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Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Aumua Amata on Monday welcomed $766,000 for American Samoa’s medical providers through the Health and Human Services (HHS) Department in another appropriation resulting from the CARES Act.
This HHS assistance is part of COVID-19 relief for hospitals and clinics...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Aumua Amata on Monday welcomed another vital CARES Act coronavirus relief grant, this time $1,617,855 through the U.S. Department of Education to aid the American Samoa Community College, with $808,943 (half of the total) specified as assistance for the students.
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga plans to extend for another 30-days his coronavirus emergency declaration, which is based on the Third Amended Declaration, dated Apr. 1st and lapsing May 1st.
Samoa News notes that the original declaration was issued Mar. 17th and was effective...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A Delta Air Lines charter aircraft landed yesterday around 11a.m. to pick up the 29 missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints who have remained on island since the closure of American Samoa’s borders.
Speaking at Sunday’s ASG COVID-19 Task Force...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has informed the ANZ Amerika Samoa Bank, Territorial Bank of American Samoa and the Development Bank of American Samoa, that he and his administration stand ready to provide any assistance with programs available to help local businesses through...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — With the American Samoa Government’s financial coffers overburdened from the measles outbreak, followed by three back-to-back storms in February, and now the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has requested a federal government waiver for American Samoa’s 25...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 44-year-old man accused of sexually abusing his 16-year-old niece was arrested after authorities were tipped off by the victim’s aunty.
(In the interest of protecting the minor victim, Samoa News is withholding the name of the defendant, who is her uncle. The court...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Since the beginning of the new year has been diminishing with American Samoa’s sunrise now over 30 mins later than on January 1st.
American Samoa’s sunset is almost 40 mins earlier than January 1st.
There are 11hrs and 48 mins of daylight on April 13th as compared to...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 28-year-old man convicted of violating the territory’s drug laws was sentenced by the High Court to serve 10 years behind bars, a straight sentence.
In delivering his decision against the defendant, Daisy Mareko last Friday, Chief Justice Michael Kruse stated that...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man who violated conditions of his 2-year probation, which was handed down last year, has been ordered to serve out his suspended sentence, which is 20 months.
Onosa’i Mataipule appeared in court last week for a disposition hearing.
When given the chance to speak,...