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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Since 2021, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended dengue vaccination for kids ages 9 to 16 in communities where more than 20% of age-eligible persons have previously been infected with the virus. While vaccination offers strong...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A Senate Resolution which "respectfully requests Governor Lemanu to build and maintain a wharf in Fitiuta, Manu'a, to help the people of Manu'a with much-needed transportation and economic development."
The resolution was one of three pieces of legislation introduced in...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Airport officials who testified at the Senate Transportation Committee hearing yesterday were told in no uncertain terms that it was complacency and negligence that caused their late response to the incident involving a Talofa Airways aircraft moving forward on its nose...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Fiscal Year 2025 Budget bill totaling $733,683,167 million was introduced in the Senate yesterday as the Fono reconvened in both chambers — Senate and House — after the four-week break it took from its 4th regular session of the 38th Legislature.
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Washington, D.C. — A federal funding notice of $295,000 was released last week from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for Preventing Maternal Mortality in American Samoa.
“Thank you especially to Anaise Uso for her dedicated work on this grant to enhance our capacity to improve...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Ocean Exploration Trust (OET)'s fifth expedition of 2024 is E Mamana Ou Gataifale I (NA164): a multi-vehicle exploration of midwater ecosystems across American Samoan waters. The midwater ocean twilight zone is an important source of food for many marine animals,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The issue regarding the Talofa Airways aircraft landing incident on July 21, 2024 at the Pago Pago International Airport was brought up by the chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee Senator Malaepule Saite Moliga yesterday, during the first Senate regular...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A $750,000+ contract was let to Golden State Investment (Golden Island Services) upon winning the bid for construction of the new Masefau Elementary Multipurpose Building. The total cost for this project is $754,995.
On August 8, 2024, the village of Masefau gathered for...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Ready or not, back-to-school season is here, and kids will be bringing home more than homework. They’ll be carrying germs, too.
These viruses and bacteria will be agents that cause the common cold, influenza, norovirus, COVID-19, strep throat and more. There’s a reason...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Pacific foreign ministers have given their nod of approval for United States territories Guam and American Samoa to be associate members of main regional decision-making body, but a political expert says it is geopolitics at play.
The news was delivered by Pacific...