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Pago Pago — Uifa’atali Amata is welcoming a federal funding notice received Tuesday from the U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) totaling $1,413,520 from the Fiscal Year 2023 Appropriations Act signed into law on December 29, 2022.
The largest of the three grants is a Community Development...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Pereira Merciano, Fetoai Isa’ako and Paul Taliva’a appeared in the District Court yesterday on drug charges after a raid was carried out this past Friday in Leloaloa.
All three men are held on bail of $30,000 in relation to a search warrant executed by detectives of the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Two men have been charged in a sex case. Enosa Lotonu’u is held on bail of $20,000 and the co-defendant in this case Sam Satini’s bail is $5,000.
The victims in this case are 15 and 16 year old cousins and live in the same house.
The defendants appeared virtually in the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Battling drugs in the territory should be a “collective effort” between government, villages, churches, classrooms, and households, says Deputy Secretary of Samoan Affairs Tauese Vaa Sunia.
This is outlined in a statement issued by the government regarding the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The overall winners for the American Samoa HOSA high school competition is Manumalo Academy; second place, went to Tafuna High School; while Faasao Marist placed third, Leone High was named fourth place and fifth place went to Nuuuli Vocational Technical High School.
A...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Armed officers of the Vice and Narcotics Division of the Department of Public Safety conducted a drug raid on a family home in Leloaloa on Friday night.
Detectives executed a search warrant for illegal drugs and it landed four men behind bars.
This was confirmed by a...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa joins the rest of the nation in observing Monday, Feb. 20 as Presidents Day, and all ASG and federal offices are closed.
“Presidents Day is a time to commemorate all who had the distinguished privilege to lead our great nation,” Acting Governor, Talauega...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa remains blacklisted by the European Union (EU) as a “non-cooperative tax jurisdiction,” according to a Feb 14, 2023 release by the EU Commission.
Both within the EU and at the international level, the EU is working to promote and strengthen good tax...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Accrediting Commission for Schools, Western Association of Schools and Colleges (ACS-WASC) has granted “Initial Accreditation Status” for Olosega Elementary School in Manu’a, through June 30, 2026.
This decision, made during the Winter 2023 Commission Meeting “is...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Governor Lemanu P. S. Mauga is calling the recent move by the Department of Defense (DoD) “discrimination” against US nationals after the return of 11 of 25 students that attended the Hawaii National Army Guard Youth Challenge Program in Honolulu.
In a statement released...