COVID-19 pandemic
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Since the COVID-19 emergency declaration in March last year, the basic food costs increased from April to July of 2020, followed by a 1% drop in August and “then continued to increase throughout the rest of 2020 to current, suggesting that food cost is on the rise,”...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — It’s official — the 2021 Flag Day, marking 121 years since American Samoa became a US territory, will be a one day ceremony set at the Malaeoletalu in Fagatogo on Apr. 16th, a Friday, because Apr. 17th — the official Flag Day — is on a Saturday.
Gov. Lemanu Peleti...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Agriculture Department is hosting next week the 2021 Annual Flag Day Food and Farm Fair and is seeking support from the business community.
Agriculture director Solialealofiotagaloa I.T. Mutini, sent out a solicitation letter to the private sector saying that DoH...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Through a new memorandum, Gov. Lemanu Peleti Pelepoi Sialega Mauga, set a hazardous pay policy for workers involved in the COVID-19 pandemic work. The new policy is effective Apr. 5, 2021 until Dec. 31, 2021, unless it is extended, the governor said in his “Hazardous...
Apia, SAMOA — A senior doctor has revealed that Samoa’s first and so far only official case of Covid-19 who arrived into Samoa with his mother as repatriated citizens in February 2021, had actually travelled from Samoa to the US just two months prior, in December 2020.
The Clinical Director of the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — To keep the momentum going and to ensure that all local residents stranded in the US are able to return home, Tagata Tutu Faatasi Alliance of American Samoa’s local members, along with family members, friends, supporters and repatriated passengers — returned last Friday...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Offices of the US Social Security Administration, across the country and in American Samoa will remain closed to in-person service, heading into the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic as the federal agency continues with current safety measures outlined under its COVID...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Coronavirus-free American Samoa continues under Code-Blue, while public gatherings, “except for religious services”, remain prohibited between 12 midnight and 5a.m., according to Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga’s new COVID-19 declaration, dated Mar. 19th, and...
Wellington, NEW ZEALAND — National is calling on the Government to allow quarantine-free travel from Samoa, Tonga and Fiji into New Zealand, Leader of the Opposition and Nationals Pacific Peoples spokesperson Judith Collins says.
National is calling on the Government to allow quarantine-free...
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa's economy collapsed by 8.6 percent in the 12 months to the end of September 2020.
The loss in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was heavily impacted by a complete loss of income to the country's tourism sector.
The latest economic update from the Central Bank of Samoa shows Samoa's...