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The American Samoa National Olympic Committee’s (ASNOC) Sports and Environment Commission is teaming up with the American Samoa Power Authority (ASPA) and the Department of Parks and Recreation to conduct a program called ‘Love Your Coast’ — and the coast for which they are currently showing the love is around the Pala Lagoon, tennis courts and Lions Park side.
 

Open up American Samoa’s port of entry to several foreign countries under the federal VISA Waiver program, create new international events and make American Samoa a haven for weddings — these are some of the recommendations made by the Economic Development Task Force with regards to developing tourism and eco-tourism growth for the territory.
 
Tourism recommendations are among the economic developments cited in the 40 page final draft of the Economic Development Implementation Plan (EDIP) released last week by the government's 16-member task force.

The funeral was held yesterday morning for Samoa's first woman MP and former deputy parliamentary speaker, Le'aupepe Faimaala Martha Phillips.

The Head of State, the Prime Minister and MPs were among the mourners.

Le'aupepe, a nurse by profession, first entered Parliament for the Palauli i Sisifo constituency in 1970.

She served several terms and later became the first woman judge of the Lands and Titles court.

Le'aupepe Faimaala died last week in New Zealand where she had been living with her family.

She was 80 years old.

Federal legislation that would include American Samoa and the U.S. Pacific territories in the federal law pertaining to the availability of funds from off-island bank deposits at local banks has passed the U.S. House and now heads to the U.S. Senate.
 
Faleomavaega introduced in April last year H.R. 1679, which is legislation to amend the Expedited Funds Availability Act, or Regulation CC, to clarify the application of that act to American Samoa and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
 

“The most dangerous person on the street is the cop who doesn’t know his job.” So said Senator Galea’i M. Tu’ufuli recently, in an exclusive interview with Samoa News.
 
Galea’i, who has served in numerous government positions for the better part of fifty years, has always, at heart, been a man who believes in law and order. Beginning his career as a police officer in Honolulu, he returned home to American Samoa in the 1960s, where he was appointed as chief of police and later as Commissioner of Public Safety.
 

Hawaii has lots of sunshine and also the highest electricity rates in the country. That makes the Hawaiian Islands an attractive place for solar energy.

At least 10 percent of Hawaiians are now using solar and the number is growing. But access to the electrical grid is proving to be problem in some cases. The utility company, which is tasked with connecting rooftop solar installations to their electric grid, has told some residents they can’t connect.

The first Rip Current Awareness Week in American Samoa concluded this past Friday evening with a Floating Lantern Ceremony to remember those in the territory that lost their lives due to Rip Currents and other water related drownings.
 
A national event observed throughout the United States, it was hosted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, American Samoa Department of Homeland Security, TEMCO and participating partners.
 

O le tama’ita’i mai Vailoatai lea na ta’usala e le fa’amasinoga i le mataupu lea na ia taumafai e osofa’i se leoleo i se agaese, atoa ai ma lona folafola o lona tipiina o le ulu o le leoleo (tulou), ua fa’atonu e le fa’amasinoga maualuga e alu e fa’atoese i le leoleo na a’afia.
 

Ua talosagaina e le Matagaluega o le Soifua Maloloina le malo le atunu’u atoa, ina ia tutu fa’atasi e fa’ataua soifua o i latou uma ua fa’asaoina mai i le gasegase o le kanesa, a o avea ai le masina lenei o Iuni o le masina e fa’ataua ai i latou nei i le lalolagi.
 
O le fa’atauaina o le masina lenei mo i latou ua fa’asaoina mai i le gasegase o le kanesa, na amataina lea i se sauniga lotu sa faia i le taeao ananafi.
 

O le vaiaso ua te’a na fa’alauiloa aloaia mai ai e ni sui se to’alua, lo la sauni e tauva mo le nofoa o le territory i le Konekeresi i Uosigitone i le palota ia Novema 2014.
 
O i laua e to’alua: le afioga i le matua ia Togiola T. A Tulafono lea sa avea muamua ma kovana, ma le faletua o Meleagi Suitonu-Chapman mai Manu’a.