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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Day Care Centers will be closed for a further two weeks from June 27th to July 11th, 2023, according to local Health officials during a press conference held yesterday at the Department of Health (ASDOH) office in Tafuna, coordinated by ASDOH Acting Director, Vesi...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In a letter dated June 7, 2023, Governor Lemanu P. S. Mauga called on the Territorial Bank of American Samoa (TBAS) Board of Directors and the Office of Financial Institutions to take action to address the failure of leadership at TBAS that caused the bank to be unable...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Hawaii National Guard Youth Challenge Academy graduated 65 cadets on Thursday, June 15, 2023 and among them were students from American Samoa who departed the territory this past January to take part in the Academy.
Hawaii Governor Josh Green, delivered special...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Territorial Audit Office’s (TAO) performance audit for fiscal years ending Sept. 30, 2022 of the American Samoa Medicaid State Agency identified several issues of concern over the agency’s various timekeeping, personnel, and payroll practices.
The final part of the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — It was exactly three months ago yesterday — June 27, 2023 when the three governors from the U.S. territories in the Pacific region wrote directly to the U.S. President Joseph R. Biden.
American Samoa Governor Lemanu P.S. Mauga, Guam Governor Lourdes Leon Guerrto and...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Governor Lemanu P.S. Mauga welcomed the more than 20 overseas participants to the 195th Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council meeting yesterday, the first time it is being held in the territory since October 2019. On hand as well as the Council members is...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Falaniko Fetoa’i, who is an inmate at the Tafuna Correctional Facility (TCF) serving a sentence from a previous felony conviction, has been charged with one count of Escape from Confinement.
According to court documents, police were tipped off by an anonymous caller on...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — After more than two and half years of litigation, the federal court in Honolulu has dismissed a multi-million dollar environmental lawsuit brought by Alega residents against the remaining defendants from the territory: AST Telecomm LLC, dba, Bluesky Communications;...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa stands to receive $37,564,827.53 from U.S. Department of Commerce’s (USDOC) National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). This “Internet for All” initiative is a key component of President Biden’s “Investing in America” agenda.
The...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Summer Youth Employment Program began this year with 1,000+ youth accepted into the program, according to the Director of the Department of Human Resources, Lynn Pulou-Alaimalo, during the orientation event held at the DWYA Gymnasium in Tafuna, yesterday, Monday,...