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date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: Marianas Variety
PAGO PAGO (RNZ Pacific/Pacnews) — Deputy police commissioner Papalii Monalisa Tia’i-Keti says police are concerned that drugs were found at Fugalei Market just a short distance away from an all girl’s primary school.
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date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: Marianas Variety
HAGÅTÑA (The Guam Daily Post) — Three men and a 16-year-old boy charged as an adult were accused of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl and a 13-year-old girl.Manuel Greg Arriola, 34, Patrick Robert Duenas Arriola, 41, Norman Sablan Santos, 56, and Paul Aguero, 16, were charged Friday in the Superior Court of Guam with first-degree criminal sexual conduct as first-degree felonies.According to a magistrate’s complaint, the male defendants’ charges stemmed from reports made to a school employee at an elementary school on Feb. 1. An 11-year-old girl and a 13-year-old girl accused the men of sexually assaulting them.The 11-year-old alleged Manuel Arriola had been touching her sexually since she was in first grade. She also alleged Manuel Arriola took her to a secluded area in the jungle near her Dededo residence, laid her down on a piece of flat plywood and raped her. Manuel Arriola also allegedly raped the minor on a different occasion at her Dededo residence, according to the complaint.The 13-year-old also accused Manuel Arriola of raping her at a Dededo residence.According to the complaint, Patrick Arriola was accused by the 11-year-old girl of touching her sexually and raping her inside a van.The 13-year-old reported Patrick Arriola groped her on numerous occasions, but on one occasion, Patrick Arriola allegedly “bribed (the 13-year-old girl) to have sex with him by offering her a vape,” the complaint stated.Santos allegedly sexually touched the 11-year-old girl starting when she was in the fourth grade, and also allegedly raped her on the living room floor of her Dededo residence.The 13-year-old girl accused Aguero of groping her on at least one occasion, while the 11-year-old girl reported Aguero had sexual intercourse with her in the bedroom of a Dededo residence and also on top of a broken table outside the Dededo residence, the complaint stated.Another female, age 18, also accused Manuel Arriola of raping her.According to the complaint, another male minor was interviewed and arrested after telling police that he did “touch a private part of one of the females.”Santos, when interviewed by officers with the Guam Police Department, allegedly admitted to touching the 11-year-old’s private area, the complaint stated.Manuel Arriola was charged with three counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, Patrick Arriola was charged with two counts, and Santos and Aguero were charged with one count each.
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date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: Marianas Variety
HAGÅTÑA (The Guam Daily Post) — A man stands accused of assaulting his 9-month-old son.
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date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: Marianas Variety
HAGÅTÑA (The Guam Daily Post) — A grand jury indictment has been handed down against the two suspects accused in last month’s fatal shooting of Sumittra Lairopi.
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date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: Marianas Variety
HAGÅTÑA (The Guam Daily Post) — Escape the heat and take a dip in the Dededo Pool, now reopened with free admission until the end of April.“We are opening it because we have so many young people here that want to be able to not just go into the pool but to learn to swim,” Angel Sablan, Department of Parks and Recreation acting director, said Saturday during the pool’s reopening ceremony.People young and old attended the ribbon-cutting event on Saturday to celebrate the reopening of the Dededo Pool after 4 years of closure for maintenance and renovation.The Dededo Pool first closed from 2017 to 2019 and then shut down in 2020 following complaints about health and safety, according to Post files.Sablan said he also has plans for the Dededo Sports Complex, which includes the reopened pool.“One of my intentions is to make this area a jewel, not just for Dededo (and) the people of Northern Guam, but for all people. We have the Guam Football Association to my left, we have the Guam Tennis Center to my right,” Sablan said.The sports complex also includes baseball fields and a refurbished gym.“This place is going to be buzzing with activity. We are going to have that walkway that goes around his entire facility lit up, and we are working with the Guam Energy Office to put those solar lights in to save us on utilities,” Sablan said.The occasion was celebrated with an executive order in which Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero provided two months of free admission to the pool until April 30.Admission for senior citizens is free. General admission is $2.The design for the Hagatña pool was completed as of Friday, Sablan said, and a groundbreaking ceremony is planned for that facility in August.
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date: 2024-03-04, from: Pacific Island Times
For sheer sake of pondering the possible at the outset of CHamoru Month, what if I said that you, your family, and friends could make…
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date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: Marianas Variety
HAGÅTÑA (The Guam Daily Post) — The Guam Board of Allied Health Examiners is going to pursue legal action against Le Balance, a spa, for allegedly performing chiropractic services illegally.
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date: 2024-03-04, from: Pacific Island Times
By Raquel Bagnol If you have encountered the words CHamoru and Chamorro several times and wondered about the difference between the two,…
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date: 2024-03-03, from: Pacific Island Times
By Giff Johnson Majuro — Last year, with 20-year funding agreements expiring for the three north Pacific freely associated states, the…
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date: 2024-03-03, from: University of Hawaiʻi News
Reading time: 4 minutes More than 40,000 students have graduated from the Shidler College of Business, and many have gone into prominent roles in the business community here in Hawaiʻi.
The post UH Mānoa Shidler College of Business celebrates 75th anniversary first appeared on University of Hawaiʻi System News.
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date: 2024-03-03, updated: 2024-03-03, from: Marianas Variety
THE USP? A political body, a nation-state to replace and supersede the various tiny, independent island countries and international bodies such as the Federated States of Micronesia. Is it possible? Is it desirable? What would be the advantages and disadvantages? What would it take to get there?
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date: 2024-03-03, updated: 2024-03-03, from: Marianas Variety
(SBDC) — The CNMI Small Business Development Center Network launched its new website on Friday, March 1, 2024. This milestone marks a significant step in the SBDC’s ongoing commitment to providing equitable access to its diverse range of programs and services dedicated to supporting and elevating small businesses in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
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date: 2024-03-03, updated: 2024-03-03, from: Marianas Variety
MANGILAO (UOG) — A year and a half since the start of a collaboration that allows University of Guam engineering students to attend their junior and senior years at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, the first graduates are expected to receive diplomas by the end of this year. And more UOG first-year students and sophomores plan to take this career pathway.
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date: 2024-03-03, updated: 2024-03-03, from: Marianas Variety
IN a scathing article posted on its website, the Hong Kong-based news outlet BNN Breaking exposed the role of Philippine Energy Secretary Raphael Lotilla in awarding the Malampaya gas field service contract to Prime Energy owned by Filipino tycoon Ricky Razon, known to be a good friend of Philippine President Bongbong Marcos. (See “Malampaya Debacle: Lotilla’s Endorsement of Razon’s Prime Energy Sparks Outrage Amid Output Crisis.”)
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date: 2024-03-03, from: Pacific Island Times
By Sara Muir USGC Saipan — Saipan partners hosted a series of critical engagements involving senior leaders from the U.S. Coast Guard…
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date: 2024-03-03, from: Pacific Island Times
By Pacific Island Times News Staff The Guam Waterworks Authority has successfully priced $184.9 million in refunding bonds, reducing…
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date: 2024-03-03, from: Pacific Island Times
Bridgman, MI–I thought Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024, was going to be the culmination of a decades-long dream of seeing my beloved Detroit Lions…
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date: 2024-03-03, from: Ka Leo O Hawaiʻi (UH Manoa student newspaper)
In baseball, the term “small ball” refers to the methodical strategy of keeping runners in scoring position as much as possible without the need of extra base hits, killing you with thousands of paper cuts.
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date: 2024-03-03, from: Ka Leo O Hawaiʻi (UH Manoa student newspaper)
The Rainbow Warriors battled to victory against first-time opponents Sacred Heart University Pioneers 3-0, 25-17, 25-17, 25-17.
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