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Whew! False alarm. But our FSM Ambassador to the United States, Jackson T. Soram, and his office need to keep working with U.S. ICE to continue to monitor our FSM citizens in the U.S. penal…
Read Part 1: https://chikinmelele.com/a-family-of-wrestlers-from-chuuk-making-waves-in-texas-part-1 Wrestling elsewhere on white sandy beaches on the islands is, usually, really fun; and also filled with laughter too. But to wrestle in the glow of an evening fire, set with…
Read Part 2: https://chikinmelele.com/a-family-of-wrestlers-from-chuuk-making-waves-in-texas-part-2/ Wrestling for their island of Chuuk, this family of wrestlers aims to eventually represent their young nation of Federated States of Micronesia in the Olympics. The only non-wrestler in the family…
The Chuuk State Legislature recently passed Act 17-24, a controversial proposal to increase salaries by $55,000 and expense allowances by $11,000 respectively — raising each legislator’s monthly compensation by $5,500. The bill was vetoed by…
Clark Graham has always been a “no-BS” kind of a guy. In the Chuukese culture, he is very forward in his approach. Sometimes, he could even come off as arrogant. But that’s just how the…
In the United States, President Donald Trump and his new administration is cracking down on illegal immigration since inauguration day, January 20; Federated States of Micronesia President Wesly Simina and the rest of his leadership…
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,…
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…
With the discovery of two cases of community transmission in Yap on August 16, 2022, the Governor temporarily suspended work for all government non-essential workers and closed all schools for August 17-22 to prepare emergency…
