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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Ousted member of the American Samoa Telecommunications Authority (ASTCA) board of directors, House Rep. Andra Samoa said the ASTCA board was not included in the selection of current ASTCA chief executive officer (CEO) Lewis Wolman.
Under the revised executive order...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has appointed two new members to the American Samoa TeleCommunications Authority Board of Directors.
The new chairman and the Board are currently set to meet next week.
The governor on Dec. 26th informed then board chair, Sen. Faiivae Iuli...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The day after Christmas, December 26th, two members of the American Samoa Telecommunications Authority (ASTCA) Board were axed, per a signed letter from Governor Lolo Matalasi Moliga.
Leone lawmakers — Senator Faiivae Alex Godinet and representative-elect Andra Samoa —...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Tualauta District #15 Representative-elect Larry Sanitoa is "not surprised" that the American Samoa TeleCommunications Authority (ASTCA) defaulted on their lease payment of $4.25 million to the American Samoa Government's Employees' Retirement Fund (ASGERF) which was due...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Lolo Administration has asked the US Department of Interior to redirect federal Capital Improvement Project (CIP) monies to address Hawaiki cable “liability” and American Samoa TeleCommunications Authority’s (ASTCA) new products development.
This is according to Lt....
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Chairman of the American Samoa Government's Employees' Retirement Fund (ASGERF) Board of Trustees, Vaanatiu Toafala Iafeta, warns that if the American Samoa Telecommunications Authority (ASTCA) does not address their loan default, the ASGERF "shall proceed to manage,...
by Fili Sagapolutele
Samoa News Correspondent
While acknowledging that “our biggest problem right now” is the American Samoa TeleCommunications Authority (ASTCA), Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has assured his cabinet members that ASTCA’s financial integrity will be restored in the next two years.
The...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Lolo Administration has already put in place the American Samoa TeleCommunications Authority’s Financial Recovery Plan (FRP), which calls “for the immediately settlement of the leadership management issues currently existing” at the ASG telecom provider. This was...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa TeleCommunications Authority’s new proposal of $18.25 million in funds pending with the ASG Employees Retirement Fund is dependent on Legislative approval of an Administration proposed bill seeking to hike the local investment rate of the retirement fund...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Among the proposed amendments to provisions of the ASG Employees Retirement Fund law is a new section “authorizing investment” in the ASTCA-owned Hawaiki cable project, which includes the American Samoa branching unit that went live last month.
The branching unit cost $...