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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Senate Samoan Affairs Committee has tabled for further discussion and a future review — a proposed law, which seeks to elect the governor and lieutenant governor separately instead of as a gubernatorial team — as dictated by current law.
Committee chairman Sen....
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Senate yesterday approved three of the governor’s nominees for the 11-members of the Samoan Language Commission and another confirmation hearing is set for this morning for the other eight nominees who didn’t make yesterday’s Senate Education Committee hearing.
The...
Honolulu, HAWAII — The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council’s completed its 194th meeting in the Mariana Islands last month and moved on to Guam, where the meeting began with a cultural blessing ceremony led by Para I Prubechu’n I Taotao’ta. The members called on ancestral spirits to...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata attended Wednesday’s historic meeting between Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen and Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, and a bipartisan delegation of Members of Congress. Notably, the meeting was the first on American soil between the President of...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — President and CEO of Starkist, Chae-Ung Um and his team met with Gov Lemanu P.S. Mauga, Chief of Staff Loa Tuimavave T. Laupola, and Reverend Mageo S. Mageo at the Governor’s Conference room on Tuesday morning, April 5, 2023, during the CEO’s recent visit to the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Executive Branch cabinet members and ASG employees will return to testify during House of Representative hearings, after the suspension Gov. Lemanu P. S. Mauga enacted in an Apr. 06 memorandum has been resolved following a meeting with House Speaker Savali Talavou Ale....
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Their Highnesses Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta’isi Efi and Masiofo Filifilia Tamasese took time out during their recent visit to the territory to meet with the Governor’s office staff last week Monday, April 3.
Tui Atua reminisced about his experience the previous weekend...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Tafuna High School's Army Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps program has been recognized for its outstanding performance, earning the highest percentage points among the five JROTC programs on island during the JROTC Program for Accreditation (JPA) on March 17.
In a...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — “Please hear and consider American Samoa’s strong objection to the designation of a Marine Sanctuary around the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIA),” wrote Gov. Lemanu P. S. Mauga in a Mar. 30 letter to U.S President Joe Biden.
Lemanu recalled for the President that this...
WASHINGTON D.C. — In American Samoa, the oceans are rising and the land is sinking.
Even the territory’s largest private employer — the StarKist tuna cannery that provides nearly 80% of all private employment — sits along the water’s edge, as well as one of the two American Samoa Power Authority (...