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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — No exemption is being given to StarKist Samoa under provisions of the Code Red threat level as declared Monday night by Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga, after community spread of COVID-19 was detected, according to Health director Motusa Tuileama Nua, responding...
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs this week announced that grant funding applications will be considered to develop grant writing capacity, grant administration, and oversight in the Insular Areas. Applications that support building grant application and...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man accused of assaulting his wife and threatening to kill her with a knife was arrested and charged with assault involving domestic violence. However, when the defendant was apprehended, cops discovered illegal drugs in his possession. (Samoa News has chosen not to...
Rep. Andra Samoa
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Health Department officials explained that the positive COVID-19 spread into the community started from a Health Department employee assigned to one of the quarantine sites and this individual infected seven family members. DoH revealed this during yesterday morning’s...
Vice Speaker of the House Fetui Fetu Jr echoed
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Rep. Faimealelei Anthony Fu’e Allen has raised his concern over the closure of the EMS headquarters in Faga’alu by Health officials. As a member of the LBJ Medical Center Board, Faimealelei said he conducted a site visit to the EMS main office last week and discovered...
Rep. Larry Sanitoa
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — With the House of Representative taking rumors that the ANZ Bank is preparing to leave the territory very seriously, one of the questions that was raised in the House Chamber last week is whether the Territorial Bank of American Samoa (TBAS) can handle all of the...
American Samoa Election Office
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — With the November 2022 midterm election only months away, the Election Office has issued a reminder to all “unformed services voters, overseas voters and local students” attending institutions of learning outside of American Samoa to submit their request for an 2022...
Rendering of Fono building under construction
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The House of Representatives has approved the Senate version of a proposed constitutional amendment dealing with the veto override power, which currently rests with the Secretary of Interior. The measure that the House acted on last Friday is the Senate version of the...
American Samoa High Court building
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The two inmates charged and convicted of assaulting another inmate while inside the Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF) in March of 2020 received light sentences from the High Court. The two inmates, Ryan Pite and Faafetai Lefatia III appeared in High Court recently...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lemanu Peleti Mauga has declared that American Samoa is now under “Code Red” threat level for at least a week, following reports from health officials of community transmission of COVID-19 virus in the territory. The governor made the emergency announcement in a...

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