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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of understanding, which is renegotiated every five years, prioritizes efficiency by directing alternatives to outdated paper-based application processes and collecting data to inform future...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...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The nation’s governors met in the White House this past Friday with President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Cabinet members, and senior White House advisers to discuss economic issues, infrastructure investment and other bipartisan priorities.
White House...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A statement filed by the defense for a federal defendant who pled guilty to making a false statement on a U.S. passport application recommends that he be sentenced to one-year probation instead of the 2-years probation recommended in the pre-sentencing report.
The...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The U.S. Presidential COVID-19 Emergency Declaration for American Samoa “will close effective” May 11, 2023 — which is the same date that the nationwide declaration — issued in March 2020 — as well as individual pandemic declarations for all states and territories, will...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Prior to the five-week recess, the House of Representatives unanimously approved a measure giving the Department of Port Administration authority to establish a local licensing system for US flagged purse seiner vessels.
This was measure was also approved in the Senate,...
![[l-r] Gov. Lourdes Leon Guerrero of Guam, American Samoa’s Gov. Lemanu P.S. Mauga, and Gov. Arnold I. Palacios of CNMI](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/governors_in_d.c_0.jpg?itok=_8SlHBUb "This photo posted on the ASG Facebook page shows [l-r] Gov. Lourdes Leon Guerrero of Guam, American Samoa’s Gov. Lemanu P.S. Mauga, and Gov. Arnold I. Palacios of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, before the start a U.S. Senate committee hearing on insular areas. The governor of U.S Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico were also present for the hearing on the state of the U.S territories. [photo ASG]")
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lemanu P. S. Mauga shared with a U.S. Senate committee last Thursday, American Samoa’s “dilemma” in which a percentage of local residents, who have made the territory their home for 20 years, don’t qualify for the federally funded Medicaid program.
“Our dilemma in...