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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...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Exhorting his fellow senators, in an emotional plea, to take their time before they make a decision concerning Senate Resolution 38-16, Senator Togiola T. A. Tulafono, yesterday, in the Senate’s regular session advised that “anytime there’s an important project like a...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa plans to use its share of the more than $14 million in federal Capital Projects Fund (CPF) to built a multi-purpose community facility in Tafuna overseen by the ASG Department of Commerce.
This is a according to a recently released summary fact-sheet for...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — On July 12, 2023, Fagatogo Police Headquarters received a call from a woman saying that her brother, Sangster Loia, and stepbrother, Soma Savusa were fighting at their residence in Nu’uuli.
When responding officers from Fagatogo arrived, officers from the Tafuna Police...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Fagatogo Police Headquarters was contacted on June 16, 2023 in regards to a vehicle that struck a pedestrian in Fagatogo near the Tedi building, and according to statements from the driver to responding officers, “They were heading home from a fa’alavelave, and when he...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — On the third day of business for the House of Representatives, two new House Resolutions were introduced for the first reading, which was the confirmation of Falenaoti Loi-On Fruean and Terry Van Eaton as members of the Board of Directors of the American Samoa Economic...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Charity Wound Care and Geriatric Medical Center, a privately owned Medicare licensed home health care service, has submitted a community based Health Care Strategic State Plan for funding through the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) under...