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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — LBJ Medical Center officials have assured senators that the territory’s only hospital is prepared in the event the COVID-19 virus spreads into the community sending people to the medical center — it has a response-plan in place.
LBJ’s Chief Executive Officer Faumuina...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man accused of sexually abusing his 16-year-old niece was arrested by police last month pursuant to an arrest warrant from the court, after the victim’s parents filed their complaints against him with the police last month.
(Samoa News has chosen not to identify the...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata welcomed the visit to the Pacific of U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in his first foray into the region since taking office in 2021.
“Welcome to my home district of American Samoa, strategically important as the only U.S. soil in the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — As of Wednesday this week, two more of the quarantine staff tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total to 41 new infections in connection with the Jan. 27 flight from Honolulu, according to an ASG official, who says that the Governor’s Office has already been...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Sen. Satele Aliitai Lili’o is the sponsor of a Senate bill, which seeks to amend current laws that would clarify requirements for those who incorporate a business in American Samoa and the measure was assigned to the Senate Ways and Means Committee for review and...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — “Local inflation has increased significantly in 2021,” declared the Commerce Department’s Statistics & Analysis Division in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) 4th Quarter of 2021 report released recently, which includes the second quarterly survey of selected goods and...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — As of yesterday, about 50 young children have been affected by the RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus). This was the report to the House by Rep. Andra Theresa Samoa, chair of the House Health Committee.
Samoa told faipule that the situation is getting serious and members...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Vice Speaker of the House, Fetui Fetu Jr did not mince words during a House Session this week when he informed faipule about the decision by the Territorial Bank of American Samoa (TBAS) to terminate three employees. One of the three employees, according to Fetui is his...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lemanu Peleti Mauga has directed cabinet members to properly dispose of “unserviceable” United States and American Samoa flags and replace them with “presentable flags” to be flown.
The governor’s directive, outlined in a Feb. 2 memorandum, comes amid long standing...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata welcomed an extension of American Samoa’s key Federal Medicaid Assistance Percentages (FMAP) in short term legislation to fund the federal government through March 11, 2022 in a stopgap measure, which the U.S. House of Representatives passed Tuesday...