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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Senate is moving to make official the “seal” of the “Fono Faitulafono” — Legislature — through a bill sponsored by Senate President Tuaolo Manaia Fruean and assigned to the Senate Government Operations Committee, chaired by Sen. Togiola T.A. Tulafono, for review and...
![[l-r] Moefaauo Bill Emmsley, Dr. Jean Anderson, and Dr. Malouamaua Tuiolosega](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/lbj_board_0.jpg?itok=yj-_FHiu "[l-r] Moefaauo Bill Emmsley, Dr. Jean Anderson, and Dr. Malouamaua Tuiolosega pose for a media photo taken last year following their Senate Hospital/ Health Committee confirmation hearing as new members to the American Samoa Medical Center Authority board of directors. [SN file photo]")
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In a press release from the LBJ Medical Center ‘Office of the Chairman of the Board’ dated this past Friday, March 18, chair Dr Malouamaua Tuiolosega and members of the board announced an unanimous vote for dismissal of LBJ’s recently appointed interim CEO, Emau Amosa,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — There are growing concerns from members of the community that there are people who test positive for COVID-19 and their family members are not following home quarantine restrictions and isolation orders.
Several reports from the public state that some of these people are...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Administration is taking another shot at a bill to increase the government’s and members’ contributions to the American Samoa Government Employees Retirement Fund (ASGERF) and it was introduced in the House of Representatives yesterday morning.
The bill had been...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The new maximum allowable price (MAP), or wholesale price, for land diesel and unleaded gasoline each increased by 29 cents per gallon, effective Mar. 15 compared to the previous MAP last month.
This is according to ASG Chief Petroleum Officer, Lisa Tuato’o, who is also...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Last week, the Senate rejected the House amendments and as of yesterday, no word on whether there will be a conference committee on the proposed constitutional amendment that would extend the Fono session.
Senate President Tuaolo Manaia Fruean had asked that the House to...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 30-year-old man was picked up on an arrest warrant on the allegation that he unlawfully entered the home of a family and stole several items including power tools, clothes and other personal belongings.
The government has filed two separate criminal cases against Aleni...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — As the community surge of COVID-19 continues — now exceeding 1,500 overall positives through Mar. 20 — the COVID-19 Task Force is requiring travelers on the Mar. 31 flight from Honolulu to go through supervised quarantine upon arrival in the territory, Lt. Gov. Talauega...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Sen. Togiola T.A. Tulafono said the number of local Samoan attorneys in private practice has decreased and predicts that in five years time only two or three of them will be members of the American Samoa Bar Association.
Togiola’s statement made at last Friday’s Senate...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lemanu Peleti Mauga has re-established the territory’s State Workforce Development Board in order to comply with provisions of the federal Workforce Innovation & Opportunity Act (WIOA).
And establishing such a board is one of the requirements for continued...