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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Nine executive branch directors of the previous administration will continue to serve in the new Lemanu Administration as acting directors, according to the list of acting directors, cited in Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga’s Jan. 3, 2021 general memorandum...
Washington, D.C. — Sunday, January 03, 2021 — Congresswoman Uifaatali Aumua Amata Radewagen was officially sworn in to serve the people of American Samoa for a fourth term in Congress as the new 117th Congress convened.
“At the start of each Congress, each Member swears an oath to the U.S....
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Sierra Isaia’s revocation hearing has been continued after Chief Justice Michael Kruse said that the court would not rest until it gets to the bottom of the case and finds out who stopped probation officers from conducting a drug test on the defendant at the Territorial...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The “First Edition” of the “Tusi Fa’alupega o Tutuila ma Manu’atele” — book of salutations for Tutuila and Manu’atele — was officially launched last Friday morning at the “Afioga Tufele Li’amatua Sr. Tufele Cultural Center” at Su’igaula o le Atuvasa Park at Utulei Beach...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man who was convicted by the District Court for assaulting his wife has been ordered to spend 10 days at the Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF) as a condition of a 12-month probation term.
The detention period will see the defendant spending 5 straight weekends at...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Right after the members of the Senate and House were sworn-in yesterday during their separate ceremonies, both chamber convened for day-one of a five-day special session called by the new governor to address funding for Fiscal Year 2021 for ASG operations.
In his...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — No disputes occurred yesterday morning when the 18-member Senate took the oath of office in a ceremony which was presided over by Chief Justice Lealaialoa Michael Kruse that started 12:00 noon.
Additionally, after all the senators took their oath, they then elected...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — On an overcast late Sunday morning yesterday, American Samoa’s newly elected leaders, Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga and Lt. Gov. Talauega Eleasalo Va’alele Ale were sworn into office before 11:30a.m to take the helm of government for the next four years.
It...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Government is under a “holiday/partial government shutdown” today, Jan. 4, 2021, except for cabinet directors and employees of the Department of Public Safety, Heath Department and LBJ Medical Center, along with Emergency Medical Service (EMS).
This...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga led a small group ‘turning the soil’ this past Thursday morning during the ground breaking ceremony of the “Future Home of Ford Go Further, Samoa Motors” and “Hyundai Pago Motors” at an empty lot at the government housing compound in Tafuna —...

![Le fa’atonu-le-tumau o le Ofisa o le Gataifale ma le Vaomatua (DMWR), Taotasi Archie Soliai, ma lona faletua o Cherith Lober- Soliai. [ata: Leua Aiono Frost] Taotasi Archie Soliai and Cherith Lober- Soliai](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/archie_n_wife.jpg?itok=YleSm67K)
![After being sworn into office Amata said, “This is my fourth time, and the experience was a little different for this one, as we moved in small groups to follow CDC guidelines of social distancing,” Amata said. “I think that serves as an additional reminder of Congress’s responsibility in serious times.” [courtesy photo] Congresswoman Uifaatali Aumua Amata Radewagen](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/congresswoman_amata_was_sworn_in_on_january_3rd_for_a_fourth_term.jpg?itok=YO0dj8si)

![American Samoa Community College students performing the ava ceremony last Friday, during the launch of the government’s “First Edition” of the “Tusi Fa’alupega o Tutuila ma Manu’atele”. [photo: Leua Aiono Frost] ASCC students performing the ava ceremony](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/p2012.jpg?itok=zRrL7N20)

![Rendering of the proposed new fono building. [SN file photo] Rendering of the proposed new fono building.](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/fono_bldg_rendering_63.jpg?itok=O8HpYFqe)
![Senators raise their hands during the swearing-in ceremony administered by Associate Justice Fiti A. Sunia yesterday afternoon. [photo by AF] Senators raise their hands during the swearing-in ceremony](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/senate_swear-in_5386.jpg?itok=HeOBwBhS)
![At the Fagatogo Pavilion yesterday, Chief Justice Lealaialoa Michael Kruse (far left) presides over the swearing in of the new governor, Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga (third from left) with the family-Bible held by Lemanu’s mother, Iva, and accompanied by Gaea Perefoti Failautusi (far right), the father of First Lady, Ella Perefoti Mauga, and others. [photo: Leua Aiono Frost] Chief Justice Lealaialoa Michael Kruse (far left) presides over the swearing in of the new governor, Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga (third from left)](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/gov_lemanu_swearing_in.jpg?itok=glL2EyVA)

![Groundbreaking for the G.H.C Reid & Company Ltd companies, Samoa Ford Motors and Hyundai Pago Motors. [photo: Leua Aiono Frost] Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga and others breaking ground for new business building for G.H.C Reid & Company](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/samoa_motors_new_home.jpg?itok=V1eT9M1k)