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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Just in time to provide financial assistance to workers, impacted with Code Red restrictions, the local Treasury Department announced that the first-batch of tax refund checks totaling more than $1 million is being released today, Friday, Mar. 11.
Treasury also says that...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In an email statement to local news outlets this week, Commerce director Petti T. Matila moved to set the “record straight to avoid misinformation during this challenging time”, following an email request from former American Samoa Chamber of Commerce chair, Ella Gurr,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa COVID19 Outbreak Situational Report issued yesterday morning states that the territory’s cumulative COVID-19 positive counts as of March 9 has reached 382 “confirmed community cases”, no deaths, 79 treated with therapeutics, and 11 previous cases have...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — U.S-based StarKist Co., owner of StarKist Samoa — the largest private employer in the territory — has confirmed that cannery production resumed today, Friday, after about two weeks of being shutdown, amid Code Red restrictions in the territory.
Cannery workers and/or...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A young woman accused of stealing a rental car and crashing it near a store in the Tafuna area almost two years ago is now in custody after police arrested her last month pursuant to an arrest warrant.
The young woman is Tiffany Manu’ula, the defendant in this case.
The...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Some families are stepping forward to assist the community and the government tackle community spread of the virus by identifying family members who have tested positive for the virus on social media.
Members of the community believe that identifying a family member who...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A woman who was allegedly tragically murdered in Pago Pago last October was finally laid to rest this week. Fuatino Sua was laid to rest this past Monday on a piece of land offered by a good Samaritan, Pago Pago High Chief, Pulu Ae Ae Jr.
Her family members, along with...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — LBJ Medical Center’s acting chief of staff, Dr. Akapusi Ledua is thankful to the hospital’s “federal partners” for providing medical support — such as critical care nurses and doctors — in the coming days to assist the medical center in preparation in the event of a...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Faafetai Alesana was arrested by police two months ago on the allegation that he disturbed the public peace by yelling and engaging in a fight with two other males in front of a store in Fagaima. When police officers arrested Alesana, they found two glass pipes...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — On a four-person panel that included senior Biden Administration officials from the White House, State and Defense departments, Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata reiterated her call for the U.S. to homeport a squadron of Coast Guard cutters in Pago Pago harbor. Given the...