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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 28-year-old male has been arrested and charged on the allegation that he assaulted his 26-year-old girlfriend and threatened to kill her and her family.
Andrew Ualesi made his initial appearance in court last month.
Ualesi is charged with false imprisonment and public...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Valentine’s Day on Sunday, followed on Monday with Presidents' Day — a local and federal holiday — provides a three-day weekend in American Samoa bringing love and peace to the territory in the midst of a COVID-19 global pandemic as American Samoa remains coronavirus-...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man who entered into a plea agreement in a drug case has been ordered to depart the territory and remain outside of its borders for the duration of his 5-year probation sentence. Talosaga Maiava appeared in High Court last week for sentencing.
Maiava, 40, who has been...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In a decision issued Jan. 30th, the US Department of Transportation (USDOT) granted a cabotage waiver requested by the Samoa government owned Polynesian Limited, dba, Samoa Airways to continue operating Manu’a flights for another 180-days — from Feb. 2nd through July 31...
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Nonprofit organization and parity advocate Equally American has urged the House Committee on Ways and Means in the U.S. House of Representatives to urge their support for including Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa in the Supplemental Security Income...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Governor Lemanu Peleti Mauga and Lt. Governor Talauega Eleasalo Ale in two press statement’s released late Friday announced that the final COVID test for all 159 passengers on the first repatriation test flight came out NEGATIVE and the admin released new rules for...
Washington, D.C. — The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs (OIA) has awarded $1,670,450 in CARES Act grant funding to the American Samoa Government (ASG) to help repatriate American Samoans stranded outside of the territory since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic last year...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — With the governor’s appointment of Carlos Sanchez as the executive director of Shipyard Service Authority, a former chief executive officer of the government owned facility shared some history about when ASG took back the Ronald Reagan Marine Railways shipyard from...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — While there are about 2,000 businesses in American Samoa only 506 of them paid into the government the 2% wage tax in fiscal year 2020, says ASG Treasurer Malemo L. Tausaga during yesterday’s Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee hearing on a Senate bill to hike the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man was arrested and charged for violating local drug laws after police allegedly discovered drugs in his possession during a traffic stop last year.
According to the government, Molesi Sene has been considered by police as a Person of Interest (POI) for many months,...