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Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata welcomed a response to her request to the Secretary of the Navy to name ships after the territories. In his response, Secretary of the Navy Carlos del Toro agreed the request was ‘especially fitting’ and promised ‘every consideration’ in the next...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Territorial Correctional Facility and Juvenile Detention Center will be overseen next month by the newly created American Samoa Corrections Agency, while awaiting the establishment of the Department of Corrections through legislation, according to Gov. Lemanu Peleti...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Paramount Builders is proud to sponsor coverage of all of the 2022 American Samoa High School Graduations, and wishes all graduates a successful journey into the future. Seventy-eight students from the home of the Wildcats, Nuuuli Vocational Technical High School made up...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Department of Public Safety is appealing to parents of graduates throughout the territory to be vigilant during graduation season over underage drinking and illegal drug use.
“The Police are conducting the normal traffic enforcement, but we can only do so much and...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Christopher James Foeoletini Ledoux Foundation (The Foeoletini Foundation) has conducted its first month of online coordination and telehealth consultation with an off-island certified substance abuse disorder/ addiction clinician at its headquarters in Fagatogo,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — James Faaletatau, a 42-year-old man, accused of assaulting another man with a machete over a year ago in Kokoland, is now in custody after he was arrested last month for a traffic violation — expired license plate tags — and illegal drugs were found in his possession and...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Health Department’s weekly COVID-19 Situational Report for June 6 to June 12 shows that out of the 3,106 individuals tested, only 73 new confirmed COVID cases were reported from LBJ Medical Center and DoH clinics, with no new fatalities relating to the deadly virus....
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The government has charged a 30-year-old man, Uati Ilaoa with unlawful possession of illegal drugs and for trying to break into a house in Fagaima in December of last year. Uati Ilaoa made his initial appearance in court last month after he was arrested pursuant to an...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The price of gasoline continues to increase in American Samoa, as the new maximum allowable price (MAP) — or the wholesale price released by ASG’s Office of Disaster Assistance and Petroleum Management (ODAPM) —effective yesterday, shows another hike.
And the spike in...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Paramount Builders is proud to sponsor coverage of all of the 2022 American Samoa High School Graduations, and wishes all graduates a successful journey into the future. Samoana High School had a highly competitive school year, awarding 14 Co-Valedictorians with GPAs of...



![Seen here are several of Nu’uuli Vocational Technical High School’s Wildcat graduates after their commencement ceremony held at the high school gymnasium on Tuesday, June 14, 2022. Included in the lineup is Valedictorian Celestral Tuiloli, wearing her towering ‘money pale’. To all Wildcat graduates: Congratulations — Ia manuia le lumanai. [photo: Leua Aiono Frost] Several of Nu’uuli Vocational Technical High School’s Wildcat graduates](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/nuuuli_grads_3039.jpg?itok=MKxMEdlE)






![Some of Samoana High School’s 2022 graduates as they celebrated their achievement during the commencement ceremony held at the school’s gymnasium, this Monday, June 13, 2022. Graduates were reminded to “have faith” as their guide in their lives. COVID_19 restrictions were practiced to a certain degree, as seen with graduates wearing masks, but social distancing was difficult to maintain. [photo: LF] SAMOANA HS CLASS OF 2022](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/samoana_grads_0999.jpg?itok=l66qmZC3)