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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A “comedy of errors” led to the fights that took place at the ASHSAA championship basketball game between Nu’uuli Vocational Technical High School and Manumalo Academy High School, this past Monday night, April 3, 2023, at the Manumalo Academy gymnasium.
It started going...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA —Evidence documenting alleged collusion between the LBJ Medical Center hospital’s former LBJ procurement manager Joe Langkilde and the owners of Lucky Star INC/ Canton Mart were uncovered during an internal investigation by an overseas financial consultant.
It is alleged...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Just over a year since the establishment by law of the Samoan Language Commission of American Samoa, Gov. Lemanu P. S. Mauga has submitted to the Fono for confirmation the eleven members of the commission.
Also submitted to the Fono for review and approval, is...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Territorial Broadband Coordinator, Opportunities, Redevelopment and Deployment (BCORD) Office has been created within the American Samoa Department of Commerce, according to Executive Order 007 — 2023, in accordance with the powers and authority granted to the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The fourth batch of tax refund checks for 2022 tax filers — totaling more than $3.9 million will be released today — Thursday, Apr. 6, said Treasurer Malemo Tausaga in a brief statement yesterday morning.
According to the statement, a total of 963 taxpayers who filed on...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — To address the communications problems with dropped calls occurring between the two cellular communication companies servicing American Samoa, Bluesky and the American Samoa Telecommunications Authority (ASTCA) were summoned to testify on Tuesday, April 4, 2023 before...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Hawaiian Airlines corporate office has confirmed that a mechanical issue prompted the delay of Monday night’s flight from Pago Pago to Honolulu and the flight didn’t depart until yesterday afternoon.
Samoa News received information early yesterday morning that Monday’s...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — U.S President Joe Biden’s “Investing in America Agenda” has catalyzed over $69 million in new investments across American Samoa since taking office in 2021, according to the White House, which released late last week, separate Fact Sheets on Biden’s agenda for all states...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — With only one local egg farm on island there’s a long-standing problem of insufficient supply of eggs in American Samoa, and that was brought home by the shipping gridlock during the COVID-19 pandemic, ASG Agriculture director Solialealofiotagaloa I. T. Mutini said...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Through an Apr. 03 Executive Order, Gov. Lemanu P. S. Mauga established within the Executive Branch a new entity, the American Samoa Innovation Authority (ASIA), a semi-autonomous agency of ASG, to be governed by a five-member board.
ASIA will oversee the implementation...