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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Save Liuato Afa Tuitele who is also a former Commissioner of Public Safety, has been nominated by the Lemanu- Talauega Administration as director of the Search and Rescue Department.
Another nomination by the Administration is Aoelua Solomona Vaioletama Aoelua, to the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Police have made an arrest after the body of a man was found in the stream by the Fagatogo Market Place last week Saturday.
When detectives arrived on the scene, they were told by multiple bystanders that the victim, identified as Kereta Vaili, had allegedly been...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The fourth Mass Drug Administration (MDA) for the Lymphatic Filariasis (LF) campaign on island got underway last Sunday morning with a special service at the Leone village Congregational Christian Church of American Samoa (CCCAS) attended by members of the Department of...
Solomon Islands — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata with Rep. Neal Dunn (R-FL) of the US House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party traveled to Solomon Islands, meeting with Solomon officials and community leaders earlier this week. In visiting Guadalcanal, Congresswoman Amata and...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The National Park of American Samoa will be sending a crew of 6 members of the National Park Service Fire Crew from American Samoa today, Thursday, August 17 to respond to fires throughout the Hawaiian Islands.
Crew members, Ronald Amperosa, Letufia Ili, Ramsey Malia,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA —A 31-year-old Samoan woman in Anchorage is facing murder charges after a shooting that occurred on Friday, Aug. 11 on a street in Anchorage, Alaska that left one person dead and another with serious injuries.
A video recorded by a witness indicated that Juliana Tauamo...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Lt. Governor Talauega E. V. Ale in his role as Acting Governor emphasized the profound impact of educators to guide the younger generation during a general assembly to welcome back faculty and staff for the new academic year at American Samoa Community College, on Monday...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The local Tower Insurance Company has announced that it has revamped its parental leave benefits, increasing it from 12 to 16 weeks paid leave for primary caregivers, and from 2 to 4 weeks paid leave for partners — effective on Monday, Aug. 14, 2023.
Tower Insurance in...
Canberra, AUSTRALIA — Uifa’atali Amata is taking part in a Congressional Delegation to Australia led by Chairman Mike Gallagher of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, in which the Members of Congress participated in the Australian American Leadership Dialogue (AALD), and...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The US Transportation Department (USDOT) has joined the growing list of federal agencies proposing an 18-month “temporary general applicability public interest waiver” of the requirements for the federal Build America, Buy America Act (BABA) for federal financial...