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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Legislature’s FY 2024 Budget and Appropriations Committee has received more information from the ARPA Oversight Office.
ARPA personnel were called to a hearing before the Committee on August 24, 2023.
However during their testimony then, regarding the State and Local...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Senate in its regular session last Thursday amended and passed in the final reading, its bill to raise the cap on local investments by the American Samoa Government Employees Retirement Fund (ASGERF).
The original bill called for the removal of the 17% for local...
Washington, D.C. — American Samoa has received notice of $556,177 in federal funding for local mental health and substance abuse services.
This is a new grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), by application of the American Samoa Department of Health (ASDOH) for...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The amended bill to increase the office expense allowance of the Fono went through without a glitch in the third and final reading in the Senate last Thursday, with all 14 senators present voting yes.
The bill amends Section 2.0104 of the American Samoa Code Annotated....
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Through a series of general memorandums, Governor Lemanu P. S. Mauga has made the following appointments:
ACTING PUBLIC DEFENDER
Rev. Asaua Falaniko Fuimaono has been appointed Acting Public Defender on September 13, 2023. His appointment follows the passing of former...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Governor Lemanu P. S. Mauga left the territory this past Thursday night to attend the second U.S.- Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Summit hosted by President Joe Biden at the White House. The summit takes place today, Monday, September 25, 2023 and continues tomorrow with...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Pastor Faraimo Pagaialii has a great the reason to celebrate his half a century birthday next month, on October 16, 2023. Just last Friday Sept 22, 2023 at 6pm, Pastor Pagaialii received the most votes from an Assembly of God's Church committee, making him the new...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — With 75% of the more than 4,600 ASG employees turning out for the government-wide Suicide Prevention Awareness Training program held last week, Lt Gov. Talauega E. V. Ale said the initiative would have a “ripple effect in their families, their communities, and our...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Relative Sea Level Rise Viewer is a new interactive tool that will allow stakeholders to assess the local vulnerability to sea-level rise. The viewer, developed by the Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS) at the University of Hawaii School...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Surplus funds from FY 2023 totaling $36 million have already been used by the administration without prior authorization from the Fono.
This is what Senate President Tuaolo Manaia Fruean told members last Friday morning before their session.
Senate members had been...