shipyard services
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Lawmakers were not happy with Shipyard Services CEO Carlos Sanchez’s demeanor during last Friday’s joint budget hearing.
In fact, they were insulted, and they told him point-blank and in no uncertain terms, to shut up because he was being disrespectful!
Sanchez and two...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Through a Feb. 8th executive order, Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga amended provisions of the 2011 executive order, made by then-Gov. Togiola T.A. Tulafono that established the American Samoa Shipyard Services Authority.
The amended order, which is also...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Local businessman and co-owner of locally based US longline fishing fleet, Carlos Sanchez, has been appointed by Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga, as new executive director of the American Samoa Shipyard Services Authority.
Sanchez “shall exercise the authority...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — This past Monday US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $1.5 million grant to the American Samoa Shipyard Service Authority to support the acquisition of equipment, machinery and tools...


![As previously reported by Samoa News, the governor in a Jan. 19th memorandum appointed 10 board members, followed by a Feb. 8th memo appointing local businessman Carlos Sanchez as the new executive director and also appoints the 11th member of the board. [SN file photo] Carlos Sanchez](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/carlos_sanchez_0.jpg?itok=Ke6TKWlG)
![This recent Samoa News photo shows, businessman Carlos Sanchez, appointed by the governor as the new executive director of the American Samoa Shipyard Services Authority. [photo: Leua Aiono Frost] Carlos Sanchez](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/carlos_sanchez.jpg?itok=czI9BAZF)
