FSM Gets Computerized Voter Registration System PALIKIR, Pohnpei (Marianas Variety): September 23, 2002 – Australia has provided the Federated States of Micronesia with a computerized voter registration system under an AusAID-funded technical assistance project executed by the Australian Electoral Commission, a media release said. The new system…

Officials Try To Send Three Nurses To Chuuk by Scott Radway HAGÅTÑA, Guam (Pacific Daily News): July 22, 2002 – Officials attempted to send three Guam nurses to Chuuk State last night as some of those injured in recent landslides slipped into critical condition. “It is still…

Chuuk Struggles To Move On by David V. Crisostomo WENO, Chuuk (Pacific Daily News): July 11, 2002 – It took only seconds. The heavy rains came first – pounding on the islands and running down hillsides like waterfalls. Then there was thunder and lighting. Next came the…

South Pacific Forum Fisheries Committee Meets in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia Pohnpei, FSM (Pacific Island Forum): May 6, 2002 – The annual session of the South Pacific Forum Fisheries Committee (FFC) for 2002, which is the fifty- first meeting of the Committee, was officially opened today…

Micronesian official to discuss regional tourism by Gaynor Dumat-ol Daleno HAGÅTÑA, Guam (Pacific Daily News): April 10, 2002 – Representatives of visitors bureaus in the Micronesia region are scheduled to meet on Guam next week to talk about reviving region wide efforts to lure longer-staying tourists. The…

Pacific territories must link up to press for Compact aid by Jayvee Vallejera SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands (Saipan Tribune): March 8, 2002 – The chairman of the CNMI House Committee on U.S. and Foreign Affairs, Rep. William S. Torres, wants the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, American Samoa…

Israeli Eye Specialists Help Micronesians KOLONIA, Pohnpei (Radio Australia): September 19, 2002 – Top Israeli eye doctors have returned to the Federated States of Micronesia to resume clinics conducted last year that have helped restore the eyesight of hundreds of Micronesians. The Israeli ophthalmologists will spend the…

Guam Nurses Flight Turned Back From Chuuk, Couldn’t Land by Mark-Alexander Pieper HAGÅTÑA, Guam (Pacific Sunday News): July 21, 2002 – Two local nurses flying to Chuuk yesterday to provide medical assistance to mudslide victims returned to Guam because they could not land. “They tried three times…

Further Endorsement Of FSM To Host New Fisheries Secretariat by Jowie C. Aquino KOROR, Palau (Palau Horizon/Marianas Variety): July 10, 2002 – Members of the Association of the Pacific Island Legislatures have endorsed a proposal to designate the Federated States of Micronesia as the host nation for…

Kosrae Receives $50,000 Grant To Grow Rare Bananas by Olivier Wortel TOFOL, Kosrae (The Kaselehlie Press): April 18 – May 1, 2002 – The Department of Agriculture, Land, and Fisheries (ALF) received a technical assistance grant of US$ 50,000 this month to grow two increasingly rare varieties…