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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa’s mid-year 2018 population, is estimated at 59,600 — a loss of 700 persons compared to July 1, 2017, according to data release yesterday by the Commerce Department’s Statistical Division.
Based on DOC data, Samoa News reported last year that the 2017 mid-...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Of the nine projects to be funded for fiscal year 2019 with Capital Improvement Project money from the federal government, one of the them is funding for the Hawaiki submarine cable. The American Samoa branching unit is owned and operated by the American Samoa...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — ASG Office of Program Planning and Budget director Catherine D. Saelua has informed senators that her office has always processed expenditures requested by the Senate, including Travel Authorization (TA) requests, but only held such requests following Tropical Cyclone...
Apia, SAMOA — The debt owed by the Samoa Government to the American Samoa government for the American Samoa Hawaii Cable (A.S.H.) contract that was signed in 2009 remains unknown with officials refusing to divulge more information.
Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sa’ilele Malielegaoi recently said the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A look at the new Hawaiian Airlines cargo facility at the Pago Pago International Airport that will be dedicated on Thursday. Hawaiian’s new chief executive officer and president, Peter Ingram, is leading the airline’s delegation from Honolulu for the ceremony, which...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Senate yesterday approved in final reading an administration bill, which outlines the distribution of the more than $2 million of American Samoa’s share of the $6.5 million settlement between the federal government and StarKist Co., and its local operations StarKist...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — While the criminal case against the Governor’s Chief of Staff Fiu Johnny Saelua makes its way through the judicial process, the Wage and Hour Division of the US Department of Labor has concluded its investigation into claims of unpaid wages for a young woman who lived...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — With the pending, yet-to-be scheduled fiscal year 2019 budget hearings, Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has called on cabinet members to provide for the Fono all requested information, which are important in getting the budget process completed. It is a call he has repeatedly...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The NOAA/NWS Pacific International Training Desk (PITD; Pacific Desk) at the University of Hawaii is hosting its first in-country training program in American Samoa at the Weather Service Office (WSO), Pago Pago with participants from Samoa, Tokelau and Tonga...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Aumua Amata welcomed President Donald J. Trump’s signing of the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2019, H.R. 5515, in a signing ceremony at Fort Drum, New York on Monday, where the President and Vice President Mike Pence...