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![[l-r] Human Resources director Lynn Pulou-Alaimalo, the governor’s chief of staff Tuimavave Tauapa’i Laupola and ASG Budget Planning Office director Catherine Saelua](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/img_5863.jpg?itok=5FtubQcl "[l-r] Human Resources director Lynn Pulou-Alaimalo, the governor’s chief of staff Tuimavave Tauapa’i Laupola and ASG Budget Planning Office director Catherine Saelua at yesterday’s Senate hearing on the governor’s memo rolling back pay increases and conversions from contract to career service occurring since Jan. 1, 2019. [photo: FS]")
Pago Pago, AMAERICAN SAMOA — Based on it’s “investigation” following the governor’s roll-back of the salary memo, the Department of Human Resources identified several issues, including salaries that “went from $13,000 to $47,000” a year, says Human Resources director Lynn Pulou-Alaimalo during...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The moso’oi wireless was going wild well before the actual news of the $1,400 stimulus checks for American Samoa residents hit the Territory, with the signing of the $1.9 trillion relief package passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, Wednesday, Mar. 10th, and sent...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Department of Homeland Security issued a statement yesterday afternoon detailing preparations in Hawaii and American Samoa for the 2nd repatriation flight, which was the main topic of discussion during the meeting of the COVID-19 Task Force on Monday,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A Senate bill which seeks to increase the contribution rate to the ASG Employees Retirement Fund, will be heading soon to Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga, for review and a decision, after senators agreed to a House amendment on the proposed law.
Meanwhile the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Federal regulators are amending StarKist Seafood Company's temporary permit to test market canned tuna, by adding three additional manufacturing locations — two in Thailand and one is the Solomon Islands.
In a decision publicly released last Thursday, the US Food and...
Apia, SAMOA — The backlog of deceased awaiting autopsies in Samoa may soon get relief with an offer of assistance from the Chinese Embassy.
The Samoa Observer newspaper reported some 18 bodies, including those of children, were lying at the Tupua Tamasese Meaole National Hospital mortuary waiting...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man from Samoa convicted of trying to kill his sponsor after his sponsor used up all his FEMA check, was sentenced to serve 5 years at the Territory Correctional Facility (TCF), a straight sentence.
Savelio Vaimoe, also known as Vaimoe Seumau appeared in court last...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Dr. Ken Lameta, a veterinarian originally hired from Samoa to head the small animal clinic at the Department of Agriculture told faipule yesterday morning that he received his license from the Health Regularity Board to allow him to work in American Samoa in 2012,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A new document is circulating from several parents of students attending the South Pacific Academy has made its way to some lawmakers — suggesting that the court be petitioned to “place SPA under a receivership to allow the education of our students to continue” amid the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Lack of tsunami sirens, traffic jams on the road and lack of an overall evacuation plan are just some of the problems that surfaced when American Samoa was placed under a tsunami warning last week, according to a Senate Resolution introduced during last Saturday’s...