Typhoon Leaves Most of Guam without Power
Typhoon Mawar passed over Guam Wednesday night (5 pm local time and 2 am CST) with sustained winds of 140 mph and gusts up to 165 mph, the equivalent of a Category 4 Atlantic hurricane….
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Miss Marshall Islands Presents Scholarship Options for Education Week
Miss Marshall Islands, Claret Chong Gum (who had represented Jaluit in the Miss Marshall Islands 2023) is visiting high schools in the RMI throughout Education Week. Claret and her colleagues started the week with a…
Icy Weather through Thursday in Southern States
Another winter weather system is moving east from Texas bringing ice, sleet, and snow to the region. The current winter weather alerts will impact nearly 40 million people in Texas, Oklahoma, Kentucky and West Virginia….
Executive Orders Target Radical Left Agendas and Prohibits the X in Latinx
In the first week of taking office, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed several executive orders one of which establishes a policy regarding the use of “Latinx” in government documents. The executive order, signed on…
Chuuk Adapts to Life after COVID-19 Resuming Goodwill Games and Holiday Celebrations
With quarantine protocols still in place through the end of October, the school year had just started in Chuuk and the State Government was working to complete renovations on the main hospital in Weno. However,…
What to Know about Mpox
Kajin Ṃajeḷ: chikinmelele.com/kojjela-mpox Last summer I remembered hearing about some kind of monkeypox that could become the next pandemic. After a few weeks though it fell out of the news cycle. As it turned out,…
No Shore Left Untouched: COVID-19 in Chuuk
The first cases of COVID-19 identified in Wuhan China in December 2019 proceeded to spread around the globe hitting big countries hard in 2020 with successive waves of mutated strains like the Delta variant in…
Three Years of COVID-19 and Now What
As subvariants of the Omicron coronavirus variant continue to circulate around the world, the virus will continue to pick up mutations along the way. Since the Omicron variant was identified at the end of November…
From the Archives: September 23, 2015
This New Year we look back at our beginnings. The first issue of Chikin Melele was distributed in print in September 2015. Many of the articles were written by Chikin Melele’s Patrick Boaz. Click here…