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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A drop in the number of purse seiner fishing boats calling into American Samoa, as a result of conservation and management measures (CMMs) imposed by a regional fishing commission has caused a “loss of about $54 million so far this year,” as well as the negative impact...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Domestic violence cases involving the beating and abuse of wives, girlfriends, and in some cases husbands by their spouse or partner, at their homes, is one of the rising offenses in the territory over the last two months. Often, alcohol is involved, sometimes drugs, as...
Honolulu, HAWAII — A drive to increase Hawaii longliners’ bigeye tuna quota has again fallen short at the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission.
The U.S. delegation to the WCPFC requested that its longline bigeye quota be increased by 3,000 metric tons, noting stocks appeared to not be...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Task Force chair, Lt. Gov. Talauega Eleasalo Va’alele Ale provided a brief summary — including costs — of the 2021 COVID-19 travel operations during this past Monday’s regular meeting, where it was also mentioned that the $100 vaccination incentive ends this week.
“About...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 40-year-old man convicted of unlawful possession of illegal drugs and a firearm was sentenced to serve 20 months at the Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF) last week as a condition of his 5-year probation.
Savaliga Fetalaiga, who has been in custody since his...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — At last week’s Health Department news conference, House Health Committee chairperson, Rep. Andrea T. Samoa noted a local “group of resistance” to the COVID-19 vaccine who are opposed to the government’s efforts getting the community vaccinated for protection from the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa now has eleven imported COVID-19 cases after one of the passengers on the Dec. 6th Hawaiian Airlines flight from Honolulu tested positive, according to information received by Samoa News on Monday evening.
DoH officials said in a news conference last...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Samoana High School JROTC team took first place during the American Samoa Multiple Schools Unit (ASMSU), JROTC Air Rifle Annual Competition held Dec. 10th at Tafuna Elementary School gymnasium.
Samoana High School received an overall score of 3,209 points.
“This is...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — With additional workers recruited from Samoa via the local Guest Worker Permit law, StarKist Samoa has resumed second-shift operations, but industry sources say that the largest private employer in the territory still has not reached the numbers of people employed a few...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man who was out on bond was remanded back to custody last week after he tested positive for methamphetamine (meth), during a random test administered by Probation.
Ross Tanielu, who is facing drug charges, appeared in High Court last Friday for an Order to Show Cause (...