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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — ASG Task Force officials named as defendants in an alleged violation of the American Disability Act (ADA) federal lawsuit has been given until next week to respond, according to filings on Wednesday this week with the US Central District Court of California.
A local...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 28-year-old man from Tafuna who, along with another man, broke into an Asian store in Tafuna and stole about $2,700 worth of goods — none of which was recovered — was ordered to pay restitution to the store, after he serves 28 months at the Territorial Correctional...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa Economic Development Authority’s (ASEDA) new rating report focuses on the preliminary total of more than $41 million for the government’s proposed 2021 Bond Series, in which revenues earned are earmarked for the new Fono building and Judiciary Branch...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — With millions of new federal dollars allocated to American Samoa under the federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) of 2021, Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga has established, via executive order, an oversight office to — among other things — monitor and assure...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — StarKist Samoa wants to recruit 200 qualified guest workers from Samoa to work as fish Cleaners. This was confirmed by Chairman of the COVID-19 Task Force, Lt. Talauega Eleasalo Ale during a press conference with the media this week.
Talauega said the cannery has...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Basic Food Index report for May, released Wednesday by the Commerce Department’s Statistic Division shows that while the cost of turkey tails continues to increase, the price of other popular food items decrease. Overall the cost of basic food in May dropped by 0.5...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The incomplete records and information from the Immigration Office regarding the status of illegal aliens convicted of criminal offense is giving the High Court of American Samoa a headache when trying to fulfill its obligations, especially concerning sentencing.
As a...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata drew attention to LBJ in a Wednesday hearing of the full Natural Resources Committee in which Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland was testifying.
Amata once again pressed the message that LBJ Tropical Medical Center has major modernization needs...
HONOLULU — The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council voted to defer action on the rebuilding plan for the federally managed bottomfish complex in American Samoa at its virtual meeting yesterday in Honolulu.
In February 2020, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) informed the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Three of the four men who were arrested when police raided a suspected drug operation in Futiga two weeks ago were bound over to High Court after the three co-defendants waived their rights to a preliminary examination (PX) before District Court Judge Gwen...