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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — There are growing concerns from members of the community that there are people who test positive for COVID-19 and their family members are not following home quarantine restrictions and isolation orders.
Several reports from the public state that some of these people are...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Administration is taking another shot at a bill to increase the government’s and members’ contributions to the American Samoa Government Employees Retirement Fund (ASGERF) and it was introduced in the House of Representatives yesterday morning.
The bill had been...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The new maximum allowable price (MAP), or wholesale price, for land diesel and unleaded gasoline each increased by 29 cents per gallon, effective Mar. 15 compared to the previous MAP last month.
This is according to ASG Chief Petroleum Officer, Lisa Tuato’o, who is also...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Last week, the Senate rejected the House amendments and as of yesterday, no word on whether there will be a conference committee on the proposed constitutional amendment that would extend the Fono session.
Senate President Tuaolo Manaia Fruean had asked that the House to...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 30-year-old man was picked up on an arrest warrant on the allegation that he unlawfully entered the home of a family and stole several items including power tools, clothes and other personal belongings.
The government has filed two separate criminal cases against Aleni...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — As the community surge of COVID-19 continues — now exceeding 1,500 overall positives through Mar. 20 — the COVID-19 Task Force is requiring travelers on the Mar. 31 flight from Honolulu to go through supervised quarantine upon arrival in the territory, Lt. Gov. Talauega...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Sen. Togiola T.A. Tulafono said the number of local Samoan attorneys in private practice has decreased and predicts that in five years time only two or three of them will be members of the American Samoa Bar Association.
Togiola’s statement made at last Friday’s Senate...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lemanu Peleti Mauga has re-established the territory’s State Workforce Development Board in order to comply with provisions of the federal Workforce Innovation & Opportunity Act (WIOA).
And establishing such a board is one of the requirements for continued...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The latest report by the Commerce Department’s Statistics & Analysis Division shows a continuing increase in the cost of basic food items in American Samoa, as witnessed by consumers in the past months and they have complained publicly on the high costs.
As of last...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Dept. of Health statistics are showing that 82.1% of American Samoa’s total population is now fully vaccinated.
Latest posted count of new cases after testing on Saturday, March 19 brings the total of COVID cases as of that date to 1,495. There were no new...