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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.
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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...