kite runner
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa's Attorney General Fainu'ulelei Alailima Utu has revealed that his office will not pursue criminal charges against three individuals named in a Department of Homeland Security (D.H.S.) report concerning the Kite Runner's voyage to and from Samoa in April...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The hearing before the Senate Select Investigative Committee (SSIC) last week revealed that a lack of proper action to hold government officials accountable for their involvement in the American Samoan-registered boat, Kite Runner, is a "national embarrassment,"...
After Kite Runner uproar, AG’s Office looking into policy for vessels entering and leaving territory
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — As of Monday, June 26 the Attorney General’s office was still waiting for the full report into the documentation from the Department of Port Administration and the Department of Homeland Security generated for the departure of the American Samoa pleasure vessel Kite...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Samoa Observer just won’t let it alone. Once again yesterday they rehashed the whole saga of the American Samoa-registered Kite Runner reporting that the vessel entered Samoa’s territorial waters illegally last month without providing a certificate of clearance (CoC...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In the latest development in the Kite Runner “pleasure boat” saga, the Samoa Minister of Police, Prisons and Corrections Services has denied that his office was contacted by Cabinet colleagues to have a seized American Samoa-registered vessel released.
Approached for a...
Apia, SAMOA — Responding to questions from the Samoa Observer, Samoa's Minister of Works, Transport and Infrastructure Olo Fiti Vaai said on Friday that his Ministry's involvement in the entry of the American Samoan-registered boat only related to inspections at the Matautu port and whether...