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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa needs more beds and quarantine spaces if it is to screen for the Covid-19 coronavirus effectively, says the territory's director of health.
Motusa Tuileama Nua's comments come after a revised travel advisory was released indicating the screening of...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — With numerous increases in taxes and fees imposed on local residents in the last four years, Rep. Larry S. Sanitoa says it’s time to do the “right thing and give back the 2% wage tax” to workers, by repealing this law.
Sanitoa’s comments over the weekend come after the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has establish the government’s 21-member COVID-19 Task Force, which is to conduct and perform the required work to ensure that the governor and the lieutenant governor “receive comprehensive information and recommendations on the Coronavirus for...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man suspected of burglarizing the home of an Asian couple in Tafuna has been charged with interfering with a police investigation.
Eletise Atonio is facing two misdemeanor charges: public peace disturbance and interfering with a police investigation. He made his...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Monday, March 9th, another record high for American Samoa with the temperature souring to 92 degrees. This comes on the heels of Sundays record of 92.
Above average temperatures are forecast through at least Wednesday.
Remember to stay hydrated American Samoa.
Models...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A Correctional Officer (C.O) at the Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF) was arrested last week on the allegation that he helped to smuggle a large quantity of illegal drugs and cell phones into the TCF.
The government alleged that a woman (her named was mentioned in...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Sunday’s record high temperature reaced 92 degrees. Above average temperatures are forecast through at least Wednesday. Expecting high temperatures today as a strong high pressure system continues to build over the islands. Please take necessary precautions to deal with...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Concerns over the rapid spread the coronavirus, which has reached more than two dozen US states, has resulted in postponement of accreditation visitations for three public high schools while the Health Department works with local public schools “emphasizing proper hand...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — While all department leaders and employees of the American Samoa Government (ASG) are working together to wipe the coronavirus from the territory, Associate Justice Fiti Sunia said that all department leaders of ASG must also work together to wipe out “a virus of our own...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — During her Senate confirmation hearing last week, Attorney General-nominee Mitzie Jessop-Ta’ase was asked her view on the decision by the federal court in Salt Lake City, Utah, which ruled that US nationals born in American Samoa are automatic US citizens, under...