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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — “If you are planning for a year, sow rice; If you are planning for a decade, plant trees; If you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.” (attributed to a Chinese philosopher/ thinker)
Last week Friday, SamoaNews kicked off its celebration of the Territory’s Teacher...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In an update regarding a Facebook post, written by an Aunu’u resident that circulated Thursday, April 4, 2023, pleading for help to arrange a boat to assist them with food delivery, the local Department of Homeland Security sent out a boat with a handful of cases of...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Beverly Annesley Canales, 5, a member of Samoa Baptist Academy’s K-4 class looking elegant in her taupou attire during the school’s Samoan Day, an event promoting the importance of the Samoan culture by showcasing beautiful Samoan attire and the performance of Samoan...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Several employees of the Health Department were underpaid during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Territorial Audit Office has called on DoH to maintain complete and “accurate employees[‘] pays and their rates.”
This is one of the issues listed under “Other Matters” that...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The World Health Organization (WHO) declared last Friday, that the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic is no longer a global health emergency, and that comes as US authorities issued new guidelines as the federal COVID public health declaration ends on May 11 — which is also...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The majority of students at the American Samoa Community College (ASCC), as either US Nationals or US Citizens, qualify for federal financial aid in the form of the Pell Grant, which covers the cost of a student’s first two years of college. Students born outside the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In a customer advisory dated May 2, Hambug Süd announced that effective May 27, 2023, the shipping company will be withdrawing its South Seas service.
“We have served this lane proudly for many years and are grateful to our customers for the years we have worked together...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — U.S. Coast Guard Sector Honolulu Incident Management Division, District Fourteen District Response Advisory Team, and Marine Safety Detachment American Samoa participated in a four-day oil spill response and exercise deployment training last week.
The first two days of...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The cast from ASCC club’s House of Flying Daggers production of the hit play and movie musical Grease wowed the audience for two nights last week — but it wasn’t enough.
Don’t miss the encore performance tonight at 6pm at the college’s Multi-purpose Center.
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The strength of every profession in the territory grows out of the knowledge and skill that teachers instill in our children, and many have had a teacher who believed in them when no one else did — making the job of a teacher so critical to the success of our people and...