SENATE HEARING
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Government must take immediate action to improve the premises where inmates at the Territorial Correctional Facility (TCF) are confined, before something happens that will put their lives at risk, which could cost government millions in lawsuits.
This was unanimously...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Only one of the governor’s nominations for members of the Territorial Bank of American Samoa (TBAS) Board of Directors was approved by the Senate before the Fono’s long recess, which starts this week.
In a letter to Senate President Tuaolo Manaia Fruean, dated September...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Police Commissioner Lefiti Atiulagi Pese answered questions last week Thursday when he and the local Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Director Samana Semo Ve’ve’a appeared before the Senate and were questioned about sharing intelligence between the two agencies...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The increasing number of deaths in the territory — with 36 in January of those who have passed due to unhealthy lifestyles — was the focus of a Senate hearing last week.
Senate President Tuaolo Manaia Fruean raised these concerns with the Department of Health during the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The process of registration of certain land called “Nuu Fou” by Mauga Tasi Asuega, Laulii Alofa, Michael T. Fuiavai; Patolo Mageo and others as “individually owned land” encompassing close to 400 acres has now come under the microscope of the Senate’s Select...
![[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...
Paramount Builders crew at work after 8a.m yesterday on the site of the new Fono Building, which is the subject of a Senate Government Operations Committee hearing today, Friday, with officials from DPW. The committee wants to find out — among other things — the status of the project, which is for...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Senate Retirement Committee, chaired by Sen. Soliai Tuipine Fuimaono, has scheduled for Thursday this week, a hearing on a bill sponsored by Sen. Magalei Logovi’i and introduced in the Senate yesterday that seeks to increase members’ contribution to the American...