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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A team of four Registered Nurses from the Thai USA Company are here to check out how the Registered Nurses contracted from Thailand are doing in a US territory.
Thai Nurse USA is run by Registered Nurses originally from Thailand but work and live in the USA.
They...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Senate Select Investigative Committee (SSIC) on Monday resumed hearings on the government’s $6.4 million TALOFAPass web system proved by the Honolulu-based company DataHouse Consulting Inc. by questioning the company’s local representative Mrs. Saipai Cassens-A'etonu...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — On September 21, 2023, at 12:55 PM a woman called the Tafuna Police Substation (TPS) reporting that she had been assaulted by a woman in Nu’uuli in front of the Litani building.
Officers responded to the call and arrived at the Litani building, where they observed two...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata took part in a Thursday oversight hearing examining the United States Coast Guard’s contributions to maritime security in the Indo-Pacific, and the importance of the region to U.S. security interests.
For purposes of participating in this hearing,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A Samoan couple pled not guilty to a federal grand jury indictment for using their nonprofit, House of Transformations, and other corporate entities, as part of a scheme to fraudulently obtain millions of dollars in COVID-19 recovery funds in an alleged scheme to defraud...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata welcomed bipartisan House passage Saturday of a 45-day government funding bill to prevent a shutdown. The Continuing Resolution (CR), passed by a vote of 335-91, maintains current fiscal year 2023 funding at the start of the new fiscal year on...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Utulei Beach was teeming with activities this past Saturday, September 30, 2023, which marked the commencing of the Mosooi Festival of Arts and Humanities, organized by the Agency for Better Living Endeavors.
The Moso’oi premiere night consisted of artreach workshops...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa prepared last week to remember the victims of the cataclysmic tsunami that on September 29, 2009 took the lives of 34 in American Samoa, 149 in Samoa and 9 lives in the Kingdom of Tonga plus millions of dollars of damage in the area — an eyewitness who...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A Senate bill amending “the selection process of Senators to establish a deadline by which each respective county must determine their candidate no later than the first day of October on each election year, and to mandate that all Senators submit their qualification...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Senate on Wednesday passed in final reading the House concurrent resolution, which “conveys the deepest condolences of the American Samoa Legislature and the people of America Samoa to Mrs. Michaelle Claire Murphy Vargas, children and the bereaved Vargas family, on...