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Guam to be placed in COR 2 this afternoon; Sinlaku intensifies, likely to shift slightly north or south

By Pacific Island Times News Staff Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero and Rear Adm. Brett Mietus anticipate placing Guam and military bases in Condition of Readiness 2 and Tropical Cyclone Condition of Readiness 2, respectively, at 5 p.m. today. At COR2, the government of Guam, except for essential services, will not operate until COR 4 is announced. For TCCOR 2, JRM is finalizing closing times for the remaining military services, with details released later today. Officials advise resi

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2 hours ago

Governor asks Trump to declare pre-landfall emergency disaster for Guam

“I anticipate that this situation will be of such severity and magnitude that an effective response will be beyond the capability of the government of Guam, and supplementary federal assistance will be necessary to save lives and protect property, public health and safety,” the governor said in a report to Trump.

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16 hours ago

CNMI governor declares a state of 'significant emergency'

David Apatang By Pacific Island Times News Staff Northern Marianas Gov. David Apatang today declared the commonwealth under a state of significant emergency in anticipation of Tropical Storm Sinlaku, which is predicted to develop into a Category 3 or 4 typhoon before landfall. "Based on its current track, all populated islands within the CNMI, including Saipan, Tinian, and Rota, are under threat," the governor said in an executive order declaring an emergency. The CNMI antici

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19 hours ago

THE PACIFIC

Hidden stories in Fiji’s ancient clay pots

In his study, “Post-Lapita Ceramic Change in Fiji,” archaeologist Geoffrey Clark explains that pottery in ancient Fiji served purposes beyond mere cooking tools. These clay artifacts provide insights into the lifestyle, trade practices and creativity of the people.

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1 day ago

Pacific shipping lifeline faces crisis as experts push wind-powered transition

“The vessel alone is a really important element,” he said. “But those elements alone will not make a functioning system. It is much more about the governance around it.”

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2 days ago

Cook Islands study flags access gaps in shift to digital vaccine consent

A paper form sent home through school can seem simple enough. But in the Cook Islands, health workers say those slips can also go missing, come back late or never return at all, leaving some children without routine vaccinations.

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3 days ago

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LIFE & ARTS

Governing in the dark: Guam keeps spending money it cannot account for

The fix isn’t more money; it’s a flashlight By Samuel S. Kim There is a file somewhere in the Department of Public Health and Social Services. Or there was. When auditors went looking for it—hunting for documentation behind hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicaid payments—they found boxes that had been “relocated to storage,” databases nobody had updated in years, signatures that simply were not there. No drama. No villain. Just a government that had stopped keeping track

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3 hours ago

Jones Act and the Pacific: Lessons from the wave

I’m not going to tiptoe around semantics. America is at war. When missiles fly and civilians die, it’s a war.

By Gabriel McCoard

3 hours ago

Busting government monopolies of professionals

As a lawyer and a physician, we have publicly and privately sparred over the best way to advance healthcare on this island. Our disagreements have even been documented in the halls of the legislature. However, we agree on one thing. Guam is suffering a shortage of essential professionals, and a portion of this problem is self-inflicted. The government of Guam sidelines the private sector, treating it as inferior.

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6 days ago

Divine protection over a foggy highway

As I was nodding off a bit to catch a few shut eyes before my turn at the wheel, I could see that we were approaching a truck traveling in our right lane a couple of hundred feet in front of us.

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Guam welcomes ancestral skulls' return

By Johanna Salinas Guam has welcomed home four ancestral skulls, which had been stolen from the island and sold to a German collector in 1878. For more than a century, the skulls of ancient CHamorus were almost forgotten, if not for the hard work of Fran Lujan, director of the Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum. “With the work of repatriation, rematriation, it’s a sacred responsibility, an obligation we owe to our ancestors,” Melvin Won Pat-Borja, president of the Department o

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Mar 29

‘Pressure Points’ exhibit on Guam highlights printmakers, global collaboration

What began as a shared conversation among printmakers from different parts of the world has taken shape on Guam through “Pressure Points,” an international exhibition that explores how art can carry the weight of lived experience.

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Mar 24