Manila — Death happens — if not to someone we know — to us. The only problem we have with it is how we pass its test on our level of strength, on how we accept it. It challenges us on how we continue living without the persons we used to love and live with. The most terrifying reality is if it stares us in the face. The certainty of death is not as ominous as it is today, with a lethal virus stalking all of us. The global number of coronavirus deaths is now at more than a mil

Death, it is said, is 100 percent fatal: all of us will suffer and die from it. These days, it is in the news like no other. November is our nervous laugh about death. Like falling on a banana peel in front of a crowd and saying “I did that on purpose.” This ghoulish costume? Yeah, death does not scare me, hahaha! What is especially distressing about death news these days is that we are losing the old and aging among us. And that we cannot go through the rituals of death and

The United States has teamed up with Australia and Japan to bankroll the construction of Palau's $30-million undersea fiber optic cable, marking the first project collaboration under the Trilateral Partnership for Infrastructure Investment in the Indo-Pacific, Secretary of State Michael Pompeo announced this week. Pompeo said the project "will ensure reliable, secure digital connectivity in Palau" and will connect to a new undersea cable financed by the U.S. International Dev

Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero on Friday signed into law a bill that would require airlines and vessel operators to provide the Guam Customs and Quarantine Agency a manifest prior to arrival to Guam. Bill 360-35, authored by Sen. Mary Torres, is now Public Law 35-105. The new law, cosponsored by Speaker Tina Muña Barnes and Sen. Joe San Agustin, modernizes the QCA operations. Previously under Guam law, a manifest document, which lists the vessel’s cargo, passengers, and crew, did n

The Joint Information Center was notified that Guam’s 79th Covid-19-related fatality occurred at the Guam Memorial Hospital at approximately 12:38 p.m. Friday. The patient was a 63-year-old male with underlying conditions that were further compounded Covid-19. He was admitted to GMH on Oct. 24 after testing positive at the Guam Regional Medical City. “To those who loved him, please accept our deepest condolences and sympathies. You do not bear this burden alone—you are joined

The Department of Revenue & Taxation has processed and the Department of Administration will mail 1,014 2019 tax refund checks this week. The checks total approximately $ 2,675,504 including refunds garnished to repay government debts for error free returns filed on or before April 30. The department also announced that on Thursday, Oct. 29 it processed 305 AIM Program payments totaling $172,500. DRT will continue to process AIM Program payments through March 31, 2021. Payme