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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa is now home to a well-known Bible school in the Pacific — the RHEMA Bible Training Center Center Pago Pago (RHEMA BTPP), which will open its doors Tuesday, next week, August 1, 2023. It will be based on the second floor of the GHC Reid building at Fagatogo...
Washington, D.C. — Uifa’atali Amata took part in examination of a bill she sponsored, with Congressman Ed Case (D-HI) as the original cosponsor, the South Pacific Tuna Treaty Act, H.R. 1792, a bipartisan effort to congressionally direct full implementation of the South Pacific Tuna Treaty, as...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A former auditor of the ASG’s Territorial Audit Office, Micheal A. Edmonds, has been appointed by Gov. Lemanu P. S. Mauga to fill the long-vacant post of Territorial Auditor, who also oversees this independent government agency.
The governor’s nomination of Edmonds — who...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Of the total projected government local revenues of $143 million, an estimated $103.2 million will come from taxes, according to data provided by Gov. Lemanu P.S. Mauga in his 26-page Executive Budget summary booklet for the proposed FY 2024 budget submitted to the Fono...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The special provisions clause of the Immigration law was under scrutiny in a hearing of the Senate’s Immigration Committee, which convened as a committee-of-the-whole yesterday morning, and all 15 members present were given an opportunity to comment on the issue....
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Fa’asao High School Alumni Association spent quality time with the treasured residents (elderly, disabled, and adult day care) at Hope House on Saturday, July 22, 2023.
Alumni engaged in activities that both the residents and Association enjoyed, including elei-...
Washington, D.C. — House Veterans’ Affairs Committee (HVAC) passed in votes Wednesday 11 bills addressing various Veterans’ issues, including two bills Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata cosponsored. The next legislative step will be consideration by the whole House of Representatives.
“We are...
Holy Cross, INDIANA — Top leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints dropped a bombshell in June 2023 by telling their flock to vote for Democrats — well, almost.
In a letter that local leaders read during worship meetings nationwide, the church’s president and his two counselors...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa’s Jean P. Haydon Museum in Fagatogo is facing a— horrendous tragedy — many of its cultural artifacts are damaged and may be beyond repair, due to termite infestation and a lack of care and maintenance, as seen in these photos.
Some of the art stacked and...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Public Safety Committee, chaired by Su’a District #2 faipule Avagafono Tuavao Vaimaga Maiava held a hearing on Tuesday, July 25, 2023 to hear reports from the Department of Public Safety’s plans for drug prevention and issues regarding police vehicles for Manu’a.
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