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![Tualauta faipule, Rep. Vui Florence Saulo [SN file photo]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Vui_2.jpg?itok=ESu-zorK "Tualauta faipule, Rep. Vui Florence Saulo [SN file photo]")
Tualauta Faipule, Rep. Vui Florence Saulo is requesting the House Health Committee to set up a hearing with LBJ Hospital officials, to discuss the problem with the CT scanner which has been inoperable for over two weeks.
Vui told House members this week she was saddened to hear about the case of a...
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As the United States Senate debates whether to pass a tax reform bill, the tiny territory of American Samoa is hoping a proposed tax credit extension will stick with the proposed legislation.
U.S. Delegate Aumua Amata, America Samoa’s non-voting congressional representative, said extending the...
![Sen. Paepae Iosefa Faiai with Sen. Nuanuaolefeagaiga Saoluaga Nua yesterday in the Senate chambers where earlier in the day, Paepae appeared before the Senate Government Operations Committee for his confirmation hearing that'll make him an associate judge. The full Senate confirmation vote is expected soon. [photo: FS]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Sen%20Paepae%200549.jpg?itok=xqYTTXzB "Sen. Paepae Iosefa Faiai with Sen. Nuanuaolefeagaiga Saoluaga Nua yesterday in the Senate chambers where earlier in the day, Paepae appeared before the Senate Government Operations Committee for his confirmation hearing that'll make him an associate judge. The full Senate confirmation vote is expected soon. [photo: FS]")
If confirmed by the Senate as a new associate judge of the High Court, senators encourage Sen. Paepae Iosefa Faiai to always make the right decision, let God guide him in his judicial duties, and remember the people.
The words of advice were voiced during Paepae’s confirmation hearing yesterday...
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Questions have been raised in American Samoa over the arming of the territory's police.
The police began carrying firearms three months ago but there are concerns over the amount of training officers have received and whether there's been enough vetting.
Our correspondent in Pago Pago Monica Miller...
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SECRET “AFFAIR” LEADS TO ASSAULT
A 41-year-old man from Tafuna who was arrested last week for allegedly assaulting his wife told police that a secret affair between his wife and a neighbor caused him to beat up the mother of his 2 young children.
The matter was reported to police by a neighbor...
To further improve ASG workers’ skills and qualifications, Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has encouraged cabinet members to take advantage of courses offered by the American Samoa Community College, which is competing with courses offered online and being taken up by many government workers.
“It’s in...
![Rendering of the proposed new Fono Building. [SN file photo]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/fono%20bldg%20rendering_24.jpg?itok=E8_PRqJp "Rendering of the proposed new Fono Building. [SN file photo]")
Manu’a Rep. Toeaina Faufano Autele did not mince words when he spoke during a House Commerce & Economic Development Committee hearing this week, to discuss the bill to amend the law that set up the Territorial Bank of American Samoa (TBAS).
Toeaina told committee members he wants to set up a...
![(l-r) American Samoa Visitors Bureau executive director, David Vaeafe; Miss American Samoa Inc. president & chaperone Simeafou Imo; Miss American Samoa Matauaina Toomalatai; Luseane Clark-Vaeafe and Eleitino Tuiasosopo.[photo: Visitors Bureau/MASI]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Miss%20Pac%20Island.jpg?itok=iIF6mlSc "(l-r) American Samoa Visitors Bureau executive director, David Vaeafe; Miss American Samoa Inc. president & chaperone Simeafou Imo; Miss American Samoa Matauaina Toomalatai; Luseane Clark-Vaeafe and Eleitino Tuiasosopo.[photo: Visitors Bureau/MASI]")
The Miss American Samoa delegation - in this photo taken over the weekend at Faleolo Airport in Apia -
The Miss American Samoa delegation is enroute to Nadi, Fiji for the Miss Pacific Islands Pageant.
The group departed Pago Pago this past Sunday afternoon heading to Fiji via Apia. Prior to their departure, To’omalatai along with the traveling group attended a church service at the CCCAS Onenoa.
The...
![in this Samoa News 2016 file photo, leaders from the American Samoa Government and the Fono along with Anthony Bernardo of AVM Bernardo Engineering are pictured during a groundbreaking ceremony for a food processing plant across from Public Works in Tafuna. [SN file photo]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/groundbreak%20food%20plant_0172web_0.jpg?itok=thn724R3 "in this Samoa News 2016 file photo, leaders from the American Samoa Government and the Fono along with Anthony Bernardo of AVM Bernardo Engineering are pictured during a groundbreaking ceremony for a food processing plant across from Public Works in Tafuna. [SN file photo]")
The Philippines-based company wanting to establish a multi-food processing plant in American Samoa is now in the process of obtaining government approval to set up in the territory, while containers of construction materials for the plant are already on island, says Commerce Department director...
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A 35-year-old man who was convicted of stealing checks from a businessman and forging his signature was sentenced yesterday to 5 years in jail. During sentencing the presiding judge pointed to his criminal record, which he says seems to have started about the time he became a father — Suauupaia...