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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Task Force chair, Lt. Gov. Talauega Eleasalo Va’alele Ale provided a brief summary — including costs — of the 2021 COVID-19 travel operations during this past Monday’s regular meeting, where it was also mentioned that the $100 vaccination incentive ends this week.
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 40-year-old man convicted of unlawful possession of illegal drugs and a firearm was sentenced to serve 20 months at the Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF) last week as a condition of his 5-year probation.
Savaliga Fetalaiga, who has been in custody since his...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — At last week’s Health Department news conference, House Health Committee chairperson, Rep. Andrea T. Samoa noted a local “group of resistance” to the COVID-19 vaccine who are opposed to the government’s efforts getting the community vaccinated for protection from the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa now has eleven imported COVID-19 cases after one of the passengers on the Dec. 6th Hawaiian Airlines flight from Honolulu tested positive, according to information received by Samoa News on Monday evening.
DoH officials said in a news conference last...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Samoana High School JROTC team took first place during the American Samoa Multiple Schools Unit (ASMSU), JROTC Air Rifle Annual Competition held Dec. 10th at Tafuna Elementary School gymnasium.
Samoana High School received an overall score of 3,209 points.
“This is...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — With additional workers recruited from Samoa via the local Guest Worker Permit law, StarKist Samoa has resumed second-shift operations, but industry sources say that the largest private employer in the territory still has not reached the numbers of people employed a few...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man who was out on bond was remanded back to custody last week after he tested positive for methamphetamine (meth), during a random test administered by Probation.
Ross Tanielu, who is facing drug charges, appeared in High Court last Friday for an Order to Show Cause (...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Despite COVID travel restrictions in the territory, Ericsson North American and American the Samoa Telecommunications Authority (ASTCA) restored the vital Manu’a connection to the Tutuila and the rest of the world with an extremely long microwave backhaul link.
Over...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Bench Trial of the alleged driver of the vehicle that was involved in a fatal accident Sept. 13, 2020 in Utusia proceeded yesterday morning where it took a panel of judges less than 15 minutes to examine the evidence and return with a not guilty verdict in favor of...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The “American Samoa Island Report”, prepared by staff of the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council, shows that the ASG Procurement Office has awarded the contract to build four “Super Alia” or “Alia Tele” for this project to a Washington state-based company...