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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...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Three employees of the GHC Reid & Co, Ltd were arrested and charged for stealing stock from their employer.
The three employees — Benita Hunkin, Ropati Naseri and Talitiga Dave Matagi — made their initial appearances in District Court last month.
The three co-...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Before the six-member jury delivered their “not guilty” verdict in the government’s case against Tumuatasi Lefatia last week, attorneys from both sides presented their closing arguments to the jury in an effort to persuade them as to what the verdict should be.
Attorney...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Lemanu Administration has put out a call to all physicians in the territory to join the medical team by responding and supporting current efforts to protect local borders from the COVID-19 pandemic, Acting Gov. Talauega Eleasalo V. Ale said during a news conference...