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By Joseph Meyers
- Dec 31, 2017
- 3 min
No, it's not the end
A great philosopher once said — or maybe it was a TV host on E channel— that for Spice Girls fans, every year is 1997, the height of their fame. Yes, it’s been that long. But for doomsayers, it seems like every year is 2012, the year the world was supposed to end — according to pop interpreters of Mayan history. It turns out, it was really just the end of the Mayan Calendar (and a bad movie), rather than the beginning of the Apocalypse. But no one really really wants the worl

By Jayne Flores
- Dec 31, 2017
- 3 min
A new generation takes the free press mantle
I am excited. A new generation of Guam journalists is breathing life into the Micronesia Chapter of the Society of Journalists. In 1989, this western Pacific chapter of the national Society of Journalists was chartered by a core group of Guam journalists, yours truly included. We held some vibrant gubernatorial debates, brought in off island professionals for workshops, and served as the vanguard of freedom of information at legislative hearings. Unfortunately, MSPJ fell dorm

By Bruce Lloyd
- Dec 31, 2017
- 5 min
Guam vets vent, reflecting Pacific territorial complaints about Veterans Administration
Donald Bruce Periodically, officials from the Hawaii-based U.S. Veterans Administration arrive on Guam for a tongue-lashing by vets who have complained for years about inadequate care provided by a bureaucracy located on the other side of the international dateline. A number one complaint concerned a tiny VA clinic shoehorned into the old Navy Hospital and the constant need for referral to Hawaii for the more serious medical problems encountered by an aging population of vets

News release, Strykers Football Club
- Dec 29, 2017
- 1 min
Two flavors of Guam football. This one is American soccer
The Guam Strykers Football Club was organized in 2005 and its fans and players have made it the largest soccer club on Guam, which has plenty of plain old American football action as well. It’s got teams in every division: youth, men’s, women’s, futsol and beach soccer, all contained within the Guam Football Association. Now Strykers club president Keith Dickson has announced that Kevin Elwell will be the group’s technical director, running a youth academy for junior players.

Pacific Island Times Staff
- Dec 26, 2017
- 2 min
Admiral Chatfield weighs in again on live firing range issues
Admiral Chatfield at the October public hearing Joint Region Marianas Commander Rear Admiral Chatfield has re-stated her commitment to keep local leaders and community members informed about progress in the ongoing Guam military buildup which will eventually bring thousands of U.S. Marines and their dependents from from Okinawa to Guam. Admiral Chatfield wrote to Sen. Frank Aguon Jr., who chaired an October 'roundtable' hearing to air public complaints about this long runnin

Pacific Island Times Staff
- Dec 22, 2017
- 1 min
CNMI vets clinic study okayed in D.C.
Washington-- CNMI Delegate to Congress Gregorio 'Kilili' Sablan says that the House Veterans Affairs' Committee voted in favor of his amendment requiring a report on the feasibility of putting a VA-staffed health clinic in the Marianas. Sablan told constituents in an email report, "We are one of the few areas of the country without easy access to a clinic. Getting one is my top priority now that I am a member of the Veterans Affairs' Committee. My amendment becomes part of th
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