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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — This past Thursday Congresswoman Aumua Amata congratulated the American Samoa Department of Health upon a grant notification of $84,498 through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
This discretionary block grant is for Preventive Health and Health...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The federal court in Washington D.C. has granted a joint motion by attorneys representing Territorial Correctional Facility inmate James Glenn Barlow and US Secretary of Interior David L. Bernhard, allowing the parties until Nov. 1st, to confer and propose a schedule for...
The government’s case against a Tongan national residing in Ofu charged for violating local drug laws has been dismissed, after the High Court granted a motion by the government this week to dismiss the case.
When Mataele Toke’s case was called in court this week, prosecutor Laura Garvey informed...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The US National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is proposing a temporary rule for an interim catch limit (ICL) of 13,000 pound of American Samoa bottomfish for fishing year 2020.
NMFS, which is seeking public comments for submission by Sept. 28th — next week Monday on...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — On the night of Aug. 21, 2020, two police officers observed Mark Fuluasou throwing a black plastic bag out of a vehicle in which he was riding, in front of an Asian store in Malaeimi. They picked up the black plastic bag that Fuluasou threw out and discovered that it was...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Tuesday, September 22, 2020 — Congresswoman Aumua Amata welcomed $391,947 in federal funding through the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) to the American Samoa Criminal Justice Planning Agency. This is the second grant for this agency...
Denver, COLORADO — Whether people born in U.S. territories have a constitutional right to U.S. citizenship will depend on how the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit rules following argument yesterday in Fitisemanu v. United States, attorneys for John Fitisemanu stated in a press release...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Ground breaking was held this past Wednesday, Sept. 23, for stages 2 to 6 of the Rehabilitation of the Pago Pago International Airport Terminal Apron. Airport officials told the cabinet meeting at the airport conference room before the ground breaking ceremony that one...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The jury trial for Tumuatasi Lefatia, a.k.a MAMA, which was scheduled for Oct. 9, 2020 is now pushed back by the court to Apr. 5, 2021 due to restrictions from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lefatia, who is out on bond appeared before Acting Associate Justice Elvis P. Patea this...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Social-distancing — complying with restrictions under the governor’s COVID-19 declaration — will be enforced at the polling stations during the Nov. 3, 2020 general election, according to Election Office deputy director Fiti Tavai, during last week’s cabinet meeting at...