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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man accused of violating local drug laws was arrested last week. When police executed the search warrant on Malautea Atonio Jr’s home, another male by the name of Filipo Faafetai (who has an outstanding arrest warrant for a 2018 burglary) was present in the house. Both...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — One of the Administration bills being considered during the Fono Special Session, called by the governor, is legislation to amend current application procedures for foreign investment programs in American Samoa.
The bill’s preamble states that ASG has attempted to...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Once a year for the better part of thirty years, Tony Tagal and his son Jason have made a trip to American Samoa in order to offer our youth something very special: a career path which students may not have otherwise envisioned for themselves.
Each year at this time, the...
Washington, D.C.— Congresswoman Aumua Amata welcomed notice from the National Park Service (NPS) of a $100,000 grant for improvements to the Lions Park in American Samoa through the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), and highlighted recent congressional action that improved that program’s...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The second phase of the 2018 Agriculture census started this week and ends on Friday, Oct. 25th. Teams made up of employees from the Commerce Department, Agriculture Department, and the ASCC Land Grant will visit villages to enumerate farms that were not enumerated...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — An alleged fight involving several inmates at the Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF) has resulted in charges being filed against inmates Titio Titio Jr., his brother Asofa Titio, Ah Chong Lefatia, and Reggie Va’avale.
The four defendants all entered ‘not guilty’...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — US Government Accountability Office officials are scheduled to be on island Oct. 17- 24 to assess the impact of the federally mandated wage on the “economic health” of American Samoa, according to Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga.
To assist the GAO team, the governor has...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man accused of burglarizing a Tafeta apartment a few months ago has been arrested and is now in custody, with bail set at $10K.
Ululoloa Sioka made his initial appearance in District Court last Friday. He is charged with second degree burglary and stealing, both class...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Governor Lolo Matalasi Moliga has proclaimed October as National Health Literacy Month, saying that “whereas cancer, precipitated or aggravated by lifestyle factors, accounts for the second leading cause of death in men and women in American Samoa, improving health...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The government’s case against one of the defendants in the drug case filed after police executed a search warrant on the Siaumau family compound in Petesa was dismissed yesterday morning, after Chief Justice Michael Kruse granted the government’s motion to dismiss its...