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“Weaving Connections” site supports Micronesian Weavers in US Mainland Details Written by Bill Jaynes Habele Beautiful loom-woven textiles of Micronesia display an artistry and technical virtuosity unrivaled elsewhere in the Pacific. Chief among them is the lavalava, a woven skirt from the Outer Islands of Yap State, situated in the Western Caroline Islands. A new website aims to ensure this important cultural skill is preserved among weavers who have moved far from home. Weaving these skirts requires tremendous skill, work and patience. It also requires a special type of b...

February 27, 2021 For International Women’s Day 2021, we’re sitting down with women across East Asia and the Pacific who are taking on leadership roles and working towards an equal future in a COVID-19 world. Ms. Maybelline Andon-Bing is the founder of Mortlocks Poun Alilisin Cho (MORT-PAC), a non-government organization (NGO) that seeks to enhance public awareness about civic rights across Micronesia. As the former Secretary of Finance in the Republic of Marshall Islands, she advocates for good governance in development to build stronger and more equitable communities. In 2020, you found...

Embassy of Japan in the FSM On February 1, 2021, the Grant Contract Signing was concluded for The Project for Construction of Gymnasium in St. Mary's Elementary School, Yap State between Mr. Sobashima Hidenobu, Ambassador of Japan to the Federated States of Micronesia and Mr. Rufino Xavier, Principal of St. Mary's Elementary School. The project will provide St. Mary's Elementary School with the funds up to US$89,532 under the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects by the Government of Japan. This project will construct a gymnasium to improve the educational environment at St....

Chief Mailo crew and one passenger all test negative—Chief Mailo allowed to dock for reprovisioning Details Written by Bill Jaynes February 19, 2021 Pohnpei—On February 17, 2021, the Pohnpei State COVID-19 Task Force met and unanimously decided to conduct a re-test on all the MV Chief Mailo crewmembers and one passenger.  The decision to conduct these tests were in response to a letter from President Panuelo to Governor Oliver to disembark one person from the MS Chief Mailo and bring in the vessel to provision and fuel.                 The Task Force’s und...

“Catalyst for Change” At a young age, I arrived in Pohnpei from the states. Straight off, I was not cooperative with the foregrounded distinctions between the roles of men and women. I was not able to cotton on to how women were passive, and men considered the heirs to the throne. Day in, day out, I would receive disciplinary blows for not complying to the discouraging and misogynistic attitudes woven in Pohnpeian culture. There was and never will be anything under the sun that could help make the gender-biased system in Pohnpei appealing or dare one say tolerable to me. "Leila. Your cous...