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Business group questions hasty passage of GovGuam pay raise bill

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2 days ago

Business group questions hasty passage of GovGuam pay raise bill

By Pacific Island Times News Staff The Guam Chamber of Commerce criticized Democratic senators for voting in favor of a bill raising...

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2 days ago

Who will backpedal on Bill 12-37?

By Pacific Island Times News Staff Speaker Therese Terlaje today sought to clarify the intention of Bill 12-37 amid muddled assumptions...

Guam legislature approves pay raise bill in party-line vote

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6 days ago

Guam legislature approves pay raise bill in party-line vote

By Mar-Vic Cagurangan After three days of marathon special session, Guam senators on Friday night passed an administration-endorsed...

Navy and Coast Guard begin Oceania maritime security initiative patrol

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5 days ago

Navy and Coast Guard begin Oceania maritime security initiative patrol

By Pacific Island Times News Staff The U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard have begun their joint patrol in the Western Pacific under the...

A. Samoa delegate nixes expansion plan for Pacific Remote Islands sanctuary

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6 days ago

A. Samoa delegate nixes expansion plan for Pacific Remote Islands sanctuary

By Mar-Vic Cagurangan Closing off more areas around the Pacific Remote Islands would only invite foreign vessels to poach into the U.S....

Solomons shuns geopolitics, hits US military investments in Pacific region

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Mar 22

Solomons shuns geopolitics, hits US military investments in Pacific region

By Pacific Island Times News Staff Caught in a tug-of-war between the world's superpowers, the Solomon Islands sought to strengthen its...

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Mar 12

Heartbreak for Fåhang in Malesso

By Olympia Terral In mid-2021, slowly at first and then in a flood, Fåhang established a breeding colony in the heart of Malesso’...

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Mar 11

All these places had their moments…

I smiled as I read Rita’s email. The February column had her remembering her prom at Panciteria Far East, which was glitz and glamour. It...

Navigating the regional organizations in the Pacific

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Mar 9

Navigating the regional organizations in the Pacific

In today’s Pacific island world, there is no shortage of regional efforts, meetings and organizations. If you have an idea and cannot...

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Mar 11

I am not a robot

Manila – In the world we live in today, checkboxes have become part of our reality. Chances are, if you’re not a human being, you’re...

Serving Mediterranean fare, Anemos restaurant opens in Tumon

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Mar 8

Serving Mediterranean fare, Anemos restaurant opens in Tumon

By Gina Tabonares-Reilly Set out on the front yard of Sand Castle in Tumon, Anemos— which means “wind” in Greek— will offer the island’s...

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Mar 5

Cruising through Bermuda Triangle

Bridgman, MI—When Sharon and I married in 2004, we planned our honeymoon to be on a 13-day Grand Holiday Caribbean Cruise of the Cunard...

Republican Party of Guam: Restore checks and balances in government

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Apr 10, 2022
2 min

Republican Party of Guam: Restore checks and balances in government

By Pacific Island Times News Staff The Republican Party of Guam today pushed for the adoption of a legislative resolution that would...

USDA seeks to plug loopholes in welfare programs

By Pacific Island Ties News Staff

Jul 25, 2019
2 min

USDA seeks to plug loopholes in welfare programs

Washington-- The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is proposing to close a loophole that allows states to make participants receiving...

Did Mangkhut spoil your food stamp goodies? Not to worry

Pacific Island Times Staff

Sep 21, 2018
1 min

Did Mangkhut spoil your food stamp goodies? Not to worry

If your frozen food was spoiled during the Mangkhut power outages, and you're a SNAP beneficiary, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food...

Cockfighting ban in GOP's just passed 2018 farm bill

News Release, Delegate Madeleine Z. Bordallo

Jun 22, 2018
2 min

Cockfighting ban in GOP's just passed 2018 farm bill

Bordallo opposes Federal cockfighting ban that 'dictates' to U.S. Territories Washington, D.C.-- Guam Delegate to the U.S. Congress...

More fish imports from Chuuk on Guam’s SNAP days

By Gina T Reilly

May 16, 2018
3 min

More fish imports from Chuuk on Guam’s SNAP days

A research that looked at 12 years of commercial reef-fish trade data between Chuuk and Guam revealed a relation between increased...

By Mar-Vic Cagurangan

May 6, 2018
3 min

Force-feeding the babies

The Trump administration’s fiscal 2019 budget pitched a “bold, innovative approach” to reform the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance...

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