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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man in his 20s was taken into the custody of police over the weekend after the beating death of a 45-year-old man from the village of Sailele.
Senior police officers at the Central Station confirmed this with Samoa News as efforts to get official comments from the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Governor Lemanu P. S. Mauga met earlier this month with high-ranking officials from the U.S. Treasury Department, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the White House to enlist federal support for the Governor’s effort to have a federally insured...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Deputy Immigration Chief, Sam Soliai is leading a delegation to Fiji for the Pacific Immigration Development Community Meeting.
Mr. Soliai is accompanied by Senior Immigration Officer Ipi Ieli.
The PIDC members that include heads of Immigration or senior executive staff...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The COVID-19 Task Force Operations financial report covering 2022, provides a new update of what the government plans to do with the TALOFAPass online platform, that was utilized to pre-screen travelers entering the territory during the COVID restrictions.
There was much...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A team of NOAA scientists from the Pacific Island Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC) presented a draft stock assessment of nine out of eleven federally managed bottomfish unit species to a panel of reviewers from the Center of Independent Experts (CIE) and Scientific and...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — As of December 31, 2022 the American Samoa Government Employees Retirement Fund (ASGERF) noted three consecutive quarters of negative returns for both stocks and bonds, before capital markets rebounded on signs of reduced inflationary pressures and a tempered pace of...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa spent more than $73 million in response to the COVID-19 pandemic with the first case of community spread of the deadly virus in February last year, followed by the first recorded death the following month, according to the recently completed 2022 COVID-19...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 29-year old man has been charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance, methamphetamine (meth), following a traffic stop earlier this month.
Taliu Lualima is held on bail of $3,000.
According to the government’s case on February 10, 2023 Traffic Officers...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Hawai‘i deep-set longline and American Samoa longline fisheries are the focus of a complaint at the federal court in Honolulu, against defendants, including the U.S National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and Gina Raimondo in her capacity as the U.S Secretary of...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The net position for the end of 2022 saw a decrease in the American Samoa Government Employees Retirement Fund (ASGERF) worth close to $40 million. The losses were due to payouts in 2022 in the amount of $25.86 million versus contributions of $15 million in the same year...