STATE OF THE TERRITORY ADDRESS
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Fono will convene next Monday for the third regular session of the 37th Legislature, and Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga will deliver his annual State of the Territory Address during a joint session at the Gov. H. Rex Lee Auditorium.
Under local statute, the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Lemanu and Talauega Administration is beginning preparation for the governor’s annual report to the Fono next year and a memorandum has gone out to cabinet members for what’s needed from them.
Under local statute, the sitting governor is mandated to deliver the State...
![[l-r] Senate President Tuaolo Manaia Fruean, Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga, House Speaker Savali Talavou Ale and Chief Justice Michael Kruse](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/asg_leaders.jpg?itok=Ev3ifu_G "[l-r] Senate President Tuaolo Manaia Fruean, Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga, House Speaker Savali Talavou Ale and Chief Justice Michael Kruse at the start of yesterday’s Joint Fono session at the Gov. H. Rex Lee Auditorium, where the governor delivered his first State of the Territory Address. [photo: Leua Aiono Frost]")
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga delivered his first State of the Territory Address before a joint session of the Fono yesterday at the Gov. H. Rex Lee Auditorium to officially open the first regular session of the 37th Legislature.
The sitting governor is...
Senators as they were seated awaiting the start yesterday of the Joint Fono Session at the Gov. H. Rex Lee Auditorium, where Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga delivered his first State of the Territory Address. [photo: Leua Aiono Frost]
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga says “our people’s” lack of faith in government and lack of understanding of issues at play will stall any attempt to amend American Samoa’s political status and constitution.
The governor made the comments in his written 40-page official State...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In his last and final State of the Territory address as chief executive to the Fono last week, Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga shared with lawmakers, “pathway forward for the remaining” months of 2020 for the Lolo-Lemanu Administration.
One of them, Lolo said, is the upcoming...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — “Preliminary operating figures” at the close of FY 2019 - which ended Sept. 30, 2019 - is estimated to have an “operating surplus” of more than $700K, increasing ASG’s funding balance for that fiscal year.
This is according to Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga’s State of the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Fono will convene next Monday for the third regular session of the 36th Legislature, and Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga will deliver his annual State of the Territory Address during a joint session at the Gov. H. Rex Lee Auditorium.
The Fale Laumei had been closed for...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga updated lawmakers — in his oral presentation of the State of the Territory Address in Samoan — on Hawaiki cable and thanked the ASG Employees' Retirement Fund board for their assistance and investment in securing it.
Lolo says the government now...