Archive - Apr 26, 2012

This upcoming Saturday, will feature the closing of this year’s Eastern Star Youth Football League’s regular second season, with a double header that will see the kick off with the Pagai Buccaneers facing the Utumea 49ers for the first game at 8:00 a.m., followed by the main event of the day — the reigning Champions of last year’s season, the Aua Redskins, going up against the still undefeated Lauli’I Patriots.

Games will be at the Onesosopo Park Saturday morning.

Lua fautasi, tasi se ‘au kirikiti ma afioaga e lua mo fa’afiafiaga

Na fa’amaonia mai e le Ta’ita’ifono o le Komiti o Tapenaga o le Fu’a a le malo o Samoa Tuto’atasi, o ia foi o le Minisita o le Matagaluega o Tina ma Atina’e, le afioga Tolofuaivalelei Falemoe Leiataua i se talanoaga ma le Samoa News i le taeao ananafi i luga o le telefoni, ia le vala’auliaina o ni fautasi se lua a Amerika Samoa, e tauva i le tu’uga fautasi o le fa’amanatuga o le 50 tausaga o Samoa i le masina o Iuni.

O le taimi ua aga’i mai ai aiga ma uo e fa’amumu a latou moliga’o, e manatua ai Toa o Samoa o lo o tautua i totonu o vaega’au i so’o se itu o le lalolagi, aemaise i latou ua maliliu ona o la latou tautua. 

O nei sauniga lotu fa’amanatu o lo o fa’aauau pea ona fa’ataunu’u i ia afioaga ma lea afioaga. 

O le Aso Sa na se’i mavae atu nei, na fa’ataunu’u ai lenei sauniga fa’amanatu i le malumalu a le ekalesia Metotisi i Malaeloa.
 

Ua faailoa i se faaiuga mai le vaega o le Faamasinoga Apili a le Faamasinoga Maualuga, lo latou teena le o se talosaga na faaulu e Fagaima Milovale, ina ia toe iloilo e le faamasinoga lana faaiuga ua maea ona tu’uina mai, ona o le fanua lea na mafua ai le faamasinoga ma tuuina mai ai loa le faaiuga a le Faamasinoga o Fanua ma Suafa i le 2009.

TALIA FAAMASINOGA TALOSAGA SIAUMAU SIAUMAU JR

Ua mae’a ona sainia e le alii faamasino sili lagolago ia Lyle L. Richmond le talosaga na faaulu e le alii loia fautua ia Mike White, lea ua tula’i nei mo Siaumau Siaumau Jr, mo se avanoa e totogi ai e le malo lona pasese ina ia mafai ai ona auai atu i se aoaoga e faia i fafo, lea e iloilo ai taualumaga o mataupu e aofia ai le tuuina atu o le faasalaga o le oti, i se tagata o loo tuuaia i se solitulafono.

Ua fa’ailoa mai le pa o le isi va’alele Helikopa a le NATO ma ua fa’ailoa mai, e to’afa i latou sa i ai i totonu, e leai se tasi o soifua mai i lea fa’alavelave. O le helikopa lea sa lele a’e i le itu i saute sisifo o Afakanisitana i le taimi tonu na tupu ai lea fa’alavelave.

The American Samoa TeleCommunications Authority has declined to disclose at this time the cost of its contract with Calix Inc., the Petaluma, Calif., based telecommunication equipment supplier who announced last week that it has been selected by ASTCA to support and implement its Broadband Linking the American Samoa Territory (BLAST) project.

The Blast project has been touted by ASTCA as its delivery vehicle of advanced broadband services across the islands.

The Independence Committee for Samoa’s 50th Anniversary celebration has invited two fautasi teams from American Samoa — those which placed first and second during American Samoa’s Flag Day race earlier this month.

Aeto from Pago Pago Village won the race, with “Nu’uuli” from Nu’uuli Village taking second place.

In an interview with Samoa News, Co-Chairman of the Independence Committee Tolofuaivalelei Falemoe Leiataua said the invitations have already been sent to the office of Samoan Affairs for the two fautasi crews.

A unified voice from U.S. territorial governors and delegates failed to block Republicans from reducing Medicaid funding for the territories.

Delegate Gregorio Kilili Sablan (Ind-MP) said yesterday that Republicans on the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee voted to take away some $100 million in Medicaid funding from the CNMI and increase the CNMI's local match by 11 percent.

The ARRA Student Workers, a subsidiary of the Student Government Association (SGA) at the American Samoa Community College, staged an imaginative promotion of energy saving earlier this week with an Invention Competition open to the College’s student clubs.

Participating clubs were asked to come up with an invention that demonstrated an efficient use of energy, and the resulting entries confirmed that all it takes is imagination and ingenuity to use familiar materials in unfamiliar ways which can result in energy saving.