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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Governor Lolo Matalasi Moliga on Thursday approved LBJ and Medicaid’s request for a second medical charter to transport LBJ approved referral patients to the US. The medical charter is a one-way charter taking only patients and their escorts from American Samoa to Hawaii...
PAGO PAGO, American Samoa (AP) — Makerita Iosefo Vaʻa hasn't been home for nearly eight months — the longest she's ever been away from American Samoa.
She longs for the breezes that cool island humidity and the ocean sounds and smells that permeate her home in the village of Tula. She also misses...
James 1;27- From the standpoint of Our God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation and to keep oneself without spot from the world.
Psalms 147: 7-He heals the brokenhearted, he binds up their wounds.
My name is ANALEI'A MAOTA LE AUMOEUALOGO MATAINA A'AU. My parents...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has informed cabinet members that it’s the administration’s “collective pledge” that no action will be taken on a repatriation flight for stranded local residents “until we are absolutely sure” that the actions taken will “prevent the entry of...
To the lead physician(s) and Task Force who are to be blamed:
THE HUNDREDS, YES, count them, HUNDREDS, of American Samoa residents are stranded across America imploring their government Not to Open Borders, but only for safe repatriation back home, as well as allow U.S. residents stuck on island to...
To Governor Lolo Matalasi Moliga:
In Response to Governor’s October 2020 Declaration
1. IF YOU UNDERSTOOD, you wouldn’t see just the numbers of the stranded, you would see the faces of mothers, fathers, children, elderly, middle-aged, we permeate all corners of the community and are from all...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Close to 50 members of the community (including infants and babies) gathered in front of Tropical Pizza in Tafuna, early Saturday morning, to show their strong support for the Tagata Tutu Faatasi Alliance of Amerika Samoa (TTFAAS), an alliance comprising 500+ residents...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Health Department (DoH) has identified hotels for quarantine in Honolulu as well as medical partners to assist with COVID-19 testing for travelers if there is a repatriation flight to bring home American Samoa residents stranded off island.
This is according to...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Government now has its own online “repatriation registry” for American Samoa residents, “who wish to return home when the borders are re-opened”. And the territorial government makes clear that registration on the ASG portal is not a guarantee that the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has received the petition from Tagata Tutu Fa'atasi Alliance, the group behind the move for repatriation of American Samoa residents stranded in the US, most of them in Hawaii — as the number of coronavirus cases spiked in many states.
As of...


![Makerita Iosefo-Va'a and her husband Shaun Va'a sit together in a park near a relative's home where they are temporarily staying in Tracy, Calif., on Oct. 8, 2020. The couple are homesick for American Samoa. She's among an estimated 600 residents of the U.S. territory who were away when American Samoa's governor closed borders to keep the cluster of Pacific islands free from coronavirus. Vaʻa and others say they don't want American Samoa to open its borders, but just to bring them home safely. [AP Photo/Eric Risberg] Makerita Iosefo-Va'a and her husband Shaun Va'a](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/iosefo-vaa.jpeg?itok=Upe24Pvy)
![ASG first responders and other personnel assembled late Thursday afternoon at the newly renovated arrival terminal (financed with federal and local share funds, not COVID-19 funds) to await the start of the full-blown repatriation exercise at Pago Pago International Airport simulating an arrival of a repatriation flight with 300 passengers on board. The governor praised the exercise, but still no official word if repatriation is going to happen. [photo: courtesy] ASG first responders and other personnel](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/fp_mg_0607.jpg?itok=Dtj-Ix6A)
![[photos: TTFAAS] Young demonsrator at Saturday's rally for stranded residents.](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/photo_5.jpg?itok=mWzy54Uv)
![Health director Motusa Tuileama Nua said it’s estimated that more than 400 local residents want to return home. [SN file photo] Health director Motusa Tuileama Nu](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/motusa_0198web_7.jpg?itok=x2e3O2lG)
![[screenshot from ASG Registry website] screenshot from ASG Registry website](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/asg_online_repat_registry.jpg?itok=hVqwUQ4H)
![Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has received the petition from the Allianc, his Chief of Staff confirms. [SN file photo] Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/gov_lolo_speech_55.jpg?itok=pcwqIjqd)