Regional

According to report at around 2:40 p.m. on Oct 1, off-duty officer Kumangai called and reported some boys smoking weeds at the stadium. Officers Worswick and Kemesong responded in the area and escorted a male suspect to police office. While police frisking the suspect they found three-joint of mari…

Seven Japanese journalists from print and broadcast media in Nagoya, Osaka and Fukuoka including three newspapers, two women magazines and one FM radio station are now in the Island for a media coverage that expected to reach a total of 4 million consumers across three regions in Japan. “Continenta…

Environmental Quality Protection Board Executive Officer Portia Franz in an interview stated that PITI was given permit to chop, recycle and dispose of the vessel at the EQPB permitted location. The vessel is now at the Marina in Airai. Franz said that the vessel have until Oct. 6 to pay the $5,000…

Italian Ambassador Luca Fornari handed over a check worth $1,000 to Cleared Ground Demining founders Steve Ballinger and Cassandra McKeown on Friday, right after the opening ceremony of the Independence Day celebration. The Cleared Ground Demining project in Palau focuses on Peleliu and Angaur Stat…

Election Officer III Festus Ringang said Dwight Ngichermat won in the election. He got 33 votes against his opponent Aderiano Noah who got 20 votes. Ngriil hamlet has 77 registered voters but only 53 cast their votes. Ringang said the election result will be certified today. The special election wa…

A hearing on the TRO is yet to be scheduled to hear the lawsuit. Chief Justice Arthur Ngiraklsong will be hearing the case. The court has not acted on the motion for TRO. Last week, the Koror State Government sued the national government and the National Healthcare Financing Committee to put a stop…

Scott Weers Erungel, a member of United Artists Association of Palau, made three tribal designs on shirts specifically for the fair. “I get inspirations from different bais (or traditional Palauan meeting house) in Palau,” Erungel said in an interview. One of his designs features Palauan symbols of…

On October 2, 2010, Jackson M. Henry, Chief Investment Advisor under the President’s Special Economic Development Office and Sherman Kuo, Chief Representative of the Taiwan Foundation for Asia Pacific Development, signed an (MOU) at the Fuji Restaurant. . The group also signed a separate MOU with P…

The parade started at 8:00 in the morning on Friday led by Palau with its representatives from 16 States, followed by the US Civic Action Team, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, France, the Netherlands, Bangladesh, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Australia, Federated States of Micronesia, Indonesia, K…

The power outage started at 4:50 p.m. and was restored by 8 p.m., according to the Palau Public Utilities Corporation. PPUC’s outage report stated that the betelnut tree hanging on the line located at Ngerbechedesau affected the 13.8KV feeders Airai-Airport and Airai-Koror. PPUC crew removed the be…