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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Fourth day of business at the House of Representatives involved a hearing with the House Committee of Public Safety and Tafuna Correctional Facility (TCF) officials over concerns of the multiple escapes from confinement by inmates and the status of the prison wall that...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — ASG Treasurer Malemo Tausaga and Deputy Attorney General Roy Hall appeared before the Senate Budget & Appropriation Committee in a hearing on Wednesday morning to discuss a bill introduced by Senate President Tuaolo Manaia Fruean, which “appropriates the sum of $278,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The U.S. Census Bureau yesterday released statistics for American Samoa in its 2020 Island Areas Census Demographic and Housing Characteristics Summary.
The package includes more than 400 tables with data on age, race and ethnicity, household type, relationship,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — United States Second Gentleman (husband of Vice President Kamala Harris) Mr. Doug Emhoff made a stopover in American Samoa this past Tuesday, July 18, for refueling at the Pago Pago International Airport. He is leading the U.S. Presidential delegation to attend the 2023...
Honolulu, HAWAII — U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development Hawaii/ Western Pacific State director Chris Kanazawa has announced that the department is launching a pilot program to make it easier for people to access loans and grants to repair homes damaged by tropical storms and typhoons...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A woman in Kokoland called the police station on July 13, 2023 at 12:23 PM claiming that Tavita Robertson had assaulted her and she had sustained injuries after being punched three times by the defendant.
Responding officers arrived on the scene and met with the victim...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — An administration bill, which seeks ratification of membership in the Western Regional Higher Education Compact and the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education was submitted in the House of Representatives for a first hearing on July 11, 2023.
House Bill 38.20...
Washington, D.C. — Uifa’atali Amata on Tuesday chaired the House Committee on Natural Resources Indo-Pacific Task Force oversight hearing on the Biden Administration's proposed Compact of Free Association (COFA) amendments.
Task Force Chairman Amata Radewagen (R-American Samoa) and Co-chairman...
ago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa’s highest expenditure group for the second quarter of 2023, is Transportation — which increased by 5.2%, followed by the Food Group with a 1.6% increase, according to the ASG Commerce Department’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the 2nd quarter — the period...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Senate members who attended the Senate’s Hospital/Public Health Committee hearing yesterday morning on the Senate Resolution which recommends that Governor Lemanu P.S. Mauga adopt the US Army Corps of Engineers recommendation to renovate and rehabilitate the existing LBJ...