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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Earned Income Tax Credit bill was introduced in the Senate this week Tuesday.
According to the bill, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 was enacted by Congress on March 11, 2021, providing various sources of financial relief for individuals, families, and...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa Power Authority (ASPA) power generation crews are working on commissioning a new GE generator for the Tafuna Power Plant.
According to ASPA, one of the two new GE generators will now be supplying power from Tafuna along with three Cummins engines that will...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Among the updates provided by the Health Department Situational Report to the COVID-19 Task Force briefing on Tuesday afternoon, is the end of pre-travel testing to enter Samoa and that the number of local COVID-19 positive cases continues to decline — at less than 30....
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A woman has been criminally charged with driving under the influence causing injury and careless driving following a recent traffic accident in Futiga.
Mary Tuiteleleapaga made her initial appearance in the District Court on Tuesday and bail has been set at $1,000....
WASHINGTON — U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs (OIA) has announced $1,351,884 in final awards to be funded under the Technical Assistance Program (TAP) and has closed its review and grant award process for fiscal year 2022 TAP grants.
“This final batch of funding will...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The LBJ Tropical Medical Center has put out a solicitation for bids for its “Dietary Cafeteria Renovation”, two months after the Department of Health “deemed [the cafeteria] unsafe and unsanitary.”
In July, the Department of Health Director Motusa Tuileama Nua wrote to...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — As of July 30, 2022 the unaudited Government revenue collections stood at $110 million from October 2021, Treasurer Malemo Tausaga said during the joint budget hearing of the Senate and House of Representatives, while the preliminary report on expenses shows $94 million...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Constitutional Convention last week approved the right for the Swains Island Representative to vote in the legislature — with 73 yeses and 43 nays.
This proposed amendment was not submitted by the Constitutional Review Committee and was not part of the eight...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — When the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released last week Thursday the gross domestic product (GDP) for American Samoa in 2021, it also provided data on the GDP by industry and compensation for 2020 as well as revised updates for 2019 and 2020.
According to BEA...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Wetland and Mangrove Restoration project in Leone Village and the Agroforestry Plant Giveaway project, funded with more than $300,0000 through the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) is in line with Gov. Lemanu Peleti Mauga’s executive order last year,...