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Gov. Lemanu Peleti Mauga on screen during remote meeting
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In a second meeting with federal officials this month — this one with the DOI Interagency Group on Insular Areas (IGIA), Governor Lemanu Peleti Mauga delivered testimony at the 2022 Senior Plenary Session.  The theme for this year's plenary session was "Bipartisan...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Both the House and Senate this week have given their blessings to Dr Lealofi Uiagalelei to serve as American Samoa’s Election Commissioner for another three year term. Both chambers confirmed him by unanimous votes following brief confirmation hearings. Lawmakers praised...
American Samoa District Court building
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man accused of violating a court order when he went to his wife’s house and allegedly assaulted her while he was intoxicated was arrested last week. To protect the identity of the victim, Samoa News is withholding the names of all parties involved. The defendant, a 35-...
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs has announced that proposals are now being accepted for the Energizing Insular Communities (EIC) grant program for fiscal year (FY) 2022. The anticipated total funding available to the territories is $15.5 million. Those...
Gov. Lemanu Peleti Mauga
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Governor Lemanu Peleti Mauga signed on Friday an amended version of the recent Emergency Declaration.  It now gives DOH the authority to quarantine a person for up to 21 days without a court order.  This is a result of the recent cluster of new cases currently in...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 44-year-old man convicted in High Court for attempted felonious restraint is ordered to serve 20 months behind bars, as part of a 5-year probation sentence. Harry Finau was initially charged with attempted rape, first-degree sexual abuse, and attempted felonious...
Vice Speaker of the House, Fetui Fetu Jr
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Government officials are fully supporting a House bill authorizing the Department of Health (DOH) to screen minors for communicable disease and limits waiver of consent to screening and examinations during a House Health committee hearing yesterday morning. Witnesses who...
Dr. Malouamaua Tuiolosega, Faumuina John Faumuina, Dr. Iotamo Saleapaga
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — LBJ Medical Center officials have assured senators that the territory’s only hospital is prepared in the event the COVID-19 virus spreads into the community sending people to the medical center — it has a response-plan in place. LBJ’s Chief Executive Officer Faumuina...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man accused of sexually abusing his 16-year-old niece was arrested by police last month pursuant to an arrest warrant from the court, after the victim’s parents filed their complaints against him with the police last month. (Samoa News has chosen not to identify the...
Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata welcomed the visit to the Pacific of U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in his first foray into the region since taking office in 2021.  “Welcome to my home district of American Samoa, strategically important as the only U.S. soil in the...

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