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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man from Samoa who entered into a plea agreement with the government has been ordered by the court to depart the territory and remain outside of its borders for the duration of his probation.
Limasene Valoaga, 35, appeared in High Court last week for sentencing....
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In a Sept. 7th memorandum, Acting Gov. Talauega Eleasalo V. Ale appointed Veronica Annesley to the American Samoa Board of Cosmetology for a two-year term.
Talauega says that Ms Annesley will replace Faamumu Elizabeth Tanielu who has resigned from the board.
Tanielu,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Fono will hold a joint Budget Committee conference this morning on the Administration’s $12.65 million supplemental budget bill for fiscal year 2022, which was introduced in both chambers yesterday. The bill includes funding for a Constitutional Convention to be held...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — ASG’s COVID Task Force is reporting a ‘false positive’ came back from one of the 137 passengers who came to the territory on the Aug. 30 test flight from Honolulu. The passenger tested positive on 9/3/21 but a follow up test using GeneXpert RTPCR yielded a negative...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A donation by Haleck Enterprises Inc. and Cost U Less of 200 sets of school desks and chairs was made to the American Samoa Department of Education this week, and accepted by various schools throughout the Tualauta area.
A total of 60 sets were donated to Tafuna High...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Acting Gov. Talauega Eleasalo V. Ale has submitted to the Fono the Administration’s $12.65 million supplemental budget bill, which is to be funded from unobligated and unexpended revenue from fiscal years 2019 and 2020 to supplement the FY 2022 budget — which has already...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A passenger of a vehicle pulled over by police officers for a traffic violation was arrested and charged for violating local drug laws. During the arrest, the passenger, Sam Faatipa allegedly punched a police officer.
Faatipa made his initial appearance in District Court...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A mother of four was arrested by police last month and accused of abusing her 12-year-old son.
The defendant is charged with one count of abuse of a child involving domestic violence, a class D felony; along with one count of 3rd degree assault and one count of...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Detectives of the Criminal Investigation Division (CID) are looking into an incident where an inmate awaiting trial died in his holding cell at the Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF) early Saturday morning.
This was confirmed by the TCF warden, former Deputy...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — At last week’s news conference, Acting Gov. Talauega Eleasalo V. Ale said the Administration is not making COVID-19 vaccinations mandatory at this time, and that Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga has “resisted mandating anything to our people.”
The COVID-19 Task...