By Pacific Island Times News Staff The Department of Administration has prepared individual checks directly to each mayor's office, following a procedure outlined in an emergency law that allocates $8 million for resource mobilization in response to Typhoon Bavi. The administration, however, said it has begun taking urgent steps to cancel each check after the legislature clarified at Thursday morning’s Committee of the Whole hearing that the funds should be channeled through

Guamanians will head to the polling stations on Aug. 1 for partisan primaries, leading to the Nov. 3 general elections that will shape the battle for control of the 39th Guam Legislature.

Guam Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero said H.R. 9724, titled "End Birthright Citizenship for Territories Act," would create a scenario in which a child born under the American flag ends up becoming a stateless citizen.