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Certain classes of contract employees are now added to the list of American Samoa Government workers exempted from the reduction of working hours from 8 hours to 7 hours a day or 70 hours every pay period, according to Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga’s Apr. 7 memo, issued three days before the Apr. 10...
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ASG Employees Retirement Fund board of trustee chairman, Va’anatiu Tofala Iafeta has confirmed that a $4 million loan from the Retirement Fund for the American Samoa TeleCommunications Authority (ASTCA) is already approved.
ASTCA board chairman Roy J.D. Hall told a Senate committee hearing last...
![John Armor, Director of NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, is seen here giving a talk to ASCC Marine Science students about perseverence and finding a career that is both rewarding and protective of American Samoa's unique island resources. [Photo: K. Anderson-Tagarino]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/ASCC%20Talk%20by%20NOAA%20Director%20copy.png?itok=LYcd_8GF "John Armor, Director of NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, is seen here giving a talk to ASCC Marine Science students about perseverence and finding a career that is both rewarding and protective of American Samoa's unique island resources. [Photo: K. Anderson-Tagarino]")
It isn’t often that a high level official such as the Director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office of the National Marine Sanctuaries (ONMS) travels to American Samoa and makes time to speak with college students.
The American Samoa Community College (ASCC) was...
The American Samoa Medicaid Agency has provided additional funding of $1,745,032 as a result of completing the reconciliation of LBJ's Medicare Cost Reports for the fiscal year 2015.
The reconciliation revealed additional expenditures incurred by LBJ that they were not reimbursed for in this period...
Samoa's churches are asking the Ministry of Revenue to allow more time for discussions on changes to tax laws that would affect pastor earnings.
Samoa's National Council of Churches is asking for the Ministry of Revenue to allow more time for individual churches to discuss changes to
tax laws that...
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It’s been almost a month since four Public Safety officers, assigned to the Juvenile Detention Center, were arrested and charged with various crimes, including felony drug charges.
However, the defense attorney for one of the officers yesterday told the court, they have not yet received discovery...
Tri Marine International is pleased that a global environmental group have again placed the company’s canned tuna product on a high rating. However, Tri Marine has no plans at this point to reopen cannery operation at the Samoa Tuna Processors (STP) Inc., plant at the shoreline village of Atu’u....
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Senate President Gaoteote Tofau Palaie has rearranged confirmation hearings for the governor’s nominees to ASG boards, with the plan to end the special session tomorrow, Thursday, as the House is waiting for the Senate to complete its work.
Late last week, Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga called a special...
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With the closure of Tri Marine International’s cannery operation in American Samoa, a global environmental group has called on the Washington state-based company to use its clout to ensure that more responsibly-caught tuna replaces destructive tuna currently lining supermarket shelves across the U....
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In his Flag Day address, on Monday, Samoa Head of State Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Efi spoke of the impact of climate change on Samoa and the Pacific region and also shared some of his traditional knowledge of the palolo rising, which occurs in October and November, seven days after a full moon....