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KOROR (Palau Horizon) – Palau’s unpaid obligations climbed over $11 million with the bulk of debts owed to international organizations and payment for bank loans. According to the accounts payable status report as of Nov. 24,2009, the government owed $11, 176,416. The government owed $1,663,974 to …

KOROR (Palau Horizon) – President Johnson Toribiong on Wednesday signed presidential proclamation No. 09-12, recognizing Nov. 25 as White Ribbon Day- a stance to end violence against women and girls. The proclamation said that the white ribbon campaign recognize that “most men do not commit acts of…

Foster stated in her order that the court finds that the original bond was “unreasonably excessive” thus denying the defendant for a right to post bail. Moded has been unable to post bond and has remained in jail for almost two weeks since his arrest for beating up a woman. “Bail may not be unreaso…

To date, signatures gathered have reached close to 400. According to the petition, the project entails the building of a parking space for airplanes and installation of a new fuel tank. The residents raised the issues on noise pollution, land tremors due to airplanes taking off and landing, fuel ta…

Suzuki Temael entered a plea agreement on November 12 and pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and robbery charges as charged in the counts one and eight of the information. Temael was charged with aggravated assault, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, assault and battery, escape, burglar…

Raymond Ngodrii Tiakl entered into plea agreement on November 18 and pleaded guilty to one count of trafficking in a controlled substance as charged in count three of the information. Assistant Attorney General Tony DeRuiz in exchange of his plea agreed to dismiss the other charges, the three count…

Ulengchong defeated his opponents former Palau High School teacher Priscilla Subris and former House of Delegate Albert Shiro by 48 percent. Ulengchong received total votes of 339 while Subris got 267 votes or 38 percent and Shiro got 94 votes. The total absentee votes is 75 and Ulengchong got 52 v…

Senior Judge Honora Rudimch, in a two-page order, said since Special Prosecutor Michael Copeland “has willfully failed to proceed against the defendant, thereby the court hereby dismisses the above matter case for lack of prosecution.” The order said the court did not accept the plea agreement pres…

Arnold Milong who was charged with grand larceny and obstruction of justice pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice as charged in the count 14 of the information. The grand larceny charge was dismissed in exchange of his guilty plea. Milong was sentenced to two years of imprisonment but suspended …

When IMAX came to Palau in 1993 to document the underwater wonders of Palau into one of their feature films, the crew soon discovered that Francis was as interesting a story as was the destination’s natural attributes. Francis and his family became the stars of IMAX’s “The living sea.” Francis reti…