Local News
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Senate Select Investigative Committee (SSIC) will hold a hearing on Oct. 7, on the Government’s $6.4 million TALOFAPass websystem, which screens travelers entering American Samoa.
The TALOFAPass American Samoa Safe Travel System contract was awarded to Datahouse...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — To date the American Samoa Government has remained mum on concerns raised by Chair of the Immigration Board, Fanene Edda Wyberski.
Last month Fanene told Samoa News that ASG’s TALOFAPass websystem has created a lot of issues for the Immigration Office and its Board of...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The U.S Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has dispatched three different teams to American Samoa, including a team working on public assistance following the Presidential declaration following the high surf, high winds, and flooding in the territory that...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Recipients of the American Samoa Nutrition Assistance Program (ASNAP) will receive additional benefits for one year starting in the new fiscal year, October 2022.
However there may be a delay in the issuance due to shortage of supply of special coupon paper to print food...
Washington, D.C. — Uifa’atali Amata welcomes the announcement of a $200,000 US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) grant for the Amerika Samoa Runaway Youth Program. The grant, awarded by the Administration for Children and Families and Family and Youth Services Bureau of HHS, will help...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In the House of Representatives, a bill to increase the taxes on all soft drinks or nonalcoholic carbonated beverages was introduced in the House of Representatives this week. If passed by the Fono, the excise tax on sodas will be doubled.
The bill proposes to hike the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The drug bust in the village of Aua early Monday morning raised a lot of mixed emotions from members of the community especially families from Aua.
Some were not happy saying cops are only tracking down the users and the pushers and not those responsible for bringing the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Due to “upsetting economic trends” and the high cost of living the Senate is calling on the American Samoa Government to conduct an economic impact study on COVID-19 and how it relates to the American Samoa cost of living.
This is outlined in a Senate Resolution...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lemanu P.S. Mauga has urged the U.S National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to use its “inherent discretion” to grant an exemption to high seas limits for purse seiner vessels based in American Samoa, whose economy is dependent on the cannery — which is the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A hearing to seek answers from government officials about complaints from several EMS employees regarding the transfer of their employment record files from LBJ Medical Center to the Search and Rescue Agency (SRA), was held before the House Government Operations...