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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A Requiem Mass for Mr. David Vargas is scheduled for Wednesday, October 11 at 10am at the Holy Family Cathedral with the Family Service at 9am immediately preceding the Mass.
The family invites David’s friends to join them to honor and celebrate his memory.
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Samoa Observer is reporting that 22 Samoans who are in Israel for the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ)'s Feast of Tabernacles 2023 are safe. The group arrived in Tel Aviv on a chartered Fiji Airways flight on September 29 with no idea that they would...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — October 10th is an important date for Fijian citizens in Fiji and the world over, because it is the day that Fiji was officially granted independence in 1970, after 96 years of British colonial rule.
For the more than a thousand Fijian citizens in American Samoa, it...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Community College (ASCC) held its 2023 induction ceremony Tuesday, Oct. 3, for the Alpha Eta chapter of Sigma Kappa Delta (SKD).
The English Honor Society welcomed new members Maricia Chanel, Pearl Munoz, Kenecia Godinet, Indira Lemana, Hadassah Umi-...
Honolulu, HAWAII — Leadership teams for the nation’s eight regional fishery management councils will gather in Arlington, Virginia for the Fall 2023 Council Coordination Committee (CCC) meeting. The meeting will convene October 11-13, 2023, at the Hilton Arlington National Landing Hotel located at...
Apia, SAMOA — American Samoa Government leaders, headed by Governor Lemanu P.S. Mauga, and Samoa, led by Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mataafa, turn the soil for the construction of an ASG office in Moata’a, Samoa on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023 in Samoa.
The parcel of land, located near the luxurious...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Independent Samoa Government is hosting the Atoa o Samoa fourth bi-annual talks this week Wednesday and Thursday — October 11 - 12, 2023 (Samoa time). The American Samoa contingent left for the Talks last week Friday.
The program includes a Welcoming Cocktail...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata, a Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement condemning the attacks against Israel.
“I’ve had the great joy to visit Israel and to see Jerusalem, an important and historic site to people of faith all over the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man contacted the Central Police Station on September 28, 2023 at 5:56 PM, requiring assistance with his younger brother who was cussing in a loud manner, causing worry and alarming their neighborhood in Fagatogo. The man further reported that his younger brother...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — An emotional Senator Utu Sila Poasa could not help shedding tears as he argued that the $15.9 million in the administration’s $22 million Supplemental Bill earmarked for the Governor’s Office special projects should be left out of the supplemental bill and tabled until...