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'We aren’t where we need to be, but we are better than we were before'
Our administration knows how hard our people work. And no one can deny that a dollar just doesn’t stretch as far as it used to....
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- Sep 1
Unite for Peace in the World and Taiwan’s inclusion in the UN
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a reminder of how autocracies care little about causing death and destruction. The war is a gross...
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- Jul 8
Sun after the storm
While the solar energy industry continues to grow on Guam, one of our biggest threats is extreme weather. With typhoon Mawar’s winds...
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- Jun 20
'We have made tremendous strides in meeting the needs of island communities'
The island of Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia and Palau are often referred to as the jewels of the...
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- Jun 7
China’s threat to personal safety of critics: paranoia or reality?
After sending to the FSM Congress and the states’ leaders his headline-grabbing 13-page letter about Chinese bribes being given to FSM’s...
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- May 4
Health for all: Taiwan can help
We thank the 37th Legislature of Guam for passing a resolution expressing its support for Taiwan to have observer status at international...
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- May 1
Considerations moving forward
On Thursday, April 27, we witnessed democracy in action when the Guam legislature voted to override the governor’s veto of Bill 12-37....
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- Apr 6
A discussion about reality
What we are exposed to every day by the various media can sometimes be very frustrating because of representations without a whole lot of...
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- Feb 27
Did the FSM Congress amend the citizenship section of the Constitution without referendum?
{Editor's Note: One of the eight proposed changes to the FSM Constitution adopted last year by the 4th FSM Constitutional Convention is...
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- Feb 7
Cautious optimism on Guam economy: Did the new normal start in 2022?
As a private citizen, I shared my 2022 Guam Economic Report with our island community on Dec. 31, 2022. At that time and in that report,...
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- Feb 5
The morality of pain
According to the famed bioethicist Peter Singer, “Pain and suffering are in themselves bad and should be prevented or minimized,...
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- Jan 20
Lost opportunities to preserve Guam’s history
In truth, the Programmatic Agreement or PA is not a success story for Guam as the Department of Defense would have you believe. It was a...
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- Dec 15, 2022
Nothing to do with abortion
A young attorney from Texas was a law clerk for the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Anthony Alito Jr., an American lawyer and...
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- Dec 3, 2022
Attitudes toward age: the not-so-hidden bias
The faded photo of my grandmother was taken in the early 1930s. It shows a short, plump woman wearing a summer dress, her grey hair in a...
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- Oct 12, 2022
The suspicious timing of road projects
Seeing news reports and posts on social media regarding roads being fixed triggers a nerve in me and I found it insulting to our...
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- Oct 6, 2022
Whither Undistributed Child Support?
In the 2018 contest for attorney general, current AG Leevin Camacho pilloried his then-opponent, Doug Moylan, for not reducing, during...
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- Oct 6, 2022
So, you’re Guam’s next elected attorney general
I have been a practicing lawyer since 1985. Since 1988, I have served as an assistant or deputy attorney general under four elected...
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- Oct 2, 2022
Puerto Rico and the US territories:
The need to resolve constitutional and political issues Saipan—I have just finished reading 1st Circuit Judge Gustavo Gelpi’s book, “The...
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- Sep 8, 2022
Reconnecting the world and facilitating Taiwan’s technical participation
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) develops common regulations and standards for civil aviation. Countries around the...
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- Jul 7, 2022
Curbing women's reproductive rights is threat to a safe option
It’s difficult for most women to talk about their unwanted pregnancies and the role that abortion plays in this situation because of the...
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- Jul 4, 2022
Running an obstacle course
To have or not to have. To be or not to be. This is at the center of the debate on abortion. It is a basic, personal decision to have...
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- Jun 4, 2022
When permission is absent
Misrepresentation of Micronesian navigation must be corrected Cultural appropriation by the Polynesian Voyaging Society is robbing me and...
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- May 12, 2022
Taiwan’s Covid containment strategy utilizing innovative technology and universal health coverage
Two years into the Covid-19 pandemic, more than 510 million confirmed cases and more than 6.25 million deaths have been reported around...
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- Apr 4, 2022
Too much of a good thing is not always good
Inflation, or a general increase in prices of items for sale in our economy, had not been a major source of concern for local residents...
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- Apr 3, 2022
Crisis after crisis
Over the last two years, our island has faced unprecedented challenges. And just as the omicron variant seems to wane, we now face an...
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- Mar 23, 2022
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ripples through the Pacific islands region
Majuro-- Unbeknownst to Vladimir Putin and most of the world, the Russian president put his country's nuclear arsenal on alert a day...
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- Mar 3, 2022
If you clean it, they will come
Sam Shinohara, managing director of airport operations Asia Pacific for United Airlines and chairman of the Guam Recovery Task Force, is...
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- Feb 27, 2022
Behind Putin's aggression and crimes against his own people
Given the events of the last few days, and against the background of sometimes over-simplified pacifist sentiments of the world...
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- Feb 14, 2022
The changing military landscape on Guam
Prior to World War II (WWII), the U.S. military footprint on Guam was relatively small (fewer than 500 service members), with only a...
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- Feb 7, 2022
Guam at a crossroads
The positive and significant impact of federal assistance on Guam’seconomy continued in 2021. The prospects for Guam’s economic recovery...
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- Feb 7, 2022
Helping businesses leap into recovery
I believe the successful launch of the Local Employers Assistance Program (LEAP) has been a crucial step in the effort to save hundreds...
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- Jan 28, 2022
Decolonization for Guam still matters
It is as essential as clean drinking water and everyone should be paying attention In 1982, the first delegation of Chamorus traveled to...
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- Jan 8, 2022
Roe v. Wade in peril
The government should be held civilly responsible for the cost of raising 'children of the state' I was thinking that the expected...
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- Jan 7, 2022
$50 million and more coming?
In mid-December, the Guam Legislature passed the much-needed legislation to provide an additional $25 million in local funding to the...
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- Jan 3, 2022
COFA talks must be taken seriously
Ensuring our indigent, elderly and youth get access to the services they need is vital to strengthening our community. Our migrant...
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- Dec 5, 2021
Reviving Guam tourism
I don’t know if anyone else feels like I do but I am bewildered by the lack of urgency and focus on the part of Adelup and the...
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- Nov 13, 2021
The right to climate
It’s time to harness the power of millions of lawsuits to stop the boiling of the planet It seems that the more things change, the more...
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- Nov 7, 2021
Sustainability: the foundation of a new hospital’s decades of success
Building a new hospital is one of the most expensive undertakings. On the mainland, it is not unusual to see construction costs of...
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- Oct 23, 2021
Accept Taiwan’s Medigen
During its board meeting on Oct. 14, the management of Guam Visitors Bureau (GVB) revealed its quarantine exemption request for travelers...
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- Oct 22, 2021
Health cannot be put on hold
Lift restrictions on people's access to fitness centers The latest information provided by the Department of Public Health to the general...
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- Oct 21, 2021
Open and transparent dialogue
Upholding laws to further protect and preserve Guam's natural and cultural resources The Joint Region Marianas (JRM) relationship with...
By Joyce McClure
- Oct 6, 2021
Fighting Covid: The devil is in the details
Flanked by Guam’s top medical and health professionals, Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero has held several press conferences in recent months about...
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- Sep 5, 2021
Reimagining a more resilient UN system with Taiwan in it
After more than 200 million infections and over 4 million deaths and counting, the Covid-19 pandemic has raged across the globe. This has...
By Joyce McClure
- Aug 27, 2021
Don’t tell me… show me
Rumors and myths abound about Covid-19 vaccines giving thousands of people excuses for why they aren’t showing up to get jabbed. · ...
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- Aug 19, 2021
Chaos amid the Taliban's return
New York City - The only spot on the planet where Afghanistan's government is still speaking is in New York City at the United Nations....
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- Jun 3, 2021
A naturalized POTUS?
By Jeffrey J. Cunningham Yes, at first glance it does come across as a much wilder and far more distant dream than any chimeric dream,...
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