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Guam's Ukudu power plant now up and running

By Pacific Island Times News Staff The Guam Power Authority officially turned on the Ukudu Power Plant, a 198-megawatt combined-cycle plant touted to reduce the island's dependence on fossil fuels. The $600-million power plant in Dededo, which took more than a decade of planning, development and construction, will replace GPA's aging infrastructure and strengthen the islandwide power system. “This moment represents the culmination of a 13-year journey to modernize Guam’s pow

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Fishery council gears up to restore commercial fishing in Marianas Trench monument and other marine sanctuaries

The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council has initiated a process to restore commercial fishing in waters within the Marianas Trench National Marine Monument and other federally protected areas in the Pacific, aiming to regain control of those waters while complying with President Trump’s policy to resuscitate America’s seafood industry.

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4 days ago

THE PACIFIC

FSM one step closer to implementing comprehensive tax reforms

Revisiting the value-added tax proposal, the task force agreed to explore legal and practical solutions that could make its implementation constitutional, feasible and equitable.

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Palau agrees to host US deportees

MOU signed; Washington sweetens the deal with new aid packages and a new Palau hospital U.S. Ambassador to Palau Joe Ehrendrereich and Palau Foreign Minister Gustav Aitaro hold a copy of the memorandum of understanding on the transfer of U.S. deportees to the Pacific island nation. Photo courtesy of the Office of the President of Palau By Mar-Vic Cagurangan Despite opposition from congressional leaders and the Council of Chiefs, Palau President Surangel Whipps Jr. has agreed

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LIFE & ARTS

Christmas on Guam: the good and the bad

On the first day of Christmas, Guam gave us Our Lady of Camarin in a flame tree;

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Dec 21

Letter to the Editor: We must move forward with political status plebiscite

In Davis v. Guam, the United States District Court permanently enjoined Guam from conducting a political status plebiscite restricted to “native inhabitants of Guam” and the Ninth Circuit affirmed that result on Fifteenth Amendment grounds.

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Dec 16

Where the CHamoru culture was born

Litekyan, an archeological site at the northern point of Guam, is the birthplace of pre-Spanish CHamoru civilization before it later became a front of the natives’ resistance against the European colonizers. These days, the ancient CHamoru village site embodies the conflict between the growing military presence on Guam and the effort to preserve the island’s culture.

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Gi Matan Guma’ calls creatives to apply for paid, weeklong artist residency

Led by the organization’s original MALI’E’ cohort, participants will explore ancestral spirituality through tending to sacred sites, movement, chant and material cultural practices from Dec. 29 to Jan. 4.

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Dec 12