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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Sen. Satele Aliitai Lili’o is the sponsor of a Senate bill, which seeks to amend current laws that would clarify requirements for those who incorporate a business in American Samoa and the measure was assigned to the Senate Ways and Means Committee for review and...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — “Local inflation has increased significantly in 2021,” declared the Commerce Department’s Statistics & Analysis Division in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) 4th Quarter of 2021 report released recently, which includes the second quarterly survey of selected goods and...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — As of yesterday, about 50 young children have been affected by the RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus). This was the report to the House by Rep. Andra Theresa Samoa, chair of the House Health Committee.
Samoa told faipule that the situation is getting serious and members...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Vice Speaker of the House, Fetui Fetu Jr did not mince words during a House Session this week when he informed faipule about the decision by the Territorial Bank of American Samoa (TBAS) to terminate three employees. One of the three employees, according to Fetui is his...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lemanu Peleti Mauga has directed cabinet members to properly dispose of “unserviceable” United States and American Samoa flags and replace them with “presentable flags” to be flown.
The governor’s directive, outlined in a Feb. 2 memorandum, comes amid long standing...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata welcomed an extension of American Samoa’s key Federal Medicaid Assistance Percentages (FMAP) in short term legislation to fund the federal government through March 11, 2022 in a stopgap measure, which the U.S. House of Representatives passed Tuesday...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — During the sentencing of a man from Samoa convicted of violating local drug laws, the court told him that the only option for the court to deal with foreigners who come into American Samoa and violate territorial drug laws is to send them back to their countries, in...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The COVID-19 Task Force acknowledged during their weekly meeting this past Monday that the high number of positive cases recently reported in quarantine have not only “tested the medical community’s response but also the travelers’ patience.”
It also resulted in the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The man arrested in a police raid on Ofu, Manu’a in the middle of 2020 where drugs, guns, ammunitions and paraphernalia were discovered — is now being charged for violating local drug laws.
Apelu Liulamaga made his initial appearance in District Court last week....
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — On Friday, January 28, the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) received word from the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC), a division of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), that the ACCJC has affirmed the accreditation...