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Fa’amasino Upuese Galoia
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The budget predicament faced by the Emergency Medical Services has been addressed by the Governor’s office and will be resolved as soon as the bill recently passed by the Fono is signed into law..  “EMS technicians are no longer paying for fuel out of their pockets and...
Solialofi Papalii
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The president of Samoa’s Nurses Association, Solialofi Papalii has hit back at the CEO of LBJ Hospital, Moefaauo Bill Emmsley, over “degrading comments” on the curriculum of the nursing school at the National University of Samoa. She also called for Moefaauo to apologize...
Marine Patrol members with jet skis
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Marine Patrol will be enforcing the law to the full extent on the water, meaning  palolo hunters are mandated to wear life jackets.  “This appears to be an annual occurrence of people dying while palolo hunting, and to avoid loss of life, each and every one out in...
Flags flying at half staff at EOB
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Governor Lemanu P. S. Mauga declared flags to fly at half staff pursuant to the proclamation issued by the President of the United States honoring National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.  “The flag of the United States and American Samoa shall be flown at half-staff on...
Staff from ASCC-ACNR with participants
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Community College’s (ASCC) Agriculture, Community and Natural Resources (ACNR) Division has collaborated with the college’s division of Student Services (DOSS) counseling services on a six-week pilot program for young adults with disabilities. A total...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is welcoming notice of grants for the territory from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation through NOAA and a grant for LBJ from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. NATIONAL COAST RESILIENCE GRANT National Coast Resilience Funds (NCRF) of...
Samana Semo Ve’ave’a
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Alleged unpaid overtime incurred during the pandemic by former employees of the Department of Homeland Security comes as a shock to the director, Samana Semo Ve’ave’a. “I am not aware that they were not paid overtime,” said the director in response to Samoa News...
SUNDAY OPENING OF 45th annual Holiday Music Festival
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Government’s 45th annual Holiday Music Festival’s opening night was greeted by a festive crowd Sunday night at the Veterans Memorial Monument in Tafuna.  This year’s event features 3 days of choirs presented by ASG Departments — Sunday Dec. 4 though...
DoH logo
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Complaints from the public have prompted the Department of Health, Environmental Health Services Division to conduct site inspections. Last week DOH shut down Milovale, Carl’s Jr and a laundromat in Auto, according to the director of the ASDOH Environmental Health...
Dr. Ingrid Ahlgren
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Jean P. Haydon Museum Board and friends of the Museum will be meeting with a professional museum curator this week. Dr. Ingrid Ahlgren is the Curator of Oceania at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts....

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