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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The court has set bail at $500 for Filisi Tautua, who was taken into custody last week following an incident in Happy Valley in the Tafuna area where he is alleged to have gone to his neighbor’s home with a knife, and also challenged people in the neighborhood to a fight...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Instead of paying overtime — with some overtime payments as much as $2,000 per person — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga wants directors to “bring in new people” to work in ASG agencies, with the millions of dollars in federal money garnered by American Samoa since the COVID-19...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has again requested, and Hawaiian Airlines has again given its endorsement, for the suspension of flights between Honolulu and Pago Pago until the end of June as the governor remains concerned with the high number of coronavirus cases in Hawaii...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 47-year-old man from Samoa who is on probation after being convicted of felony drug possession is now back in custody after police allegedly discovered a quantity of illegal drugs in his possession during a traffic stop three weeks ago.
Talaoleolataga Avei is charged...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Lolo Administration’s move to merge the Office of Public Information (KVZK-TV) with American Samoa TeleCommunications Authority (ASTCA) is “being advanced at this time,” according to the Governor’s executive assistant Iulogologo Joseph Pereira, who is also the ASTCA...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A male passenger arrested for consuming alcohol inside an aiga bus last week is now charged with violating local drug laws when police allegedly found drugs in his possession. St. Augustine Aga made his initial appearance in Court last week. He is represented by...
Washington, D.C. — Last week Congresswoman Aumua Amata welcomed a grant for American Samoa Community College for the American Samoa No Wrong Door Initiative, an assessment of long term care, services and access factors in light of COVID-19. This $300,000 grant is from the Health and Human Services...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — With American Samoa’s borders closed for about two-months now due to the coronavirus pandemic declaration, questions have been raised as to why ASG can’t charter a flight to uplift stranded local residents in the US to bring them home and that same flight could take...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has outlined what he calls “identifiers” that should trigger an executive decision to enforce ASG’s Drug and Alcohol Policy, based on the local Alcohol & Drug Testing Employee law that became effective Jan. 6, 2020.
Under the law, the Human...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man who has been under police surveillance for quite some time is finally in custody after police allegedly discovered drugs in his possession during a traffic stop last month.
According to the government, Pele Finau has been considered by police as a Person of...