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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Please be advised that an unforeseen technical issue has caused the Aua tsunami siren to misfire or to sound off without being activated by the EOC.
We sincerely and humbly apologize for the major inconvenience this has caused the public especially those in the Aua and...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lemanu P. S Mauga, Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata and Bishop Peter Brown, leader of the Diocese of Samoa Pago Pago — yesterday issued separate Christmas messages to the people of American Samoa, as the territory joins the world in celebrating the Birth of Christ on...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Attorney for NightHawk Company, Marcellus Talalelei Uiagalelei confirmed that his client has an existing lease where the new hospital is set to be built in the Tafuna Industrial Park.
“The lease was signed by [former] Governor Lolo Matalasi Moliga the last week he was...
Washington, D.C — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is announcing the launch of the Capital Readiness grant competition by the US Department of Commerce. The CRP grant competition is funded by the US Treasury Department’s State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI), which is a program that aims to...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Harvard Museum Oceania Curator Dr. Ingrid Ahlgren was in American Samoa earlier this month to open a dialogue with traditional chiefs and dignitaries, academics, curators, archaeologists, librarians, archivists, artists, students and the general public community about a...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Community College (ASCC) – Agriculture, Community and Natural Resources (ACNR) Division has completed its second Swine Artificial Insemination (AI) Project for local pig breeders. The three-month long project familiarized pig farmers with AI as a...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Chief of Police, Pouu’amea Tuaolo Supapo has hit back at Deputy Attorney General, Roy Hall over questioning the number of criminal cases pending prosecution.
“The numbers are accurate — in January 2022 alone there were more than 100 cases referred to the Attorney...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Samoana student and environmental advocate, Bainivalu Davetawalu, who was born in American Samoa and is a proud member of the Fijian community was chosen to represent both countries at the three-day Intertribal Agriculture Council Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoan singer-songwriter from Carson, California and the new Hip-Hop rage from Apia will perform at a free concert tonight at the DYWA gymnasium
Tenelle Luafalemana will be performing with Ventry Parker, whose stage name is Poetik 685.
They performed in Apia...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The number of positive cases from the community spread of COVID-19 remains very low at single digits, according to the Health Department’s COVID 19 Situational Report for the week of Dec. 12 to Dec. 18.
Of the 54 individuals tested at DoH Laboratory and LBJ Medical...