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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — ASG employees, who also work part time for Hawaiian Airlines are required to submit a leave form to their supervisors if their government work schedules conflict with arrival of repatriation flights bringing home hundreds of local residents stranded off island since the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Director of Health, Motusa Tuileama Nua assured representatives during his confirmation hearing last Thursday that all passengers on the repatriation flight arriving from Hawaii later this afternoon have completed their testing and are safe to enter the territory. All of...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A call was made in the House Chamber last week by Vaifanuatele Representative, Lavea Fatulegaee P. Mauga to amend the current drug law so that drug offenders will face more severe punishment for their crime.
According to Lavea when he raised this matter in the House last...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — An overstayer from Samoa convicted of burglarizing a home in Pavaiai is going to jail. Sitivi Opetaia was ordered by the High Court to serve 28 months at the Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF) as a condition of his 7-year probation.
Opetaia, who was held in custody...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — “Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are doing more home deliveries now than before,” Evelyn Lili’o Satele, the now fully Fono confirmed director of the Territorial Office of Administration on Aging (TAOA) said of the senior cooked food program during her Senate...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A second bus driver accused of using altered information to obtain a commercial permit to operate a bus was arrested by police last week.
The driver, Makalio Alesana made his initial appearance in District Court last week.
Alesana is charged with one count of fraud and...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Aside from donating cases of essential items specifically requested by the government’s “Long Journey Home: American Samoa Repatriation Donation Drive”, Bluesky Communications is donating $70,000 in total value of telecommunication services to help returning residents on...
Honolulu, HAWAII — Mrs. Elisapeta T. Lesatele Alaimaleata and the Le Fetuao Samoan Language Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, received with humble hearts a donation from Mr. Nick Peters on behalf of the Peters Family from Mesepa and also Nick's rugby club in Hawaii, in support of American Samoa's future...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Any person entering American Samoa will be required to provide two negative COVID-19 tests and be quarantined for 15 days, while all regular scheduled passenger flights to and from the territory remain suspended, according to Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga’s...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The alleged long delay in getting clearance for future government workers from the local Homeland Security Department (ASDHS) was one of the issues raised on Wednesday during the confirmation hearing for Samana Semo Ve’ave’a as director of that department.
Sen. Muagututi...