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The Court has set bail at $500 for Aifili Fonoia, who was taken into custody last week following an incident in Tafeta where he is alleged to have gone to his neighbor’s home with a knife, and also challenged people in the neighborhood to a fight. Fonoia, who made his initial appearance in court...
Adrian Orr and others on steps of Reserve Bank of New Zealand
Wellington, NEW ZEALAND — New Zealand's central bank is working to stem an exodus of international banks from Pacific Island nations, which is leaving their populations vulnerable to predatory finance operators. Governor Adrian Orr says cross-border banking relationships have declined rapidly over...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The second of the four defendants arrested after police executed two search warrants in February of last year at two homes in Tafuna and Vaitogi has entered into a plea agreement with the government. Jack Alesana, who has been in custody since his arrest, unable to post...
Budget Office deputy director Aukuso Satia
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Lemanu Administration is finalizing the proposed budget document for fiscal year 2022, which begins Oct. 1st this year, before it heads to print and then is submitted to the Fono when lawmakers convene on the second Monday of July for the Second Regular Session of...
 Samoa's Head of State Tuimalealiifano Vaaletoa Sualauvi II
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa's Head of State Tuimalealiifano Vaaletoa Sualauvi II has declared that parliament convene on Monday 2nd August. He made the announcement on television Sunday night (Samoa time) ahead of today's (Monday in Samoa) deadline set by the Supreme Court for parliament to sit after the...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 58-year-old man from Fagaima was arrested last month on the allegation that he raped his 16-year-old niece inside the victim’s home earlier last month. [In the interest of protecting the minor victim, Samoa News is withholding the names of all parties involved]. The...
Meth pipe on mirror.
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 42-year-old man allegedly found with a glass pipe containing methamphetamine (meth) in his vehicle when police pulled him over for a traffic violation almost two years ago was recently arrested and charged. The question as to why the government waited so long to charge...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Through a June 30th memorandum, Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga declared that the Fourth of July, Independence Day, which falls on a Sunday this year is being observed as a holiday in American Samoa, today Monday, July 5th. Therefore all government offices are...
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Manu’a Islands, AMERICAN SAMOA — Manu’a is still experiencing a partial outage with Broadband being the only service that is currently active with a stable connection, although speeds have been reduced using the VSAT (satellite) solution. The American Samoa TeleCommunications Authority on Friday...
TBAS main location in Utulei
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Territorial Bank of American Samoa has announced their newest service for deposit account customers to transfer funds to recipients in foreign countries effective immediately. “We are ready to service our deposit customers with quick and easy transfers in foreign...

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