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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 32-year-old woman who stole a fine mat (afuelo) from another woman and then sold it to a Tongan individual for $300 to buy food for her children, and later on tried to bribe a public servant with $200 in an effort to falsely change the ownership of a vehicle for her...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — “Learning has no limits. Knowledge is very powerful,” declared Trixy Taua-Petaia, during her keynote address Tuesday, the final day of the two-day Governor’s 2018 Youth Empowerment Summit at the Pago Pago Youth Center, where she also urged youth participants to remember...
![[-r] Dr. Laura Watts and her husband, Dr. John Watts, along with an LBJ Medical Center physician](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/doctors_watts_.jpg?itok=xXrDgE22 "[-r] Dr. Laura Watts and her husband, Dr. John Watts, along with an LBJ Medical Center physician on Tuesday at the Territorial Administration on Aging (TAOA) center in Pago Pago.")
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Dr. Laura Watts and her husband, Dr. John Watts are members of the US medical team of doctors, nurses, pastors and fathers of the Men of Promise Ministry that conducted free medical check ups on Tuesday, July 3, for senior citizens at the TAOA center.
Wednesday, the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Last week Friday, the Washington D.C. based non-profit, Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) sought permission from the federal court in Salt Lake City, Utah to be allowed to file an ‘Amicus Curiae’ or friends of the court, brief in the US citizenship lawsuit case, in...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Empty shelves at grocery stores have been restocked in American Samoa with the arrival of the first container ship in a month.
Over the weekend containers were hurriedly taken to stores from the ship the The Polynesia.
The supply shortage was caused by problems last...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Following an electrical fire that happened when an exhaust vent shorted on June 19th, the Retail Store, was the only Bluesky Communications operations that remained at Laufou Shopping Center.
The rest of the company’s operations that were on the second floor of Laufou...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Three men arrested after armed detectives of the DPS Vice & Narcotics Unit executed two search warrants last Thursday appeared in District Court Monday morning.
Two were arrested when police executed the search warrant on a vehicle and a home in Petesa, while a...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man who has a pending criminal case in High Court for unlawful possession of illegal drugs was arrested again last Friday, after testing positive for methamphetamine.
The man, Iosefo N. Sagote will appear in High Court this morning for his initial appearance for...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Election Office has made available since last Friday, June 29, nomination papers for those candidates for the local House of Representatives and the Delegate to the US House seeking public office in the November 2018 general election.
Election officials told Samoa...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Education Department director Dr. Ruth Matagi-Tofiga said the recent monetary donation to LBJ Medical Center by the National Honor Society (NHS) at Manu’a High School should serve as a challenge to other NHS chapters in the territory.
Matagi-Tofiga, on behalf of Manu’a...