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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Governor Lemanu Peleti Mauga signed on Friday an amended version of the recent Emergency Declaration. It now gives DOH the authority to quarantine a person for up to 21 days without a court order. This is a result of the recent cluster of new cases currently in...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 44-year-old man convicted in High Court for attempted felonious restraint is ordered to serve 20 months behind bars, as part of a 5-year probation sentence.
Harry Finau was initially charged with attempted rape, first-degree sexual abuse, and attempted felonious...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Government officials are fully supporting a House bill authorizing the Department of Health (DOH) to screen minors for communicable disease and limits waiver of consent to screening and examinations during a House Health committee hearing yesterday morning.
Witnesses who...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — LBJ Medical Center officials have assured senators that the territory’s only hospital is prepared in the event the COVID-19 virus spreads into the community sending people to the medical center — it has a response-plan in place.
LBJ’s Chief Executive Officer Faumuina...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man accused of sexually abusing his 16-year-old niece was arrested by police last month pursuant to an arrest warrant from the court, after the victim’s parents filed their complaints against him with the police last month.
(Samoa News has chosen not to identify the...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata welcomed the visit to the Pacific of U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in his first foray into the region since taking office in 2021.
“Welcome to my home district of American Samoa, strategically important as the only U.S. soil in the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — As of Wednesday this week, two more of the quarantine staff tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total to 41 new infections in connection with the Jan. 27 flight from Honolulu, according to an ASG official, who says that the Governor’s Office has already been...
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...