Local News
![[SN file photo]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/EOB_1web_23.jpg?itok=xAutL4rx "[SN file photo]")
Department of Human Resources Director Eseneiaso J. Liu has urged all cabinet members to submit to her office — as early as possible — the list of all worksites for students who will participate in the government’s annual Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP).
According to Liu, some 800 students...
![Rose Atoll Marine National Monument [photo: US Fish and Wildlife Service]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/rose%20atoll.jpg?itok=I2nSIs4J "Rose Atoll Marine National Monument [photo: US Fish and Wildlife Service]")
An environmentalist group has launched an online petition calling for the safeguarding of “American Samoa’s Rose Atoll Marine National Monument” from being delisted as a designated ocean monument.
President Trump directed in April this year, a review of the nation’s land and ocean monuments...
![Members of the McDonald's American Samoa Scholarship Board hosted a special luncheon yesterday to honor the five recipients of this year's awards. They are: Jennet N.L. Chang, Rosanlyn E. Taulaga, Jemima T. Nafatali, O'Riley S. Leau, and Ta'avili Amosa. Four of the recipients will be attending the American Samoa Community College on scholarships of $1,000 per semester, while one will be attending the University of Hawaii - Hilo with a $20,000 scholarship ($5,000 per semester). [photo: Blue Chen-Fruean]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/McDs%20scholarship.jpg?itok=pADyVHsf "Members of the McDonald's American Samoa Scholarship Board hosted a special luncheon yesterday to honor the five recipients of this year's awards. They are: Jennet N.L. Chang, Rosanlyn E. Taulaga, Jemima T. Nafatali, O'Riley S. Leau, and Ta'avili Amosa. Four of the recipients will be attending the American Samoa Community College on scholarships of $1,000 per semester, while one will be attending the University of Hawaii - Hilo with a $20,000 scholarship ($5,000 per semester). [photo: Blue Chen-Fruean]")
McDonald's American Samoa has done it once again, giving back to the community in a huge way.
Yesterday afternoon, members of the company's scholarship board, on behalf of CEO Tautolo Charlie Tautolo, hosted a special luncheon to honor this year's five recipients, and their parents.
The ceremony...
![Four graduates were presented scholarships from Bluesky Communications yesterday at the company's main office at the Laufou Shopping Center. Three of the scholarships were for students accepted to off island schools and one for ASCC. The awardees are: Tedy Barber, Gabriella Langkilde, Farah Young, and Casidhe Mahuka. [photo: Leua Aiono Frost]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Bluesky%20awardees.jpg?itok=9kardU7D "Four graduates were presented scholarships from Bluesky Communications yesterday at the company's main office at the Laufou Shopping Center. Three of the scholarships were for students accepted to off island schools and one for ASCC. The awardees are: Tedy Barber, Gabriella Langkilde, Farah Young, and Casidhe Mahuka. [photo: Leua Aiono Frost]")
Bluesky is proud to announce its continued commitment to the empowerment and investment into the youth of Am. Samoa by granting a total four scholarships for the upcoming 2017/2018 academic school year.
This is now the third year of Bluesky's Future of Am. Samoa Scholarship Program, which...
![Tapaau Dr. Daniel Aga, Executive Director of the ASG Office of Political Status at the U.N. meeting. [SN file photo]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Danny%20Aga%20n%20Decolonization%20seminar_2.jpg?itok=hc03EkKR "Tapaau Dr. Daniel Aga, Executive Director of the ASG Office of Political Status at the U.N. meeting. [SN file photo]")
American Samoans prefer the compromise that limits enforcement of the United States Constitution’s equal protection clause to limit the risk to Samoan lands, according to Tapaau Dr. Daniel Aga, Executive Director of the ASG Office of Political Status, Constitution, and Federal Relations, during his...
![O se va’aiga i le to’a 17 o i latou na fa’au’u mai i le a’oga maualuga a le Manu’atele i Ta’u i le aso 2 Iuni, 2017 i le Fale Ta’alo o le Laumua o le Segaula. [ata: Leua Aiono Frost]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/ManuaClass.jpg?itok=HdDX68O4 "O se va’aiga i le to’a 17 o i latou na fa’au’u mai i le a’oga maualuga a le Manu’atele i Ta’u i le aso 2 Iuni, 2017 i le Fale Ta’alo o le Laumua o le Segaula. [ata: Leua Aiono Frost]")
The first public high school commencement ceremony held this year was for the graduating class of Manu’a HS on Friday, June 2, inside the school gymnasium at the Segaula campus.
Government officials and dignitaries who attended the ceremony had to travel by air and sea to witness the first page of...
![[SN file photo]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/EOB_1web_22.jpg?itok=mzUimgCh "[SN file photo]")
The American Samoa Government has started preparations for a status report, which Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga says will be submitted to the US Interior Department after the close of the current fiscal year, and the “comprehensive report” will also be submitted to the Fono and “to the people.”
Since...
The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council has requested that the federal government consider reviewing the continued need for existing monument and sanctuary fishing restrictions, given the availability of federal regulations which manage fisheries in the US Pacific Islands.
The...
![Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga [SN file photo]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Gov%20Lolo%202833%20web_2.jpg?itok=mDpmvSh4 "Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga [SN file photo]")
Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has called on directors to structure their budgets for the new fiscal year (2018) in accordance with the threshold ceiling of 90% of the approved FY 2017 budget, saying that the threshold is for all departments and offices funded by local revenue.
Of the total $380.48...
![Graduates of South Pacific Academy's Class of 2017 smiling for the Samoa News camera minutes before they were presented their high school diplomas last Saturday. [photo: Blue Chen-Fruean]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Class%20of%202017.jpg?itok=rp1FONUR "Graduates of South Pacific Academy's Class of 2017 smiling for the Samoa News camera minutes before they were presented their high school diplomas last Saturday. [photo: Blue Chen-Fruean]")