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Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Aumua Amata on Tuesday provided an update on the growth in economic aid from the Small Business Administration (SBA), in conjunction with the U.S. Treasury Department, for American Samoa’s small businesses and nonprofits, due to Congress having passed several...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Territorial Correctional Facility inmate, James Glenn Barlow, through his legal team, has filed a complaint with the US Secretary of Interior against the territory’s Attorney General’s Office, whose attorneys were accused of “deliberately” concealing inconsistent...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A former local assistant public defender has accused a former prosecutor, who handled juvenile cases with the Attorney General’s Office a few years ago, of misconduct by holding secret interviews with three juvenile who are alleged victims in the government case against...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has instructed the Dept. of Health to start utilizing two government quarantine facilities behind the Tafuna Community Health Center instead of using other designated quarantine sites once the Tafuna buildings are inspected and equipped with all...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In a notice last week, the Health Department’s Environmental Health Services Division reminded Food Catering & Delivery, Bakeries, Baked Goods, Fast Food and Cooked Food Businesses about the required health permits as well as local labeling laws.
“For any baked goods...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The COVID 19 pandemic has brought much heartache and sadness to many and the NOAA/NWS Weather Service Office Pago Pago (WSO Pago) is not spared. One of the first and few flights leaving the territory since the lockdown, last Friday, July 17, saw one of their own...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Aumua Amata has cosponsored the bipartisan House Resolution honoring the upcoming centennial of Women’s Suffrage and the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
The Resolution highlights two upcoming dates of historic importance:...
WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross on Monday announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.5 million grant to the American Samoa Shipyard Services Authority, Pago Pago, American Samoa, to support the acquisition of equipment, machinery,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — During a Senate hearing with the Chairman of the Coronavirus Task Force Iulogologo Joseph Pereira last Friday, Senator Logooai Siaki was adamant that the repatriation flights from Samoa should only bring US citizens and US nationals and not anyone else, even permanent...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — House Speaker Savali Talavou Ale has requested an emergency hearing with the Coronavirus Task Force to discuss the issue about three people that were on a FEMA flight that arrived in the territory last Friday.
The hearing with the Task Force was originally scheduled for...