Can ASG absorb removal of 2% wage tax?
The Chairman of the ASG Revenue Task Force, Attorney General Talauega Eleasalo Ale, told a hearing of the House Budget and Appropriations Committee yesterday that it was the intention of the group ...Read more
The Chairman of the ASG Revenue Task Force, Attorney General Talauega Eleasalo Ale, told a hearing of the House Budget and Appropriations Committee yesterday that it was the intention of the group ...Read more
A female employee of the Department of Agriculture has been temporarily removed from her job over the handling of the department’s cash. This was revealed by Director of Agriculture Lealao Mel ...Read more
As the American Samoa Community College prepares to begin a new academic year, it’s in a precarious financial situation because ASG lags behind in paying the college’s subsidy. Last week ...Read more
There were no questions during review of the Treasury and Budget Office’s proposed budget for FY 2017 because there was no time. Senator Tuaolo Fruean citing the same budget figures from 2016 ...Read more
The numbers in the third quarter performance report just released by the Budget Office indicate that ASG is maintaining expenditures below collections and should finish the year in the ...Read more
The Budget Director’s call to departments and agencies for their Fiscal Year 2017 budget submissions says that accumulated fund deficits carried over from the predecessor administration inhibited ...Read more
End of contract payments for directors in the administration of Governor Lolo Moliga and Lt. Governor Lemanu Peleti Mauga would be incorporated into ASG’s Fiscal Year 2017 budget. That’s ...Read more
ASG managed to keep spending in check in the second quarter of Fiscal Year 2016. Writing in the second quarter performance report for ASG, Budget Director Cathy Saelua says that total local funds ...Read more
A Leone native who’s a Lt. with the Guam Fire Department, Dean Aigamaua, couldn’t believe his luck! His department is the host/chaperone for American Samoa’s delegation to the Pacific ...Read more
Only about 5% of 600 executive branch employees approved for pay increments have actually received them. According to Human Resources Director Le’i Sonny Thompson there’s been delays in ...Read more