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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Bishop Kolio Tumanuvao Etuale, Coadjutor Bishop of Samoa-Pago Pago, American Samoa, Pacific (Oceania) Catholic diocese participating in the Catholic church’s taualuga while Faipule Larry Sanitoa provides him with shelter from the torrential downpour on Flag Day, Monday...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Reid Group has hired Lewis Wolman to serve as CEO of their family-owned businesses. Wolman, who is the former owner and publisher of Samoa News returns to the territory after relocating to the U.S. several years ago, settling in Hawaii most recently.
Reid Group...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Cook Islands road to decriminalizing homosexuality has been a "rollercoaster of emotions" but symbolizes the country is maturing, a local LGBTQI+ advocate says.
The nation's lawmakers made amendments to the more than half a century old Crimes Act on Friday, Apr. 14,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Yesterday morning, April 19, 2023, Acting LBJ CEO Dr. Akapusi Ledua announced the appointment of Mr. Sefanaia Kaumaitotoya as the its new Chief Financial Officer.
In a memo issued to agency heads and directors of ASG yesterday morning, Dr. Ledua stated that, “I have...
Pago Pago, AMERIAN SAMOA — Samoa Deputy Prime Minister Afioga Tuala Tevaga Iosefo Ponifasio who is a veteran of the Royal New Zealand Army, met with the American Samoa Veterans Association on Tuesday, April 18 at Paradise Pizza, Nuuuli.
The meeting was called by Governor Lemanu P. S. Mauga to...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In a press release issued over the long holiday weekend, ASTCA announced that this past, Saturday, April 15, beginning with Paloa, the government-owned telecom company broadcast a 5G umbrella service over its commercial network.
First revealed during ASTCA’s retail store...
Apia, SAMOA — Eight people were rushed to hospital after a bus and a rental minivan collided causing the bus to go down a cliff at Tiavi along the Cross Island Road on Wednesday afternoon around 3pm.
The passengers of the minivan were the ones who suffered more serious injuries. According to...
DHSS director Muavaefa’atasi John Suisala advised local media that DOH director Motusa Tuileama Nua has confirmed that a positive case of measles has been identified in the community and to contain the outbreak and prevent spread of the disease he has ordered the immediate close of all daycare...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — At a press conference called late yesterday afternoon, DHSS director Muavaefa’atasi John Suisala advised local media that DOH director Motusa Tuileama Nua has confirmed that a positive case of measles has been identified in the community.
He said DOH is taking immediate...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — On track and on time — reasonably so — after the last fa’afiafiaga performance, around 3p.m., the CEO of the American Red Cross in the Pacific Region Diane Peters-Nguyen acknowledged and provided well wishes for the American Red Cross Centennial in American Samoa to Gov...