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The annual subsidy from the United States guarantees the funding of the American Samoa Serrata to time infinity. And if our next class and future classes of leaders opt to leave the Serrata intact, the rest of us will live a struggling existence for the rest of our lives.

The briefs given below summarizes how the Serrata is rendering the territory the “son” of Samoa in terms of capacity building and development; and castigating local people helpless in the face of the sweeping “Asian invasion”.

Economic Development

LBJ Medical Center chief executive officer Mike Gerstenberger says there are a combination of reasons why patients with Non-Communicable Diseases, or NCDs, do not comply with things such as taking their medication as required, or keeping appointments with their physicians.

The Drug Enforcement Administration on Guam says the high price of drugs on island and in the Northern Marianas is fuelling the methamphetamine trade.

The comment follows the recent handing down of a 27-year-sentence to a woman who led an operation smuggling methamphetamine from the Philippines to Guam.

The resident agent in charge says success in busting such operations is the result of a strong relationship between federal and local law enforcers as well as cooperation between agencies such as customs and the postal service.

Bumble Bee Foods is a survivor. Founded in 1899, Bumble Bee, which is headquartered in San Diego, owns two of the last three canned tuna factories in the U.S. (in southern California and Puerto Rico) and one of the last two canned clams plants (in Cape May, N.J.).

The company went bankrupt in the late 1990s but it has emerged stronger, and it’s now North America’s largest branded shelf-stable seafood company.

Manu Samoa received  on Saturday a massive financial boost ahead of its match against Canada in North Wales next week.

Prime Minister and Chairman of the Samoa Rugby Union (SRU), Tuilaepa Sa’ilele Malielegaoi announced that the Samoa International Finance Authority (SIFA)would provide $400,000 for the team, on top of $200,000 presented by the Totalisator Agency Board (TAB) earlier this week.

The money takes the funds for the Manu Samoa tour to $1.2million.  

Initially, the SRU wanted a million talato meet all the tour costs.

This past Wednesday afternoon at the American Samoa Land Grant conference room, Dr. Andre Seale, an expert and award winning underwater photographer held an underwater photography workshop, and gave out tips and information on how underwater photography can be made easy with the right tools and the right assistance.

The latest innovative product by BlueSky Samoa was launched on Friday evening at their headquarters in Maluafou.

In a little over 18 months since BlueSky was established, they have used their time wisely and have now introduced Moana TV, an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) service that allows viewers to experience a selection of channels from overseas as well as local.

As students at the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) prepare to pre-register for the spring 2013 semester, the Management Information Systems (MIS) Division continues to make strides to improve the College’s online registration process.

“While we are still working to make online registration available off-campus, it’s now easier than ever for continuing students to pre-register and register using the system we have in place,” said ASCC Chief Information Officer and head of MIS Grace Tulafono.

LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) -- President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney made their last stands of the 2012 campaign Monday, employing their last vestiges of energy, celebrity boosters and plenty of jet fuel to encourage every supporter and the few remaining undecideds to tip the vote in their favor.

National polls of the eve of Election Day showed a neck-and-neck race. But the winner will be determined by which man gets 270 electoral votes, and Obama had more paths to get there.

The issue: