House Reduces Customs’ Scanner Fees
Neither the Acting Treasurer, nor Budget Director, or Chief Customs Officer, could provide any information on Customs’ revenue collections to the House Ways and Means Committee. The three ...Read more
Neither the Acting Treasurer, nor Budget Director, or Chief Customs Officer, could provide any information on Customs’ revenue collections to the House Ways and Means Committee. The three ...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
Vice Speaker Fetu Fetui Jr. wanted a direct answer from ASG officials: do they want ASG payroll deductions to be reinstated or not? Fetu has been pressing for ASG payroll deductions to be resumed ...Read more
Hearings on the proposed Fiscal Year 2017 budget for ASG are tentatively scheduled to begin August 29th. Today Vice Chairman of the House Budget and Appropriations Committee, Rep. Faimealelei ...Read more
With the Fono reconvening on Monday, the governor and budget director strongly advised directors to make themselves available when budget hearings start most likely in the following week. Governor ...Read more
Budget Director Catherine Saelua expects the printed budget books to be bound and delivered from the printers before the week is over. For the last two years, the Lolo Lemanu administration, as ...Read more
The Lolo and Lemanu re-election campaign committee held its first general meeting Friday afternoon during which the chairmen of the main campaign committee and various committees were named. The ...Read more