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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — One of the important topics of discussion at last week’s US Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Mitigation Framework Leadership Group (MitFLG) meeting for the first quarter of 2023, was building codes.
At the meeting held at FEMA headquarters in Washington D.C., the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The LBJ eye clinic yesterday received a $70,000 laser eye machine, thanks to Kathy Deggendorfer, founder of the Roundhouse Foundation.
Deggendorfer is part of the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) team that is currently on island.
Deggendorfer — an artist by...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lemanu P.S Mauga has joined others in the territory with growing concerns over the drop in American Samoa’s 2020 Census population count, telling a U.S Congressional committee last week that the population count does not reflect the actual number of the territory’s...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — “We need a new hospital,” Gov. Lemanu P. S. Mauga told the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources during a hearing on the state of U.S. territories, and noted that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had recommended that American Samoa build a new hospital.
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 23-year old man from Petesa is facing charges of Private Peace Disturbance (PPD) in the District Court after an outstanding bench warrant for violation of his probation in the High Court that was issued last year December.
Solomona Siaumau appeared in the High Court...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A slight decline in the cost of turkey tails and seven other commodities contributed to the decrease in the Basic Food Index (BFI) last month, according to the January 2023 BFI released last week by the Commerce Department’s Statistics and Analysis Division.
However, the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Social Security Administration confirmed that an updated memorandum of understanding, which is renegotiated every five years, prioritizes efficiency by directing alternatives to outdated paper-based application processes and collecting data to inform future...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Through a Feb. 08 executive order, Acting Governor Talauega E. V. Ale, established new membership criteria for the Governor’s Youth Council, which was first established in an October 2022 by Gov. Lemanu P. S. Mauga, who says that the Council is the voice of the territory...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 51-year old man is being held on bail of $20,000 over claims that he sexually abused a 16-year old transgender teenager.
Viliamu Filemoni appeared in the District Court yesterday, on charges of rape, sexual abuse-first degree, felonious restraint, assault-third degree...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Samoa’s Consul General Fata Brian Kaio says poultry and meat exported out of Samoa are up to standards as per Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) requirements.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is an international organization that leads...