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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Lt. Governor Laapui Talauega Ale attended the Pacific Islands Forum Officials Committee (FOC) Meeting and the Forum Ministers Meeting (FMM) in Suva, Fiji last week as a critical step in joining the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) as an associate member, which gained approval...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Boxing Association (ASBA) president has expressed his full support of IBA (International Boxing Association), the world-governing body of the sport in its bitter feud with the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which has dramatically manifested in...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa is experiencing a decline in average life expectancy. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and its global impacts, the only known COVID deaths in the territory were recorded in 2022 (16 deaths due to COVID-19), while Heart Diseases, Influenza/pneumonia, Malignant...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Richard Alexander Young Jr, age 77, passed away on 3 Aug 2024 at 3:40am at the Ohio’s Hospice of Miami County in Troy, Ohio.
He was born on 24 February 1947 in Pago Pago, American Samoa to the late Richard Young Sr. and Pauline Bartley Young of Nu’uuli.
Richard was a...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — On Friday, August 2nd the Teacher Education Department (TED) at the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) concluded its five-week STEAM Guitar Building Program. STEAM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math, and the program gave 18 high school...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The dedication ceremony for the new High Court building in Fagatogo took place this week Wednesday, attended by key figures of the American Samoa government.
Present were Governor Lemanu P.S. Mauga, Senate President Tuaolo Manaia Fruean, Speaker Savali Talavou Ale and...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lemanu P.S. Mauga has unveiled a local budget of $165,907,000 for the American Samoa Government (ASG) for the fiscal year 2025. This proposed budget reflects a significant increase from the FY2024 local budget, which was set at $143,000,000. However, the pressing...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Groundbreaking for a new ASDOE building in Tafuna took place recently and the building will be one of the first of its kind in American Samoa, according to Gov. Lemanu P.S. Mauga.
Governor Lemanu was the keynote speaker, reminiscing about how the location of the new...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa's Attorney General Fainu'ulelei Alailima Utu has revealed that his office will not pursue criminal charges against three individuals named in a Department of Homeland Security (D.H.S.) report concerning the Kite Runner's voyage to and from Samoa in April...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Climate change is a hot topic on college campuses. But when Audrey-Rose Sevaaetasi started school in North Carolina, she felt like few students could relate to her perspective on the issue.
As an Indigenous Pacific Islander from American Samoa, where sea level rise and...