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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Part of the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) update, during Monday’s virtual news conference on federal support and assistance for the territory during the COVID-19 community surge included a look at the process involved when a person tests positive and...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Deputy Attorney General Roy J.D. Hall Jr. provided for the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing yesterday the latest information on workers hired to work under the Guest Worker Permit law, which allows StarKist Samoa to recruit workers from Samoa.
At the outset of the 40-...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Bishop Peter Brown, leader of the Diocese of Samoa Pago Pago, has extended a public invitation to the community to join the “Dedication of Ukraine and Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary” online Mass set 6.p.m today, Mar. 25 streamed live from the Holy Family...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man was arrested by police in Ottoville after he went into his wife’s and children’s house with a machete in his hand.
The defendant made his initial appearance in court last month.
He’s charged with private peace disturbance and 3rd-degree assault.
Bail is set at $1,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Last week Wednesday, the House Government Operations committee held a hearing to review issues that are concerning the community about the future of banking in American Samoa, what with the yet unannounced departure of ANZ Bank from the territory rumored, and the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — According to a media release from the Department of Homeland Security, dated Mar. 24, 2022, and issued in response to a video circulating on social media by an inmate and resident of the Tafuna [Territorial] Correctional Facility (TCF), the COVID-19 Task Force has...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A new supply of over 14,000 electronic devices is expected to arrive on island next month to help with schools that don’t have enough devices for their students to use for their online classes.
This was the explanation made by the Department of Education (DOE) director,...
Washington, D.C. — Uifa’atali Amata took part in two Veterans’ issues hearings last week focused on VA improvements and delivering better healthcare to Veterans, and cosponsored two Veterans’ bills.
“The VA is a large organization with an enormous responsibility to our Veterans, and I especially...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — While American Samoa’s Marine & Wildlife Resources director, Taotasi Archie Soliai has submitted an official comment to federal fisheries managers over the proposed catch limits for bottomfish — highlighting the cultural importance of the fishery — fishing...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Marine and Wildlife Resources (DMWR) director, Taotasi Archie Soliai has informed the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) that “bottomfishing is a culturally-important fishery in our islands” and that this “fishery was “damaged by the 2009 tsunami and has been...