Talks, meetings center on expanding H-2B labor for Guam civilian projects, getting war claims paid Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero says her first week in Washington as the island's chief executive said that Trump administration officials appear open to changing the Department of Homeland Security's policy of blocking approval of bringing in skilled contract workers for projects other than those connected with the military buildup. “We have to look at the military buildup from a ‘One G

It’s high time they end their silence, according to a Micronesian human rights lawyer, who is urging victims of clergy sex abuse in Pohnpei and Chuuk to come forward with their long untold stories. “The Pohnpei and Chuuk populations are Catholic. Most are religious and conservative. We are influenced by the early missionaries,” said Salomon M. Saimon. “They don’t talk about stories like sex abuse. This outlook is archaic.” Motivated by the high-profile prosecution of clergy m

The Guam Legislature on Wednesday passed a bill that would expand the government of Guam’s network of providers under its healthcare insurance program. The bill’s author, Speaker Tina Muna Barnes, described the passage of Bill 30-35 as “the first step to improve healthcare access on Guam.” Currently, GovGuam’s healthcare insurance plans apply only to the Guam Memorial Hospital. The bill, if signed into law, would allow government employees and retirees to have more options in

Leon Guerrero, Torres testify before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Guam Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero and CNMI Gov. Ralph Torres on Tuesday made an official appeal before a U.S. Senate panel, seeking to exempt the two territories from the federal government’s decision to ban skilled workers from the Philippines. “The Department of Homeland Security’s recent administrative action that removed the Philippines from a list of countries eligible for the H-2B progra

Two year old Pugua, a former resident of Yigo is dead, but as drivers on Marine Corps Drive, social media followers, the residents of Yigo Village, legislators and a lot of other people on the island are well aware, this beloved pet dog, shot dead on private property, is far from forgotten. Pugua's bloody body, pictured on the floor of a neighbor's carport last September hit social media and other animals were shot and killed in the same neighborhood. Gerald Wayne Cruz II was

The House Committee on Education and Labor on Tuesday cleared the Rebuild America’s Schools Act, which includes a 10-year allotment worth $350-million for schools in Guam, the CNMI, American Samoa and U.S. Virgin Islands. H.R. 865 proposes to invest more than $100 billion in repairs and rebuilding of public schools across the nation, a program that is touted to generate more than 1.9 million good-paying jobs. “Countless students attend school in crumbling buildings that are e