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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — More than half a million dollars under the Governor’s Cash Assistance Program (CAP), which covers the period from Feb. 22 to Apr. 18 has been paid out to private sector employees and businesses impacted when Code Red was activated after the first community spread of...
Pago Pago, AMERICA SAMOA — Shifting production of Vailima from Samoa to Fiji will benefit local suppliers of Vailima Beer, says GHC Reid Manager Cherith Lober, while at the same time …” It is too early to comment on production costs.”
In an email to Samoa News, Ms Lober says that discussions are...
Pago Pago, AMERICA SAMOA — Barritt Siaumau was sentenced to serve five years in jail for a drug possession conviction after the High Court was satisfied that he hasn’t learned his lesson from the many opportunities the court has given him in the past.
Siaumau, who had 3 felony convictions in the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The future of the Public Defender’s office is now in limbo after the Director of the office, Michael White officially resigned from his post last week.
White, who served at the Public Defender’s Office for 11 years — 4 of these years as a Public Defender — submitted his...
(AP) — Independence Day has arrived as the United States and is rocked by hearings over the Jan. 6 insurrection, awash in turmoil over high court rulings on abortion and guns and struggling to maintain the bonds that keep it together.
Yet many also see cause to celebrate Monday: the deadly danger...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — More than half a million dollars has been paid out to private sector employees and businesses impacted when Code Red was activated after the first community spread of COVID-19 was confirmed, under the Governor’s Cash Assistance Program (CAP), which covers the period from...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — DataHouse Consulting Inc., Hawaii’s largest and longest-standing IT systems integrator, is announcing the grand opening of its new location in American Samoa. The celebration was held on Wednesday, June 29, 2022, 9-11 at the Tafuna Industrial Park.
The ceremony began...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Development Bank of American Samoa (DBAS) launched a public comment portal on June 24 at www.dbas.as for its Statement of Activities of its Housing Rehabilitation Project under the U.S Department of Agriculture’s Rural Housing Preservation Grant (HPG) for review....
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man convicted of unlawful possession of illegal drugs told the court that the 11 months he spent at TCF was more than enough to teach him to become a better man in the future.
Felise Anapapa, who has been in custody since his arrest last year, unable to post his $5,000...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A plea had been made from three individuals, for a days-old infant, who lost his mother during the birth. They are appealing for breast milk from nursing-moms as well as financial donations to help the father deal with the family tragedy.
Information posted on the...