Samoa Confident About Its Port Protocols
Samoa’s Director General of Health, Leausa Dr Take Naseri says Samoa’s health port protocols are air tight, and there is no need to panic amidst reports about the positive COVID-19 tests in ...Read more
Samoa’s Director General of Health, Leausa Dr Take Naseri says Samoa’s health port protocols are air tight, and there is no need to panic amidst reports about the positive COVID-19 tests in ...Read more
Three crew members of a container ship which arrived in port today have tested positive for COVID-19. The Fesco Askold which calls into Pago Pago regularly arrived in port at noon today. In ...Read more
Some are asking why the purse seine whose crew member had a “false positive” coronavirus test result Thursday was allowed to come into port when previously announced protocols required vessels ...Read more
American Samoa is still COVID-19 free but there was a close call. This morning a purse seine the Rosita C which traveled from Ecuador got approval from the Department of Health Command Post to come ...Read more
With poll watchers and election officials starting to vote since they will be conducting the elections next Tuesday, the number of absentee ballots cast has now reached 1,154. The count of local ...Read more
Candidate for Congress Dr Oreta Tufaga Mapu Crichton believes it’s time for American Samoa to have a Department of Labor. She shared that thought during the Chamber of Commerces’ ...Read more
The first repatriation flight from the US to Samoa on November 27 will be bringing 150 sailors that have been stranded overseas since the start of COVID-19 travel restrictions. TV1Samoa reports ...Read more
At least six candidates whose names are on the ballot for next Tuesday’s elections wont be here when voters go to the polls. They are among the 500 residents who are stranded in Hawaii and the ...Read more
The only fishing vessels whose crew are allowed to come on shore when they return from fishing trips are locally owned longliners. Director of Health Motusa Tuileama Nua says these fishing boats do ...Read more
What are some problems with immigration in American Samoa and what improvements will you make to correct them? That’s one of the questions at the ASCC Gubernatorial Forum last week. Answering for ...Read more