Features
Crew members of StarKist Samoa’s Sanitation Department pose for a photo this past week after finishing their overnight shift. The cannery is facing a manpower employment shortage and is working to recruit more workers, such as fish cleaners. Many of the public are pointing to stimulus checks and...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Big Momma is a massive Porites coral colony that lives in the National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa on the west side of Ta’u, American Samoa, in an area called the Valley of Giants. Big Momma is the largest of several massive Porites in that area, and until...
Students from Coleman Elementary School in Pago Pago attended last week’s tsunami awareness program presented at the school campus by the local Department of Homeland Security (ASDHS), which continues its outreach programs in the community — including at schools. Among the issues covered during...
Washington, D.C. — Chinese fishing boats’ illegal overfishing in the South Pacific has been devastating some island economies.
According to two former U.S. officials, “illegal, unregulated fishing by Chinese vessels has become common in American Samoa and Guam and as far east as Hawaii.”
American...
Mrs. May Manuo Lopesi and her Lopesi boys posing for a family photo after church yesterday morning at the Aua LDS Chapel. [courtesy photo]
Aua ‘ua alofa mai Leatua i le lalolagi, ‘ua ‘auina mai ai e ia lona alo e to’atasi, ‘ina ‘ia le fano se tagata e fa’atuatua ‘ia te ia, a ‘ia maua e ia le ola e fa’avavau. The message from the Manu’atele Community Worldwide on this Easter Sunday morning in American Samoa. [photo: Manu’atele...
Matua - ff.17-19: “Ona latou fa’aofu lea ia te ia i le ofu pāuli, ua latou taatatai laau tuitui ua fai a’i le pale, ua fa’apaleina ai o ia. Ona latou alolofa mai lea ia te ia,” Talofa le tupu o tagata Iutaia.” Ua latou ta foi i lona ao i le ū, ma feanu ia te ia, ma tootuli ma ifo ia te ia.” Amene....
Port Administration Department photo taken at Ofu island late last week shows Port Administration director, Christopher King (at podium front) speaking to a gathering, which includes Gov. Lemanu Peleti Mauga and others who traveled from Tutuila. [photo: Port Administration]
With a sunny day on Monday, construction work continued on the secondary road from Fagaima, through the family land of Fonoti and Leapaga, and onto the main road at Malaeimi. The project held a groundbreaking last August with the contract awarded to Happy Construction Co., which was given 300...
Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga and his wife Ella visited the Department of Agriculture sponsored three-day farm-fair last Thursday morning at the Fagatogo Market Place, before traveling to Manu’a. Lt. Gov. Talauega Eleasalo Ale also checked out the farm fair that morning. [photo: ASG]