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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Attorney General Fainuulelei Alailima Utu said he did not play a role in drafting or the implementation of the Governor’s June 15 executive order, which separates the Territorial Correctional Facility from the Department of Public Safety (DPS).
He made the comments...
![[l-r] Faiilagi Poufa-Faiai; Dr. Laloasi Petaia-Steffany, Phillip Iosefo](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/myeye_vision.jpg?itok=2mSxJS_q "[l-r] Medicaid Office deputy director Faiilagi Poufa-Faiai; Dr. Laloasi Petaia-Steffany of MyVision Eye Center; and Medicaid Office manager Phillip Iosefo are seen in this photo posted to the Medicaid Office Facebook page on Monday this week. [photo: ASG Medicaid Office]")
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Medicaid Office staffers came together with Dr. Petaia-Steffany on training day to prepare the MyVision Eye Clinic to start seeing youth 21years and under — the first Medicaid beneficiaries on island to access the vision screening, eyeglasses and contact lense...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The increase in salaries for Cabinet members in the Lemanu and Talauega Administration is “illegal” as it was not included in the budget.
This is according to Senator Magalei Logovi’i who is also the chairman of the Budget Committee during the joint budget hearings for...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — At the close of business yesterday, $6.63 million in P-EBT benefits for school children has been released to families across the island from the USDA Food and Nutrition Service.
This was confirmed by the Director of Human and Social Services Muavaefaatasi John Suisala in...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The protest by Aunuu residents demonstrating earlier this month did not fall on deaf ears.
The Lemanu and Talauega Administration are taking action. This is according to the Governor’s Chief of Staff, Loa Tauapa’i Mulipola in response to questions from Samoa News.
Last...
Honolulu, HAWAII — at the East-West Center Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata urged Pacific leaders to insist that the People's Republic of China meet international standards on reducing greenhouse gas emissions that are threatening the very existence of some Pacific Island countries.
“While China...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Governor Lemanu Peleti Mauga’s nomination of Christian Ausage as a member of the Feleti Barstow Public Library Board of Directors has been unanimously approved by the Senators this week.
The vote was conducted yesterday and Ausage received 12 yes votes without any...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lemanu Peleti Mauga, and First Lady Ella joined others for a church service on Sunday, (Sept. 11) at the Iakina Seventh Day Adventist Church in Iliili to open the two-week, 2022 Coastweeks celebration in American Samoa under the theme, “A Healthy Coast is a Wealthy...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) grant for LBJ Hospital will allow the territory’s only medical facility to fund a project to increase its ability to provide acute medical care.
The federal grant of $1,903,957 is part of the federal government’s response to...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The lack of local matching funds for the $86 million annual allocation to the American Samoa Medicaid State Agency has resulted in the return of millions of dollars in Medicaid funds in the last two years back to the U.S Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS),...