Gov. Leon Guerrero has reiterated Guam's demand for return of excess land under the U.S. Navy's control to the local government , disclosing the government's plan to build a medical complex consisting of a new hospital and Public Health facility that will serve the region. Leon Guerrero renewed the plea during a meeting with Secretary of Defense Mark Defense Friday. Leon Guerrero first sought the return of 17,031 acres of federally-controlled submerged lands to the local gove

Defense Secretary Mark Esper meets with Palau's President Thomas Remengesau, left, on Aug. 27, 2020, in Koror, Palau for a U.S. defense secretary's first-ever visit to the country. Photo by Meghann Myers/Military Times Koror — U.S troops have been rotating in and out of a small Southeast Asian island nation for more than 40 years, and on Friday they got their inaugural visit by a Pentagon boss. Defense Secretary Mark Esper toured a civil affairs compound and met with top gove

I was called at 3 a.m. to respond to an 11-year-old oncology patient with spiking high fevers. I was the second-year resident physician on hospital night call for the pediatric team at the world-famous Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. I hurried into the patient's room to find his mom, his grandmother and his older brother all awake by the sick boy's bedside. His dad was sitting on the bed soothing his son's forehead. I explained that the boy's white blood cell count was t

U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper and Japanese Defense Minister Taro Kono reaffirmed their commitment to the realignment plan to move U.S. forces from Okinawa to Guam and other initiatives, including construction of the Futenma Replacement Facility. Esper hosted Kono in Guam, where they reaffirmed the strength of the U.S.-Japan alliance and discussed ways to deepen and expand bilateral defense cooperation. Esper also met with Guam Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero, who asked tha

Koror— The Covid-19 pandemic “is a window of opportunity for us to change things and has really shown us that we need to be more self-sufficient,” young activist Miel Sequeira-Holm said, keynoting the Third National Environment Symposium held on Aug. 18. “We don’t have to always rely on imported products; we can make our own. We have so many talented and hard-working people right here in our own home,” she said. Investing in locals and regaining local control over Palau’s n

Guam senators on Friday voted to reprogram $500,000 from the Recycling Revolving Fund to the University of Guam's "Green Growth Initiative," a move which Sen Sabina Perez said would set a precedent for future raid of the chest. Perez frowned on her colleagues' action, saying the fund realignment violated an 11-month-old law. RFF was established by a 2003 law, which did not have rules and regulations on proper use of the fund until last year. In October 2019, Gov. Lou Leon Gue