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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Director of Budget and Planning, Catherine Saelua has informed all Executive Departments and Agencies that purchase orders and invoices for this fiscal year must be processed no later than August 31, 2022.
This is confirmed in a letter to all Executive Departments...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Some $40 million from the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding has been announced and is headed to American Samoa — where this year alone American Samoa will receive more than $8 million for transportation to invest in roads, bridges, public transit, ports and...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The two men convicted for assaulting their wives were sentenced in High Court last week and yesterday morning to terms of probation.
(Samoa News usually does not publish a defendant’s name in domestic cases to protect the victim.)
One of the defendants is a man from...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Setu Iona is now charged with 5 misdemeanors: PPD, third-degree assault, third-degree property damage, stealing and criminal contempt of a court order, all misdemeanors, along with one count of unlawful possession of methamphetamine, a felony.
He entered a not guilty...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Health Department is keeping the COVID-19 Task Force abreast with the latest development on the global monkeypox outbreak, which the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared an international public health emergency, with an increasing number of confirmed cases...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Lemanu and Talauega Administration have been “informed” the budget hearings for the new financial year 2022-2023 scheduled to start on Sept. 06, 2022 will proceed as planned.
Senate President, Tuaolo Manaia Fruean confirmed this during the Senate session on Friday....
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In a July 28 health advisory, the Health Department announced that American Samoa, “is currently experiencing an outbreak of the flu which can present similarly to COVID-19 symptoms.”
The advisory comes on the heels of reports from LBJ Medical Center where nurses told...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Deportation of Samoan citizens serving time at the Tafuna Correctional Facility (TCF) was among the many issues discussed during the 2Samoa Talks, now officially called Atoa o Samoa or Oneness of Samoa.
The two-day meetings held last Wednesday and Thursday at the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Former cop, Steven Tuato’o is scheduled to appear in High Court on Aug. 17, 2022 at 9am for Disposition Hearing after he admitted to violating conditions of his 2020 probation after testing positive for illegal drugs.
Tuatoo, 49, who was sentenced by Acting Associate...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Two travelers onboard Hawaiian Airlines flight from Honolulu last Thursday night tested COVID-19 positive and were placed in isolation, while two crew members on the MV Lady Naomi voyage last Wednesday also tested positive and were isolated on board the Samoa government...