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By Pacific island Times News Staff
- May 24, 2018
- 1 min
Attorney Leevin Taitano Camacho announces bid for AG
Attorney Leevin T. Camacho announced he is running for Attorney General of Guam—making him the first candidate to officially seek the island’s highest legal office. Camacho, 40, has been a lawyer in Guam for twelve years and has operated a successful private practice for the past seven. He has extensive experience in civil and criminal litigation and has also taken a lead role in several lawsuits to uphold the rights of the people of Guam— from representing the residents of P
By Ongerung Kambes Kesolei &
- May 24, 2018
- 2 min
Palau senators raise more questions on airport project
Koror- While Palau President Tommy Remengesau Jr. said that the multi million airport expansion project is well underway, members of the Senate minority bloc raises more questions on Tuesday by asking the court to review the airport documents. The opposition senators alleged in their motion before the court ,that the documents reviewed held by the Senate legal counsel pro tem appear to have material differences with the draft airport documents presented to the Senate for app
By Mar-Vic Cagurangan
- May 23, 2018
- 3 min
Supreme Court leaves Legislature alone
Ruling says neither the governor nor the court can order the legislature to sign a bill Upholding the doctrine of separation of powers among the three branches of government, the Supreme Court of Guam on Wednesday dismissed Gov. Eddie B. Calvo’s petition seeking to compel the legislature into transmitting a contentious borrowing bill to his office. “The Organic Act vests the legislative powers of the government of Guam solely in the legislative branch,” the court’s decision s
News Release, Senator Régine Biscoe Lee
- May 23, 2018
- 2 min
Senator Biscoe Lee’s plastic bag ban passes Legislature
Guam lawmakers Wednesday unanimously agreed to take a big step in recognizing and reversing the island’s problem with non-biodegradable litter as they passed Sen. Régine Biscoe Lee’s Bill 268, “Choose to Reuse: Muñgnga Ma Ayek I Plastek.” Senators voted 14-0 to ban the distribution of plastic carryout bags in two years, an initiative that mirrors bans already passed in three other U.S. territories, the neighboring islands of Palau, the Marshall Islands, Yap and Fiji as well a
By Jayne Flores
- May 23, 2018
- 4 min
Feeling cheated: the UOG presidential search
Google search: Dr. Thomas Krise Former president, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington (2012-2017). April 2017 article in The News Tribune reports he stepped down with no explanation. Despite some financial difficulties, Krise reportedly made important strides there. Two master’s degrees, Ph.D. in English, founding president of the Early Caribbean Society; past president of the Society of Early Americanists; former Fulbright Scholar at the University of the West In
By Pacific island Times News Staff
- May 23, 2018
- 2 min
OPA audit found tobacco tax underpayments
Ninety-nine percent of tobacco taxes are not collected immediately because the law allows importers to delay tax payments on tobacco products it stores in private warehouses, the Office of Public Accountability said. OPA’s analysis of the Department of Revenue and Taxation’s data on tobacco tax paid compared with the calculations for tax due identified indicated an underpayment of $142,000 by one taxpayer and overpayments ranging from $2,000 to $46,000 by three taxpayers. OP
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