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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The 2022 COVID-19 Task Force Operations financial report provides names and amounts awarded to twenty-two local non-profits organizations that are recipients of the “Assistance for Non-Profit Organizations”. The total amount of $4.5 million was funded through the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Marine Patrol Division of the Department of Search and Rescue responded to a call from a family out fishing on Sunday evening, when their boat went dead five miles out in the open water.
“When we arrived, it was discovered the alia was not registered, they did not...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Tafuna High School has done it again. They were named winners of the 2023 Secondary Speech Festival and hailed a three-peat victory.
According to the Department of Education, the Warriors were the overall winners; Fagaitua was second and Leone came in third at the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Through a “Notice of Intended Action” issued Feb. 24, the Department of Legal Affairs announced proposed amendments to immigration rules, with changes to be made to the Entry Permit section, under the American Samoa Administrative Code — the ASG regulation.
Entry Permit...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 55-year old man is facing sexual charges in connection to an 18-year-old high school student.
The incident in this matter allegedly occurred last week. It came to light when a woman filed a criminal complaint with police regarding her 18-year-old daughter missing...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lemanu P. S. Mauga has requested financial assistance from the Interior Department’s Office of Insular Affairs (OIA) to establish and set up the territory’s infrastructure for recycling.
The governor’s request was included in his written testimony presented earlier...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Peni Toso is scheduled to have his preliminary examination (PX) hearing in the District Court today.
Toso is held on bail of $30,000 on one count of arson over allegations that he set a home on fire in Petesa.
The arson charge is a class B felony, and carries a jail term...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Through a Feb. 23 proclamation, acting governor Talauega Eleasalo Ale, declared March 2023 as “Samoan Language Month” and a “kick-off wave” is set for tomorrow morning from 7a.m to 8a.m at Suigaula o le Atuvasa beach park in Utulei.
In the proclamation, Talauega pointed...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The U.S. Dept. of Commerce is announcing that the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) was awarded $2,994,869 from the Connecting Minority Communities Pilot Program (CMC). The program is run by the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information...
Washington, DC — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is part of a bipartisan group of 30 House Members upon introduction last week of a Resolution (H. RES. 132) with sponsor Rep. Joe Wilson (SC-02) to recognize the thousands of victims and honor the responders following the devastating earthquakes and...