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Public Health to offer free back-to-school immunization on July 25
Parents and guardians are encouraged to mark their calendar for a free back-to-school immunization for children 4 to 18 years old who are enrolled in Medicaid, Medically Indigent Program, MIP, or have no insurance. The Department of Public Health...

Public Health announces Back-to-School Immunization Outreach requirements
The Department of Public Health and Social Services will be conducting a Back-to-School Immunization Outreach on Friday, July 25, 2025, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., or while supplies last, at the Micronesia Mall (line starting at the entrance next to...

Podiatrist breaks down diabetic foot health at a GRMC outreach
On Saturday, the Guam Regional Medical City (GRMC) hosted a diabetic foot health and wound care outreach event at the Micronesia Mall center court, offering free health care screenings and educating the community to encourage island residents to...

Micronesia Mall’s Mall Ball 3x3 Summer Circuit high school tournament tips off June 20
The Micronesia Mall and Clutch Guam have partnered for Mall Ball ’25: 3x3 Summer Circuit series, a basketball tournament featuring 20 high school teams that will take place Friday through Sunday at the Micronesia Mall Center Court. Championship...

GRMC to host free diabetic foot health and wound care event today
On Saturday the Guam Regional Medical City is hosting a free outreach event at the Micronesia Mall to raise awareness about the importance of diabetic foot health and wound care to avoid a “dangerous” issue for those living with the condition, if...

Koa Moana 25 delivers medical aid, support ahead of Palau’s Pacific Mini Games
KOROR, Palau (Island Times) — U.S. Marines and Sailors with the Koa Moana 25 exercise have deployed to Palau to provide critical support to the Ministry of Health and Human Services (MHHS) as the nation prepares to host the 2025 Pacific Mini...

How the reorganization of the US Department of Health impacts the US Territories
In late March, United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unveiled a sweeping restructuring plan to streamline the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and cut an estimated 10,000 full-time jobs. This...

UN General Assembly adopts resolution demanding immediate Gaza ceasefire
The result of the vote to adopt a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza is shown on the screens during an Emergency Special Session of the General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York, on June 12, 2025. The General Assembly,...

Letters to the Editor | July 17, 2025
Fist of fury! Runqi Zhou, who has been dubbed as the ‘Fist of Fury’, jetted into the country to face Junior Binnu Singh in the highly anticipated bout of the ZEG Kings Boxing Promotion this weekend. During his last visit to Fiji, Zhou did not have...

Brazilian science and technology on Filipino plates: A recipe for agricultural development
Contrary to what some may assume, Brazil did not become a major food producer by chance or good fortune alone. Instead, this achievement was built upon decades of rigorous scientific research, technological innovation and strategic investments....

Palau, the remote Pacific idyll that habours big ambitions
In American Caesar, his epic biography of General MacArthur, who commanded the USA’s Pacific campaign in the Second World War, William Manchester points out that among many challenges that the US troops faced besides the enemy – earthquakes,...

Grove Farm awards $66,000 in scholarships
LIHUE — The Grove Farm Foundation for 2025 awarded nine scholarships totalling $66,000 to graduating high school students. This is the 16th consecutive year the Grove Farm Foundation has presented three Grove Farm Scholars with a $20,000...

Column: COFA alliances key amid Pacific tension
Scholars at the East-West Center, military officials in Hawaii and journalists covering the Pacific know a political tsunami can happen at anytime. It could be as dramatic as a Chinese attack on Taiwan, or as modest as a slow-motion seismic shift...

Olympic gold medalist Yui Susaki shares wrestling knowledge
Olympic gold and bronze medalist Yui Susaki started her three-day wrestling clinic on Guam sharing her knowledge of the sport with local athletes. The first two days of the wrestling clinic are at the Father Duenas Phoenix Center and International...

SUSAKI SHARES OLYMPIC GOLD KNOWLEDGE
By Paradis Jolie Fejerang Olympic Gold and Bronze medalist Yui Susaki made her way to Guam yesterday to conduct a three day wrestling clinic at the Father Duenas Phoenix Center for the first two days and International Sports Center for the final....

Pacific islands push back against growing climate threats
The Cook Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia are separated by around 6,000 kilometres of Pacific Ocean. Despite the vast stretch of water between them, the two small island nations share a common challenge: how to protect their people...

CHCC hosts immunization program regional meeting
(CHCC) — The Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation, Division of Public Health Services proudly hosted the first in a series of regional meetings for immunization programs across the nation, in collaboration with the Association of Immunization...

USAID Cuts Could Transform U.S. Ties to Pacific Islands
In February, the ambassadors to the United States of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau met with U.S. officials to raise concerns about the rush of executive actions since U.S. President Donald Trump took office...

'67 Bombs to Enid' tells story of Marshallese community in Oklahoma
Filmmaker Ty McMahan grew up in Tecumseh, Oklahoma. Until he began working on a documentary that recently premiered, he had no idea about this piece of Oklahoma history: Between 1946 and 1958, the United States detonated 67 atomic bombs across the...

Pacific Islands News Roundup – July 4 – July 10, 2025
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