By Bernadette H. Carreon
Horizon news staff

Del. Lucio Ngiraiwet will replace Del. William Ngiraikelau as member of the Palau Compact Review Commission.
Ngiraiwet will replace Ngiraikelau after the latter resigned from the commission last April 9..
House Speaker Antonio Belle on Monday informed President Remengesau in a letter.
The commission is tasked with reviewing the terms of the Compact since by the year 2009 most of the funding that Palau receives will end.
The measure was proposed to prepare for Palau’s participation in the review process with the United States.
The Commission shall be composed of nine members, five members will be appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate , two ex officio members from the Senate and two ex officio members from the House of Delegates.
The review commission will require among other tasks, extensive economic analysis, governance planning, and predictions about where Palau is headed.
The commission will also have to analyze the past decades of relations with the United States , coupled with other extraneous relations.