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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In accordance with Samoan customs, traditional leaders and chiefs of Fofo County selected High Talking Chief (HTC) Olo Uluao Letuli as their new senator, filling the senatorial seat left vacant after former Sen. Fai’ivae Iuli Godinet stepped down last month to take up...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Etuale Manusamoa Tuilagi, affectionately known as Manu Tuilagi, who is a rugby union player for the Sale Sharks and has played internationally for England and the British & Irish Lions, paid a visit to the Hope House Residential Care Facility in Fatu-O-Aiga and made...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Territorial Audit Office (TAO) Performance Audit of the American Samoa Medicaid State Agency found that the Agency “has not documented transfers of cell phones and laptops to other ASG departments” and recommends the need to “better document and justify” transfers of...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Father’s Day on Sunday, and the Juneteenth holiday this Monday, adds up to a three-day weekend in the territory. And making it more festive is the 2023 graduation season over the last two weeks with Tafuna High School’s commencement excise today — the last in line of the...
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Congressman Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan has introduced H.R. 3193 or the Employment Services and Jobs Parity Act that would include the CNMI and American Samoa in the funding allotments for the Wagner-Peyser Act.
Enacted in 1933, the federal law established nationwide...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Acting CEO of LBJ Tropical Medical Center Dr. Akapusi Ledua said he was nervous to respond, when asked about an update on the latest flu like disease, in American Samoa.
RSV or Respiratory Syncytial Virus has caused concerns to the community especially when the Medical...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — It was just under a two-hour ceremony that acknowledged, accepted and confirmed the 214 graduates of Samoana High School Class of 2023. The Commencement was held at the Samoana Gymnasium in Utulei, Tuesday, June 13, 2023 with the theme —“ Let God grant what is in your...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is pleased over the signing of a cost of living boost in several Veterans’ benefits next year. The House of Representatives passed the Veterans’ Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) Act of 2023, S. 777, unanimously on May 23. It had...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man who is still on the loose is facing three assault charges after officers from the Tafuna Police Substation received a call and proceeded to a store in Nu’uuli where they observed four male individuals in front of the store where one of them was holding a shirt...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — “We Learned, We Failed, with God, We Prevailed!” is the theme that will guide the 18 High School graduates, Class of 2023 for Iakina Adventist Academy.
This past Sunday morning, June 11, 2023, the Seventh-Day Adventist Academy — also known as Iakina High School— ...