Swains Island Day
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A significant moment during the Swains Island Day commemoration service earlier this month was the reading of the Swains Island proclamations in both English and Samoan by two Swains Island representatives. The English version was read by Thomas Campbell Edgar, grandson...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Issuing only his second Executive Order, since being elected, Governor Pulaali’i Nikolao Pula has established May 13th as “Swains Island Day” — an official holiday in American Samoa.
The EO preamble reads:
WHEREAS, “[t]he sovereignty of the United States over American...