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Initially proposed during the U.S.-FSM Joint Committee Meeting in Aug. 2010, CCAD will complete one deployment cycle every six months to a different FSM state, with each state visited once every two years. The purpose of the program is to enhance U.S.-FSM partnership and cooperation established dur…

The presentation was part of the U.S. Embassy/COM-FSM Forum Lecture Series, which provides U.S. government professionals as guest speakers for COM-FSM students, faculty, staff, and interested community members. Since his arrival in July, Carlson has assisted the Pohnpei State Department of Land and…

Tuvalu has released its second report on the Millennium Development Goals. It showed the country’s on track to achieve several of the MDGs, such as universal primary education and reduced child and maternal mortality. But the minister of finance and economic development, Lotoala Metia, said Tuvalu …

The event will be held at the Airport Rescue & Fire Fighting Facility by the Yap International Airport from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. The workshop will focus on many aspects of tropical cyclones and the warning system, the causes of the weather hazards in Yap, volcanoes, rip current, and th…

Unless there is a change to the structure of the Marshall Islands Social Security Administration beneficiary payments, the fund will be exhausted in about nine years, according the government agency’s financial advisers. “For the last two years, we’ve been telling everyone about this,” said MISSA C…

Finance Minister Jack Ading said Friday that the legislation was ready, but that he wanted more time to review it. He indicated that it could be introduced in the January session of the parliament. “I need more time to study the proposed system to be able to thoroughly explain it to the members of …

This as the 2010 Census for American Samoa shows a 3 percent decline between 2000 and 2010. The Department of Commerce’s director, Faleseu Eliu Paopao, said reduced federal funding is expected once stimulus and tsunami recover funding ends. Faleseu said these funds did a lot to reduce the impact of…

The Public Safety department and Judiciary data was included as part of a state report to the Department of Interior showing that Hawaii spent $114 million on all services  for islanders from the Federated States of Micronesia, Marshall Islands and Palau in 2010. It was submitted August 9 by Govern…

Speaking at the National Development Forum on employment creation in Port Moresby last Thursday, Papua New Guinea Chamber of Mines and Petroleum executive director Greg Anderson said it increased to 18,000 in 2006 from 12,000 in 2004. He said for exploration purposes, a “large number of village peo…

Charles Lepani, the current high commissioner who has lived in Canberra with his family since early 2005, has also had his appointment as PNG’s next ambassador to the Americas scrapped. Both postings were to have taken effect last month. Sources have said Bogari would have been the first female PNG…