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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Two pilots and two engineers from Apia are currently posted in Pago Pago American Samoa to undertake an important daily air service to the islands of Manu’a during the covid-19 lockdown period.
Just before Samoa closed its borders and many rushed to catch the last...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — To ensure transparency and accountability in the processing of payments relating to coronavirus activities, Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has implemented a process, which all ASG entities must follow instead of each agency submitting their own request to the federal...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Honolulu Star-Advertiser is reporting six crew members of the Pride of America cruise ship, which is docked at Honolulu Harbor, have tested positive for coronavirus, according to state transportation officials.
Two of the crewmembers have been hospitalized and four...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man convicted of possession of an unlicensed arm was sentenced to serve 90 days at the Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF) as a condition of his 24-month probation.
Johnny Vou appeared before Associate Justice Fiti Sunia this week for sentencing. He was represented...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Aumua Amata welcomed an in-depth briefing provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Region 9 Director Robert Fenton on the agency’s action plan to assist in coronavirus efforts in American Samoa and other island territories, and she supports...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA —ASTCA services to Ofu and Olosega islands were restored Tuesday after a 10-day outage caused by two unrelated breaks to two different submarine fiber optic cables.
ASTCA anticipates no further outages, but there is more work needed to fully stabilize service to Ofu/...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The High Court sentenced a man convicted of violating local drug laws to 5 years probation, after the judge in the case commented that foreigners convicted of drug offenses should be sent back to their countries of origin in order to save local resources.
Reupena Ilalio...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Cargo vessels including those for StarKist Samoa, as well as fishing fleet supplying fish for the cannery, are exempted under the governor’s COVID-19 emergency declaration.
This message was emphasized by ASG’s COVID-19 Task Force chairman, Iulogologo Joseph Pereira...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — With the current 30-day COVID-19 emergency declaration set to expire Apr. 17th, and American Samoa with no confirmed cases, although the territory doesn’t have the ability yet to test for the virus, the questions now is — “What’s the next step?”
Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man is now charged with violating local drug laws after police officers discovered meth inside his vehicle during a traffic stop in Tafuna over the weekend due to the vehicle having two different license plates on it.
The government charged Barritt Siaumau with one...