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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Two men were arrested and charged as a result of a fight in Petesa last month.
Tautua Mapu and Dave Malo made their initial appearances in Court at that time.
Mapu is charged with 2nd- degree assault, a class D felony, along with two counts of PPD, while Malo is charged...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The first day in court after the resignation of Public Defender Michael White was not business as usual.
Yesterday morning, Acting Associate Justice Elvis P. Patea issued an Order to Show Cause (OSC) on why White shouldn’t be held in contempt of court for not fulfilling...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa’s largest private employer, StarKist Samoa Company has requested an additional 200 guest workers from Samoa.
This was confirmed by Acting Governor, Talauega Eleasalo Ale during a press conference last week.
He said the Admin is working with Star Kist Samoa...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Acting Governor Talauega Eleasalo Ale, who is a former ASG attorney general, responded briefly during last Thursday’s COVID-19 Task Force virtual news conference on the U.S Supreme Court decision, on June 24, that overturned the decades-old Roe v. Wade ruling regarding...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Government has no intention of asking ANZ to remain in the territory, says Acting Governor Talauega Eleasalo Ale.
“ANZ has made a business decision to leave American Samoa — that decision has been made years ago and in fact ANZ has stopped making...
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...