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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Through a June 2nd memorandum, Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga announced that American Samoa Visitors Bureau executive director Taimalelagi Minnie P. Tuia will be absent from her post beginning June 1st.
And he therefore designated Visitors Bureau’s marketing...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — As of June 1st, the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has received four applicants from American Samoa seeking COVID-19 funeral related expense but none are approved yet, according to FEMA online data for the week of June 1st.
No other public information was...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The US Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs (OIA) has proposed more than $24 million in basic operations for the American Samoa government and nearly $10.3 million in Capital Improvement Project (CIP) funds for the territory under the Biden Administration’s fiscal year...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A House Concurrent Resolution supports the request by the Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources (DMWR) to suspend the US National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) proposed coral critical habitat designation process that will impact coral in the waters of American...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Chief Justice Michael Kruse made it clear to attorneys handling the matters of two inmates who appeared in High Court last week for a Disposition Hearing for failure to comply with conditions of their probation that the court doesn’t run the Territorial Correctional...
Washington, D.C. – Friday, Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata welcomed a major grant of $1,590,738 for American Samoa’s Head Start program from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The substantial grant from HHS is part of its emergency supplemental funding program for Head Start...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 42-year-old taxi driver accused of disturbing the peace at a Pago Pago store is now being charged with drug possession after police searched his vehicle and found a glass pipe containing methamphetamine (meth).
Thomas Tagiilima, a.k.a Tomasi Tagiilima who is on...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Veterans Affairs Community Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC), in collaboration with government and non-profit partners, will be hosting a hybrid virtual and in-person summit focusing on issues impacting veteran mental health.
The summit is slated for June 16th and June...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Department of Health (DOH) is investigating a matter after four pallets containing a quantity of food stuffs from Samoa arrived in the territory last week via the Lady Naomi.
This was confirmed by the DOH Acting Director, Vesi Talalelei Fautanu Jr during an interview...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata met with Honolulu Commander Lt. Col. Eric S. Marshall and the Army Corps of Engineers last week, and was briefed on the status of their numerous projects in American Samoa, and discussed their previous report on LBJ Tropical Medical Center.
At the...