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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — During a Senate Hospital/Public Health Committee hearing last Friday, LBJ Medical Center’s chief executive officer, Moefa’auo ‘Bill’ Emmsley rejected any claims that the hospital is not paying overtime for nurses, saying that it’s the law to pay overtime.
The committee...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has served the American Samoa Government with a “Notice of Violation” over unauthorized activities involving the discharge of fill material into waters of the United States and the unauthorized work in navigable waters along the shoreline...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — LBJ hospital is advertising the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) position that’s been vacant since Dr Iotamo Saleapaga was removed from the position and transferred to become the Chief Liaison Officer on behalf of the hospital with the Department of Health where Saleapaga...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The alleged lack of awareness programs disseminated after 2019 by the Governor’s Drug Control Office has drawn criticism in the House of Representatives over its half-a- million dollar budget under Special Programs allocated for this initiative for FY2023.
Rep. Luaitaua...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Swains Islands faipule Su’a Alex Eli Jennings has expressed disappointment over the lack of transparency by the current administration regarding correspondence with the Secretary of the U.S Dept. of Interior over the latest developments in the five amendments to the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) states that “available federal funding opportunities require a local cost matching,” says Office of Disaster Assistance and Petroleum Management (ODAPM) director Lisa Tuato’o, who leads the ASG established BIL Team and she is also...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A Senate bill that “serves to define and outline the parameters of military leave” for all government and private sector employers and their employees in American Samoa, was introduced last week Thursday.
Also last Thursday, the Senate approved, in third and final...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Administration’s nominations of Fa’amasino Upuese Galoia as director of the American Samoa Search and Rescue Agency, and Tauanu’u Semu Faisiota Tauanu’u as director of the American Samoa Corrections Agency were introduced in the Senate last Friday and assigned to the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Governor’s State of the Territory Comprehensive Report, distributed to lawmakers last week, provides a summary for the Fono — and the public — an update on the work of the Office of Financial Institutions (OFI).
Created by law during the Lolo Administration, OFI was...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Senate President Tuaolo Manaia Fruean is puzzled as to why the media was banned from a recent Senate Select Investigation Committee (SSIC) hearing by Chairman Senator Togiola T. A. Tulafono.
Tuaolo told Samoa News on Friday that he will “enquire about it. My...