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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Lepuia’i Allen Mayer is being held in police custody with bail set at $50,000 on charges of embezzlement and stealing in two separate criminal cases.
This comes after he allegedly misappropriated $14,000 entrusted to him and for allegedly depriving the owner of six...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Community College (ASCC) – Agriculture, Community and Natural Resources (ACNR) Division 4-H program celebrated the establishment of the first 4-H charter club in the territory at Nuuuli Vocational Technical High School (NVTHS).
NVTHS’s Building,...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs (OIA) welcomed 31 new participants — including 4 from American Samoa — to the Executive Leadership Development Program (ELDP) for the Pacific and Caribbean insular areas this week.
The 2023 Cohort is comprised of mid-level...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — After more than a decade of attempts, ASG now has access to $23 million in additional funding for the Tualauta drainage project.
This was confirmed by ASG in their newsletter released on Monday.
“The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) approved...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — As of Dec. 01 this year, the Lemanu-Talauega Administration ended COVID-19 Emergency Declaration restrictions, but says that residents and visitors in American Samoa should comply with the health advisories issued by the ASG Health Department.
“The Covid-19 Task Force...
Sydney, AUSTRALIA — In 1989, distinguished Australian geographer Gerard Ward wrote that the Pacific was emptying out. As people on smaller islands left to seek opportunity elsewhere, the region risked becoming Earth’s empty quarter. He wrote:
Perhaps 100 years hence, almost all of the descendants...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Carl’s Jr. restaurant was reopened after it was shutdown for “maintenance and clean up work” when employees were possibly affected by unidentified fumes and were taken to the hospital on Saturday Nov. 26.
The shutdown was to “ keep in line with [Department of Health’s...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Hiring nurses from Fiji and the Philippines, instead of neighboring Samoa has raised a lot of eyebrows.
During a press conference at the ceremony to welcome nurses from Fiji, LBJ Hospital CEO, Moefaauo Bll Emmsley explained that a review of the curriculum used at the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Department of Education director, Talauega Dr Samasoni Asaeli has remained mum on questions regarding their eye catching Disney theme castle in front of the DOE main office in Utulei.
Members of the public have taken their concerns to social media and contacted Samoa...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A tsunami watch was cancelled for the Samoa islands’ low-lying coastal areas after a 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck.
The US Geological Survey reports the shake happened south-east of the Samoas at a depth of 36km about 8.30am Monday in Samoa and 7:30am Sunday in...