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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — They are not your regular college students. Pictured are employees of StarKist Samoa who have taken over the ASCC campus in the evenings since Oct. 2, 2023.
StarKist clerks, administrators, IT employees, electricians, security officers and fish cleaners are taking night...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A woman phoned the Fagatogo Police Station on September 30, 2023 at 10:47 PM reporting that a man, identified as Christopher To’omata, had assaulted her brother and was causing a disturbance in Laulii Aumi.
When officers arrived at the scene, they met with the woman who...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Introduced by House Vice Speaker Fetu Fetui, Jr. last week, September 25, 2023, the House Finance Committee on Tuesday approved a supplemental bill of more than $15 million appropriating unobligated and unexpected revenues from FY 2022 for FY 2024. The bill then went to...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Further queries that were raised during a hearing on the Territorial Bank of American Samoa (TBAS) included long lines at the ATMs, the FDIC issue and the bank’s audited financials.
They were among the issues discussed when Acting CEO of TBAS, Owen Peery and Director of...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Department of Education’s Teacher Quality Office Division announced the 2024 Territory Teacher of the Year winner yesterday, October 4, 2024, as well as the 2024 Regional Teacher of the Year and two others as the 2024 Teachers of the Year.
The four teachers are the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Having expressed their disgruntlement and discontent at the government for spending $36 million without their approval, Senators yesterday were divided on the language of a concurrent resolution which calls for the Attorney General to request the court for an independent...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Train our own and grow our own, is now a daily challenge for the LBJ hospital management, while employing overseas expertise in an effort to avoid the shortage of nurses in American Samoa.
LBJ hospital CEO Dr. Akapusi Ledua said their vision is to develop our own local...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Acting CEO of the Territorial Bank of American Samoa, Owen Peery and Director of the Office of Financial Institutions Tuasivi John Marsh were called to the House of Representatives on Monday, October 2, 2023 to provide an update on issues at TBAS.
Members of the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The tropical cyclone outlook for 2023/2024 predicts that the Samoa archipeligo will likely experience at least one tropical cyclone event in the period from November to April next year.. The typical cyclone season coincides with the summer monsoon, with the most severe...
Washington, D.C. — The Department of the Interior (DOI) through the Office of Insular Affairs’ Energizing Insular Communities (EIC) program is providing $4,193,840 in federal funding for the American Samoa Power Authority and the American Samoa Telecommunications Authority.
This grant will be used...