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COP29: Amplifying the voices of the island states
As I stood before the leaders of the Pacific Islands at the 53rd Pacific Islands Forum, I was acutely aware of the significance of this...
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- Aug 26
Why aren't business leaders promoting CNMI's visa-free access?
In my previous opinion pieces, I have pointed out that the current CNMI administration hasn’t made any changes to prevent the legal entry...
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- Aug 23
Build a better Guam: Spend our surplus wisely
Today, the Guam Legislature is working on the government of Guam's FY2024 Budget. Guam is at a pivotal moment, with an anticipated...
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- Aug 17
Define 'ineptocracy'
According to a t-shirt I purchased: “A system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of...
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- Aug 15
What to do with surplus funds
Guam Chamber of Commerce urges government leaders to exercise fiscal prudence The government of Guam has accumulated surplus funding, and...
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- Aug 1
The ‘My Way’ doctrine of Guam politics
Given many residents of Guam are new and many, if not most, are too young to remember, here is a bit of background on the original...
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- Jul 22
Are traditional reporters an endangered species?
Well, here we are but how did we get here? Â Why has the who-what-where-when-why-&-how of traditional government watchdog journalism been...
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- Jul 7
When a premium price is right
Participating in Guam tourism If you happen to be the operator of a small, family-owned business, you already know how critical it is to...
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- Jun 13
Setting the record straight: 'I have never said I object to Chinese tourists'
Saipan-- I wish to correct some of the inaccurate and misleading statements made in the press this week. First, let me be clear that my...
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- Jun 11
The CNMI can't rely on a single market; local economy needs cushion
Saipan--I have seen a few reactions to my previous opinion piece. I must address some misinformation and clarify my stance on tourism and...
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- May 22
The subtle art of influence: China's strategic engagement in the CNMI
Saipan-- China's growing presence in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands cannot be ignored. Using strategic capitalist...
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- May 2
Let’s show WHO how to welcome Taiwan
It was a beautiful Saturday morning when Guam Visitors Bureau and Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Guam hosted a beach cleanup...
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- Apr 19
Fairness for Ambassador Yun
(The following opinion piece is in response to an article by Jonathan Guyer, reporting that Joseph Yun, presidential envoy to the Compact...
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- Apr 15
Israel and US to Marshall Islands: Â Thank you!
The Marshall Islands' indispensable role in developing missile defense systems deployed on April 13, destroying 300 hundred Iranian...
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- Apr 4
Is this the worst it’s ever been?
Guam’s homeless count has been fairly steady for two decades In today’s climate of ultra-charged news, social media, and different...
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- Mar 7
21st century skills for a changing world
Making a case for a proposed new charter school On Dec. 15, 2023, a group of island residents submitted a petition to the Guam Academy...
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- Feb 6
A laundry list for US-CNMI 902 talks
Saipan—One of the most pressing matters that should be discussed at the next U.S.-CNMI Covenant Section 902 consultation talks is the...
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- Jan 11
 A closer look at the politically correct view of climate change
While starting to write this article, a unique prevarication came through the internet. It said, "Years ago families had three, four,...
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- Nov 28, 2023
Shared vision, shared goals, shared struggles
The Summit on Colonialism held Oct. 26 in New York City this year was an incredible experience as it brought territorial natives and...
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- Nov 20, 2023
Taiwan working with the world toward a net-zero future
Taiwan is making significant efforts and is committed to addressing the urgent issue of climate change and achieving a net-zero future in...
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- Nov 17, 2023
Ensuring safe drinking water for all
As a community member dedicated to water safety, I respectfully call for collaborative action to strengthen protections for our island’s...
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- Nov 13, 2023
Taiwan can offer help in combating transnational crime
Jointly combating new forms of transnational crime through real-time cooperation: Support Taiwan’s participation in INTERPOL as an...
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- Nov 8, 2023
Is the climate change hype an ethical dilemma?
Yes, fossil fuels have contributed to a warmer global climate but the facts are that the system of warming has only amounted to 1 degree...
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- Nov 1, 2023
Guam, Puerto Rico must team up for decolonization through congressional or judicial routes
Beginning on what Americans alternately celebrate as Columbus Day and/or Indigenous People’s Day, the United Nations Human Rights...
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- Oct 11, 2023
Climate change: Are you a fanatic or a denier?
This can be an enormous subject. Because of age, global warming may be your first experience being exposed to such hyper-discussion; the...
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- Oct 5, 2023
When animal cruelty is tagged as ‘cultural tradition’
Earlier this year I wrote an article on these pages about the morality of pain. The essence was that any creature that can experience...
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- Sep 19, 2023
'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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
'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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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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