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  Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Several employees of the Health Department were underpaid during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Territorial Audit Office has called on DoH to maintain complete and “accurate employees[‘] pays and their rates.” This is one of the issues listed under “Other Matters” that...
Abandoned Fitiuta health clinic
The structural remains of the health clinic in Fitiuta, Manu’a stand abandoned, and now all residents of Ta’u Island use one main health clinic located in Luma. Manu’a residents are wondering if any of the millions of the CARES Act money coming into the territory will be allocated to their needs. [...
Taotasi Archie Soliai
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — After more than a year of waiting, applications from people who applied for fisher grants under the CARES Act have finally been approved by NOAA and checks are being sent out in the mail. Checks should reach mailboxes before the end of this month. This was the statement...
Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga is hoping that changes in fiscal and economic policies by US President Joe Biden will reenergize the local economy as there are some issues, which need U.S government support to sustain federal incentives of benefit to the...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Prior to leaving office, former Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga submitted the required initial report to the US Department of Education (USDOE) outlining the allocation and spending of more than $7 million awarded under the Governor’s Emergency Education Relief (GEER) program...
Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — With the current audit by the US Treasury Department’s Office of Inspector General over the use of federal COVID-19 funds allocated to American Samoa, Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga says the government has launched an “approach to increase being accountable in...
DMWR employee inputting data.
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources (DMWR) that has been inundated with CARES Act applications wants to set the record straight — no checks have been issued since the applications closed two weeks ago, Dec.11, 2020. “We want to send out this message to...
Crowd with umbrellas waiting at DMWR gate
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — People have been crowding the Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources (DMWR) now located at the old TAOA Office in Pago Pago to apply for funding under the CARES Act and the agency is questioning the validity of many of the claims. The funding is available for...
Education director Dr. Ruth Matagi-Tofiga
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The local Education Department (ASDOE) has yet to receive the “bulk order” of equipment including laptops and iPads that were to assist students with virtual learning, to comply with COVID-19 learning protocols, when the new school year 2020/2021 began on Aug. 31st....
Chief Justice Michael Kruse
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A lawsuit against the Chief Justice, F. Michael Kruse, “is a gigantic waste of judicial resource” and is a “text book example of frivolity and vexation,” according to the defense’s detailed response to Steven Jay Pincus Hueter’s complaint against the Chief Justice....

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