The Guam Ancestral Lands Commission closed fiscal 2019 with a significant increase of $4.9 million (56 percent) in net income, which increased by $1.8 million from FY 2018’s net income of $3.1 million, according to the Office of Public Accountability. The spike in net income came with a corresponding increase in expenditures increase by $902,000, from $195,000 in FY 2018 to $1.1 million in FY 2019. OPA attributed the increase to the increase of $752,000in management fees, inc

You are right, you probably aren’t going to die. You are one of the 90 percent in the world who the novel coronavirus can’t kill. But this stealthy virus sometimes hitches a ride on innocent little children and apparently healthy people like you until it finds vulnerable hosts like your elderly grandpa or the sweet, kind, little 80-year old lady in the house next door. The vulnerable are typically overwhelmed by critical illness seven to 14 days after infection and may surviv

There is still uncertainty over whether life will return to normal or things have changed forever through this pandemic crisis. During the second month of lockdown, with many businesses closed and restrictions on movement and social gathering, it was clear that both the community and island must adapt. For the agencies under my oversight, I encouraged them to envision ways to continue their important work, even when the normal is no longer allowable. When the current Covid-19

The public health emergency declaration in response to the Covid-19 pandemic mandates social distancing that has forced the government of Guam and most businesses to require employees to work at home. “The lessons we’ve learned and seen is that people can do telework and people can use internet and technology to do some of their obligations and their duties and responsibilities,” Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero said at Friday's press conference. “It’s been very much demonstrated we ne

As the government of Guam and the business community slowly reopen, Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero has extended the public health emergency declaration through June 30. With the directive providing her emergency powers, the governor said if a situation requires making a quick decision on acquiring services and supplies to respond to the Covid-19, she would again use her emergency authority for emergency procurements as she did during the onset of the coronavirus. “This means if I do

The Guam Department of Revenue and Taxation announced today that on Thursday, the agency processed approximately 3,000 EIP program payments totaling about $4.7 million. Altogether, for the months of April and May , DRT processed approximately $117.9 million in EIP Program Payments which represents about 87 percent of the estimated $134.8 million which was approved by the Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Treasury. Guam EIP Program Timeline: CARES Act signed into law by Presi