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The Omekesau Association’s Villaney Remengesau said their association for disabled people is a new member of the Pacific Disability Forum. She said their association has been revived with 60 active members. There are still a variety of challenges ahead for disabled people in Palau, which the Forum …

Mannisto graduated from the University of Michigan in May 2005 with focuses on biological psychology, pre-medical curriculum, and psychology. He was employed for a number of years before pursuing law school. He graduated from the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law in 2010. He has done legal work for se…

Public Service Commission Chairman Cent Langidrik and commissioners Raynard Gideon and Lomes McKay sent memos to Alfred directing him to resume salary payments to two Ministry of Health workers who are part of a group of six suspended government workers facing criminal charges for allegedly taking …

In her congratulatory letter to Berag, Dr. Vita A. Skilling, secretary of the FSM Department of Social Affairs said: “It gives me great pleasure to write to you to inform you that your entry in the essay contest…was received, read and ranked by the participants of the…summit…and…chosen  as this yea…

The FSM Department of Transportation, Communication and Infrastructure  has dispatched the ship to Yap at the request of the state government for the vessel to continue the regular services which the MV Hapilmohol has been providing in the Outer Islands. The MV. Hapilmohol has departed from Yap on …

During their visit, Wheaton and Boyd assisted local NRCS Field Office partners and stakeholders to address natural resource concerns and opportunities associated with piggeries. The NRCS team surveyed anaerobic digesters, which produce a methane-rich biogas that can be used for fuel similar to natu…

The crew, having travelled more than 5,000 nautical miles throughout remote areas within the Pacific Ocean, conducted law enforcement patrols and performed aids to navigation maintenance in the Federated States of Micronesia and Palau. Exercising a bilateral agreement between the U.S. and Palau, th…

Higher sea temperatures, ocean acidification, and loss of important habitats like coral reefs, seagrass beds and mangroves are projected to have a drastic impact on the inshore resources that support many coastal communities, according to Dr. Morgan Pratchett who spoke at the recent SPC Heads of Fi…

The appropriates the sum of $837,550 from the special revenue fund of Yap to finance Yap State Public Service Corporation’s 25 percent matching fund for the renewable energy project during fiscal year 2011, and for other purposes. The $837,550 approved by the Legislature is the state’s share of the…

The initiative follows on the availability of an OIA report entitled U.S. Insular Areas Education Facility Inventory and Condition Assessment Study Phase I. OIA contracted the Army Corps of Engineers, or ACOE, to generate a report that provides a rudimentary, initial assessment of public schools th…