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Ame Sene Tanielu
Freelance for Samoa News
Chair of the Senate Standing Committees for the Hospital/ Public Health, Tuiasina Salamo Laumoli, told the joint hearing on day one of the FY 2024 Budget hearing that the Hospital being the most important Institution (in American Samoa) is a joke (le falema...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The U.S Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has approved more than $500,000 in federal Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) funds for the LBJ Medical Center’s Storm Shutter System Project.
Kathryn Lipiecki, director of Mitigation Division at FEMA Region 9, in a...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata took part in a bipartisan nine-member Congressional Delegation (CODEL) to the Republic of Palau, led by House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Bruce Westerman, to underscore the importance of the relationship between the United States and...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — “To initiate fundraising efforts,” the American Samoa Government is spearheading a Maui donation drive with plans to launch it on Sept. 04 — the Labor Day holiday — at the Tufele Li'amatua Sr. Tufele Cultural Center at the Suiga'ula o le Atuvasa Park at Utulei Beach,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Larceny, burglary, and assault were the top three crimes committed in American Samoa during fiscal year 2021 — Oct. 01, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2021, as reported by the Department of Public Safety data in the American Samoa 2021 Statistical Yearbook, released last week by the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Secretary of the Department of Local Government (Samoan Affairs), Paramount Chief Mauga Tasi Asuega raised some important issues when he testified at the Senate and House Budget Appropriations Committee joint hearings on the government’s proposed budget for Fiscal...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Government leaders and Am Samoa’s educators gathered at the Cathedral of the Holy Family at Fatuoaiga this past Sunday, August 27, 2023 for a church service in preparation for the opening of the new school year in the territory.
The congregation was filled with dedicated...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Aumua Amata, as part of a bipartisan Congressional Delegation (CODEL), surveyed the wildfire devastation in Maui with her colleagues, and met with Hawaii officials.
The Members of Congress viewed and assessed the fire’s devastating impacts, received...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa’s Annual Budget Hearings- 2024 once again bring local Senators and Faipule together for a seven-day deliberation starting this week Monday, Aug. 28, at the fale Samoa senators currently use as their chambers, in Fagatogo.
House of Representatives Standing...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Moving forward to improve conditions at TCF was a huge concern House members voiced during the House Public Safety Committee hearing on Thursday morning Aug 24, 2023 where Director of the Department of Corrections (DOC) Tauanuu Semo Faisiota, Tafuna Correctional Facility...