Constitutional Convention Committee
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Constitutional Convention Committee has voted not to allow the amendment for women to be submitted for inclusion into the preamble of the Constitution.
Lt. Governor Talauega Eleasalo Ale, who is also the chair of the Committee, voted yes to allow the amendment of the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — One of the constituencies in American Samoa that bars women from becoming chiefs is District#2, which consists of the villages of Ofu, Olosega and Sili in Manu’a.
However Senator Malaepule Saena Moliga says the decision to appoint Chiefs lies with the family that owns...