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Letter: Guam needs a certified slaughterhouse By Mohammad Golabi View Comments Referring to current economic conditions in Guam, a recent PDN article stated: “One of the things COVID-19 made clear is that Guam needs a much more diverse economy. The reliance almost solely on military spending and tourism translated into an almost dead economy since the pandemic hit." Our ‘two-legged’ stool has proven extremely unreliable in times of crisis.’ Any new plan for island sustainability and economic development should focus on agriculture as the “third leg” and an important component of a...

Hawai'i is not the multicultural paradise some say it is Imani Altemus-Williams © None None To outsiders, Hawai‘i might seem like the epitome of a post-racial society. For decades, scholars, writers, and tourism boosters have portrayed the islands that way—as a “racial utopia” where Native Hawaiians and Asians live harmoniously alongside white people, with the largely non-white population serving as the antidote to racism.  After all, no racial group holds a majority on the islands, and nearly a quarter of the population reports having a multiracial background. Co...

EWA BEACH, Hawaii (Habele) — A group of off-duty U.S. Army soldiers in Hawaii have teamed up with a public school on Oahu, students in the school’s Naval JROTC unit, and a nonprofit founded by former Peace Corps volunteers to send books to a school-based library in Kosrae. Diverse in culture and language, the far-flung picturesque islands of Micronesia are strategically situated. The Federated States of Micronesia are the geopolitical crossroads of the Pacific. The islands’ dramatic role in centuries of global politics obscures persistent challenges of isolation, dispersion, an...

Regarding Article 12 IN his 1966 book, “A Reporter in Micronesia,” E.J. Kahn Jr. wrote that the U.S. wanted to “protect” the people of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands against the possibility of losing their most permanent and precious asset — their land. (Administered by the U.S., the TT comprised the NMI, the Marshalls, Palau and what is now known as the FSM — Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei, Yap). Kahn said the U.S. decreed from the start that non-Micronesian could not own property within the TT.  At the same time, he said, the U.S. was also aware that it ...

Barnes wants entrepreneurship incubator program Pacific Daily News Vice Speaker Tina Muña Barnes delivered the keynote address for the Startup Weekend Micronesia event Friday. Bringing students from eight islands across the Blue Continent — Guam, Saipan, Tinian, Rota, Palau, Pohnpei, Kosrae and Yap — young adults with the dream of starting their own business had the opportunity to learn how to make their ideas a reality. Hosted by volunteers of the University of Guam’s Entrepreneur Society, as well as the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and the Pacific Islands Small Business...