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Biden turns 78, will be oldest US president

As he wrestles with those issues, Biden will be attempting to accomplish another feat: demonstrating to Americans that age is but a number and he’s up to the job. Biden will be sworn in as the oldest president in the nation’s history, displacing Ronald Reagan, who left the White House in 1989…
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Pacific ‘tuna cartel’ names new CEO for Majuro HQ

The PNA office in Majuro will see a transition to a new chief executive officer as current CEO Ludwig Kumoru will be stepping down after four years. PNA ministers meeting by Zoom last week Thursday and Friday approved the hiring of new CEO Dr. Sangaalofa ‘Sangaa’ Clark. Clark is not new to PNA. She…
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Over 10K ‘returning overseas Filipinos’ got Covid-19

February 9 to November 17 data from the Department of Health showed that these 10,333 with SARS-CoV-2 were mostly land-based migrants (6,486, or 62.8% of the total). The rest (3,847) were seafarers. Six of these returning overseas Filipinos have died, five of whom are land-based migrants, the Burea…
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Marshall Islands repatriation group shows three Covid cases

Just days after the first Marshall Islands Covid-19 case — an American Army base worker — was cleared in mid-November as no longer contagious, three Marshall Islanders in the first repatriation group to return home from Hawaii turned up with positive tests two weeks into their three-week quarantine…
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