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![Police Commissioner Le’i Sonny Thompson [SN file photo]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Lei_0413_5.jpg?itok=uxINq409 "Police Commissioner Le’i Sonny Thompson [SN file photo]")
Armed DPS police officers participated in executing a search warrant during a raid on a house in Petesa last Thursday afternoon, looking for prohibited weapons, ammunition and illegal drugs.
The raid was carried out by DPS Vice & Narcotics unit — all armed, together with other armed police...
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The vessel, CS Responder, laying the undersea fiber optical cable for Hawaiki Submarine Cable LP is scheduled to arrived in Pago Pago next month, with plans to still launch the new cable service in the territory in June this year.
Hawaiki will link Australia and New Zealand to the US mainland, as...
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Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga (left) shakes hands with Inter Island Airways chief executive officer Alex Sene (right) after the governor signed the payment voucher last Wednesday providing $400,000 to the airline from the American Samoa Venture Fund (ASVF) program, which is funded by the US Treasury...
![Police Commissioner Le’i S. Thompson with DPS police officers during the 2016 flag day parade at the VA stadium in Tafuna. [archive photo: AF]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/DPS%20n%20Lei_0543.jpg?itok=nJJJdd6u "Police Commissioner Le’i S. Thompson with DPS police officers during the 2016 flag day parade at the VA stadium in Tafuna. [archive photo: AF]")
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Attorney General’s Office is reviewing a complaint from a concerned citizen, accusing two senior police officers of abusing their powers of law enforcement over an incident that began with one of the senior officers, who was off-duty at the time, and escalated into...
![Secretary of the Office of Samoan Affairs, Paramount Chief Mauga Tasi Asuega during the meeting with fautasi captains last Friday afternoon to discuss the fate of this year’s Flag Day fautasi race. [photo by AF]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Tasi%20asuegaMauga_0835.jpg?itok=Ea-9NLgx "Secretary of the Office of Samoan Affairs, Paramount Chief Mauga Tasi Asuega during the meeting with fautasi captains last Friday afternoon to discuss the fate of this year’s Flag Day fautasi race. [photo by AF]")
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Many people of American Samoa have been wondering if a celebration will be held to commemorate the 118 years since the territory became part of the United States family on April 17, and the Flag Day Committee has officially given its answer.
There is no fautasi race...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — With US President Donald Trump’s signing of a major disaster declaration for American Samoa, the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) plans to announce in the coming days the opening of the Disaster Recovery Center in Pago Pago where local residents and business...
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A ship laying the Hawaiki submarine cable linking the US and the Pacific is expected to arrive in American Samoa in April.
The manager for the Hawaiki Cable at the American Samoa Telecommunications Authority, Ted Leiato, said one half of the 15-thousand kilometre fibre-optic cable has already been...
![2015 scholarship recipient Faasalafa Kitiona (right) is now employed at the America Samoa Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources under Director Henry Sesapasara (left). [courtesy photo]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/kitionaweb.jpg?itok=Mdbd1M2z "2015 scholarship recipient Faasalafa Kitiona (right) is now employed at the America Samoa Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources under Director Henry Sesapasara (left). [courtesy photo]")
The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council and its Education Committee members are pleased to announce the availability of up to three scholarships for academic year 2018- 2019. These scholarships support the aspiration of American Samoa, Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga announced Friday that US President Donald J. Trump has approved his request for a major disaster declaration for American Samoa following the Feb. 9 devastation left behind by Tropical Storm Gita.
Lolo said in a news release that the approval...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Department of Homeland Security -TEMCO is advising the public that the Emergency Operation Center (EOC) telephone #:699-3800 is currently not working. Please use telephone #:699-0411 if you want to contact the EOC. Homeland Security – TEMCO will advise...