My heart sighed upon seeing Greg Champion’s Facebook post about the passing of my first boss on Guam, Lee Holmes. Mr. Holmes, as we all called him, passed away in December in San Diego. I worked for him at the former Guam Cable TV for nearly five years. He was the reason I ventured halfway around the world from the flat, expansive plains of central Illinois to this tiny green gem in the great Blue Continent. As is often the case with formidable people who touch our lives, I d

United Airlines announced today that it has added a new weekend flight between Guam and Honolulu from June 5 through Aug. 15, 2020, to support the strong demands of the upcoming summer peak travel season. That additional frequency, which brings the total number of flights between Guam and Honolulu to eight times weekly, will depart Honolulu on Friday and Guam on Saturday. United currently operates a daily flight between the two islands (UA201/200) aboard a Boeing 777-200 airc

There are conflicting information about the true nature of the fireball streaking across the sky over Guam and the Mariana Islands Friday night. The Offices of Guam Homeland Security and Civil Defense (GHS/OCD) said ir has received multiple reports and inquiries of recordings of spectacle. “From the event, we found the gaps in communication between federal authorities and their counterparts,” Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero said. “I have instructed the homeland security advisor to he

“Euw!” “Yuck!” These were my first reactions to kimchee. I had tried a tiny bit of it a long time ago and did not like it. Stayed away from the stuff. And yet last month I ate at five Korean restaurants at the Harmon Industrial Park and had kimchee in four of them. I wanted to try something I thought was distasteful. I wanted to give it another chance. Maybe I was looking at it all wrong. Maybe my taste buds had changed, or developed. I used to think of Harmon Industrial Park

The Consolidated Commission on Utilities violated the open government law when it approved behind closed doors the $1.3 million in pay raises and bonuses for unclassified employees of the Guam Power Authority and Guam Waterworks Authority, the Office of Public Accountability said. “The open government law states that the people of Guam do not yield their individual rights to the public agencies which serve them,” Public Auditor Benjamin Cruz said in an OPA report released tod

I was cleaning the bathroom at the American Medical Center in Mangilao the other day when a thought popped in my head: toilets are like albatrosses in that they are both typically large-mouthed, porcelain white, heavy entities that are surrounded by a lot of poop. Speaking of clean toilets, the ancient Chamoru must have been meticulously clean people with a pragmatic sensibility about sanitation. Visiting European scholars typically described the Chamoru as sturdy, handsome h