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Too little, too late. That's the Governor's reaction to Congresswoman Madeleine Bordallo's call for a federal emergency task force to help the Guam Memorial Hospital meet deficiencies cited in a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid report.
She leads a team that inspects and audits the government, but in a surprising twist - the public auditor is stepping down - and running to be the island's next representative in the nation's capitol. Doris Flores Brooks closing the books on her time at the Guam OPA.
Former first lady of the United States Barbara Bush, wife of former president George H.W. Bush, has died at the age of 92. She is being remembered as the matriarch of an American political dynasty spanning decades. She was the second American to be both the first lady and the mother of a president.
United Airlines will resume flying servicemembers' pets off Guam until the end of the month despite a worldwide suspension of its pet shipment service, the carrier announced Tuesday. "Effective April 3, we are allowing an exception to our suspension of new PetSafe reservations for members of the military and their spouses, and State Department Foreign Service personnel and their spouses, who wish to travel with or ship their pets out of Guam between April 3 and April 30," United said in a statement posted on its website.
Within the last two months, gas prices have risen at 10% and Senator Mike San Nicolas is concerned about how the increase will affect the cost of living on Guam. After receiving a notice from the Federal Trade Commission choosing not to investigate Guam's inflating gas prices, San Nicolas issued a letter to Congresswoman Madeleine Bordallo.
Governor Calvo will be calling for a 50-percent increase in the gross receipts tax to cover the projected 48-million dollar revenue shortfall from the Trump tax cuts. Lester Carlson of the Governor's fiscal team says he will present the proposed increase when the Special Economic Session convenes again next week.
According to Adelup the money is from the receipt of $78 million in Section 30 reimbursement. "Governor Eddie Calvo and members of his fiscal team told the Legislature that we were anticipating this amount - IN SPITE OF efforts to quell our progress.
The Nation is reader supported: Chip in $10 or more to help us continue to write about the issues that matter. John Conyers knows a good deal more than Donald Trump does about the Korea Peninsula-and a lot more about the Constitution.
Residents of the tiny Pacific island of Guam say they're afraid of being caught in the middle of escalating tensions between the U.S. and North Korea after Pyongyang announced it was examining plans for attacking the strategically important U.S. territory. Though local officials downplayed any threat, people who live and work on the island, which serves as a launching pad for the U.S. military, said Wednesday they could no longer shrug off the idea of being a potential target.
North Korea said on Wednesday it is considering plans for a missile strike on the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam, just hours after President Donald Trump told the North that any threat to the United States would be met with "fire and fury". The sharp increase in tensions rattled financial markets and prompted warnings from U.S. officials and analysts not to engage in rhetorical slanging matches with North Korea.
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Guam congressional delegate Congresswoman Madeleine Bordallo was quick to respond after North Korea threat of the possibility of launching a missile towards Guam. She wrote, "North Korea's most recent threat to target Guam is dangerous and it further heightens tensions in our region.
The two congressional candidates squared off again, this time before the University of Guam Alumni Association. Among the questions posed to incumbent delegate Madeleine Bordallo and former governor Felix Camacho was what was their commitment to the university as the Western Pacific's only four-year institution of higher learning.
It won't be a debate, but a forum for congressional delegate candidates. University of Guam Public Administration and Legal Studies students will be hosting the forum next week Wednesday, August 24th from 6:30pm to 8:00pm, just before the primary.
U.S. lawmakers have approved a defense spending bill that includes reparations for Guam residents killed, raped, beaten or forced to work by Japanese occupiers during World War II. The Pacific Daily News reported that the bill passed the House of Representatives Thursday and will move to the Senate for consideration.