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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The nation’s governors met in the White House this past Friday with President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Cabinet members, and senior White House advisers to discuss economic issues, infrastructure investment and other bipartisan priorities.
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A statement filed by the defense for a federal defendant who pled guilty to making a false statement on a U.S. passport application recommends that he be sentenced to one-year probation instead of the 2-years probation recommended in the pre-sentencing report.
The...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The U.S. Presidential COVID-19 Emergency Declaration for American Samoa “will close effective” May 11, 2023 — which is the same date that the nationwide declaration — issued in March 2020 — as well as individual pandemic declarations for all states and territories, will...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Prior to the five-week recess, the House of Representatives unanimously approved a measure giving the Department of Port Administration authority to establish a local licensing system for US flagged purse seiner vessels.
This was measure was also approved in the Senate,...
![[l-r] Gov. Lourdes Leon Guerrero of Guam, American Samoa’s Gov. Lemanu P.S. Mauga, and Gov. Arnold I. Palacios of CNMI](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/governors_in_d.c_0.jpg?itok=_8SlHBUb "This photo posted on the ASG Facebook page shows [l-r] Gov. Lourdes Leon Guerrero of Guam, American Samoa’s Gov. Lemanu P.S. Mauga, and Gov. Arnold I. Palacios of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, before the start a U.S. Senate committee hearing on insular areas. The governor of U.S Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico were also present for the hearing on the state of the U.S territories. [photo ASG]")
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lemanu P. S. Mauga shared with a U.S. Senate committee last Thursday, American Samoa’s “dilemma” in which a percentage of local residents, who have made the territory their home for 20 years, don’t qualify for the federally funded Medicaid program.
“Our dilemma in...
WASHINGTON D.C — Last week’s Interagency Group on Insular Areas (IGIA) annual meeting heard Gov. Lemanu P.S. Mauga open his remarks by thanking the U.S President and the DOI leadership for leading the efforts to waive for territories the local match requirement for Federal grants and he closed his...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man appeared in the District Court yesterday on charges of sexual abuse in the first degree; false imprisonment; endangering the welfare of a child and assault in the third degree.
According to the government’s case, police received a complaint last month over claims...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Department of Homeland Security (ASDHS) issued a notice last month advising the public of the maintenance and repair work ongoing for all emergency sirens on Tutuila and Aunu’u.
Contractor for the project, American Signals Corporation, is on island,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Department of Treasury is now offering vendor Automated Clearing House Services (ACH) to ASG departments/agencies and the private sector.
Automated Clearing House, is also known as direct payments, a service that was suspended some years back.
“ASG...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Kathy Jacobitz, Director, Jen Rhoda and Angie Pasho registered nurse educators were on island this past week to offer services on when it comes to poison exposure.
They are part of the Nebraska Regional Poison Center and they were hosted by Emergency Medical Services...