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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Health Department’s Leone Clinic is the new COVID-19 vaccination site, according to the latest DoH health advisory, and it joins the other sites already in place — A.P. Lutali Executive Office Building, Gov. Rex Lee Auditorium, Department of Youth and Women’s Affairs...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Lemanu Administration is proposing a food court at the Pago Pago International Airport. Commerce Department director, Petti Matila says the project “will serve the community and the traveling public.”
The project was first revealed in a DOC notice published in the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 42-year-old man who drove his wife to Vaitogi late at night for the alleged purpose of beating and killing her because of his suspicions that she was having an affair was arrested last month.
During his arrest, officers discovered illegal drugs in his possession.
The...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Federal attorneys representing US Secretary of Interior, Debra A. Haaland, Chief Justice Michael Kruse and Associate Justice Fiti A. Sunia have filed a 32-page opposition to a request by local resident, Steven Jay Pincus Hueter for leave to file a fourth amended...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — U.S based StarKist Co., has confirmed that its StarKist Samoa cannery in American Samoa has scheduled one-production shift per day, for two weeks, as the company continues with the ongoing challenges of securing workers.
Samoa News had received word from StarKist Samoa...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The COVID-19 Task Force had announced previously that there were 263 passengers — the largest group of repatriated passengers so far — on the 4th repatriation flight, which arrived May 12th and the travelers went into a seven-day quarantine period.
According to the task...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A woman who forged her husband’s signature to cash their tax refund check is now in custody after her husband filed a complaint against her. Furthermore, the wife also filed an application at the tax office with the forged signature of her husband on it, requesting the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man accused of sexually abusing a 8-year-old girl was arrested by police last week.
He made his initial appearance in District Court.
(Samoa News has withheld the names involved in the case to protect the victim in this case.)
He is charged with first degree sexual...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Despite the hardships imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic on learning — with distance learning becoming an integral part of the solution to staying safe while “Saili le Atamai” or Seeking Wisdom” — the American Samoa Community College, Home of the Chiefs, celebrated its...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In a May 20th memorandum, Gov. Lemanu Palepoi Sialega Mauga made the “recess appointment” of Sen. Togiola T.A. Tulafono as a member to the Territorial Bank of American Samoa board of directors.
“His years of experience in public and private sectors make him ideally...