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Guam braces for a looming Category 2 typhoon

By Pacific Island Times News Staff (Updated April 10) Some residents are starting to shutter their homes, filling up their gas tanks, stocking up on emergency food supplies and purchasing storage batteries in preparation for Tropical Storm Sinlaku forecast to pass south and southwest of Guam between Monday and Tuesday. The latest forecast track from the Joint Typhoon Warning Center shows Tropical Depression 04W intensifying into a Category 2 typhoon. NWS said the 04W, formerl

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18 hours ago

From Tumon to Tamuning: As luxury shopping falls out of fashion, Guam eyes the 'premium outlets' model

Workers paint over the sign on what was once the DKSH headquarters in Harmon, a poignant sight signaling the end of an era for the Switzerland-based company that served the Guam and Micronesia markets, distributing Rolex and other luxury brand watches and accessories for more than 50 years.

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4 days ago

Governor quells fearmongering; nixes calls for emergency declaration amid global fuel crisis

By Pacific Island Times News Staff Allaying fears of a possible fuel shortage, Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero has declined calls to declare a state of emergency, assuring residents that Guam’s energy supply remains stable. “I have been asked by some in the legislature to declare a state of emergency based on the fear of a fuel shortage. A fear that is being stoked by the attorney general,” the governor said in a special video message to the public. While acknowledging that the un

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6 days ago

THE PACIFIC

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 hours 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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20 hours ago

Legal, political tensions shape Kanaky’s path toward self-determination

By Ron Rocky Coloma The future of Kanaky, New Caledonia, remains uncertain as legal debates, political divisions and community realities continue to shape what Indigenous advocates describe as an unfinished process of decolonization. At the center of that argument is Viro Xulue, who framed the territory’s status not as a political disagreement but as a matter of international law and human rights. “The decolonization of Kanaky is an international obligation that remains incom

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23 hours ago

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LIFE & ARTS

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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3 days ago

The return trip: What Thailand knows about tourism that Guam needs to learn

Legislation to create this exemption has already been introduced. The objection that businesses pocket tax savings rather than passing them to consumers is legitimate for across-the-board cuts — a targeted food exemption is a different instrument, with households and small food businesses as its primary beneficiaries.

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4 days ago

The politics of expectation

Live from Saipan By Zaldy Dandan Saipan — I’m quite sure that at some point a voter will finally ask himself: Why is it that in every election all candidates promise to make things better, yet once they’re in office they seldom do? Not a single one of them promised to be corrupt, incompetent, or way in over his head, but eventually voters end up complaining about corruption, incompetence and leaders who are way in over their heads. I’ve been reading, writing and thinking abo

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4 days 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

‘Syntax of Steel’ merges CHamoru heritage, modern design

The installation, titled “Syntax of Steel,” was created by artist Sujin Bec, who has lived on Guam since 2015. The piece blends engineering concepts with CHamoru cultural symbolism, grounding it firmly in the island’s identity.

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Mar 20