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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food Nutrition Service (USDA FNS) has approved a one-time payment of end-of-year benefits of $200 to all participants in the American Samoa Nutrition Assistance Program (ASNAP), using unspent funds from the ASNAP current fiscal year...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — There is conflicting information from the Manu’a High School administration , after a public notice was posted on Facebook concerning the Segaula Manu’a High School, giving families the option to “transfer their children” to attend schools on Tutuila.
This is a result of...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — As of early this week, one candidate petition for the Congressional race and 26 for the local House of Representatives races have been signed and returned to the Election Office for the mid-year 2022 election, according to information provided by the Election Office...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Government and Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata have argued that the citizenship issue pertaining to persons born in American Samoa, is “an exceptionally poor vehicle for reconsidering the Insular Cases”, and should wait for a case that actually requires...
Honolulu, HAWAII — The Pacific Basin Telehealth Resource Center (PBTRC) hosted the 2022 U.S. Affiliated Pacific Island Countries & Territories (USAPICT) Telehealth Workshop from August 15 – 17 at the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa, with participants from American Samoa, Chuuk, Commonwealth of...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The ASG’s TALOFAPass websystem has created a lot of issues for the Immigration Office and its Board of Directors. This is according to Fanene Edda Wyberski, the chair of the Immigration Board in an interview with Samoa News.
“What we know about TALOFAPass’s initial...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa 6th Constitutional Convention officially opened yesterday with eight proposed amendments to be considered during the gathering that lasts through September 2, 2022.
Traditional leaders, government officials from all three branches, religious leaders...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In a 44-page response filed yesterday, the American Samoa Government and Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata, asked the U.S Supreme Court to deny a request by three American Samoans living in the Salt Lake City, Utah to review a decision by the majority of the U.S. Tenth...
WASHINGTON — Department of the Interior Assistant Secretary for Insular and International Affairs Carmen G. Cantor today completed her first official visit to American Samoa yesterday where she met with area leaders, emphasized the agency’s commitment to the people of American Samoa, and announced...
Pago Pago — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is welcoming notice of a grant funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) of $389,025 announced by Assistant Secretary Carmen Cantor in a letter Friday to Governor Lemanu P.S. Mauga and the Congresswoman.
The Office of Insular Affairs (OIA), of the...