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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Hourly employees at StarKist Samoa — including workers who tested COVID-19 positive — are getting extra financial assistance in their paychecks this week, as well as cases of tuna, according to some cannery workers and/or their relatives. Samoa News was informed by the...
Roy J.D. Hall Jr
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Deputy Attorney General Roy J.D. Hall Jr. provided for the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing yesterday the latest information on workers hired to work under the Guest Worker Permit law, which allows StarKist Samoa to recruit workers from Samoa. At the outset of the 40-...
Dr. Elizabeth Lauvao
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Health director Motusa Tuileama Nua revealed during a virtual news conference yesterday that two employees of StarKist Samoa tested positive over the weekend and the pair was sent home for isolation. He said these two positives would follow the same protocol already in...
Lt. Gov. Talauega Eleasalo V. Ale
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — StarKist Samoa production resumed last Friday after the company’s plan was approved by the Health director, says Lt. Gov. Talauega Eleasalo V. Ale, who also pointed out that U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) medical experts had provided recommendations...
Andrew Choe
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — U.S-based StarKist Co., owner of StarKist Samoa — the largest private employer in the territory — has confirmed that cannery production resumed today, Friday, after about two weeks of being shutdown, amid Code Red restrictions in the territory. Cannery workers and/or...
Lt. Gov. Talauega Eleasalo Ale
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Lt. Gov. Talauega Eleasalo Ale says that there are “no new federal programs” at this point to provide financial assistance to employees laid off or experiencing reduced working hours under restrictions due to the Code Red threat level, as more local transmission of the...
New barrier posts installed in front of StarKist
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — It was after the horrific car crash that killed 4 cannery workers on the early morning of Dec. 19, 2021 that the StarKist Samoa management began to consider ways to protect its employees from future dangers from the road — especially involving vehicles careening of the...
Shoppers in line before shutdown
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — No exemption is being given to StarKist Samoa under provisions of the Code Red threat level as declared Monday night by Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga, after community spread of COVID-19 was detected, according to Health director Motusa Tuileama Nua, responding...
Govt accepting StarKist tuna donation for Tonga
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — StarKist Samoa donated 10 pallets of tuna products on Friday, Feb. 4 for the Fesoasoani Mo Tonga relief drive. The pallets contained 1,010 cases of tuna with a total value of $27,500. Starkist management team led by Plant Director Jason Kim made the presentation on...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In an agency notice dated Dec. 21 and publicly released yesterday, the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says it’s amending temporary permits issued to Bumble Bee Foods, LLC, and StarKist Seafood Co. to market test canned tuna. The FDA noted previous amendments made...

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