Driver in fatal accident to face charges
The driver of the gas truck which crashed into an aiga bus on Tuesday afternoon will be charged in connection with the fatal accident. This is according to Acting Commissioner of Public Safety ...Read more
The driver of the gas truck which crashed into an aiga bus on Tuesday afternoon will be charged in connection with the fatal accident. This is according to Acting Commissioner of Public Safety ...Read more
Another 3 cents would be added to the tobacco tax and the 2% wage tax will be halved if a bill now before the Senate is passed and signed into law. Senators Magalei Logovii and Utu Sila Poasa are ...Read more
Congresswoman Uifaatali Amata took part in the National Prayer Breakfast, her fifth time to participate. President Biden spoke this year, and four Members of Congress hosted, one from each party ...Read more
Samoa is on a mission to make the Alafua campus of the University of the South Pacific the new headquarters of the troubled USP. This follows the Fiji government’s deportation of USP ...Read more
Yesterday in the House, Representative Faimealelei Anthony Allen called for urgent assistance to allow residents needing off island treatment to travel to Samoa to renew their US visas. The Aua ...Read more
There is evidence that some of the recent cases of suicide involved substance abuse. While no toxicology tests were performed, Dr. Julia Fo’ifua Alcohol & Drug Rehabilitation Counselor at ...Read more
COVID-19 tests for all 159 residents in quarantine at the Tradewinds Hotel are negative. The residents arrived on the first repatriation flight from Honolulu in Monday and are being quarantined ...Read more
A report from the Department of Treasury on COVID-19 related funding received and spent by the American Samoa Government under the Cares Act was distributed in the House of Representatives ...Read more
The Director of the American Samoa Government Employees Retirement Fund testified yesterday that ASG didn’t have to repay the American Samoa Telecommunications Authority $17 million loan as ...Read more
It will be around 10 tonight when the COVID-19 test results for all 159 repatriated residents in quarantine at the Tradewinds Hotel will be known. This second day of quarantine has been spent on ...Read more