FSM Prepares To Delineate the Outer Limits of its Continental Shelf Palikir, Pohnpei (FSM Information Services): January 20, 2009 – Back in August of 2008, His Excellency Masao Nakayama, Ambassador of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) to the United Nations, submitted a proposal drafted by the…

FSM Project Management Unit Opens Bids on Three Public Projects Palikir, Pohnpei (FSM Information Services): January 16, 2009 – The FSM Program Management Unit (PMU) publically opened bids yesterday on three State public projects. These projects were 1) The road around Weno Island in Chuuk State which…

Second Update on Disaster Assessment from Chuuk and Pohnpei States Palikir, Pohnpei (FSM Information Services): January 16, 2009 – As information continues to come in on the affects of the tidal surges from early December, reports from the Upper Mortlock Islands in Chuuk State and the Southern…

President Mori Decrees Additional Funding for Emergency Declaration Palikir, Pohnpei (FSM Information Services): January 13, 2009 – On Friday, January 9th, 2008 President Mori decreed $1.4 million that was appropriated by Public Law No. 15-66 to be utilized for funding the relief efforts for the National State…

Update on Disaster Relief Funding for Declaration of Emergency Palikir, Pohnpei (FSM Information Services): January 8, 2009 – Since President Mori declared a state of emergency on December 29th, 2008, the National and State Governments have been mobilizing resources to provide emergency aid and assessment teams to…

Update on Tidal Surge Disaster from Preliminary Damage Assessment Team in Mortlocks Islands Palikir, Pohnpei (FSM Information Services): January 8, 2009 – On January 1st, 2009, the FSS Micronesia (02) departed Pohnpei on the first part of its trip to provide emergency relief and deliver the Preliminary…

COM-FSM Marches One Step Closer to Realizing President Mori’s Vision of Manpower Needs in FSM Palikir, Pohnpei (FSM Information Services): January 7, 2009 – In His Excellency Manny Mori’s Inaugural Address at COM-FSM in July of 2007, President Mori focused on the need to “attract and retain…

New Congress maintains officers, reshuffle committee heads Palikir, Pohnpei (FSM Congress): May 13, 2009 – The Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia convened in Palikir on Monday at 10am for the Opening Session of the new Sixteenth Congress to seat the recently elected members of the…

Day Two focuses on special report, social security and PMU Palikir, Pohnpei (FSM Congress): March 17, 2009 – On Day Two of its Seventh Special Session, the 15th Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia focused on the special committee report, introduced a measure to repeal a…

Primo new Vice Speaker of FSM Congress Palikir, Pohnpei (FSM Congress): September 1, 2009 – Senator Fredrico O. Primo, Representative of the State of Pohnpei’s Election District Three, has been selected to be the new Vice Speaker of the Sixteenth Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia….