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The fall 2016 Commencement Ceremony at the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) will take place this Friday, December 16, beginning at 10 a.m. in the college’s Gymnasium. Pending final exam results, 141 students are scheduled to graduate with their degrees and certificates.
Governor Lolo M....
![“Pay it Forward, Toy Drive”, drop off bin at the Cost-U-Less store. The toy drive project is to help children of Samoa Tuna Processors employees, who will be laid off at the end of this week. [courtesy photo]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/toy%20drive%20117.jpg?itok=JZJdRJCl "“Pay it Forward, Toy Drive”, drop off bin at the Cost-U-Less store. The toy drive project is to help children of Samoa Tuna Processors employees, who will be laid off at the end of this week. [courtesy photo]")
With the holiday season in full swing, some employees of Samoa Tuna Processors Inc. — about 800 are faced with an uncertain financial future, with their Christmas celebrations more than possibly scaled back for their children — or in some cases, nothing at all will be done.
To assist the STP...
Born 1927, Lawrence (Larry) A. Broquet, 89, passed away on November 28, 2016 after a brief illness. He started his career in educational television teaching World History at WTVS Channel 56 in Detroit, and that launched him on the adventure of a lifetime when he and his wife Jean and their four...
![2017 Territorial Teacher of the Year, Dana Love-Ili, receiving a kava bowl, which was among her awards and many prizes for being TTOY, during last week’s ASDOE sponsored TTOY celebratory event at the Tradewinds Hotel Pavilion. [photo: FS]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Love-Ili%206253_0.jpg?itok=LaDEBXZt "2017 Territorial Teacher of the Year, Dana Love-Ili, receiving a kava bowl, which was among her awards and many prizes for being TTOY, during last week’s ASDOE sponsored TTOY celebratory event at the Tradewinds Hotel Pavilion. [photo: FS]")
Teacher training and continuing education is essential for American Samoa to “empower our students and enhance their learning,” declared 2017 Territorial Teacher of the Year, Dana Love-Ili, during her speech, which stressed the importance of continuing education for teachers, at last Friday’s...
Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga says the government will never be able to catch up with paying its bills because of the way the current ASG system is set up and he is looking into sending to the Legislature a supplemental appropriation for the current fiscal year 2017.
The governor’s comments were made...
Local businessman and US longline fleet owner Carlos Sanchez says “shame on this ASG administration” for telling an international fishery meeting, with more than 500 delegates that the US flagged fleet in Pago Pago is “American Samoa’s fleet” which he says has been called by Gov. Lolo Matalasi...
As cabinet directors of the Executive Branch prepare to hand in their letters of resignation, or have already done so, by later next week, Lt. Gov. Lemanu Peleti Mauga has called on directors to refrain from making personnel changes to their workforce during the transition period into the new four-...
The US Government Accountability Office sought and received comments from four “external reviewers” on the latest report by the investigative arm of the US Congress, dealing with minimum wages increases in American Samoa.
GAO released last Friday a 110-page report, which cites “two basic approaches...
TAO LIU
The High Court has continued to Jan. 6, 2017 the status hearing on the government's case against Tao Liu, and hopefully at that time, both sides will have reached and signed a plea agreement.
During a hearing this week, Liu’s attorney, assistant public defender Michael White informed the...
![ducation Department deputy director Faauifono Vaitautolu, giving out gift baskets to senior citizens at yesterday’s Senior Citizens Christmas Program 2016, held at the Pago Pago Youth Center. The event is an annual celebration hosted by the Lolo Administration. [photo: AF]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/TAOA%20X-mas%200442web.jpg?itok=vwy_xodD "ducation Department deputy director Faauifono Vaitautolu, giving out gift baskets to senior citizens at yesterday’s Senior Citizens Christmas Program 2016, held at the Pago Pago Youth Center. The event is an annual celebration hosted by the Lolo Administration. [photo: AF]")
SENIOR CITIZENS CHRISTMAS PROGRAM 2016
The Lolo Administration’s annual Senior Citizens Christmas Program for this year, kicked off yesterday morning at the Pago Pago Youth Center, where it was packed with the territory’s elders, who were praised by Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga for their service to...