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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — To help provide some financial assistance for American Samoa residents stranded off island due to border closure, Secretary of Samoan Affairs Mauga T. Asuega suggested a cabinet-member funded initiative, and declared his donation of $5,000 to kick start such a...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — More than 20 StarKist Samoa employees celebrated their 5 to 30 years of service at the cannery in July and August 2020 and were honored in a ceremony on Sept. 24th in the cannery’s cafeteria.
Pictured are five of those who were honored with ulas and certificates with the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A young woman convicted of stealing a rental car while she’s on probation for another stealing conviction back in 2015 was given another chance by the High Court.
Theresa Luamanu appeared last week for sentencing and a disposition hearing. She was represented by...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — For the second time in two weeks, members of the Tavai Family, Laulu Family and people of Gataivai gathered Wednesday afternoon to participate in a demonstration calling out for government leaders to return their land that was given by their ancestors for government use...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Department of Commerce has released a new policy to encourage economic development activity at the Tafuna Industrial Park (TIP). American Samoa’s economic and business development challenges include several issues, and to a large extent, and according...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Fono has approved a Senate Concurrent Resolution lending its support to a request by the Department of Marine of Wildlife Resources (DMWR) to a federal fishery agency “to suspend or vacant the interim measure” imposed on the limitation of bottomfish caught in federal...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — With the threat level from COVID-19 in American Samoa presently at a minimum — this semester family and friends were once again welcomed to the ASCC Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) induction ceremony held in the auditorium of the ASCC Multipurpose Center. The Fall...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man convicted of unlawful possession of illegal drugs told the court that the 12-1/2 months he spent in prison were more than enough to teach him how to become a better man in the future.
When given the chance to address the court, Onofia Afatia apologized and asked...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — While the Veterinarian Clinic in Tafuna is notifying members of the public regarding the current situation of no vaccines or other supplies, the chairman of the House Agriculture Committee Rep Su’a Alex Jennings has asked Health Director Motusa Tuileama Nua for...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has extended for 31-days his coronavirus emergency declaration, through the Ninth Amended Declaration, effective Oct. 1 to Oct. 31, as American Samoa — without a confirmed case — continues under the “Code Blue” threat-level.
The amended document...