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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Governor Lemanu Peleti Mauga met via zoom this week with the U.S. Ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia, Carmen G. Cantor, who was recently nominated to serve as the Assistant Secretary of Insular and International Affairs at the Department of the Interior...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — By majority vote, student delegates to the 2022 Student Constitutional Convention, conducted virtually for two-days and ending late yesterday morning approved the three proposed amendments to the American Samoa Constitution as presented to them for discussion, and a vote...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man convicted of punching the cashier of a store in Amaluia, before taking off with $500 cash in December of 2019 was released from custody this week after he served more than what the court ordered him to serve as a condition of probation.
Tauilevanu Mose, who came...
Washington, D. C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is welcoming $250,000 in federal funding for local mental health and substance abuse services.
This is a new grant, awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), specifically the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), part...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In an Apr. 11 memorandum, Gov. Lemanu Peleti Mauga announced the recess appointment of Rep. Faimealelei A. Allen to the American Samoa Medical Authority Board of Directors.
According to the governor, this appointment is to fill the vacancy made by the resignation of...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — LBJ Medical Center has recorded another COVID-19 related death — as of Apr. 12 — bringing the total number of fatalities to 19, since the first death was reported on Mar. 22, according to officials who participated in yesterday’s COVID-19 Task Force daily briefing.
And...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The CEO of Hope Dialysis Center, Chris Fisher is calling the actions by HDC’s board to remove him as president and CEO of the corporation an attempted corporate coup to take over HDC. He reiterates that HDC will close its’ doors next month because “Medicaid refuses to...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Due to current COVID restrictions, the territory’s two-day Student Constitutional Convention opened virtually yesterday and will close later today, with the program available live, online.
Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga delivered special remarks in Samoan...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A woman was arrested last month on the allegation that she assaulted a 15-year-old girl with the handle of a rake.
The defendant, Tili Filemoni made her initial appearance in Court last month.
Filemoni is charged with 2nd-degree assault and one count of child abuse, both...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is congratulating two dedicated teachers in American Samoa, nominees for the national Patricia Behring History Teacher of the Year award.
Ms. Latalata Samuelu, a teacher at Leone High School and Ms. Christian Saalea, a teacher at Tafuna High School...