the 2024 American Samoa Science Fair High School division includes Amelia Chen, a 2-peat consecutive overall winner of the High School division. She will once again be representing American Samoa at the International Science and Engineering Fair in...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In a statement issued by the Samoa Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MAF) late last week, it was revealed that five cattle and five sheep are ready to be gifted by the Samoa government to the American Samoa government, and are currently being cared for at the Vaea...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — On February 25, 2024, a grandmother called the Tafuna Police Substation (TPS) to report her daughter’s ex-husband, who was drunk, and refused to leave her home.
The suspect was arrested and charged with the following:
Count 1: Trespass (DV) — a class B misdemeanor...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The U.S. Treasury has officially approved the American Samoa State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI) 2.0 program, empowering the territory with up to $57.0 million in funding to fuel the growth and resilience of local small businesses.
According to a press release...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — On Saturday morning, March 16, 2024, the village of Iliili dedicated their new fautasi shed and christened their new fautasi in a formal cultural ceremony.The ceremony began with a formal greeting and was followed by a sauniga lotu, with prayers, blessings and a sermon...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In response to the former manager of the LBJ Hospital Radiology Division, Vaanatiu Iafeta Tofala, asking Governor Lemanu P.S. Mauga to help more than 30 hospital employees whose services have been terminated or forced to resign recently, as well as calling for the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — On February 23, 2024, at about 1:54am, a woman contacted the Tafuna Police Substation requesting assistance with her uncle, Tyrone McFall, who she said was disturbing the peace at their home in Faleniu. It was revealed that McFall also allegedly damaged her vehicle.
The...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs Grant managers are in the territory conducting a review and assessment of a number grants and projects in American Samoa. They will be meeting with selected ASG agencies that play pivotal roles in the implementation and management of...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A recent unexpected trial of the usefulness of cats proved to the Vet Clinic Team that cleaning the litterbox daily is a small price to pay for the work the resident cats do on rat patrol. We proved that just the mere presence of cats is an excellent rat deterrent....