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Ua fesiligia nei e le Fono Faitulafono le malosi o le Faatonuga Faalauaitele lea na sainia e le kovana i le vaiaso nei, e faasa ai le toe aumaia i totonu o le teritori, o nisi o oloa e pei o fasimoli ma pauta tata lavalava o lo o i ai le vailaau e taua o le ‘phosphates’, ona e talitonu i latou, o lea Faatonuga o le a aafia ai le lumanai ma le tamaoaiga o le atunuu.

TOEOLESULUSULU: “SILAFIA E LE ATUA SA FAI LA’U GALUEGA”

O lo o mafanafana lava le sui faipule mai Satapuala, le afioga Toeolesulusulu Cedric Schuster ma e le o popole foi i le ono molia o ia i le tulafono, i le maea ai o le vevesi na tulai mai i le va o leoleo ma nisi o lo latou afioaga.

TATALA I TUA SAVAII MATAGI MAI LE TOESE

O le taeao ananafi na sainia ai e le alii faamasino ia John Ward II se poloaiga e tatala ai i tua le tina mai Vaitogi lea o lo o tuuaia i lona tausia o se ta’ifau feai, ina ua maea ona ia totogia le $1,000 sa poloaina e le faamasinoga.

I le tatalaina ai la o Savaii Matagi i tua mai le toese, ua faamoemoe ai loa o le taeao nei e tulai ai i luma o le Faamasinoga Maualuga, mo le faaauauina o lana mataupu.

AUAI FAIPULE I LE ASIASIGA A KAMUPANI I’A

O le itula e 2:00 i le aoauli ananafi na faia ai se asiasiga faapitoa a le Ofisa o le AS-EPA i nofoaga o lo o i ai kamupani i’a e lua a le StarKist Samoa ma le Tri Marine, mo le mataituina lea o se faasea na faatulai i luma o le fono i le vaiaso nei, i le pamu atu lea e kamupani o suavai lafoa’i mai nofoaga o lo o gaosi ai a latou oloa i gatai o Aua.

Na fa’ataunu’u le tiute o le NOAA ina ia faia se ulua’i tauaofiaga ma tagata lautele o le atunu’u, ina ia saili tofa ma lagona i latou, pe o le a se naunauta’iga o i ai o tagata o Amerika Samoa i le mau ua fa’aulu mai e le Center for Biological Diversity i Tucson, Arizona ina ia taga’i le NOAA i tulaga ua i ai nei ituaiga amu e 83, ua tulata ina mou atu ma fa’aumatia e le toe maua lava!

Procurement Office has awarded the multi million dollar Airport Road and Intersection Improvement project to Lake Elsinore, Calif. based Whitehorn Construction, which has already set up an office in American Samoa.

Samoa News reported early this month that two companies submitted bids for the project that government engineers estimate will cost $11.84 million. One bidder is McDonnell Dowell with a bid of $11.03 million and the second bidder is Whitehorn Construction at $7.99 million.

Chief Customs Officer Glenn Lefiti faced the Senate Investigative Committee (SIC) last week over the six vehicles purchased with ASG money that SIC documentation shows was money allocated for the tugboat and barges project. With an initial budget allocation of $3 million, the project has since increased to more than $4 million.

During the more than two-hour hearing, which included Port Administration director Matagi Ray McMoore, the SIC chairman Sen. Lualemaga Faoa announced the customs documents subpoenaed by the committee and provided by Lefiti.

Gov. Togiola Tulafono has initiated a new American Samoa Government policy to purchase vehicles considered “Hybirds” and “Super Cars”, while also reinforcing the ban on the importation of older model vehicles.

This is outlined in the governor’s new executive order effective Aug. 21, which was released to the news media on Wednesday afternoon along with separate memos from the governor to all departments, agencies and offices about these new polices, asking them to fully cooperate with the directive. 

Mapu Jamais , the only Samoan Oceania Representative International Technical Official (ITO) in the sport of boxing, who worked during the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, recently returned from these games with not only memorabilia, but with awards of recognition as well.

LBJ Medical Center is proposing a budget of just over $39 million for the new fiscal year 2013, but without any money allocated for the off-island medical referral program, according to the ASG FY 2013 budget book.