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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Congresswoman Aumua Amata is welcoming $4 million in federal funds to American Samoa for four essential operations: American Samoa Government, LBJ Tropical Medical Center, American Samoa Community College and the High Court of American Samoa.
“The Interior Department is...
Apia, SAMOA — The Samoa Consulate General in American Samoa lacked a proper safe to keep cash over a four-year period.
This was highlighted by an audit done by the Office Auditor report on Samoa’s overseas missions for the financial years ended 30 June 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014.
“Permits were not...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A young man who spent 30 days behind bars for disturbing the peace in Nuuuli on Sept. 20, 2018 was released from confinement last week, after District Court Judge Fiti Sunia sentenced him to time served at the Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF).
The government...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga led the ASG group that met for the first time late last month at the Governor’s Office, Rear Admiral Kevin Lunday, the new Commander of the 14th Coast Guard District, which includes American Samoa and other US Pacific jurisdictions.
Lunday...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa raised its minimum wage once again on September 30, 2018, marking the 5th federally-imposed increase since the passage of the 2007 Fair Minimum Wage Act. Per the Act, American Samoa’s minimum wage will reach that of the current Federal minimum wage by 2036...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 45-year-old man from Fagasa who is accused of sexually abusing his 11-year-old stepdaughter was arrested by police this week.
(Samoa News has decided to withhold the name of the stepfather, to protect the 11-year-old. It should be noted that the Court affidavit...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA —A 21-year-old man from Malaeimi accused of having sex with a 13-year-old girl multiple times has entered into a plea agreement with the government.
Kose Logova’a appeared in High Court yesterday morning for his Change of Plea hearing. He was represented by Public Defender...
Alega Beach, AMERICAN SAMOA — Hundreds of visitors who travelled to Pago Pago, to experience the touch of the ‘Au, at the world famous Tisa’s Tattoo Festival, on Tutuila Island, sailed away with a piece of Pago Pago in the heart.
And Master Tufuga Su’a Tupuola Fitiao, did not disappoint, in the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Archives had a great time finishing up Am. Samoa Archives Month on this year’s Wednesday Night Halloween.
The ASG Dept. of Adm. Service families, Archives Month Poster Contest judges and the general Trick or Treat public attended the occasion; and a...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Governor Lolo Matalasi Moliga has issued a proclamation declaring next week as “Jazz in American Samoa Week” in celebration of the origins of Samoan jazz in American Samoa.
According to the proclamation the origins of “Samoan jazz” lays with the Rivers Family from Apia...