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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — “Local inflation has increased significantly in 2021,” declared the Commerce Department’s Statistics & Analysis Division in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) 4th Quarter of 2021 report released recently, which includes the second quarterly survey of selected goods and...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA —  A Commerce Department “Special Inquiry on the cost of general goods and services in Manu’a” has found that no turkey tails were sold in Manu’a, where the prices of, “Sin items, i.e. alcohol and cigarettes cost were about 50% higher in Manu’a” compared to Tutuila. “...
Congresswoman Amata with Steve Vaiau
Washington, D.C. — This past week Congresswoman Aumua Amata  hailed House passage of bipartisan legislation managing the nation’s water infrastructure, which includes expedited feasibility studies for much-needed stabilizing efforts in in Aunu‘u Harbor and Tutuila. The bill is the two-year Water...
palolo hunters
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — These folks from the east side were at the beach in Laulii Tuai in search of palolo, which was predicted to rise during the wee hours of the morning — over this past weekend — exactly 7 days after the third quarter full moon, the usual predicted time of the palolo rise....
DOC director Keniseli Lafaele
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The 2018 Agriculture Census for Ta’u in the Manu’a island group got underway this week and will take two weeks, according to the Commerce Department, which officially launched the Agriculture Census on May 1st, starting with Tutuila with public awareness programs through...