While other carriers have made significant reductions to their flight frequencies and seat capacities, Philippine Airlines (PAL) is expanding its services in Guam. According to Bryan L. Ang , PAL’s vice president for international passenger sales, Philippine Airlines has enhanced its efforts to promote Guam as a destination in Asia, Oceania, China and Europe. “Unlike other carriers that are mainly strong to the east of Guam, PAL maintains its sustainable flights in and out

The Guam Memorial Hospital is the staple of news, with the same running stories that get recycled under different administrations for more than a decade. The public hospital has a revolving door for administrators, who are confronted by the same bundles of seemingly unsolvable problems including poor billing and collection systems, questionable expenditures, outdated fees and low cash inflow, operational and financial mismanagement, overcrowding and bed shortage, low medical

Vince Arriola, Guam Department of Administration Following declarations of imminent government bankruptcy that led to imposition of a new sales and business taxes as well as cuts to government services, Governor Eddie Baza Calvo has put together a 'Fiscal Strike Team' to pursue taxes that have gone uncollected to date in the eight years of his administration. The team, to be chaired by Department of Administration Deputy Director Vince Arriola, will focus on identifying soft

Guam Delegate Madeleine Z. Bordallo has announced that the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded the Guam Housing and Urban Renewal Authority $20,015.00 in federal grant assistance. The grant was awarded to GHURA for the Congregate Housing Service Program. The program provides an annual extension for the employment of Service Coordinators to assist multi-family housing developments designed for the elderly and persons with disabilities. The funding

A crown of thorns sea star (COTS) perches on a coral in Asgadao Bay in the Achang Marine Preserve off Merizo village. These starfish are hungry coral predators that can destroy large areas of coral reefs in a very short time. (Photos: Dave Burdick) A voracious, venomous predator may be coming for our corals, and Guam’s coral reef response team is hoping you can help. The crown of thorns sea star, or COTS for short, is a large, spiny sea star that eats coral. Though these star

Hansen Leong Officiating at Volleyball Championship Colonia, Yap. World class technical officials in volleyball and baseball will be in Yap for the 2018 Micro Games, announced Jim Tobin, secretary general of the FSM National Olympic Committee. Supported by a grant from the U.S. Olympic Committee, volleyball referee Hansen Leong and baseball referee John Thomas Flanagan, have been nominated by USA Volleyball and USA Baseball respectively to work with the Micronesian referees a