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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Nine months into his tenure as Office of Public Information Director, Aaron Hall has submitted his resignation to the Governor’s Office and yesterday afternoon the governor appointed Aoelua Solomona Aoelua as acting director.
KVZK news confirmed Hall’s resignation on...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — “After-the-Fact Purchases” and “Vendor’s Advance Payments” were among the issues raised in findings outlined in the Performance Audit report by the Territorial Audit Office (TAO) of the more than $14 million in federal CARES Act funding awarded to the Health Department (...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lemanu P. S. Mauga is among the governors from states and territories already confirmed to attend and speak at the 2023 SelectUSA Investment Summit set for May 1-4 at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland — just outside of...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Governor Lemanu P.S. Mauga has declared April 7, 2023, Good Friday, a holiday in American Samoa in a general memorandum, released yesterday, Monday, April 3.
He says that “all govenment offices will be closed and normal activities will be suspended on that day.
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Claims of misconduct led to the termination of the hospital Procurement Manager Joe Langkilde from the LBJ Medical Center Hospital. This is confirmed in a letter dated February 9, 2023 signed by Acting Chief Executive Officer Dr Akapusi Ledua citing two incidents — one...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — On her last day as a member of the LBJ Medical Center board of directors, Mar. 30, Dr. Jean Anderson also received a new appointment, as “executive director” to the board, according to a statement by board chairman, Dr. Malouamaua ‘Malo’ Tuiolosega.
In a separate...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Chairman of the hospital board, Dr Malouamaua Tuiolosega is clearing the air on a number of concerns pertaining to authority of the board; recent management appointments; letters of support; the $1,000 allowance for additional meeting and the hiring of the former Vice...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 78-year-old bedridden man was killed in the fire that engulfed a residence in Iliili, last week, after his daughter was unable to get him out. She managed to escape the house before it was overtaken in flames. Firefighters responded to the call for assistance,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Original poetry, prose and artwork drawn from the English Honor Society Sigma Kappa Delta’s (SKD) publication drew art lovers, family and friends, and faculty to SKD’s first literary festival at the American Samoa Community College held Friday, March 24.
Titled “From...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A report on Climate Change in the Western Pacific recently released by the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council drills down on the effects of climate change on American Samoa and warns that the loss of StarKist and the tuna industry due to the implications...