Saipan Tribune

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Pacific

Robots battle in 'Yapital Robo Day' contest

In this file photo, SDA participants from last years Yapital Robo Day show off their robot and controller. (Habele)

YAP, Micronesia-Over 100 students, teachers, and parents convened in Colonia at the Yap Community Center in late May to support student robotic teams from Yap Catholic High School and the Yap SDA School.....full story

Puerto Rico guv endorses Obama position on status

Puerto Rico Gov. Alejandro Garca Padilla said yesterday that the public policy of his administration, in terms of political status, is to support the position of U.S. President Barack Obama to ensure that all alternatives are treated fairly. ....full story

Naval Base Guam walks for child abuse prevention

By Anthony Pellegrino
Special to the Saipan Tribune

Capt. Mike Ward, commanding officer of U.S. Naval Base Guam, walks with children, parents, Fleet and Family Support Center and Child Development Center staff during the Second Annual Walk for Children event in front of the CDC on base April 26. The walk was an FFSC outreach event to promote April as Child Abuse Prevention Month. (Jeremy Starr)

The Naval Base Guam community participated in the Second Annual Walk for Children on NBG on April 26 in an effort to spread awareness about child abuse prevention. ....full story

FSM gets $7.3M in Compact payments

In April, the Department of Finance of the Federated States of Micronesia received Compact Grant Assistance payments from the U.S. government totaling $7,337,960. ....full story

3 hearing-impaired FSM students DC-bound

From left to right, Diana Ganngir (Yap), Imelda Tulensru (Kosrae), Joyceleen Panuel (Pohnpei), and Juleen Manuel (Pohnpei). (Contributed Photo)

Three Federated States of Micronesia hearing-impaired students and their Pohnpeian chaperone, Juleen Manuel, left on April 29 for a Washington D.C.-based program sponsored by the Department of State. ....full story

May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Guam Delegate Madeleine Z. Bordallo (D-GU) issued the following statement last week marking the first day of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.....full story

2 Coast Guardsmen recognized as persons of the year for 2012

Two Coast Guardsmen stationed in Hawaii and Guam were selected as the 2012 active duty enlisted person of the year and the reserve enlisted person of the year for the 14th Coast Guard District during a recognition dinner at Coast Guard Base Honolulu on April 5.....full story

USCG medivacs 2 cruise passengers from A. Samoa

Two patients are taken off an HC-130 Hercules airplane and transferred to awaiting ambulances at Air Station Barbers Point, in Hawaii, after a long-range medical evacuation from American Samoa, April 9, 2013. The two American patients, a 91-year-old man with a hip injury and an 82-year-old woman with an internal illness, were disembarked from a cruise ship in American Samoa where they were met by the Hercules aircrew for transport to Honolulu. (U.S. COAST GUARD/LT. CASEY CORPE)

The U.S. Coast Guard successfully conducted a medical evacuation of two elderly cruise ship passengers from American Samoa to Honolulu on Tuesday. ....full story

Navy reservists speak to Guam HS students

Electronics Technician 1st Class Fernando Gomez, left, and Operations Specialist 2nd Class Terrence Smith, Navy reservists attached to USS Frank Cable, talk to students about their experiences in the Navy during a community relations project at Simon A. Sanchez High School in Yigo, Guam, April 8. The reservists are on Guam to assist in repair of submarines. (U.S. NAVY/SHAINA MARIE SANTOS)

Twelve U.S. Navy reservists attached to USS Frank Cable shared their experiences in the Navy with students at Simon A. Sanchez High School in Yigo, Guam, on April 8. ....full story