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Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Aumua Amata has cosponsored the bipartisan House Resolution honoring the upcoming centennial of Women’s Suffrage and the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
The Resolution highlights two upcoming dates of historic importance:...
WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross on Monday announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.5 million grant to the American Samoa Shipyard Services Authority, Pago Pago, American Samoa, to support the acquisition of equipment, machinery,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — During a Senate hearing with the Chairman of the Coronavirus Task Force Iulogologo Joseph Pereira last Friday, Senator Logooai Siaki was adamant that the repatriation flights from Samoa should only bring US citizens and US nationals and not anyone else, even permanent...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — House Speaker Savali Talavou Ale has requested an emergency hearing with the Coronavirus Task Force to discuss the issue about three people that were on a FEMA flight that arrived in the territory last Friday.
The hearing with the Task Force was originally scheduled for...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has instructed the Attorney General’s Office to develop policy for traffic in and out of Laufou Shopping Center, and has directed the Commerce Department to send an advisory to the shopping center owner to comply with local regulations on the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The High Court has scheduled another revocation hearing for inmate Sierra Isaia within the next three weeks in an effort to find out who was the Correctional Officer (C.O) who stopped two Probation Officers from conducting a drug test on Isaia in March of this year at...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The old communication building in Fagatogo where the American Samoa TeleCommunication Authority’s main office was housed for many years will be taken down to make room for the construction of a new court building, said Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga at last Friday’s cabinet...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man convicted of assaulting his niece with a shovel was ordered by the court to depart the territory and remain outside of its border as a condition of his 5 years probation.
Voi Sautia, who has been in custody since his arrest in January of last year unable to post a...
WASHINGTON — Last week U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the American Samoa Government to capitalize and administer a Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) that will...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The truth is, “we don’t have enough money” to operate the government, according to candidate for governor I’aulualo Fa’afetai Talia during his speech last Saturday at the official kick off for the I’aulualo and Tapa’au gubernatorial team at the Samoa Sports Complex,...