Regional

The ICU, or Intensive Care Unit, Program is administered by Xavier High School. The program started in Chuuk and is now successfully held every summer in Chuuk and Pohnpei. The program this summer will be administered to graduates of 2010 and 2011 who wish to enroll in the new high school to be ope…

Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell acknowledged in a telephone interview from Washington that “too often the Pacific gets short shrift” being included with Asia. But Campbell said the upcoming visit involving U.S. diplomats, defense and aid officials is a s…

After what was called an informal meeting, the assembly’s commission on international relation is due to draw up the text. Pro-independence President Oscar Temaru has quickened his campaign to undo the 1947 decision of French leader Charles de Gaulle that removed Tahiti and its islands from the lis…

Marshall Islands Auditor General Junior Patrick and Secretary of Finance Alfred Alfred Jr. confirmed that a detailed re-audit of the government’s general fund account spending is underway for the years 2007 through 2011 to find out if additional fraud — beyond what has already resulted in criminal …

The resolution, reached at APIL’s general assembly conference in Palau, states that the association agrees with “protective legislation in Palau, Hawaii, the CNMI and Guam.” The approved language asks “all member legislative assemblies of APIL to adopt similar legislation for a unified regional ban…

Other members of the delegation include the former senator from Chuuk, Peter Sitan, who is consulting for the Department and the Foreign Fisheries Agency on the rehabilitation loan project, and Peter Philipson, an economist. The FSM delegation paid a courtesy call on Gov. Sebastian Anefal and Lt. G…

DY&CA Director Ruotpong Pongliyab, expressed how the division is in need of additional funding for utilities. He stated that with the current monthly average they would definitely run out of funding under consumables. He also stated that with the new AM transmitter, they have almost doubled the…

The Association of Pacific Island Public Auditors annual conference is the largest gathering of auditors and government finance managers in the United States-affiliated Pacific area. “It’s a big group,” Marshall Islands Auditor General Junior Patrick, whose office is hosting the July 4-8 event, sai…

The drama has unfolded during a visit to the region by Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully. McCully has been looking at how nearly $100 million in aid to Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands is being spent. The people in Vanuatu have had two decades of political instability—but it …

This will be the first special session of the 17th FSM Congress, which will take place after results of the special elections in Kosrae and Chuuk states have been certified by the FSM election commissioner, to fill vacant at-large seats vacated by Mori and Vice President Alik L. Alik when they were…