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WHEN still a boy, William Mariner left England in 1804 on the ship Port-au-Prince for a whaling expedition to the Pacific.  After two years on the high seas, the ship anchored at Lifuka, one of the islands of Tonga, to rest and refit.  By that time, the crew was as ragged as the sails. Possibly bec…

TWENTY-EIGHT years ago, the two biggest news items on island were the “federal takeover” bill introduced in the U.S. Congress by the new Republican leadership; and (drum roll please) the medical referral deficit amounting to $14.5 million — worth $27.8 million today. The then-Department of Public H…

I HAVE been described as old-fashioned.  Honestly, I do not know what to make of that. In my experience, that can be a good thing or bad.  See what I mean. Growing up, when my father said my music was just noise, I said he was old-fashioned.  That was a strange thing for me to say because I listen …

THE truth about our former Godfather Governor is coming to light even before the State & Federal Courts can finish with him.  The sad part is that WE the People are the ones who will be stuck with the “tab” he left us to pay-off the tens-of-millions.  How could HSEM even be operating with a 123…

JAPAN created a vibrant economy in the NMI and the rest of the Micronesian islands that were formerly under the German flag (the Marshalls, Palau, the present-day FSM). “At first,” says historian Francis X. Hezel, SJ, “the Japanese Imperial Treasury supplied almost the entire administrative costs f…