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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — After more than a year of waiting, applications from people who applied for fisher grants under the CARES Act have finally been approved by NOAA and checks are being sent out in the mail. Checks should reach mailboxes before the end of this month.
This was the statement...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The recent modification in the COVID-19 emergency declaration announced by Governor Lemanu Peleti Mauga this week and the pivot from COVID Zero strategy to COVID Safe strategy has some members of the community saying they are confused, and mixed reactions are being...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In the latest update concerning COVID-19 in the territory, the Health Department has put in place a COVID-19 response travel plan to protect the Manu’a island group from community transmission of the coronavirus, the number of positive cases has surpassed the 1,000 mark...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Sen. Togiola T.A Tulafono announced during yesterday’s Senate session that the Senate Select Investigative Committee (SSIC) is meeting today, Friday, to review and adopt rules to conduct the investigative panel’s probes and hearings and also to set an agenda moving...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Three men, Eneliko Samuelu, Lui Taula and Lavea’i Filo made their initial appearances in Court last month, on drug charges.
Samuelu and Taula are each charged with one count of unlawful possession of methamphetamine (meth), a felony.
Bail for Samuelu and Taula were each...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The ASG Tax Office will resume its free tax filing assistance program next Monday, Mar. 21 with certain stipulations. According to Treasury, tax filing assistance is available on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, from 8a.m. to 2p.m.
The free service — not available on...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In a 3-hour hearing before the House Committee on Health, chaired by Faipule Andra Samoa, yesterday, Thursday, Mar. 17, Medicaid director Sandra King Young testified that TALOFAPASS, the online platform solution that ASG created in 2021 to manage and continue travel...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — At Monday’s virtual news conference, Health director Motusa Tuileapa Nua said DoH’s plan for vaccinations in Manu’a continues to move forward, but the department “hasn’t had the opportunity to provide testing in Manu’a” where there’s no reported COVID-19 cases.
He also...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Medicaid State Agency — referred to as the ASG Medicaid Office — continues to pursue a pathway in Hawaii to establish a non-emergency off-island medical referral program for local residents seeking treatment.
After months of meetings and conversations...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — People who applied for fisher grants under the CARES Act are now taking the issue to their faipule who have scheduled a hearing after learning that many of their constituents are still waiting for their checks more than a year after filing their applications.
When...