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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The government-wide Suicide Awareness Training is set to open today, and Gov. Lemanu P. S. Mauga has called on cabinet members for their attendance at Gov. H. Rex Lee Auditorium starting at 8a.m.
“The devastating impact of suicide has once again struck our Territory,”...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 15-member medical team from the mainland will be arriving tonight to hold free medical clinics that will begin in neighboring Samoa and culminate in American Samoa before they return to the mainland on Sept. 28.
The Samoa Medical Mission is an inter-denominational non-...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The NOAA Workshop on the Pacific Remote Islands Area (PRIA) National Marine Sanctuary designation concluded on September 13, 2023, after two days of discussions and community engagement at the Rex H. Lee Auditorium in Utulei.
At the close of the event Lt Governor...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The maximum allowable price (MAP), or wholesale price, of all petroleum products — including gasoline — sold in American Samoa has increased for the second-straight month, with a higher hike this month, effective Sept. 15, according to the MAP data released over the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — ASG officials, including Gov. Lemanu P. S. Mauga were present at the groundbreaking ceremonies at Afonotele and Le’atele Elementary Schools held last week Wednesday.
The Afonotele groundbreaking was for a new cafeteria and classroom building awarded to Vailu’u &...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — More charges have been filed in the drug raids that took place in Pago Pago on Aug. 31, 2023. And according to the court affidavit, add an additional raid at a residence in Pago Pago Village, as well as a second drug arrest at the Fagatogo Market, in the flurry of...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The President and CEO of the Territorial Bank of America Samoa, Dave Buehler has stepped down and left the territory. His departure was announced in a TBAS press release earlier this month, according to media reports. No date was specified as to his leaving.
Buehler has...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — For the second-consecutive month, imported taro, leads food items, which contributed to the increase in the Basic Food Index (BFI) — and this time the BFI has increased for the month of August.
Commerce Department’s Statistics & Analysis Division reported last month...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The first three witnesses that appeared before the Senate Joint Resolution Committee chaired by Senator Togiola Tulafono, didn’t support the call for a Constitutional amendment on the qualifications for some long-term residents to become electors.
The proposed amendment ...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Alef Education, a global educational technology, announced this week that it has partnered with the American Samoa Department of Education (AS-DOE) to implement Alef Pathways — described as an innovative educational solution — for 10,000 students across all public...