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WASHINGTON D.C — Last week’s Interagency Group on Insular Areas (IGIA) annual meeting heard Gov. Lemanu P.S. Mauga open his remarks by thanking the U.S President and the DOI leadership for leading the efforts to waive for territories the local match requirement for Federal grants and he closed his...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man appeared in the District Court yesterday on charges of sexual abuse in the first degree; false imprisonment; endangering the welfare of a child and assault in the third degree.
According to the government’s case, police received a complaint last month over claims...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Department of Homeland Security (ASDHS) issued a notice last month advising the public of the maintenance and repair work ongoing for all emergency sirens on Tutuila and Aunu’u.
Contractor for the project, American Signals Corporation, is on island,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Department of Treasury is now offering vendor Automated Clearing House Services (ACH) to ASG departments/agencies and the private sector.
Automated Clearing House, is also known as direct payments, a service that was suspended some years back.
“ASG...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Kathy Jacobitz, Director, Jen Rhoda and Angie Pasho registered nurse educators were on island this past week to offer services on when it comes to poison exposure.
They are part of the Nebraska Regional Poison Center and they were hosted by Emergency Medical Services...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man in his 20s who was the subject of a video that circulated online of an alleged police brutality incident, Sone Wilson has been charged.
Wilson made his initial appearance in the District Court earlier this week and is facing charges of public peace disturbance;...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The ASG Commerce Department and their chief statistician, Meleisea Vai Filiga have joined the U.S Census Bureau in urging businesses to respond to the 2022 Economic Census survey for American Samoa, as the outcome will — among other things — provide data on existing...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Repeat offenders Joeita Fa’aaliga and Joseph Iakopo accused of escaping from the Tafuna Correctional Facility and breaking into businesses in the Tafuna Industrial Park and Nu’uuli made their initial appearances in the District Court yesterday.
Fa’aaliga and Iakopo are...
Washington, D.C. — The North Korea Sanctions and Policy Enhancement Act, and the Korean Interdiction and Modernization Sanctions Act are two pivotal laws that sharpen and strengthen U.S. sanctions against North Korea’s regime. However, several of the reporting requirements in both Acts are set to...
![[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](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/governors_in_d.c.jpg?itok=PlLRjy-E "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. Gov. Lemanu requested over a billion dollars of funding for Am. Samoa’s infrastructure — saying the infrastructure projects compliment each other and must be built ‘simultaneously’. [photo: ASG Facebook]")
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In his verbal remarks before a U.S. Senate committee Gov. Lemanu P. S. Mauga explained three components of American Samoa’s infrastructure needs, totaling $1.7 billion in cost and requested financial support from the U.S. Congress.
Lemanu joined governors from the other...