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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The hospital Chief Executive Officer Moefaauo Bill Emmsley has requested the Department of Treasury to pay the Emergency Medical Services overtime.
This is outlined in a submission by the hospital when they appeared before the House of Representatives during a hearing on...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — If you felt like the territory’s roads are always crowded with vehicles — both commercial and private motor vehicles — data from the 2020 Statistical Yearbook for American Samoa, recently released by the Commerce Department’s Statistics and Analysis Division, confirm you...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The recent reshuffle within the Department of Public Safety has raised concerns by police officers over the lack of communication on the changes made by the Acting Police Commissioner Fo’ifua Vaipuna Jr Fo’ifua.
However, other police officers told Samoa News the changes...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A survey conducted by the hospital uncovered the high number of flu-like symptoms in children and elders with underlying health conditions receiving medical care in the hospital in the last few weeks.
However, these are not respiratory syncytial virus RSV cases,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — After many delays, the Department of Public Safety Office of Motor Vehicles will start issuing REAL ID driver’s licenses next week Monday Dec. 5, 2022.
However, only US Nationals and US Citizens are eligible for the REAL ID.
This was confirmed by Mary Putuga head of the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Senators last week rejected an Administration bill to expand arrest powers to other departments, which would then be in addition to the Department of Public Safety (DPS) officers having such powers.
The bill is one of the measures by proposed by the Admin to counter the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The release last week by the Commerce Department’s Statistical and Analysis Division of the American Samoa 2020 Statistical Yearbook, which includes data from past elections, reaffirms what political observers and election officials have said in the past years on the low...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Loe Iopu is held on bail of $10,000 on drugs charges in relation to a police raid in Pago Pago earlier this month.
Iopu is one of the six defendants charged from the raid and he appeared last week before the court. The other co-defendant’s are Meriko Lomu, Desmond Tupa’i...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The LBJ Chief Executive Officer, Moefaauo Bill Emmsley has called for unity amongst the hospital staff.
“Pulling together and not against each other is what we need at LBJ to remedy our current healthcare delivery predicament.
“Though as staff members, we need ‘fuel’ to...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is celebrating the announcement of a $3,425,012 federal grant from the US Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) for American Samoa.
The grant, part of the CDC’s Strengthening US Public Health Infrastructure, Workforce, and Data Systems...