health-safety violations
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Concerns raised by House Representatives (faipule) about restaurants and businesses reopening after repeated health‑safety violations backfired on the Fono when a senior Department of Health (DOH) official revealed that most of these re-openings were ordered by senators...

![Manager of the DOH Environmental Health Services Division, Eileen Solaita (middle) and two of her staff members after the House hearing last Thursday that revealed that re-opening of businesses closed by the health department are often ordered by senators, faipules, or government directors. [photo: Asi A. Fa'asau] Manager of the DOH Environmental Health Services Division, Eileen Solaita and staffers](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/img_7159.jpg?itok=65FP5XTw)