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The program is designed to help the Samoan government improve fiscal management and implement structural measures that will place the economy on a sustainable medium-term growth path. The loan will contribute to the government’s overall budget financing needs which have increased as a result of the…

Members of the public who wish to provide input on the two resolutions must submit their written comments to the  committee by Nov. 25, 2011 or earlier before the panel makes its recommendation to the Committee of the Whole Resolution 8-31 is requesting the governor of Yap to initiate a competition…

The meeting aims to establish a Polynesian regional sub-grouping responsible for promoting the interests and cultures of Polynesian governments and peoples. Polynesian leaders, comprising Cook Islands, Niue, Tonga and Tuvalu, discussed the establishment of their own regional group at this year’s Fo…

EPA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will issue a monthly bulletin to keep key stakeholders informed about tsunami debris activities, an effort resulting from an EPA-led marine debris workshop held in June in Honolulu. The workshop, part of the regular Oceania Regional Respon…

The event is part of the  FSM primary health insurance provider’s goal to become more proactive in the arena of prevention. The MiCare walk/run started and ended on the road between Bank of FSM and Palm Terrace. Volunteers who helped stage the event included Jim Tobin from the FSM National Olympic …

This will be the fourth advisory that the department has put out in less than three weeks for the public to take preventive measures in controlling the diseases from spreading throughout the communities on Yap main island. The advisory cautions Yap residents to help keep their homes and property cl…

The government-run ferry MV Sili was grounded by the Coast Guard over two weeks ago for carrying too many passengers and a subsequent inspection has found faults in need of repair. In May the Manu’a group went a month without transport to Tutuila and ran out of fuel and basic food items during an o…

The Pacific Judicial Council sponsored the training and relevant court’s personnel in Micronesia — Palau, Yap, Guam, Chuuk, Pohnpei, Kosrae and Saipan —  and American Samoa participated in the training. The participants received advanced training on the roles of court’s interpreters and the code of…

The national police patrol vessel Lomor and two fisheries department vessels joined with a private vessel and a visiting yacht to begin searching the area to the west of Maloelap Atoll Sunday morning. Complicating the search was the lack of aerial surveillance after the government-run national air …

They harvested Chinese cabbage from the embassy vegetable garden that they planted back on October 3. In preparation for the visits to the embassy, soil conservation technician Gibson Santos of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service spoke with students at their sc…