Saipan Tribune

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Pacific

Western & Pacific Network applauds new national marine monuments' designations

Tuesday's announcement by the White House that President Bush designated "...three new marine national monuments in the Pacific Ocean totaling more than 195,000 square miles, an area greater than Oregon and Washington combined" is being applauded by the organizations and individuals in Hawaii who took part in the October 2008 meeting in Honolulu with representatives of James Connaughton, chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality.....full story

Guam's Bordallo is sworn in for a fourth term

Guam Delegate Madeleine Z. Bordallo yesterday took the oath of office administered by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi alongside her colleagues elected to the 111th Congress. ....full story

Four winners of 2008 Pacific Human Rights Award named

Four courageous Pacific Islanders were honored with this year's RRRT/SPC Pacific Human Rights Award to mark the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.....full story

More Pacific countries to test for silent sexual infection

Earlier this year, Cook Islands, Nauru and the Solomon Islands successfully piloted a new screening program for chlamydia. Now, eight more Pacific Island countries and territories-Tonga, Federated States of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Fiji, Samoa, Kiribati, Vanuatu and Tuvalu-are beginning a program to screen for and treat the silent sexual infection chlamydia.....full story