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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Some of the saddest moments happening due to the COVID-19 border restrictions are that many of our local families are finally able to return with their loved ones who have passed away while awaiting the journey home Some bereaved families have chosen cremation for their...
Bags of donations being wheeled to truck for delivery to quarantine center in Honolulu.
Honolulu, HAWAII — As American Samoa-Hawaii quarantine for its second repatriation flight gets underway, the Honolulu based Le Fetuao Samoan Language Center under the leadership of CEO and Founder, Mrs. Elisapeta T. Lesatele Alaimaleata, continues to find ways to help and support its Samoan people...
Rep. Andra Samoa
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Four people have been removed from the second group of American Samoa residents set to be repatriated from the United States after testing positive for Covid-19. The Chair of the House Health Committee, Andra Samoa, said that the number of people in the quarantined group...
Members of the COVID-19 Task force
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The COVID-19 Task Force convened on Monday, Mar. 1, 2021 at the Department of Homeland Security (EOC) in Tafuna to finalize preparations for the next scheduled repatriation flight on March 10, which as of this past Monday had 195 returning residents in quarantine in...
Dear Editor, We are American Samoa residents, who want to come home, but are not able to.  Not without a lot of careful planning because the local government has closed our home borders citing safety concerns over the COVID pandemic. We know it is being worked out and as our leaders have noted, we...
Elisapeta Alaimaleata,Aloha Harvest volunteers,Tuiafono Vai Sua and a staff member, Filipo Ilaoa
Elisapeta Alaimaleata, the CEO and founder of Le Fetuao (third from left) is part of the group that presented a donation from Aloha Harvest of water and healthy snacks to the ASG-Hawaii Director Tuiafono Vai Sua and a staff member, Filipo Ilaoa, for the Repatriation Flight #2 passengers in...
 Some members of the American Samoa COVID-19 Task Force appeared before the House Health Committee recently
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — At a meeting of the COVID-19 Task Force on Monday, February 22, 2021 to plan for the March 10 repatriation flight, Chairman Lt. Gov. Talauega Eleasalo Va’alele Ale reiterated that the foremost goal of the repatriation flights is to bring eligible stranded residents home...
Lt. Governor Talauega, pictured here with Gov. Lemanu
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Governor Lemanu Peleti Mauga and Lt. Governor Talauega Eleasalo Ale in two press statement’s released late Friday announced that the final COVID test for all 159 passengers on the first repatriation test flight came out NEGATIVE and the admin released new rules for...
Rep. Avagafono Vaimaga Maiava
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...
TTFAAS supporters with signs
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Tagata Tutu Faatasi Alliance of American Samoa (TTFAAS) flyer released on its Facebook page last week, announcing a planned “TTFAAS WAVE” on Feb. 19th at Utulei  Beach, thanking government leaders — that the repatriation flights from the US have commenced — and “to...

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