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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — During its assessment of the local minimum wage increase, the US Government Accountability Office interviewed selected employers and workers, and they noted — among other things — a “potential positive impact on the livelihood of workers but a potential negative impact...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 37-year-old bus driver, who assaulted a man by punching him in the face and kicking him multiple times, while he was on the ground, was sentenced last week to 24 months behind bars.
Viliamu Valoaga was initially charged with third degree assault; third degree property...
Apia, SAMOA — Returning Samoa residents on the repatriation flights between the two Samoas that began Wednesday are not required to go into quarantine once they reach Samoa.
Flights operated by Samoa Airways and the privately owned Talofa Airways are being coordinated by Samoa’s Ministry of Foreign...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Nu’uuli Vocational Technical High School Class of 2020 graduate, Malachi C. G Tipoti (middle) honored his late father, fire bureau Capt. Mike Tipoti, one of the two fire fighters who died April 30th during an accident on the road from Afono to Aua, with a poster he...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — It came “out of the blue”. The current rapid rise in sea levels causing water to reach their doorsteps, is why many villagers on the east coast of Tutuila are living in fear.
While others are confident that the rapid rise of the sea level is a natural phenomenon, the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — With the recent increase in the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Hawaii — surpassing the 700 mark — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga said during the government’s coronavirus task force meeting that he is not prepared, at this point, to re-open air service between Honolulu...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga is welcoming any village aumaga — or untitled men — who want to join the government’s village project where aumaga work with police to monitor and enforce not only current restrictions of the coronavirus declaration but also illegal drugs in the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A second $4 million lawsuit was filed Monday with the Trial Division of the High Court against Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga and the American Samoa Government in connection with the governor’s four COVID-19 emergency declarations since March.
The new claim is brought by...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 26-year-old man from Samoa is now in custody after he was arrested three weeks ago for allegedly burglarizing a store in Tafuna in order to buy drugs for himself and his friends. In addition, when police searched him, drugs were found in his possession.
The government...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Department of Human and Social Service (DHSS) is now accepting applications for food assistance for workers, self-employed individuals and small business owners who are experiencing an economic impact from COVID-19
Under the American Samoa COVID-19 Nutrition...