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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa’s 2022 mid-year population is estimated at just over 51,000 — which is slightly lower than the 2021 estimated mid-year count, according the latest data released yesterday by the Statistics & Analysis Division of the ASG Commerce Department.
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa’s phone directory is “coming soon” and will be part of American Samoa TeleCommunications Authority’s (ASTCA) “new and improved website.”
This was confirmed by ASTCA’s Marketing manager Marjorie Steffany in an email to Samoa News over the latest...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The budgets for the newly established agencies under the authority of the Governor’s Office — the American Samoa Search and Rescue Agency and the American Samoa Correctional Facility are included in the proposed fiscal year 2023 budget.
The two agencies were initially...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 53-year-old man charged with unlawful possession of methamphetamine (meth) after he was caught smoking ice in a Tafuna restaurant parking lot has appeared in High Court for a Change of Plea (COP) hearing.
Amituana’i was initially charged with unlawful possession of...
Washington, D.C. — Uifa’atali Amata welcomed official notice of $4,547,979 for American Samoa’s Head Start program, a major grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
This significant funding for Head Start is a discretionary grant distributed through the Administration for...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — As ANZ Guam Inc., d/b/a ANZ Amerika Samoa Bank on Monday this week initiated the process of closing down its operations in the territory, residents and businesses alike remain concerned over the lack of a local federally insurance financial institution, through the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Director of Budget and Planning, Catherine Saelua has informed all Executive Departments and Agencies that purchase orders and invoices for this fiscal year must be processed no later than August 31, 2022.
This is confirmed in a letter to all Executive Departments...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Some $40 million from the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding has been announced and is headed to American Samoa — where this year alone American Samoa will receive more than $8 million for transportation to invest in roads, bridges, public transit, ports and...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The two men convicted for assaulting their wives were sentenced in High Court last week and yesterday morning to terms of probation.
(Samoa News usually does not publish a defendant’s name in domestic cases to protect the victim.)
One of the defendants is a man from...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Setu Iona is now charged with 5 misdemeanors: PPD, third-degree assault, third-degree property damage, stealing and criminal contempt of a court order, all misdemeanors, along with one count of unlawful possession of methamphetamine, a felony.
He entered a not guilty...