MV Sili Suffers Damage, Goes on Slipway
The US Coast Guard is investigating how the MV Sili suffered damage during its last trip to Manu’a late last week. The boat returned to Tutuila Friday morning but apparently needs to go on the ...Read more
The US Coast Guard is investigating how the MV Sili suffered damage during its last trip to Manu’a late last week. The boat returned to Tutuila Friday morning but apparently needs to go on the ...Read more
An attorney handling American Samoa’s lawsuit against the National Marine Fisheries Service, US Department of Commerce and the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council over allowing longliners ...Read more
The territory of American Samoa’s suit against federal agencies and officials over the Large Vessel Prohibited Area rule change claims four causes of action. Firstly that the amendment to the ...Read more
The most controversial candidate in the presidential race for 2016, billionaire Donald Trump has issued a position statement on the US territories of American Samoa, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, ...Read more
The US Department of Labor has informed Governor Lolo that it cannot meet his request to continue the moratorium on the 50 cent wage increase in the territory’s minimum wage. The Administrator ...Read more
Plaintiffs in the citizenship case that’s now before the Supreme Court have received support from a diverse array of academics, current and former territorial officials, and civil rights ...Read more
Chief Justices from the US Pacific are meeting in American Samoa next month. The Pacific Judicial Council, comprising chief justices and judges of American Samoa, Chuuk, the Commonwealth of the ...Read more
Governor Lolo Moliga has welcomed with joy the positive outcome of negotiations between the United States and Pacific island countries concerning the South Pacifc Tuna Treaty. According to the ...Read more
The owners of StarKist Samoa, StarKist Company, are pleased that an agreement has been reached that will allow the U.S. flagged purse seine fleet to resume fishing in their traditional fishing ...Read more
A new proposal by Pacific Island Countries that are party to the US Tuna Treaty which governs where US purse seiners that supply the two local canneries fish, is being submitted by the Fisheries ...Read more