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Senator eyes zero food waste system for Guam

HAGATNA, Guam --- With food waste on Guam totaling nearly 17,000 tons a year, capturing and converting 100 percent of this into livestock feed, and utilizing the funds paid for its collection and diversion into the island’s landfill could produce a potential $3 million in revenues – a potentially sustainable ...

Parachuting poison mice combat Guam tree snakes

RADIO AUSTRALIA

HAGATNA, Guam--- The US Department of Agriculture will drop mice laced with a sedative deadly to brown tree snakes around the island's Andersen Air Force Base over the next couple of months.

Each prisoner costs Guam over $35,000 a year

HAGATNA, Guam, ---- A prisoner housed at the Department of Corrections costs more than US$35,000 in taxpayer money per year. For the average population of 600 inmates and detainees at DOC facilities, the cost per inmate means US$21.4 million a year — about US$3 million to US$4 million over its ...

Guam should prepare for N Korea strike: Senator

HAGTNA, Guam --- A Guam senator is urging the island's government to advise people on what to do in the event of a North Korean nuclear attack.

Guam should prepare for N Korea strike: Senator

HAGTNA, Guam --- A Guam senator is urging the island's government to advise people on what to do in the event of a North Korean nuclear attack.

Guam residents not alarmed by N Korea threats

HAGATNA, Guam --- A former Guam senator says people on the Pacific island are concerned by North Korean threats against the United States territory, but not alarmed.

Guam prepares as North Korea threatened to fire nuclear missiles

HAGATNA, Guam ---- Almost 100 U.S army personnel will deploy to Guam in coming weeks as the Pentagon moves one of its missile defense systems designed to knock down hostile targets in the upper atmosphere.

More federal money for Guam likely

HAGTNA, Guam ---- The estimated $85.4 billion in federal budget cuts this fiscal year translates to about an $85 million drop in cash flow for Guam, but the cuts in civilian allocations are likely to be offset by a possible increase in military spending prompted by North Korea’s threats, Bank ...

US$1.9 million Guam hospital billing error

MARIANAS VARIETY

HAGATNA, Guam (MARIANAS VARIETY) --- Guam Memorial Hospital may have lost a considerable amount of money due to a “software glitch” that left more than US$1.9 million in pharmaceutical charges unbilled since May of last year.

April 2013

Cover of April 2013 edition of Islands Business magazine

Guam worried about North Korea’s nuclear threats

Robert Matau

While the United States still has seven more years to get its act together as far as relocating US Marines to Guam, islanders there are more concerned with the immediate nuclear threats from North Korea.

China vs Taiwan gets hotter in the Solomons

Alfred Sasako

Solomon Islands and Taiwan marked 30 years of diplomatic relations this year. None thought then their “marriage” would one day be the focus in the race for military and economic dominance in the Pacific.