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Monstrous Sinlaku to hit Saipan, Tinian with maximum wind speed of 180mph

By Jayvee Vallejera Super Typhoon Sinlaku is now a Category 5 monster with maximum sustained winds of 180 mph, barreling straight into the Northern Mariana Islands after several small shifts in its track in the last 12 hours. While Sinlaku's threat to Guam has been greatly reduced, Saipan and Tinian are facing severe impacts. Speaking at a heavy weather briefing today, Landon Aydlett, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service Guam, said that Sinlaku continues to move n

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8 hours ago

Federal aid activated for Guam and CNMI as Sinlaku develops into a 'monster' supertyphoon

The presidential directive authorizes the Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency to coordinate all disaster relief efforts for both territories.

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10 hours ago

Sinlaku upgraded to supertyphoon; Threat veers toward Tinian and Saipan

Sinkalu has been upgraded to a super typhoon, with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph and maximum gusts of 184 mph, according to the latest update from the Joint Typhoon Warning Center.

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1 day ago

THE PACIFIC

Military buildup in Palau faces growing dissatisfaction, report says

Palauans initially welcomed military traffic, but the accelerated influx of troops quickly stretched domestic resources and degraded roads, causing anxiety among residents.

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14 hours ago

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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3 days 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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4 days ago

INSIGHTS

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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1 day 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

1 day 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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7 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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1 day ago

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