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“It ditched — but where?” asked Kwajalein Sen. Tony deBrum of the Falcon hypersonic glider that is so fast it can reach any point on the globe in one hour. “We are concerned that with all these ditched and aborted flights our constituencies down range face increasingly significant risk of equipment…

The meeting was aimed for the state leaders to decide on two options: first is whether Yap should wait for the plan on the proposed project to be completed by ETG before it could develop its to develop own plan or should Yap go ahead now and develop its own plan that it could present to the ETG the…

The Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors — or TAPS — is scheduled to hold the seminar in Pago Pago on Friday and Saturday. The session will offer peer-support and teach coping skills to help people deal with the death of loved ones in the military. TAPS has helped more than 30,000 people since …

High Court Judge James Plasman recently rejected a motion by suspended Ministry of Finance worker Allister Mantiera to suppress his confession given to police last December. Plasman also rejected Mantiera’s motions to disqualify testimony by the lead police investigator and a defendant who is provi…

The assembly president, Jacqui Drollet, says more than 30 of the assembly’s 57 members have signed the text whose timing he says is interesting as the Pacific Islands Forum will be held in Auckland next month. Drollet said the President Oscar Temaru hopes to be armed with the resolution when he att…

Leaders in Micronesia area endorsed a plan late last month for a regional ban on the harvesting and sale of shark fins. The “shark sanctuary” would encompass ocean waters from Palau and the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas in the west to the Marshall Islands in the east. But current levels of …

This resolution states in part that the protocol is the “first international legally binding instrument with agreed upon definition of trafficking in persons, or TIP, facilitating the establishment of a unified domestic and international system to investigate, prosecute and deter TIP incidences. FS…

The group’s visit is part of a “Student Exchange Program” which has been coordinated on a yearly basis between Yap State and the “World School” in Japan. The group will be in Yap from Aug. 17 to 28, 2011. The delegation is led by Jun Jumpei and Takano Takako of the World School in Japan. Members of…

Just recently, the  U.S. Department of the Interior  announced the awarding a $305,000 grant to continue the Pacific Lineman Training program in this region, which includes training for YSPSC linemen. The bucket truck could not have arrived at a better time as this segment of the  training will be …

The Chuuk High School gym was full to capacity for the opening ceremony, with teachers, principals and education officials from the Chuuk Department of Education, as well as a team of trainers from the National Department of Education, in attendance. Speakers included Congressman Wesley Simina, Mar…