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![[l-r] Mrs. Evelyn Lili’o-Satele, Mrs. Saouila Fanene Kava, and Vaitinasa Dr. Salu Hunkin-Finau](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/doe_certification_board.jpg?itok=g4--V_Xx "Gov. Lemanu Peleti Mauga’s three nominees to the ASG Department of Education Certification Board [l-r] Mrs. Evelyn Lili’o-Satele, Mrs. Saouila Fanene Kava, and Vaitinasa Dr. Salu Hunkin-Finau posed for a Samoa News photo yesterday morning before their Senate Education Committee confirmation hearing. [photo: FS]")
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lemanu Peleti Mauga has nominated three women to the ASG Department of Education Certification — Mrs. Evelyn Lili’o-Satele, Mrs. Saouila Fanene Kava, and Vaitinasa Dr. Salu Hunkin-Finau — and they appeared this past Thursday morning before the Senate Education...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Repeat offender Richard Mata was ordered by the court last week to serve out the remaining 7 months of a 20-month sentence from a 2018 case. The decision came after the court found Mata in violation of conditions of his 5-year probation.
Mata was found guilty by the...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is highlighting Senate passage of an infrastructure bill with $50 million plus additional grant funding for American Samoa. The bill, led by a bipartisan group of eight negotiators, was passed by the U.S. Senate, and must now go to the House. It...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Tualauta Rep. Larry S. Sanitoa early this week wrote to American Samoa Power Authority’s executive director, Wallon Young for help on two items.
The first is the “road cut” on the Fagaima Road in front of the Assembly of God church. “I am uncertain if this is ASPA's...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man who unlawfully entered a house at night and attempted to sexually abuse a 16-year-old girl last year was sentenced to 28 months in prison, as a condition of his 7-year probation sentence.
Anthony Valaau, 26, was initial charged with burglary in the second-degree...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The ASG Department of Commerce’s Statistics Division released on Tuesday, the combined 2018-2019 Statistical Yearbook for the territory. And this is the thirty-seventh edition of this publication.
The Yearbook provides statistics and trends of demographic, social and...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The first 50 workers from Samoa, under the local Guest Worker Permit legislation for StarKist Samoa started arriving on Wednesday this week, over a four-day period, says the acting governor, Lt. Gov. Talauega Eleasalo V. Ale, who is also chair of the COVID-19 Task Force...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The acting governor, Lt. Gov. Talauega Eleasalo V. Ale is inviting the public to the “Protect AS One - Festival”.
The festival — set for tomorrow, Saturday, at the Veterans Memorial Stadium from 4p.m to 8p.m — is the culmination of several weeks work, since May of this...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — After the work on the road leading up to Mauga o Ali’i was brought to the public’s attention this week, the Governor’s Office released a statement explaining that in collaboration with the Department of Public Works, the Governor's Office is working to mitigate...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man who is on probation for a drug conviction from four years ago was arrested last month on the allegation that he assaulted a man by hitting him on the head with a metal pipe during a verbal argument between the victim and the defendant, and when he was brought in...