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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A post on social media is highlighting the Pula and Pulu Administration’s continuing problems it has with appointing or nominating people to be heads of government departments and offices. The problems seem to stem from the nominees themselves, as well as from the manner...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata released the following statement on the announcement of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV:
“As one of the more than a billion Catholic worshippers worldwide, I am delighted to welcome the announcement of Pope Leo XIV. Watching the ceremonies is a special...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — On March 2, 2025, police responded to a domestic call involving a man who allegedly assaulted his wife for no reason.
The suspect was apprehended and later charged with:
Count 1: Private Peace Disturbance (DV), a class C misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for up to...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — On March 4, 2025, a concerned father called the Tafuna Police Substation (TPS) requesting assistance regarding his son who was allegedly causing a disturbance and damaging their home.
The suspect was later arrested and charged with:
Count 1: Property Damage in the Third...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Mother’s Day in American Samoa is honored with most, if not all, celebrating this coming Sunday by going to church with their beloved mother, or with her love wrapped in bittersweet memories of days when the woman that raised you and taught you to be of humanity was...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — With Mother’s Day weekend coming up, the weather is forecast to have widespread showers and scattered thunderstorms — rain being the main ingredient of a wet weekend. Currently, all public schools are on hold while the weather runs it course for safety and health reasons...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Food prices are going up, period. The best clue: “It’s the eggs, stupid!”
April’s Basic Food Index (BFI) for American Samoa has experienced an increase of 4.0% from March of this year with the most notable rise in the price of eggs, which surged by 49.5%. The cost of...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata, who serves as Vice Chairman of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, was humbled to speak in honor of the soldiers that liberated prisoners on a death march from the Dachau Concentration Camp at an 80th Anniversary remembrance, days before the...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is commending passage by both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives of the Take It Down Act, S. 146, which has been sent to President Trump to be signed into law. The Act combats non-consensual explicit imagery of people, created by...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Issuing only his second Executive Order, since being elected, Governor Pulaali’i Nikolao Pula has established May 13th as “Swains Island Day” — an official holiday in American Samoa.
The EO preamble reads:
WHEREAS, “[t]he sovereignty of the United States over American...