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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Willie Lafai is facing felony charges following an incident that occurred in Malaeimi on Jan. 23 2021.
Lafai is held on bail of $5,000 on charges of second-degree assault and property damage. His co-defendant Fereti Tolai is also charged with two counts of second-degree...
Washington, D.C. — Uifa’atali Amata is an original cosponsor of legislation to formally apologize for the U.S. nuclear legacy in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. The Resolution was introduced on March 1, a key anniversary of the Cold War-era nuclear testing program with the most powerful...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The 30-year-old man from Samoa who has two different names in the court system, was ordered by the court to depart the territory and remain outside of its borders upon release from the Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF), after being convicted of 2nd-degree assault...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Development Bank of American Samoa (DBAS) has filed an application for funding under the Good Jobs Challenge program, administered by the U.S. Commerce Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA).
DBAS’s funding request is among the 500+ applications from...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Community spread of COVID-19 continues on the main island of Tutuila, recording the highest number so far per day, at 61 new positive cases on Mar. 4, with no reported hospitalizations or deaths due to COVID-19, according to the American Samoa COVID-19 Outbreak...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Different reactions, from the highly emotional to peaceful calm, were in evidence as people rushed to get a booster shot yesterday morning causing over-crowding at two of the three vaccination sites — the Tafuna DYWA and the Samoana High School gym.
The third vaccination...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Some 55 federal officials, including those from the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), are scheduled to arrive today on a charter flight to provide support after community spread of COVID-19 was identified in the territory, and as the total number reached 135...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Lt. Gov. Talauega Eleasalo Ale, announced in a news conference Thursday morning that the COVID-19 Task Force has approved the food stamp distribution plan by the Department of Human and Social Service (DHSS) and it is set for next week.
He said DHSS would notify all...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — As the territory continues under Code Red, prompting the closure of government services, except for essential ones, members of the public have raised questions on how they are to obtain specific documents from the LBJ Medical Center — such as birth certificates, death...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Criminal Justice Planning Agency (CJPA) has been designated as the ASG agency for “Assistance for Non-Profit Organizations” category funded through the territory’s share from the federal American Rescue Plan (ARPA) Act of 2021.
ASG’s Oversight Office for ARPA...