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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa’s environmental groups and government agencies answered CNN's Call To Earth Day and found out what can be achieved when communities mobilize for conservation.
In a remarkable display of community collaboration, the Leone High School Forestry Program, NOAA...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A little locally known fact — November is Native American Heritage Month
A local resident told Samoa News that he has been trying to get the Jean P. Haydon Museum interested in “Native American Heritage Month”, which was signed into law by former US President George H. W...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Congregational Christian Church of American Samoa’s Rev. Elder Dr. Leatulagi Faalevao has been elected Moderator for the Pacific Conference of Churches (PCC) for the next four years, starting 2024- 2028.
A delegation of six members from the CCCAS, including the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In a legal dispute spanning over eight years, John Newton has attempted to prosecute a formal complaint against the American Samoa Telecommunications Authority (ASTCA) for alleged breaches of a telephone directory project contract. All the details of the proceedings,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — On Nov. 8, 2023, three individuals were booked and confined at Tafuna Correctional Facility (TCF), to await their arraignment at court, following their arrest for trespassing after four of them were stopped allegedly on property they had no right to be on. A fourth...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Pacific Association of Supreme Audit Institutions practice development director Sinaroseta Palamo-Iosefo visited American Samoa recently on a knowledge-sharing mission.
The primary purpose of Palamo-Iosefo’s trip was to collaborate with the American Samoa Government...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Mana Plantation in Mililani, Hawaii was the venue for a cultural activities event in the ongoing Samoan Heritage Program initiated by the ASG Hawaii office.
The Nov. 18 event welcomed a diverse audience including community leaders and members of the community, to...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Atoa o Samoa Talks has materialized one of its agreements on November 27, 2023 in American Samoa — the exchange of food security methods and expertise between the Fishery Divisions of the two Samoas.
The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries in Samoa,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — It has been confirmed that Samoa’s Police Associate Minister Fepulea’i Fa’asavalu Faimata Su'a, a citizen of Samoa, traveled to the territory without a valid permit earlier this month.
The confirmation by Attorney General Fainuulelei Falefatu Alailima-Utu was aired on...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The government has notified its directors and agency heads that there is now a Voluntary Term Life Insurance Plan for all of the American Samoa Government Employees Retirement Fund members, which by definition would include all ASG workers who are ASGERF members as well...