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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Senators yesterday approved in third and final reading a Senate bill that would set by law the maximum military leave days allotted by ASG for US Army Reservists, as well as an Administration measure amending the local tax code.
Both bills now go to the House for their...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The newest cabinet member of the Lemanu and Talauega Administration is Director of the Department of Port Administration Mrs. Falenaoti Loi-On Fruean, after she was official approved by the House of Representatives on Wednesday, Jan. 18, in a vote of 17 yays and 1 nay....
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Prior to the approval of the House version of the $7.4 million supplemental budget bill on Tuesday, Tualauta faipule Larry Sanitoa called to address some of the many critical needs in the territory by re-appropriating $500,000 from the $1 million earmarked for the 75th...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A High Court decision has resulted in the Administration submitting legislation for Fono approval to amend the American Samoa tax code pertaining to the tax brackets, exemptions, and personal deductions at 2000 levels, Gov. Lemanu P. S Mauga wrote in a letter to Fono...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The ASG Workmen’s Compensation Commission (WCC) Fund, “is up to $5 million since August 2022 — unconsolidated — compared to $1.2 million in FY2021,” according to the Governor’s State of the Territory Comprehensive Report, distributed to lawmakers early last week.
This is...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Health Department’s new clinic on Ofu island, serving residents of Ofu and Olosega islands, is set to break ground within the next four to six months, says Health director Motusa Tuileama Nua, during a Senate Hospital/Public Health Committee hearing last Friday....
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — One of the on-going projects from fiscal year 2022 for the ASG’s Criminal Justice Planning Agency (CJPA) is financial aid to non-profit organizations in American Samoa impacted by COVID-19 in order to sustain and advance necessary services and programs to direct...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Swains Island faipule Su’a Alex Jennings called for a hearing in the House last week to ensure that a Resolution is submitted to the Department of Interior (DOI) in support of the constitutional amendments approved in this past November’s election that are now before the...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata will serve on two House Committees for the 118th Congress — the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Natural Resources Committee.
This will be Congresswoman Amata’s first stint on the Foreign Affairs Committee, marking a change for her fifth term in...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — After serving ASG earlier with a “Notice of Violation” over unauthorized activities in the Tula shoreline area, now the U.S Army Corps of Engineers has launched an investigation into Paramount Builders, Inc. over alleged activities performed in Amaile Stream in Nu’uuli...