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Ua faamaonia mai e se sui o le LBJ i Fagaalu le faamaonia i a latou suesuega le i ai o ni isi o le atunuu ua faamaonia le a’afia i siama o le gasegase o le ‘typhoid fever’, po o le Fiva Taifoi ma ua lapataia ai le mamalu o le atunuu ina ia vave vaai se foma’i i le taimi e maitauina ai ni suiga ile soifua maloloina aemaise lava i le fanau laiti.
 

LAPATAIA SOIFUA MALOLOINA NI ISI O LE AUFAI FAIVA
 
Ua laptaia mai e le Faatonusili o le Matagaluega o le Soifua Maloloina ia Motusa Tuileama Nua ni isi o le aufai faiva o lo o faatau a latou i’a i tafatafa o le alatele, ina ia tausisi i le soifua maloloina o le atunuu, a leai o le a faia se isi gaioiga e faasa ai ona toe faatau a latou i’a i tafatafa o le alatele.
 

As promised earlier in the year, Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga is moving to either sell or lease two ASG assets — the Fo’isia vessel and the Sega’ula aircraft. Both were acquired by the Togiola Administration purportedly to address air and ocean transportation service for the Manu’a island group, where Ofu and Olosega islands have been without commercial air service for some three years.
 

A man charged in connection with 14 burglaries involving six stores, a church, two restaurants and five homes allegedly told police about a series of burglaries he had committed because, “it would relieve him of all the bad things that he had done and that had been weighing on him and his mind,” court documents say. Joseph Iakopo is now behind bars with bail set at $150,000 for 34 criminal counts, including burglary first and second degree, attempted burglary, stealing, first degree assault and property damage.
 

Following the success of the popular “Le Leo o Amerika Samoa” singing competition that ended last month, the Department of Youth and Women’s Affairs (DYWA) recently applied for and received a grant of $5,000 to host another singing competition.
 
This time, it won’t be individual competitors but instead, groups of 2-6 performers who will be schooled on how to write, compose, and perform original Samoan songs using only traditional instruments like the ukulele, pake (wooden drum), or fala (mat).
 

Dear Editor,
 
I read a news article today in the Samoa News about a delegation traveling to Tonga to ascertain the status of the land exchange agreement between the Tongan Government and the American Samoa Government. 
 
To set the record straight, this agreement was not an initiative of the Togiola Administration. It was negotiated and signed in the mid 1980s during the first Lutali administration. 
 

Tualauta Representatives, Larry Sanitoa and Florence Saulo have reached out to the government for assistance to craft a permanent solution to the flooding problem in their district following the downpour two weeks ago, which affected the Tualauta District severely.
 

Faced with many other local organizations seeking financial support from both individuals and businesses, the Hope House board of directors has started early promoting its annual golf tournament funding raising event, set for June 29.
 
Board chairman David Robinson says it’s getting “harder and harder” financially to maintain Hope House, the only facility of its kind in American Samoa providing 24/7 care for the elderly, children with disabilities and terminally ill patients,
 

Three crew have been rescued from their sinking ship off the coast of American Samoa.

New Zealand search teams have co-ordinated the rescue of three crew whose ship is sinking off the coast of American Samoa.

Two Americans and one Canadian were rescued about midday on Monday, after the Rescue Co-ordination Centre of New Zealand received distress calls at about 8am.

RCCNZ directed three vessels to the area about 150 nautical miles southwest of American Samoa where the ship was taking on water.

An entertainment businessman in Hawai’i, Papali’i Jack Thompson, has been named as Samoa’s Consul-General in the American state.

The announcement was made yesterday by Samoa Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi in Honolulu.

Papali’i who is more popularly known as Tihati, and his wife Cha own Tihati Productions which is one of Hawai’i’s leading entertainment companies, specialising in Polynesian dance and music.

The company employs many Samoans and other Pacific islanders.