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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — While there are about 2,000 businesses in American Samoa only 506 of them paid into the government the 2% wage tax in fiscal year 2020, says ASG Treasurer Malemo L. Tausaga during yesterday’s Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee hearing on a Senate bill to hike the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man was arrested and charged for violating local drug laws after police allegedly discovered drugs in his possession during a traffic stop last year.
According to the government, Molesi Sene has been considered by police as a Person of Interest (POI) for many months,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In a notice published through the Federal Register, the US National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) announced this week that it is extending for another 30-days — through Mar. 27th — the public comment period for its proposed rule, to designate critical habitat for seven...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The medical team that traveled on Feb. 1 with the first repatriation group now in quarantine at the Tradewinds Hotel is urging members of the community to trust the process the Task Force and all medical experts are utilizing to make sure the Coronavirus will not enter...
LBJ Medical Center’s Infection Prevention Specialist, Sharmain Mageo, RN, administering the Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine under a new drive-thru process on the mountainside of the hospital compound. This is for the second dose. [photo: A. Nikolao]
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The confirmation hearing for the Acting Director of the Department of Human Resources (DHR) Lynn Pulou-Alaimalo is now scheduled for Monday, Feb. 22 at 8:00a.m and the chair of the House Government Operations Committee, Rep. Faimealelei Anthony Fu’e Allen has requested...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The House of Representatives is working closely with the Administration to set up a repatriation flight to allow inmates from Samoa who have completed their jail sentences to return back home pursuant to court orders.
A hearing is scheduled this morning at 8:30 a.m...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee has agreed to keep in committee for now, for further review, legislation which seeks to increase the tobacco excise tax by 3 cents — which will help fund LBJ Medical Center operations — and reduce to 1% the current 2% wage...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Aliitama Sotoa has strongly refuted a report by Samoa News, published yesterday as part of the Court Report, stating that he refused to leave the church’s premises that he’s currently occupying.
In a phone call to Samoa News, Sotoa said that there was an agreement...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs (OIA) has transmitted $16,718,000 in grant funding to the American Samoa government to support the operations of the hospital, the community college, public schools, and the judicial system in the territory.
“The Office...