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$165M payment to US Virgin Islands for excise taxes

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Interior Assistant Secretary for Insular Areas Esther Kia’aina has approved payment of $165 million to the government of the U.S. Virgin Islands for estimated fiscal year 2015 rum excise taxes. This advance payment is for excise taxes estimated to be collected in...
Posted On Sep 09 2014 04:05
, By Jun Dayao

Guam gets $111M in federal tax ‘cover-over’ payments

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Interior’s Assistant Secretary for Insular Areas Esther Kia’aina has approved a total of $111 million in Section 30 federal income tax transfer payments to Guam, including a $71-million advance payment for estimated fiscal year 2015 taxes, a $10-million...
Posted On Sep 09 2014 04:00
, By Jun Dayao

PSS: $7.6M more needed to meet the standard teacher-student ratio

The Public School System would need about $7.6 million more in yearly appropriations to pay for the 200 or more teachers needed to meet the Board of Education-mandated teacher-student ratio of 25:1—with more of those teachers needed for high schools—according to PSS federal...
Posted On Sep 09 2014 04:00
, By Dennis B. Chan

Seven decades of peace in the Pacific

Sixty-nine years ago today, Sept. 2, 1945, the world’s most devastating war came to a sudden, cataclysmic and unexpected end, providing for the preservation of a unified Japan and an unprecedented era of self-determination and decolonization in the Pacific. The Soviet Union had...
Posted On Sep 02 2014 04:00
, By Jun Dayao
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